New Partnerships

September 2009 is a new academic year and yields new partnerships for FoodWorks @ LSE. Operating out of the awesome Fleet River Bakery at Holborn (www.fleetriverbakery.com) for the past 5 months, we are going to move cooking location to The Holy Cross Trust Centre over by Kings Cross (www.hcct.org.uk).

It's sad to leave Fleet River Bakery, it was such a wonderful relationship, and we especially enjoyed their Magic Mixer! However, our new kitchen is great as well, and once we recruit a new leadership team in September and October, we look forward to continuing supplying food to The Choir with No Name!

We've been busy!

Since our operations began 5 months ago, we have put over 2000 meals on the plates of those who needed them. We could not have done any of this without something to cook and someone to cook it! We would like to thank the Farmers, their staff and local businesses. They willingly and generously donate their goods and produce each week. We would also like to thank our volunteers of course! They have put in so much hard work, and helped us go through a fair few teething problems without raising as much as an eyebrow.

All this beeing said, we need to take a break. The Notre Dame Refugee Center and the Choir With No Name are taking breaks, so we have ambushed this opportunity for some R&R. We will be back though, on the 13th of September, ready as ever to fill some tummys!

Stay tuned,

Donat

Cooking sessions

Last week was my first session in the Fleet River Bakery and to be honest it was my first full cooking session with Foodworks. Food was gathered from the Islington farmers market, I have to say thank you very much to the farmers who are donating food, excellent people. Food was prepared and cooked; turned into 120 appetising, nutritious meals over a 5 hour session. Thanks again to all the volunteers, fellow project managers and of course to Kelvin and the Head Office Team. And finally, meals were delivered to people who need it, thanks Donat for cycling that day.

I have no photos of our achievements from last week but it was no small feat we pulled off and I think everybody’s feet were aching after we finished. We were tired but to be honest it felt good at the end of the day. Yesterday was very much the same except a little more rushed but still a little more efficient so we are getting better each week.

The menu this week included an excellent frittata, which was an improvisation on the Kelvin Spanish Omellete... which was basically Kelvin getting bored and adding some flour and pesto in to see how it would turn out and Marcella putting it together with style.

also.,

• veggie salad
• broad bean salad
• potato wedges
• stir fry
• fruit salad