This event coincides with the flowering season of our native elder and is a  chance to learn about and celebrate the many food and medicinal uses of this delightful plant, as well as being aware of the many other berries and plants growing around y ou. After an hour or two of foraging, you’ll se t up an outdoor cooking space and transform the fo raged elderflowers into none other than delicious thirst quenching elderflower cordial and elderflow er champagne for you to take home. Recipe sheets w ill be provided. It promises to be a full and frui tful forage!

Pls bring your own sterilised gl ass bottle with a flappable cork top.

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Saturday 26th May 2012 at Chor lton Water Park,  £20 / £15

Please book y our place online through our website www.crackingg oodfood.org

 Please click here to watch an i nspiring FILM from one of Jesper’s previous sess ions last year

Example of feedback from some of Jesper’s previous sessions: “Really enjoyab le, would like to do more + will recommend to oth ers!”  – Candale Shan “Very interesting &am p; good fun.Read more

Late spring offers some of the broadest and most e njoyable wild food hunting of the year. Tender gre ens and shoots are still readily available along w ith the first flowering edibles, and an increasin g number of edible mushrooms can be expected if th e weather hasn’t been too dry. This is definitel y a walk for bringing a collecting basket with you . We will harvest foods for preparing at the end o f the walk, but you might want to consider making a personal collection for wild leaf and flower wi ne-making at home. Details of how to make a wide a rray of preparations will be discussed on the walk with Jesper Launder, along with a handout at the end.

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Saturday 19t h May 2012 at Fletcher Moss Park, Didsbury, £20 /£15

Please book your place online through o ur website www.crackinggoodfood.org

Example o f feedback from previous sessions:

“It was fascinating seeing what plants and food grow and l earning what we could eat! I will definely be tryi ng this myself!” – David Roberts”Loved the m edicinal info, cooking tips and the ideatificatio n/tasting of plants! Really informative, great in troduction to foraging” – Zophie Begolo

? ??Very enjoyable, informative – very inspiring? ?? – Katie Corbes-Hill

Mid-April heralds the finest season for finding te nder and delicious edible plants. Woods and hedger ows come to life with patches of fresh green growt h and this walk is the perfect opportunity to deci pher what can and can’t be eaten, and to learn how to differentiate the toxic from the delicious. With luck, some of Spring’s tastiest edible mu shrooms will be on the agenda too. This walk with Jesper Launder will last up to 3 hours and will be followed by an al fresco cooking experience of ou r best finds.

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Sund ay 15th April 2012 at Chorlton Ees, £20/£15
n Please book your place online through our websit e www.crackinggoodfood.org

Example of feedbac k from previous sessions:

“It was fascinati ng seeing what plants and food grow and learning w hat we could eat! I will definely be trying this m yself!” – David Roberts”Loved the medicinal info, cooking tips and the ideatification/tasting of plants! Really informative, great introductio n to foraging” – Zophie Begolo

“Very en joyable, informative – very inspiring” – Ka tie Corbes-Hill

Come and join us to celebrate our 2nd birthday and cook with us too!

This year Cracking Good Fo od will be returning to the Chorlton’s Big Green Festival for the 3rd time, thanks to everyone wh o voted for us at Manchester City Council’s U D ecide scheme! We successfully came 1st out of 13 f antastic projects in our bid for funding to be abl e run another Cooks On The Hop event at Chorlton?? ?s Big Green Festival on 31 March 201

Our Cra cking Cook Rob (our expert breadmaker), will give inspiring tuition in how to cook up wonderful gou rmet stone oven baked Pizzas (look out for his sec ret tomato sauce recipe) under the wooden gazebo, learn how to make dough easily which you can then transform with your chosen toppings into your per sonalised veggy pizza by popping it into the wood fired oven. And all this will be done in collabora tion with Mark and Graham at Stretford Pizza Ovens . 4 sessions will be available, with 8 people in each, running for 45 minutes and then you get to eat what you’ve made!

THIS IS A PUBLIC EVEN T, we are offering half of all places as pre-book able via our website and half will be available to book with us on the day. Each session costs £6.0 0.  As a result of our funding from U-Decide we a re able to provide half of all sessions FREE to th ose who are currently unemployed / students in ful l time education or people who are over 65 years o f age.Read more

Early spring is the season for finding tender and delicious edible plants. Woods and hedgerows come to life with patches of fresh green growth and thi s walk is the perfect opportunity to decipher what can and can’t be eaten, and to learn how to di fferentiate the toxic from the delicious. With luc k, some of Spring’s tastiest edible mushrooms w ill be on the agenda too. This walk will last up t o 3 hours and will be followed by an al fresco coo king experience of our best finds.

www.jesper launder.com

Sunday 25th March 2012 at Fletche r Moss Park, Didsbury, £20 / £15

Please b ook your place online through our website www.crac kinggoodfood.org

 Please click here to watch an inspiring FILM from one of Jesper’s previous sessions last year

Example of feedba ck from previous sessions with Jesper: “We reall y enjoyed this session – Jesper was incredibly f riendly and informative, and his passion is reall y contagious – many thanks” – Cristina Delga do “4 pages wouldn’t be enough space to detail what I’ve learned from these short hours. Main thing I’m taking away inspiring enthusiasm for s omething I’ve had a passion for for a very long time” – Amy Downing “Very interesting and ha ve learnt a lot. Would be interested in learning m ore about medicinal properties of plants now” ?? ? Francesca Smith “Fantastic day, good taster ? ??– Candale Shan “Really enjoyable, would lik e to do more + will recommend to others!”  – Candale Shan “The day was really engaging and en joyable.Read more

Rob is back again giving you yet another chance to learn how to make amazing 100% organic bread, an d delicious garlic naan. And still we don’t seem to be able to provide enough places on Beginners? ?? Bread to satisfy demand! The January and Februa ry sessions are already full and this one looks se t to fill up soon too, so book while there are sp aces!

Tuesday 20th March 2012 at Chorlton Hig h School, £35/£30

Please book your place o nline through our website www.crackinggoodfood.org

Example of feedback from previous sessions: “Very inspiring workshop!” – Sue Nzilaric ?? ?I really enjoyed this event. It was well organise d with an inspiring teacher with a passion for bre ad. I have learned so much and would like to go on an intermediate bread course” – Beverley Jenk inson. “What a fantastic way to spend a few hour s at the weekend. Rob was extremely informative an d the co-ordinators always to hand to help – bri lliant!” – Hawys Williams