We’re back for the 5th workshop in the series Recipes from our community. Tavish, a dedicated meals-on-wheels volunteer and community member, will share with us his love for making homemade pasta and show us how to make Cavatelli, a simple Italian pasta that can be made without a pasta machine. When: Wednesday July 27th, 5:00 to 7:30 pm Where: The Roulant’s kitchen, 111 …
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Cherry Jam Workshop
Do you dream of making yummy local fruit into summery jam? Not sure about where to start? We’ll help you get going! Come learn the basics of jam making with our food preservation team in our community kitchen. When : Wednesday, July 13th, from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. Where : Santropol Roulant 111 Roy street East, Montreal Who : Anyone …
Kitchen Workshop: Simple stocks and sauces
We’re back for the 4th workshop in the series Recipes from our community. Richard, a professional chef and community member, will share with us his love for making simple stocks and show us how to simply integrate them into our everyday cooking. Come learn how to add that special homemade touch to your favourite soups, sauces and meals! On the menu: Mushroom Risotto …
Recipes: Appetizers for a 5 à 7
With the warm weather and longer days, enjoying a 5 à 7 with friends and family seems like the thing to do! A few months ago, Janice and Normand shared a few of their go-to recipes during an intergenerational kitchen workshop. The recipes are featured in our cookbook: Learning From Our Elders, and shared with you below. Enjoy!
Workshop: Vegetarian Snack bar
We are back with our monthly “recipes from our community” workshop! For our third workshop, Mark, a Roulant volunteer and previous meals-on-wheels intern, will show us how to prepare his three favorite snack bar dishes with a vegetarian twist! The menu: Black bean veggie burgers with goat cheese and caramelized onions Sweet potato fries Queen Elizabeth cake The details: Date: Wednesday …
Learning from our Elders: Middle Eastern Recipes
This week we share two sets of recipes from last year’s intergenerational workshop series and cookbook Learning from our Elders: Lebanese Mezze Tabbouleh, Baba Ganoush & Hummus “Mezzes are small traditional Lebanese dishes that are shared before the main meal. They must be made with the freshest ingredients and with lots of attention. At parties, we sit around a large table that is covered with more than 20 …
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Food Preservation – Keeping it Fresh!
Spring food preservation news: Reflections of the past year, improvements for the year to come, & your feedback requested! Though we’re still months away from the first harvests, we’re working hard at improving our two-year-old food preservation program. In January, Isabelle and Karine hosted a food preservation season debrief. It was a great opportunity to identify what people love, and to use the brainpower …
La Cuisine d’Augustine
This time of year, when we think of Quebecois cooking, our minds turn to the sweet and salty delights typically found at the cabane-a-sucre. Here are a few recipes to try out at home, ones that Augustine often prepared with her mother while growing up in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Let us know what you think! From the Learning from our Elders cookbook: …
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Kitchen Workshop: Japanese Cuisine
For our next community kitchen workshop, Kaori, a Roulant volunteer, will show us how to prepare her three favorite Japanese dishes! Date: April 13th , 2016 Time: 5 to 7:30 p.m. Location: The Roulant’s kitchen, 111 Roy East For more information and to register for the workshop , please contact Karine by email.
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Kitchen Workshop: Learning from our community
In celebration of our 20th year of bringing generations together around food, Santropol Roulant launched a series of intergenerational cooking workshops called Learning from Our Elders. Seniors from the community were invited to share their love of food by showing participants—volunteers and friends of the Roulant of all ages—how to make their favorite dishes. These workshops were a great success …
Recipes: Pasta and Polenta
We’ve got another great set of recipes to share, as presented by the Piccioni sisters at one of our intergenerational workshops from the series: Learning From our Elders. If you can get your hands on a pasta roller*, the Fresh Pasta recipe only calls for two ingredients but really takes a pasta dish to the next level and is a lot of …
Reminder: Delicious, Montreal-grown gifts
Valentine’s day is just around the corner! Looking for a special gift? Come visit our General Store to discover our local, preserved food selection that is made with love! Perhaps a jar of Montreal-grown and made apple butter is just the token of appreciation you were looking for? We have gifts starting at $6, and the gift tags are on us! February Sale Want to …