Community Kitchens

Community Kitchens meet once a month over the winter months. It’s a great way to meet new people, learn new kitchen skills, enjoy a nice dinner and get some food ready made for home. Costs are based on a sliding scale, and cover the cost of the food.

Community Kitchens by Alison Colwell

What are Community Kitchens?

You might have seen the posters around advertising one? Or maybe you received an email inviting you to one? And maybe you were wondering what a Community Kitchen is?

A community kitchen is a group of people who get together regularly to cook and eat together and bring food home. We generally meet once a month. When we first encountered the community kitchen idea it was presented as a way to encourage people to improve their own health and nutrition, while also strengthening community ties.

March Community Kitchen - Filling the Freezer!

Monday March 5th, at 5:30pm at the South Community Hall.

Come together with your neighbours to cook and eat together. We will be making Vegetarian soup, homemade burritos, and a salad. There will be lots of food to take home, and freeze.
Cost is $15-$20 sliding scale.

RSVP to Alison at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com

Thai Inspired Community Kitchen led by Chef Orion Finnie

We have an upcoming Community Kitchen on Feb 13th at 5:30pm
Thai Inspired Community Kitchen led by Orion Finnie, chef at La Boheme Restaurant.
We'll be making Thai Pumpkin Soup, Phad Thai ,Thailand's famous rice noodle dish and Honey Bananas for desert.

Please bring containers to take home food, and a $15 to $20 contribution.
Please RSVP - we are limited to ten people.

Update: This kitchen is now full, but I will be keeping a waiting list, in case of drop outs.

Community Kitchen - Making Friends with Winter Vegetables -

We have an upcoming Community Kitchen on January 16th at 5:30pm
- Making Friends with Winter Vegetables -

Come join your community, and cook, eat and share food together.
We're going to make Traditional Borscht, Cabbage Rolls, and Two different kinds of Slaw.

Please bring containers to take home (2L) soup and slaw, and a $15 to $20 contribution.

RSVP to Alison at galianofoodprograms@gmail.com Space is limited to 10 people.

Beet & Green Tomato Pickling Class

Sunday, November 20th at 1pm at the South Hall.

Come learn how to pickle those Beets grown at the Cable Bay Farm, and pickle Green Tomatoes from Sunshine Farms. Participants will get to take home a few jars of each pickle, plus we’ll put away some for the Solstice Potluck.

Email: galianofoodprograms@gmail.com to register.
Space is limited to 10 people. Sliding scale $10-$20

The Great Pumpkin Kitchen Party

Friday, October 21st, at 1:30pm at the South Hall, we’ll meet to prepare, cook and divide up the two Giant pumpkins donated by Roger and Lisa at Sunshine Farms.

Bring a container, because all volunteers will be leaving with pumpkin, and bring your biggest spoon as we try to retrieve all those seeds for roasting.