Gerringong Men’s Shed (GMS) have released a cookbook with 50 recipes designed to help men gain skills in the kitchen.

Mike Walker, said the book became the brainchild of himself and Graham Hanna, who illustrated the book, after noticing a number of members had begun neglecting their own nutrition after losing a wife or partner, or becoming a carer for a partner.  

“Graham and I, who consider ourselves competent cooks, decided to start cooking lessons with basic, and some not so basic, recipes for those members who showed interest in learning some general cooking skills.”

Most of the recipes in the cook book can be made within 20 to 60 minutes, and were developed to be simple to follow. Each recipe has a utensil list and hints to suggested products found on supermarket shelves to assist in the preparation of each meal.

“The recently printed cookbook is a collation of recipes from all those lessons that we have conducted in-house over the last 5 years,” Mike said. 

Three sponsors helped bring the project to life, the Gerringong Bowlo, Robson Building and Gerringong Rotary Club Sunrise.

Copies of the cookbook are available to purchase now, a book retailing for $25 each.

You can place an order for the cookbook by emailing [email protected], all proceeds go to finance the Men’s Shed and ongoing Gerringong community projects.