Grand Prairie Library thinks outside the fall-box all through COVID-19 with well-known Zoom cooking course

Marie Matos is passionate about offering again to the local community.

A programming library support representative at Grand Prairie Library, she has a really like of cooking and teaches a cost-free weekly meal-setting up class on Zoom, a portion of the library system’s unconventional outreach during the pandemic.

“We reside in frantic time in which many families’ revenue may be tighter than common and work schedules may be far more busy than standard,” Matos reported. “By encouraging family members to food-prepare we are displaying them other choices that may possibly enable minimize anxiety and come across resourceful yet enjoyable ways to make confident their households are making the most of fantastic meals.”

To that conclude, Matos provides details and recipes to participants throughout her “Sunday Funday” weekly course.

“My principal target is to support them use what they currently have on their pantry and fridge, and to locate new techniques to help save and lower food squander,” she reported.

Though the course only has two far more dates (this Sunday and Feb. 7), Matos is setting up on providing a new plan in the future, one particular focusing on price range foods.

“For me, cooking is a way for relatives, friends and neighbors to link and create reminiscences,” she reported. “I usually inform the patrons that attend my systems that I am just a single home cook sharing my tips, tips and strategies. If I can do it, so can they. Also, who doesn’t want to learn new or imaginative techniques to preserve a penny or two?”