Kitchen Alchemy - Quick Pickles

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But you can still join our upcoming Kitchen Alchemy workshop: Kombucha and cordial on Friday 23 August 2024!

Make your veggies last longer and your food more delicious!

Join us for our second Kitchen Alchemy workshop, we’re going to get into the delicious world of pickles, exploring ways to use, preserve and enjoy unexpected abundance or those scrappy leftover parts of vegetables that sometimes get forgotten in the back of the fridge.

From simple, fridge-ready pickles to preserving seasonal vegetables, pickling is a fantastic tool to have in your zero-waste cooking skill set.

In this 45-minute, hands-on workshop in the Moving Feast Kitchen at Queen Victoria Market, you’ll cook along, making your own jar of quick pickles to take home and learning tips and tricks to help you continue your pickling adventures. You’ll take home the pickles you make, as well as the recipe.

We will provide a selection of seasonable vegetables for you to choose from, or you can bring any vegetables that you need to use up. We recommend these vegetables:

• Celery
• Cauliflower
• Onion
• Cucumber
• Zucchini

Even if it’s only a half or part of a vegetable, bring it along! If we can't pickle it, we'll discuss other ways to use it up. You’ll never throw out a sad, forgotten half of a cucumber that’s gone bad ever again!

Run by MAKE Studios in collaboration with STREAT, this workshop is part of our waste-saving project, Crowd Sauce, supported by Sustainability Victoria. Your instructors will be MAKE's food system and low-waste cooking champion, Fiona Smith and STREAT's eco-chef, Chris Locke.

Event details:
Saturday 10 August
11:00am, 1pm or 3pm (each workshop runs for 45 mins)
Moving Feast Kitchen
20-21 Shed F, Queen Victoria Market (the Peel St end of Queen Victoria Market)

$20 per person.
Includes all ingredients, and you take home a jar of pickles and a recipe card.

Spaces are limited, book ahead to secure your spot.