CarlBonara SMILE

Great Basketball session today but i'm not here to talk about that really :) might circle back to it at the end. 

Carl Millar (SMILE - Simply Making It Look Easy) taught myself Becky& Chris to make his version of Carbonara Photos available here, if link doesnt work copy & paste this - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.601385973210863.161140.585437351472392&type=3
Putting the recipe on the google drive. Becky was taking photographs while we were cooking, i'll be gettin them off her later on. 


Cooking & Me: 

I'm feeling really proud of everything i've done so far, more so because the Staff of Doncaster Foyer keep complimenting on how impressed they are with everything that's being done, Carl MIllar told me the first time he met me that "you make me wobble" which is a big thing for him, as he said. I'm taking it to mean that he's impressed too, that was 5 weeks ago, He's the one making me wobble, i unsderstand it more now as the staff & himself have been talking about me with the Foyer Organisation & to their circles & talking about taking this cooking with foyer thing up & down the country, I swear i nearly fell on the floor i was so shocked & amazed. The word humble keeps popping up in my mind especuially since it's not all me, the wonderful people who work here, the residents who want to or have gotten involved & Carl himself of course. 

Carl's here until tomorrow, usually he heads back on a train to London in the evening after the food we cooked post-basketball session. We're gonna be cookin ALL DAY tomorrow I'm so incredibly excited to have this opportuinity, gonna damn well make the most of it too. 

He calls our team (basketball & cooking) his Familia, & he's right. I'm stayin in touch after the SMILE Program (Simply Making It Look Easy) is over this time. 

someone suggested the idea of making a cookbook... this could continually raise money to buy ingredients & take this cookin thing from just foyer to every foyer & out into communities too. 


Basketball sessions:

Todays session went even better than expected today, by pure serendipitous chance, when we arrived at Doncaster Hub's B-Ball indoor court Doncaster College's own basketball team, Carl & David (B-Ball Coach in training) took it upon themselves to expand our team & invite them in (after checking with us that we'd be willing to share our time/space with them, which we did & it got a little competitive haha) SMILE Community Basketball team

A couple of weeks ago Carl asked/challenged me to design a logo for SMILE, i've come up with a few concepts which we'll be discussing tomorrow over breakfast (we'll be cooking for everyone again) or lunch (again cooked by us) Carl wants official gear for our team. Hoodies, Shorts, joggers, shirts, vests etc David's got a friend who prints the shirts & all that kinda stuff, he contacted his friend today & in a few days with finalised designs we'll be payin for the stuff (free for doncaster foyer, everyone else has to pay, which is fair) with Davids friend then wearin them to B-Ball, the Plymouth Matchn & everywhere else we're representing SMILE. 

Carl Millar is a walking talking smiling inspiration, he will make you wobble :) truly

Just SMILE & remember You Are Gold

Only a couple of weeks left until the Big Game in Plymouth against their Foyer B-ball team, we're gonna make them wobble ;) we are gold