League legends team up with celebrity chefs for DoSomething Day

LEAGUE legends Terry Lamb and Steve Mortimer help cook a batch of pies and sausage rolls for charity with chefs Sammy and Bella.

Sammy and Bella baked hundreds of pies and sausage rolls for DoSomething Day!

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CELEBRITY chefs Sammy and Bella used one special ingredient as they baked pies for the homeless on DoSomething Day - a giant dollop of kindness.

“If a hug was a food, it would taste like a pie,” said Bella as TV’s Jakubiak sisters baked up a storm with the help of rugby league legends Steve Mortimer and Terry Lamb at St Johns Park Bowling Club in western Sydney.

“A pie is not difficult to make, but it does take time and love,” said Bella.

The former My Kitchen Rules winners, aided by the two former Canterbury Bulldogs greats, were busy baking 300 savory pies and 300 sausage rolls to be distributed to the Youth Off The Streets charity later in the day.

Sammy and Bella: A lot of love has gone into baking these pies.

Their effort was part of DoSomething Day, Australia’s biggest celebration of community volunteering and random acts of kindness, a partnership between News Corp Australia’s community newspapers and Your Local Club.

Organisers encouraged Australians to lend a hand in any way big or small, from helping in a soup kitchen to buying someone a coffee or collecting the mail or rubbish bins for an elderly neighbor.

“That’s what is good about Aussies - we’re there to help each other,” said Steve Mortimer.

He said that spirit was epitomised on the football field by an incident he remembered watching as a kid, when South Sydney’s Ron Coote extended a hand to help injured St George star Graeme Langlands up in a grand final.

“This is a great initiative that celebrates that ideal,” he said.

Bulldogs legend Terry Lamb stopped in to lend a hand with baking pies at St Johns Park Bowling Club this morning. .Picture Gregg Porteous

Terry Lamb said: “No matter who you are, there are always people a lot worse off.

“People fall on hard times... There are 55-year-olds losing their jobs, and people getting divorced.

“We’ve all been helped by other people in our lives.”

“Charity is not always just about money,” said Paul Norris, chairman of St Johns Park Bowling Club.

“The whole act of kindness thing is fantastic. I don’t think there’s a club in this area that hasn’t supported Father Chris Riley’s Youth Off The Streets over the years.”

Sammy and Bella’s pies were bound for Fairfield Outreach at Villawood Family Park at 4.30pm and Green Park, Darlinghurst, at 8.30pm.

“I wish we could do this every single day,” said Sammy.

“Charity really does start at home. There are people in need all around us.

“So many people, like Matt Moran and the MKR judges, have given us mentoring when they didn’t have to.”

“I wish we could do this every single day,” Sammy said.

Chefs are notoriously secretive about their recipes, but not this time.

She revealed their spicy pear pies included (apart from pears) cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, lemon juice, a sauerkraut pastry - and love.