Iraqi cooking demonstration

The cooking demonstration at Zillmere went really well. Hifa prepared four dishes: ground beef parcel, a vegetable dish, mixed salad (which was very colourful), and pita bread.

We had 20 people who participated from many different cultural backgrounds including NZ, Fiji, Japan, Columbia, El Salvador, Egypt, Laos, Australia, Iraq, Bosnia, and PNG.

It was a wonderful conclusion to our 'Culinary Delights' demonstrations, with great food, friendly people, with lots of conversation, laughter, music and dancing to end the day. It was just lovely!

Thank you to everyone who came along to each of the days, the chefs from the various nationalities, and especially to the staff and volunteers from NMC.

NMC AGM, 2011

Hi All,

Hope you are well. Just a friendly reminder about the upcoming NMC Annual General Meeting (AGM). If you have not renewed your NMC membership yet, please do so by either paying for your renewal on the day or requesting a renewal form and posting it to us before the AGM.

If you have renewed and would like to come to our AGM, it will be held on Thursday 15th September, 2011 at Banyo Library, meeting room 2 upstairs, from 10am to 12pm. I hope you can join us.

We will be electing new Committee Members for the following positions:

• President
• Secretary
• Treasurer

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards,
Seng McMahon
Interim President and Coordinator, Northside Multicultural Community, inc.
email: northsidemulticultural@gmail.com

Springtime: Levantine cuisine

At the second-to-last 'Culinary Delights' cooking demonstration for this year, held at Zillmere Community Centre, Marlene made three Levantine cuisine recipes for us to enjoy: hommus (with lightly toasted pita bread), tabouli salad, and Lebanese lamb pizza. They were all very delicious—thank you, Marlene!

And thanks also to NMC volunteers Aruna, Charles and Mark who helped on the day; and to Bronwyn, one of the cooking demonstration participants, who assisted in the kitchen.

Download: Marlene's Recipes

FINAL COOKING DEMONSTRATION FOR THE YEAR: Thursday, 22nd September. Iraqi/Mesopotamian cuisine will be on the menu at Zillmere Community Centre, 54 Handford Road, Zillmere.

If you're interested in coming along to this free demonstration, please call 0451 794 929 or email talk2nmc(at)gmail.com to book your place.