UWS Community Cookbook
UWS Community Cookbook - Building healthier communities through food
Calls were put out in August of 2011 for UWS staff, students and our local community partners to donate healthy, easy, cheap recipes with ingredients that can be sourced locally. The Office of Sustainability, Student Support Services and a small band of enthusiastic helpers spent several weeks in the commercial kitchen in M10 on the Hawkesbury campus cooking, tasting, evaluating and photographing each and every dish to ensure that the recipes were easy to follow, tasty and accurate.
The cookbook is designed to assist both UWS students, especially those in our residences, and UWS staff to eat and live healthier and more sustainably. In addition, there are a number of useful tips, serving suggestions, flavour variations, ideas on using leftovers and storage procedures from Love Food Hate Waste.
Winning Recipes
The winning recipes are:
- Honey Bread – Quick and Easy by Shelley Burgin
- Five ‘P’ Pasta – Vegetarian by Jonathon Allen
- Peanut Butter Rice – Budget Buster by Jessica Pietryga
- Marget Liban Dijaj – Halal by Lamia Hussein and Amy Alrawi
- Traditional Lasagne – Organic and Overall winner by Thashini Jeanie Pillay
Winners received a $100 eco-voucher to spend on sustainable products, and the overall winner also donated $500 to charity. Thank you to everyone who submitted a recipe.
How to get your copy
The UWS Community Cookbook can now be purchased at uwsconnect bookstores for only $7, or download a free sample (PDF, 4476.67 KB) (opens in a new window) of the UWS Community Cookbook today. Come along to our UWS Student Love Food Hate Waste workshops for your chance to win a cookbook and other great prizes.
Subscribe to our newsletter and recieve a full recipe from our cookbook every second month, plus a load of other useful information and details about Sustainability at UWS.
Cookbook Launch
The UWS Community Cookbook was launched at Parramatta campus in August, as a part of Sustainability Month.
Costa Georgiadis, host of Gardening Australia, gave an inspiring speech teaching us how to eat and live more sustainably, stating 'I look at a simple little cookbook like this and I see an incredible vehicle for education'.
