The Conscious Kitchen: Smart Cooking: Affordable, Quick, Diverse and Healthy Meals
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll show you how to make quick, budget-friendly meals packed with flavour, nutrition, and variety. Using one of our favourite kitchen friends, the pressure cooker! You’ll learn to transform simple ingredients into exciting, satisfying dishes with ease.
Whether you’re new to cooking or looking to refresh your skills, this session will leave you inspired, equipped, and ready to cook exciting and delicious meals.
What to Expect
Hands-on cooking with expert guidance
A deep dive into beans, pulses, and time-saving techniques
Practical demos and tastings
A warm, welcoming space to share recipes and cultural food traditions
What You’ll Learn
How to cook a variety of beans and pulses effortlessly
The magic of stovetop and electric pressure cookers
Time-saving tips for busy schedules
Simple, diverse recipes to bring more color and flavor to your meals
What’s Included
Cooking demos and hands-on experience
Tastings of all dishes made
Take-home recipe sheets
The opportunity to connect and learn with like-minded food lovers
Who Can Take Part?
This workshop is open to all skill levels—whether you’re a beginner in the kitchen or an experienced cook looking for fresh ideas.
Session Requirements
Bring an apron if possible
Wear closed shoes and practical clothing (long hair should be tied back)
Bring a tupperware or jar for leftovers
We are a vegetarian kitchen and will do our best to accommodate dietary needs, however we do not operate a strictly gluten free or nut free kitchen. (please inform us in advance).
This workshop will be led by:
Georgia Dowling
Holistic chef and Assistant Head of the OmVed Kitchen, she co-runs the space with Josephine Marchandise. Passionate about plant-based food, she specializes in plant-based nutritionally dense baking and spent over two years as a recipe writer for Minimalist Baker. Inspired by seasonal produce, Georgia champions low-waste, conscious cooking, always seeking creative ways to make food both delicious and planet-friendly. @everymoodfood
Diva Garg
Co-leading this workshop is Diva, our Events Manager and a freelance chef with a deep passion for Ayurveda and the rich culinary traditions of the Indian subcontinent. She explores how these flavors and practices can be adapted to the UK’s seasonal landscape. Through her cooking and research, Diva focuses on how the act of eating can be a way to nourish both ourselves and the planet.@diva.garg_
About OmVed Gardens:
OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.
As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.
We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.
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Subsidised Tickets:
We have a few reserved tickets at a subsidised rate. If this workshop is not monetarily accessible, please write to us at events@omvedgardens.com to avail yourself of a subsidised ticket rate. Subject to availability.
Refund Policy:
These tickets are refundable up to 10 days before the start of the sessions on June 4, post which they will be non-refundable.
