The French group meet every two weeks, on a Tuesday at 10.30am in a member’s house. There are currently 8 members in the group who enjoy coffee and cake whilst talking about current news and other topics in a relaxed environment. Our learning tools are a book and CDs [...]
We all had a lot of fun making Hazelnut and Raspberry meringues. Everyone had a sly lick of the bowl and ending up with cream on their faces. This is the recipe if anyone fancies a go at making this delicious sweet Serves 4 – Preparation 20mins – Cook [...]
The Cookery Group for October cooked Cassoulet from a recipe provided by Jean M. The recipe was very easy to follow. I know Jean will not mind me adding this but it is not a recipe some of the group would cook normally. We were all pleasantly surprised by [...]
This session, chicken and ham were the main ingredients, plus sheets of Filo Pastry for the top crust (see Jean for the full recipe). The filling and top were very easy to make. Some of the group were thinking ahead and baked individual pies for freezing. Why didn’t I [...]
The first two hour cookery class took place on the 26th January 2015. We all met at 3.50pm to be escorted to our classroom at Keiper Academy School in Houghton le Spring. Our group leader is Jean Mullen who is assisted by Evelyn Cole A favourite recipe was provided [...]
Meet Monthly 4th Monday of the Month Meeting on 23rd. February On Monday 23rd February, 17 Members were at Houghton Kepier School for the second cookery lesson of this new Cookery Group. The dish of the day was to be Chicken Jalfrezi, it was prepared amongst much laughter and [...]
The French group meet every other Tuesday at a member’s house at 10.30.am. We are a small group of 8 very personable ladies. We are now approximately halfway through Breakthrough French Book 2, it is more challenging than Book 1 but we persevere, with coffee, biscuits, and lots [...]
Success for Seaham Harbour U3A Seaham Harbour U3A entered the 2013 RITA competition. RITA [Research Ideas from the Third Age] is a regional initiative overseen by Newcastle University. The purpose of RITA is to develop a research culture within U3A’s in collaboration with local universities. By ‘research culture’ we [...]
Our group Leader is Carole Fairweather The French group have almost reached double figures, and we are progressing slowly but surely, not quite fluent yet but we have a very good French Teacher who is helping us with our grammar and pronunciation. We are now on the last unit [...]
The above event went very well indeed. Seaham Harbour U3A's presentation was very well received and praised to the hilt. The theme was, somewhat naturally, our nearness to the sea including the sand, shells, lobsters, crab pots - you name it. The sea was represented by lovely silky blue fabric [...]
