Summer is in the air and that means our Barn Dance is on the horizon, with July 9th fast approaching! Tickets are now on sale!
Make your way to Gaia, or leave your order with payment by cash or cheque (payable to Canalside Community Food Ltd) in my blue pigeon hole in the yurt.
Adults: £8, £6 Canalside members
Children under 12 free
Free camping available on-site to anyone who is attending.
It was a fab night last year, and I have high expectations for an equally good night this year.
Ali
A request from Xandra – one of our Canalside members:
We have been given permission to collect money on behalf of Amnesty International on the following dates:
Leamington Centre – Saturday 7 MAY – Organiser Xandra Gilchrist
Warwick Centre – Saturday 14 MAY – Organisers Denise Fowler and Simon Lieberman
Kenilworth Centre – Saturday 21 MAY- -Organiser Barbara Jones
If you could spare an hour [2 would be a bonus!] please contact me indicating which town and any preferred times:
xandrajmgilchrist@gmail.com Tel:07796948211/01926315823
April 2011
www.TradArtsTeam.co.uk
We have something for everyone in April including a music training workshop
Mondays 7:30
STORYTELLERS STUDIO in Birmingham
Weekly storytelling training, rehearsal and performance opportunities with BIRMINGHAM VOICES
Contact 0121 247 7607 or email info@tradartsteam.co.uk for more info
Sunday 17 April, 8pm
Traditional Music Session
Prince of Wales, Moseley, B13 8EE
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html
Wednesday 20 April 7:30
Birmingham Storytelling Cafe
GRAHAM LANGLEY & AMANDA SMITH – Heroes All
Kitchen Garden Cafe
Tickets £7.00 from KG Cafe, 0121 443 4725
Doors 6:30 for delicious food and drink
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Birmingham-Storytelling-Cafe.html
Wednesday 27 April 8:00
Tales and Ales Storytelling session
Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Birmingham B5 6AH
Share stories in one of Birmingham’s finest real ale pubs
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/tales-and-ales.html
The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine. It receives support from Arts Council England.
More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk
Here’s another recipe, this time from Galina, one of our veg members. A different way of using some of those staples we’re so reliant on at this time of year!
Thanks Galina!
Potato and Parsnip Dauphinoise recipe
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
1kg potatoes, thinly sliced
450g parsnips, thinly sliced
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
50g/4 tbsp butter
125g Gruyere or Cheddar cheese, grated
fresh nutmeg, grated
salt and pepper
300ml/1.25 cups single cream
300ml/1.25 cups milk
Method:
1. Set oven to 180 Celsius and grease a large shallow oven dish.
2. Layer the potatoes with the onion and parsnips. In between each layer, dot the vegetables with garlic and butter, sprinkle over most of the cheese, add the nutmeg and season well.
3. Heat the cream and milk together in a saucepan until it is hot but not boiling. Slowly pour over the veg.
4. Scatter remaining cheese over and grate a little more nutmeg on top. Bake about an hour until tender and golden.
Galina says, “I also sometimes add my own spices with the seasoning, like curry powder for example.”
Potatoes
– need to be kept in the dark to prevent green patches forming, which are toxic when eaten raw
– best kept in a cloth or paper bag in a cool, dry place
Dry alliums – i.e. onions/garlic
– best kept in a paper or cloth bag
– best kept in a cool, dry place, such as a cupboard or garage
Uncut squash
– store in a moderate temperature
Salad and other leaves
– best kept in a plastic bag in the fridge or very cool place such as the garage
Everything else – carrots and other roots, leeks, cut squash
– as a general rule keep in plastic to preserve humidity or paper/cloth to reduce
– they all need somewhere cool to cold
Additional, more detailed information on this website:
http://www.vegetableexpert.co.uk/RefrigerationAndColdStorage.html
Please copy and paste as HTML linking isn’t working.
Xandra, one of our veg share members has sent me this recipe for this delicious sounding curry – she thought you might find it useful if you want some ideas for using squash, especially as there will be squash in the share this week!
Thanks Xandra!
Pumpkin/squash curry recipe
Ingredients:
onion – chopped
garlic.ginger} fresh or frozen
chillies frozen or fresh
tomato 1or 2 chopped
squash or pumpkin chopped into chunks
chickpeas
spinach
salt
garam masala 1 teaspoon
cumin seeds or powder 1 teaspoon
turmeric 1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon
Method
Fry the chopped onion in a little olive oil and little butter until
onion starts to brown. Add garlic and ginger and chillies. Add cumin
seeds. Add tomatoes. Add the dry spices – if the mixture is dry and
sticking add a tiny amount of water. You should have a sort of pasty
mixture. Add squash and let it cook for a few minutes. Add chickpeas
and spinach and cook until squash is tender. Don’t add any more water
as there will be plenty from the spinach. If you want the dish to be
dry cook without a lid as the lid will just keep in the water from the
spinach.
I froze some chopped up Crown Prince squash raw (my own garden one actually). Opinion on the internet was divided about whether it would work or not, or whether it should be cooked before freezing. I roasted it from frozen and it was fine. Thought it might be useful for some of the members to know.
Also, very impressed with the quality of the celeriac and swedes. Where can you get an English organic celeriac as late as this and how on earth much would it cost?
Judy
Keep an eye on our new website, check out your favourite event and then have a little look round the rest of the site to see what else is going on.
Barn Dance with Cuckoos Nest and caller Jo Freya
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Sat 26 March, All Saints Church Hall, Vicarage Road Birmingham B14 7RA
Doors open at 7:30, dancing starts at 8pm
Food and light refreshments available but unlicensed, so bring your own alcohol.
Tickets £7 (children £3.50) from 0121 246 9873
More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=160
Newfoundland Dance Tunes workshop
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And for the musicians among you, here’s advance notice of an afternoon workshop on 10 April at mac, Birmingham. As a part of their Shore to Shore tour, Fergus O’Byrne and Jim Paynes will lead musicians in the playing of Newfoundland dance tunes and the steps that go with them. We’re organising this event with Wren Music and mac. Tickets are £12, and there’s more info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=161
Keep an eye on our new website, check out your favourite event and then have a little look round the rest of the site to see what else is going on.
Moseley Village Band has its February meetings on Thursday 10th and Thursday 24th from 7:30 to 9:15pm at St Columba’s Church Hall, Alcester Road, Moseley. If you play an instrument, particularly a bass line instrument (tuba, trombone, bass clarinet, cello, double bass), why not come along and give it a try? More info and photos at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Moseley-Village-Band.html
There will be a traditional music session on Sunday 21 January at the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. All musicians are welcome to come along and share a few tunes. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html
And here’s advance notice of an afternoon workshop on 10 April at mac, Birmingham. As a part of their Shore to Shore tour, Fergus O’Byrne and Jim Paynes will lead musicians in the playing of Newfoundland dance tunes and the steps that go with them. We’re organising this event with Wren Music and mac. Tickets are £12, and there’s more info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=161
Hello,
Master Composter training is coming up in Warwickshire on 9/10th July. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer to spread the composting word please contact Caroline Faulkner at Warwickshire County council for more information (carolinefaulkner@warwickshire.gov.uk) or download an application form from the website.
www.warwickshire.gov.uk/mastercomposters
Thank you,
Kate Newman
Warwickshire Volunteer Co-ordinator
Master Gardener Programme
Garden Organic
Ryton on Dunsmore
Coventry
CV8 3LG
Master Gardener programme – encouraging and supporting people and communities to grow fruit and vegetables throughout Warwickshire.
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Growing your own is easy, achievable and rewarding and to prove it Garden Organic is challenging everyone in the UK to make the One Pot Pledge® to give it a grow. First time gardeners, Gardening Gurus, Schools and Community groups are all welcome to join the campaign to get 30,000 more people growing something edible in a pot in 2010. Visit www.onepotpledge.org to get involved.
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Registered Charity No. 298104. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Cardiff No. 2188402. Garden Organic is the new working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association. Ryton Organic Gardens, Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. CV8 3LG