Social Club #16 - Learning to make Pasta & Pesto from scratch

I have always loved making and experimenting with food.  It's so much fun to get your hands dirty and make something from scratch.  You feel a sense of accomplishment (if it doesn't flop) and it's usually much healthier than store bought products which contains preservatives etc.  So for this Social Club I thought that it would be great to learn to make some food.

I asked a friend of mine, Desree Pierce, if she would teach the Social Club ladies to make some fun foodie dish.  Desree was a contestant on Master Chef and she is a home cook who loves using fresh organic ingredients in her recipes.  She is very passionate about cooking and everything that I have eaten that she has made, has been absolutely delicious.  We met at the venue which was the quirky I love my laundry on Bree street and started throwing around ideas of what she could teach everyone to make.  The challenge that we had was that we didn't have a big enough kitchen to accommodate 32 ladies, so we had to come up with something that didn't require too much cooking.  In the end we decided that the best would be to make fresh pasta and pesto from scratch.  Desree got her friend, Tim, to help her on the night.  Tim Heather-Noon is at chef school, he's worked at 95 Keerom restaurant and has also had the honour to work with the Two Greedy Italians.

Des and Tim on the left demonstrating how to make the pasta

Social Club #16 - Pesto & Pasta Details

Hi all the socialites out there! There is just a week left before it's the next Social Club event and I don't want you to get FOMO cause you didn't come!

Desree Pierce (aspiring chef and foodie) will be teaching us how to make pesto and pasta from scratch! Last night we went to I love my laundry to scope out the venue and then afterwards Desree made us the pasta and pesto. I have never eaten such amazing pasta before!  I don't think I want to ever buy store pasta again.