Last month, a group of 30 “heart”working volunteers gathered at the Grand Hyatt Pete’s Place on a Saturday morning to work their hands on some Italian Recipes!
Upon reaching the restaurant, a warm lingering aroma drew us in as we settled down at a table. The normal bustling restaurant looks spike and span before the start of the business day. A crew quickly showed up and asked,
“Ma’am, Sir would you like coffee tea or juice?”
We were then treated to a lovely breakfast of freshly baked croissants and sultanas! MMmm.. Yum yum.. 
The entire restaurant has been reserved for the Hearty Italian cooking session conducted by the resident Chef Antonio Massagli.
It was a smashing time of fun and interaction as we stirred, whipped and kneaded the mixture into a good looking
dough! Now we know how the Italians are such creative people that with a 
plain old dough, they came up with so many variations of pasta shapes and named them Fusilli, Penne, Raviolis and etc…
One of our youngest participant love the dough so much he asked Chef if he could bring it home. And of course how can we turn down endearing requests such as these..?
“Sure.. Bring it home!” 
After a short break, we did the Tiramisu and Chef shared a few secrets about the different variations and the kind of creme to use. The final step is to overlay the soaked cookies with a concoction of creme. Once that is done, the assistant Chef whipped it away to the fridge.
Chef went on to do a finale live demo of the Sautéed salmon fillet. As the fillet sizzles in his pan, all our stomach
churned along in one accord as the wonderful smell awoke every gland and cell to the state of salivation. ‘
At the end of the event, volunteers received a personalised recipe booklet with Chef’s autograph in it. Everyone were beaming with joy right to the end of the event.
This session has been specially arranged to thank our volunteers who have serve tirelessly. 3 Cheers to Foodheart volunteers! 
