Master class from Master Chef
Over 50 people were given a culinary master class at Castlegate Quay Watersports Centre this week by 2007 master chef finalist Dave Hall.
The event was part of Stockton Teaching PCT and Tees Active Sporting Start programme. The programme enables youngsters to sample up to 18 different sports and physical activities over the school holiday period. The programme is part of the PCTS prevention strategy for childhood obesity and is linked to the governments Change4Life campaign.
Dave’s dishes used ingredients that are available from all the high street supermarkets and he demonstrated that preparing and cooking a healthy, tasty and nutritious dish can take as little as 10 minutes. The dishes that Dave produced were chilli prawn pasta, Cajun chicken with a salsa served with sweet potato, hot and sour sirloin steak with an avocado salad and especially for the vegetarians in the audience a vegetable cottage pie.
Dave said “Today’s session has been all about demonstrating to the public that cooking is fun and good healthy food is tasty and is quick and easy to prepare. The vegetable cottage pie was popular with all the audience and not just the vegetarians. It was great to have young Megan Furr assisting me I am passionate that young people should know how to cook and be prepared to try new ingredients”
Paul Bambrough Tees Actives Young Persons Active Health Manager said” This is the first time we have including a cooking session in the Sporting Start programme and judging by its popularity and the fantastic feedback we have received from the audience I an sure we will be including similar sessions in our Easter programme”
For further information on future cooking sessions contact Paul Bambrough on (01642) 528773 or visit teesactivelimited.co.uk