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Cooking with Soraya

Learn how to cook foods from a variety of cultures. Soraya demonstrates how healthy cooking doesn't have to be boring!

Tuesdays at Braybrook Community Hub

Sour Dough Bread Baking Workshop

Learn the basics of how to bake your very own sourdough bread at home with Deb Ong! Learn how to create and maintain a sourdough starter, how to proof and shape a basic loaf, how to make sense of bakers' percentages as well as how to fit making your own bread into a busy schedule.

Thursday 4 June at Maidstone Community Centre

Ethiopian cooking with a twist

Who would like to experience Saida’s delicious Ethiopian baos with a dori wot and tibbs filling? A beautiful Buddha bowl will also include aromatic Alicha (potatoes, carrots, cabbage and green beans)a beetroot salad, and a spicy lentil dahl, chickpeas and toasted injera!

Thursday 11 June at Maidstone Community Centre

Ready Set Barista

This is a fantastic 2 day practical course designed to prepare people for work or training in the vibrant café scene. You’ll learn how to operate a commercial coffee machine, learn about the origins of coffee, make a range of coffees, increase your confidence and improve your job ready skills. Don’t miss out, limited places.

Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May at Maidstone Community Centre

Sourdough Bread Making

Watch Deb Ong's video on how to make sourdough bread at home.

Vegan Workshop with an Indigenous Twist

Join Julia Grueskin, a fabulous plant-based chef for a yummy, healthy, and educational workshop with an indigenous Australian twist using herbs and bushfoods.

24 February at Maidstone Community Centre

Kenyan Coastal Cooking

Come and learn how to make Saida’s meat Pilau, chapatis, potato bhajia and sweet mahamri. These beautiful dishes reflect the confluence of Arabic, South Asian and East African traditions. Think cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and cardamom which have magically worked their way into Swahili cuisine and has given coastal Kenyan food it’s intense flavour.

17 March at Maidstone Community Centre

We acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation as traditional custodians of the lands on which Maribyrnong City Council is located and where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present. We are committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society.

COVID-19 community information

Cooking

Cooking with Soraya

Sour Dough Bread Baking Workshop

Ethiopian cooking with a twist

Ready Set Barista

Sourdough Bread Making

Vegan Workshop with an Indigenous Twist

Kenyan Coastal Cooking

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Contact us

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Cooking

Cooking with Soraya

Sour Dough Bread Baking Workshop

Ethiopian cooking with a twist

Ready Set Barista

Sourdough Bread Making

Vegan Workshop with an Indigenous Twist

Kenyan Coastal Cooking

Discover Maribyrnong

Contact us

Get connected

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