Waiheke Community Education

New Cooking Course with Chef Tony Moss

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:36:59 +0000

Chef Tony Moss - Photo Phillipa Karn

Just as you were thinking about staying put in front of the TV, we have a great new cooking course to coax you off the couch!

Chef Tony Moss is an exciting young chef who has recently been tempting diners at Stoney Ridge Vineyard Cafe. This term he’ll be leading a 4 week course introducing some fresh flavours and ideas to use in your home kitchen. The course will cover a variety of meat, fish & vegetarian recipes, as well as something sweet, using fresh seasonal produce.

The course will be focusing on using your stock pantry/fridge to create an easy and delicious meal. Tony will look at what products are great to have on hand in those moments when you have not planned a meal, and demonstrating and aiding the class in how to prepare some base products that you can mix and match into some great new recipes.

Students will be involved hands-on in preparing the recipes and each class concludes with sharing the food created. All recipes and shopping lists are included.

Tony will also taking requests during the course, and will use the final class to teach what the students want to learn.

To find out more or enrol for the course, click here

Learn a Language!

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:13:19 +0000

You can learn one of New Zealand’s 3 official languages this term at Waiheke Community Education.

A new course in NZ Sign Language starts this term on Saturday mornings. The 8 week course will introduce you to deaf vocabulary and culture in a fun learning environment.

Our popular courses in Te Reo Maori continue on Wednesday mornings or evenings, and English for Communication is on offer again for English speakers of other languages. Each of these courses will cover brand new material and new enrolments are always welcome!

Also on offer are Japanese for Travellers and French for Travellers. These night school courses are ideal for those intending to travel or just wanting to learn about the language and culture.

Cheesemaking with Katherine Mowbray

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:05:46 +0000

A wet and wild Waiheke night saw a full house for Katherine Mowbray’s Introduction to Home Cheesemaking. Participants learnt how to make hand stretched “Mozzarellia” cheese. Mozzarella is usually made with buffalo’s milk, however we found out how to make fresh cheese at home using two litres of shop bought cows milk.

Katherine is a fabulous teacher and many of the class have tried out her methods here on Waiheke. I’ve heard from at least one participant who tells me their home made pizzas have been taken to a whole new level with this delicious fresh cheese!

Katherine will be back on Waiheke in October to demonstrate Camembert (type) and Mascarpone. Details coming soon…

Website Design with Wordpress

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:16:44 +0000

You may have noticed a few subtle changes to the Comm Ed website over the past few weeks… I am attending “Website Design with Wordpress”, one of our new courses on offer in Term 1.

Fiona Gregory at the Website Design with Wordpress course

At this course I’ve been learning about DIY websites using a Wordpress Template. Instead of having to deal with html or complicated coding, Wordpress offers a way to create and publish content in an editor that looks a little like the familiar word processing program.

If I can do it, anyone can!

I hope that you like our new website. It’s a work in progress so let me know what you’d like to see here… any comments and feedback are welcome.

Many thanks to Adam McNabb for helping to get this project off the ground, and also to Photography by Emma Yates for the gorgeous header images.

Fiona Gregory, Community Education Co-ordinator