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All the spices you need
to create delicious
curries at home every
month by The Spicery
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The Enrica Rocca Cookery
School is a pan-European
culinary phenomenon with
cookery courses held in
Notting Hill and across
the waters in Venice
where Enrica dubbed the
'Cooking Countess' by the
food media currently
resides.These vouchers
give you the chance to
serve up a little bit of
Venice on a plate - in
Notting Hill. Having
grown up surrounded by
food made using only the
best and freshest
ingredients it's little
wonder that Enrica's
daughters have stepped
forward to continue the
Enrica Rocca cookery
school tradition in the
heart of London.So meet
your hosts for the day:
Claire and Charlotte.
Wiser than their years
when it comes to all
things culinary you will
learn a lot from this
enthusiastic duo. But
before you even get to
the point of rolling up
yours sleeves and getting
your aprons on there's
one essential step -
gathering the
ingredients.And that's
what makes this Notting
Hill course so unique in
that before the cooking
it's the shopping. You
will meet at Portobello
Road market which is a
vibrant and bustling
melange of stalls selling
food stuffs from all over
the world. Indeed
Portobello is ideal for
finding all those typical
Italian ingredients that
make all the difference
when it comes to creating
authentic food.Laden down
with bags bursting with
fresh produce and herbs
(some of which you might
never have heard of!)
it's time to head back to
Enrica's bright and airy
Notting Hill abode. As
you gather round in her
professional-standard
kitchen the goodies you
brought from Portobello
market will be unpacked
and the cooking
begins.The menu will
include some impressive
looking (and equally
impressive tasting)
antipasti starters a
traditional pasta dish
and a fresh meat or fish
dish. In total you might
be preparing up to half a
dozen dishes but don't
worry there's no need to
try and remember
everything or make notes
as electronic recipe
cards are provided for
all participants.As the
wonderful smells start
wafting through the air
this lovely kitchen in
Notting Hill has suddenly
transformed itself into a
hive of activity in a
typical Italian home with
lots of chatter over the
chopping and the
occasional chink of a
wine glass being
refilled. This is what
Enrica Rocca's cookery
school is all about -
friendly lively and
really rather brilliantly
flamboyant.
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Learn how to make
fragrant & flavoursome
Thai dishes
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It's a mix of alchemy and
artisan on this fabulous
Cheese Making Course! You
will spend a whole day in
the depths of the Peak
District learning how to
make cheese with expert
tuition from Chris Ashby
- and what she doesn't
know about cheese and how
to make it isn't worth
knowing!Turning whole
milk into tasty soft
cheese isn't as
complicated as it might
sound but the key to the
entire process is very
precise temperatures. You
will be shown what
happens when you heat
milk to create the curds
and whey how you use the
curds to make delicious
cheeses that are soft and
creamy and learn the
theories of making hard
cheeses too. Whether
you've always fancied
making your own
handcrafted cheese or
just love the taste of a
good Brie this course is
ideal for you.The morning
of the course will be
centred on making a
Camembert-style soft
cheese and this is when
you'll discover all about
rennet and how it's used
in the cheese making
process. You'll have a
break for lunch (and yes
cheese is on the menu as
it doubles up as a
tutored cheese tasting
workshop!) before an
afternoon session where
you will make a
wonderfully squidgy
mozzarella cheese and a
fragrant lemon
cheese.What we love about
this course is that it is
that you will be fully
taking part so it is you
who will be making the
artisanal cheese to take
home with you. Imagine
serving up a delicious
mozzarella and tomato
salad a wedge of lemon
cheese served with a nice
glass of rose wine or a
slice of your soft cheese
on a crisp cracker…and
all homemade.This cheese
making course runs from
09:30 until 16:30 at the
Bakewell workshop so
there's plenty of time
for you to separate those
curds from the whey get
straining and then press
the mixture into the
cheese moulds. You'll
learn loads of quirky and
fabulous cheesy facts (we
love it when you make
stringy cheese!) and you
leave with the three
cheeses you made. You'll
even discover age IS
important when you're a
cheese! Brilliant fun.
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Learn Artisan Bread
Making on these one day
courses in Bakewell! And
yes (no pun intended) you
will learn how to
bake-very-well in
Bakewell on our full day
bread courses hosted by
Andrew Auld master baker
of Loaf in Crich.The
courses take place at the
School of Food's
professional kitchens in
this delightfully
converted former mill in
the heart of this
Derbyshire town. As you
can imagine there's no
sign of a sliced white
here as your baker host
is passionate about using
traditional bread baking
techniques and prefers
using either baker's
yeast or natural leavens
to produce their tasty
range of artisan
breads.You have the
choice of four different
courses that all revolve
around hand-making bread.
You can add a gallic
flavour to your baking as
you tackle croissants
baguettes and brioches on
the French bread and
Viennoiserie day or
perhaps you'd like to
have a go at the tricky
thing that is sourdough?
This course will see you
mixing up wild yeast
sourdoughs and 100% rye
ones too.There is also
the classic artisan bread
making workshop that show
you how to perfect that
crust on your traditional
white or brown loaves
gets you kneading your
wet dough for a foccacia
and coming up with a
sweet dough to turn into
something scrummy like
Chelsea buns or iced
fingers. Yum. Last but
not least is the
speciality bread session
that is a wonderful
melange of bread baking
styles with everything
from foccacias and pain
au chocolat to rye breads
on the menu.As well as
learning about each
different bread type on
your course you'll also
explore ingredients and
mixing practice the art
of kneading then be shown
how to shape the dough
ready to be baked. This
is all done by hand which
is an essential part of
the artisanal process as
is the finishing touch of
slashing or sprinkling
your bread with seeds or
flour to give it that
inviting hand-crafted
look.Lunch is included on
these artisan bread
making days and all
courses provide
everything you need to
roll up your sleeves and
get stuck in. As an
artisan bakery teacher
Andrew likes nothing more
than producing a nice
crusty baguette or tinned
loaf but also loves
soughdoughs so you'll
have a variety of breads
to try out with up to
three being made
throughout the course of
the day - all of which
you can take home with
you.
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Get ready and get set for
the Smart Bake Off! This
culinary challenge sees
you taking part
in baking lessons
that'll task you and your
baking comrades to come
up with all the sweet
goods that taste
heavenly.Have you got
what it takes to be a
great baker? This two
hour course will show you
all the tips and tricks
you need to be able to
bake with success. There
may be talk of soggy
bottoms and chat over
what makes a good crumb
but there'll also be lots
of hands on time for you
to be able to make some
truly stunning baked
goods or desserts that'd
be good enough to get the
judges's eyes twinkling
if they tasted it and
maybe earn you a
handshake. All the
ingredients you need are
included in this bake off
course and your expert
baker host will be
holding your hand every
step of the way. And
unlike the technical
challenge on the TV show
the recipes you'll be
presented with will be
complete so they'll be no
guessing how long your
soufflé needs to be
cooked for or whether you
should add butter before
or after the sugar. As
you're whisking your egg
whites and waiting for
your milk to reach the
optimum temperature on
the stove you try not to
think about what happens
if your 'creme pat' comes
out curdled or your
ganache lacks panache.
Those expressions of sad
disappointment on the
faces of the judges in
the TV show are enough to
spur all budding bakers
on to do their best and
that's just what these
cake making courses aim
to do - build confidence
in the kitchen Of course
the competitive element
of the Smart Bake Off is
just for fun as
these baking lessons are
all about learning how to
succeed with your baking
thanks to the experience
of your hosts who come
equipped with brilliant
ideas and lots of chef
secrets too. And remember
cooking may be a chore
but baking is a treat!
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Cookery classes at the
Yorkshire's renowned
Swinton Park cookery
school near Ripon.
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Watch & learn with the
1hr express sushi demo
classes in London hosted
by pro sushi chefs
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Cooking Lessons in London
and the South East - a
special deal on these
hands-on gourmet cookery
lessons at a choice of
locations! These culinary
packages in the capital
and home counties will
see you being taught how
to cook and bake at one
of the Smart Schools of
Cookery run by former
MasterChef contestant Ann
Hood.Everyone knows
London and Greater London
is the capital of cuisine
when it comes to the
sheer range of tastes and
flavours available and
this range of cooking
lessons reflects that
with lots of themes and
styles for you to choose
from. And it's not just
the variety of
ingredients that counts
as you'll soon find out
it really is true that
the basis for good
cooking is quality of
ingredients with these
courses choosing to use
handpicked fresh produce
as much as possible.You
can take your pick from a
variety of two hour
lessons including
cooking street food
Italian flavours with
everything from pasta to
panna cotta tastes of
Spain with Spanish tapas.
You can also travel f...
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Great cooking vibes with
the super-cool Greenwich
Pantry family!
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These cookery classes in
London are vibrant lively
fun and above all super
tasty! The Avenue cookery
school is very much a
family affair with Mum
daughter and son all
involved in the running
and hosting of these
colourful courses. Taking
inspiration from around
the world you're certain
to eat and cook well!
They say you should never
work with children or
animals. Mum Diana has
foregone the latter but
has very much welcomed
her children into the
fold of this culinary
school of delights in
London. In fact all the
team shares her love for
life and teaching is very
much an abundance of good
humour coupled with
never-ending enthusiasm
topped off with stacks of
cooking tips and
shortcuts that'll amaze
you. The range of cookery
classes available at this
London school is second
to none and great value
for money too. Most have
both daytime and evening
slots on the schedule and
many include full sit
down meals to share or
nibbles at the very least
and the workshops welcome
BYOB. You'l...
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Make cheese make bread.
Eat cheese eat bread.
Fantastic cheese courses!
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Take part in this fun
celebrity chef TV
experience and star in
your own cookery show!
Just like the famous
chefs you see on
television presenting
cookery programmes this
is your chance to shine
in front of the camera
whilst you cook. This
cookery show experience
is hosted by Ann Hood.
She knows just what it's
like to cook on TV as she
took part in Masterchef.
She'll be on hand to help
advise and motivate as
you prepare yourself for
being filmed whilst you
cook. Ann's a dab hand
with dealing with the
pressures that come with
cooking on the telly. The
cameras capture every
moment including the
highs and the lows. From
the glory of your glowing
ganache that really get
the judges going to that
heart-sinking moment when
you realise your pie
filling has bubbled over
and burnt when you take
it out of the oven. Of
course the famous chefs
TV simply shout 'cut!'
and re-do that scene
where their souffle
collapsed but if it's
Masterchef auditions you
don't get that luxury.
It's reality cooking TV
at its finest! And indeed
if you book the exclusive
group cookery show
experience the day is run
like an episode of
Masterchef with you all
competing in parallel
cooking challenges. If
you go for the solo
voucher you will be
grouped with up to four
other participants to
record your own cookery
show. Will you be able to
magic up a tasty dish
using just the
ingredients laid out on
the table? Can you follow
a recipe to re-create a
classic masterpiece?
These could be the sort
of culinary challenges
you could be facing
during your cookery show
appearance. The show will
be filmed in the school's
professional kitchens
near Danbury in Essex
which boasts a permanent
studio-style set up
making it ideal for
filming. Just like the
well-known chefs on TV
you'll get the chance to
present your dishes to
camera before heading off
to the 'green room'
dining area to taste what
you've made over a glass
of wine with your fellow
TV chefs in training.
Everyone on these fun
celebrity chef
experiences will be
presented with a
professionally edited DVD
of their cookery show so
you can watch back the
day you appeared on TV
cooking like a famous
celeb chef!
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Hands-on classes filled
with spices to make great
Indian food at this
cookery academy in
Hertfordshire
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This Curry Cooking Course
in the capital shows you
how to wow your friends
with a fabulous curry
that doesn't take hours
to prepare! The aim of
this half day course is
to demonstrate that you
don't have to slave over
a hot stove all day to
create a proper tasting
curry cooked at home.The
course is run by Monisha.
Born in Mumbai Monisha
set up home in the UK
when she was 22. She is a
fully qualified chef but
soon realised with our
busy working lives we
haven't got hours to
prepare food so she's
found her own distinctive
cooking style that means
you can whip up an
authentic curry in
minutes on this fun
course. As well as being
time consuming she also
knows curry can have a
reputation for being too
greasy or too spicy but
this course will show
that doesn't have to be
the case when cooking
this sort of food.Your
course starts with
meeting at Hounslow West
underground station then
Monisha will guide you
round some of the best
local shops to pick up
cooking ingredients to
make a fabulous curry in
this really cosmopolitan
part of London. Then it's
back to the kitchen to
learn how to make
deliciously easy
curries.You will be shown
some of the best basic
sauce recipes with the
aim of bringing out the
true flavours of the
spices you useAnd the
best part about this half
day curry cooking course?
The fact that after
everything has been
cooked up you all get to
sit down with your course
mates and sample the
curry dishes that have
been created using only
the best and most
authentic ingredients
sourced locally. Your
friends will be amazed at
your new found curry
making skills!
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It's date night and
you're cooking for your
special someone. Thanks
to your Date Night
subscription box you know
exactly what you're going
make and you've got all
the spices you need too.
Your romantic evening
over dinner is going to
be an absolute success
with you both tucking in
to a delicious home-made
meal for two. Even if
you're a keen cook coming
up with something good to
eat for date night can be
a tricky affair. These
Date Night boxes contain
everything needed to get
your dinner date at home
off to a great start and
they're delivered
directly through your
letterbox for every month
of your subscription.
Each package includes the
spices you'll be using to
give your food an exotic
flavour along with
ingredients lists and
recipe cards to create a
romantic spread. All the
spices and flavours are
measured out in the
perfect quantities for
you to make two
good-sized portions of
each dish. What we love
about these particular
spice boxes is that
inspiration for the
recipes has come...
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If you love smoked
food you'll love this
smoking food workshop!
Learn how to smoke food
in your own home without
the need for fancy (and
expensive) kitchen
gadgets and gizmos. This
is back to basics curing
to bring out those
delicious smoky aromas
and tastes. On these
demonstrations you'll
observe just how easy
home smoked food is to
do. Of course much of the
smoked and cured products
we see have been smoked
on an industrial scale.
But you can recreate the
same process for that
longed for home-crafted
touch that makes
everything just taste so
much better. So how do
you smoke your own food?
Well in essence it's
pretty much the same
whether you're a factory
smoking hundreds of kilos
of salmon a day or just
smoking a couple of duck
breasts for your dinner
in your own kitchen.
You'll learn on this
smoking food course that
it's all about the wood
chips. And the salting.
And the freshness of the
fish seafood or meat.
Your host will show you
how you can leave the
expensive smokers to
one...
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Join a pasta making class
and find out just how
easy it is to make fresh
pasta when you know how!
These classes will teach
you everything you need
to go about making and
cooking your own pasta at
home - including
delicious sauces to go
with it. If the closest
you get to making pasta
is boiling up spaghetti
to go with your
bolognaise sauce you so
need this pasta making
class in your life. It'll
open up a whole new world
to you as you delve into
Italy's other national
dish (alongside pizza!) -
pasta. Anyone who's ever
been to an Italian
delicatessen or
supermarket will know
there are rows and rows
of pasta on offer
including freshly made
whereas in this country
we're more used to seeing
dried pasta. This course
will show you how to make
fresh pasta which tastes
so much different to
dried. There's a place
for both though in the
Italian kitchen so you'll
also be learning about
and making sauces that go
with fresh and dried
pastas not forgetting the
wine that goes with them
too! But back to the
fresh pasta making. The
key to it all is the
ingredients. Your hosts
will tell you all about
the different wheats that
are used whether eggs are
added and of course the
best techniques for
making your shapes. It's
pretty much an art-form
in Italy especially when
delicate forms are
entirely produced by
hand. To master it and be
able to produce decent
quantities of
hand-crafted pasta takes
a lifetime. You might be
a lot slower during your
class but you'll make
enough to cook up several
tasty Italian dishes
including delicious
filled pasta such as
ravioli and tortellini.
As we mentioned sauces
are really important too.
Both the shape of the
pasta and the sauces are
very much regional in
Italy so through these
classes you'll discover
what the classic
combinations of pasta to
sauce are - and make
them. From scratch.
There'll be no opening a
jar of Sacla at these
classes! So if you love
pasta but struggle to
know your penne from your
linguine this pasta
making class is for you.
It takes place at the
Enrica Rocca Italian
Cookery School in
London's trendy and very
cosmopolitan Notting Hill
and is sure to inspire
you into making your own
fresh pasta once you get
back home!
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Give little ones their
first taste of what's
cooking in the kitchen on
these fun kids' cookery
classes in London.
Suitable for miniature
chefs from the age of
eight the professional
chefs hosting these
classes will light the
enthusiasm in youngsters
for making food. It's the
turn of the children to
cook! The great thing
about these children's
cookery classes is that
it isn't just kids
cooking typical
kid-favourite food. The
idea is to get them
passionate about cooking
great food that all the
family will enjoy
together. The word
'fussy-eater' doesn't
exist at this cookery
school - it's all about
getting them involved
excited and curious about
all different types of
foods. On each lesson
children will work
together to create one
dish. The menu's are
wonderfully varied and
utterly mouthwatering.
There's everything from
sushi dim sum to
quesadillas with loads in
between. They're all
great classic recipes
that are easy for a child
to get to grips with and
feel like they've really
accomp...
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Get your dough and mixing
skills up to scratch with
these baking lessons!
Want to learn about bread
and making it yourself?
Always fancied creating
some of those more
unusual breads? Well
these two hour sessions
will immerse you into the
wonderfully warming world
of freshly baked breads -
after all who can deny
how tantalising that
aroma of fresh bread in
the oven is?Now you might
think it's all very time
consuming making your own
loaves at home. We
suspect this is what puts
a lot of people off and
gets them reaching for
the sliced white on the
supermarket shelves. On
the contrary in fact as
this lesson will show
you. With the correct
ingredients and the right
technique you can whizz
up a loaf in no time at
all without the need for
kneading in many cases.
In fact the expert
bread-makers who run
these lessons have all
got a very effective if
slightly unconventional
approach to making and
baking their bread but
once the method has been
demonstrated to you
you'll be itching to
giv...
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Loads of you budding
cooks have requested a
knife skills class so
here it is! If you love
cooking but lack the
knife skills this evening
course in London will
teach you how to use and
look after the sort of
kitchen knife sets that
chefs always have. And
once you've prepped it'll
all be cooked into a
lovely meal for you all
to sit down and eat
together. Kitchen knife
skills are what set the
professional chef apart
from the amateur cook.
You've seen how quickly
those TV chefs chop and
dice with every single
morsel seemingly
perfectly formed (and
with no injuries either).
Now it's your chance to
pick up these clever
cooking knife skills for
yourself. Be prepared to
chop slice and dice your
way through veg galore to
get ready for your foodie
feast. Of course proper
kitchen knives are super
sharp and need to be
handled with care. That's
the first thing you'll
learn on these courses.
And once you know how to
hold the knife it's also
important to be shown how
to hold what you're
actua...
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Add a bit of 'ooh la la'
to your cooking with a
macaron class! Macarons
made to the French recipe
are an absolute favourite
sweet treat for our
Gallic neighbours across
the Channel. This macaron
making class will teach
you how to make these
little rounds of
deliciousness in
abundance. If you've ever
walked past the window of
a French patisserie you
will have noticed the
macarons. Bright and
colourful all neatly
stacked up it's a highly
attractive display - and
just so tempting. When
they are beautifully
wrapped they make for
delightful gifts to give
when invited to dinner or
visiting friends which is
just why they are so
popular in France
especially in the chic
bakeries of Paris. So how
do you make French
macarons? The recipe
couldn't be easier. It's
just egg whites ground
almonds and powdered
sugar. The tricky bits
are the method needed to
get the consistency right
how you get those uniform
shapes and how you bake
them. A proper French
macaron should be round
just the right h...
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Perfect preparation and
sublime flavours mean
delicious results when
you spend a day at this
cooking academy! This
highly-regarded cookery
school in Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire opens the
doors to a whole world of
cuisine offering small
group lessons in a
home-from-home setting.
The cooking academy is
Kumud Gandhi's creation
and she along with her
fellow tutors are all
incredibly passionate and
gifted cooks. But that's
just the half if it. Not
only are they all highly
skilled in the kitchen
they are also fab
teachers. The setting
helps set the scene too
with lessons at the
cooking academy taking
place in the large very
stylish domestic kitchen.
It's homely with that
modern farmhouse feel
stunning granite work
surfaces and an outlook
capable of distracting
you from your
workstations - the
gardens are gorgeous! The
school's philosophy for
food is fascinating.
Cooking is seen as mix of
science and alchemy where
blending and combining
flavours aromas and
spices leads to
delicious...
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These themed demos and
cookery courses in
Suffolk take place at a
modern cooking academy
near the centre of
Ipswich. For these
courses that aim to make
cooking fun you'll be
learning from the owner
and chef Mark David ably
assisted by his wife and
business partner Annie
who also is the
organising force behind
these courses.As well as
creating and leading
courses and workshops
Mark David has
exceptionally wide
cookery experience
including hotel and
outside catering as well
as swanky corporate
events in the Suffolk
area and beyond. He spent
three years as an Egon
Ronay inspector and a
further year as
restaurant manager at
Robert Carrier's
acclaimed Hintlesham Hall
hotel. He now runs this
his own cookery school
and is a regular author
and broadcaster on all
matters culinary.His
light-hearted
unpretentious approach to
his courses has earned
him a reputation in
Suffolk as one of the
best cookery teachers out
there. And indeed the
emphasis at this very
high-tech purpose-built
school is on quick and
easy entertaining with
dishes to tempt the
palate but without
stressing you out in the
kitchen. All full cookery
courses involve making
bread two starters two
mains and two desserts
and maybe a couple of
classic accompaniments to
a meal such as risotto or
a terrine and you will be
working in teams in your
own 'pod' cooking area
whilst the themed evening
sessions are run as
informative demos where
you observe the culinary
action.So in essence on
the full day cookery
courses you learn through
actually making the
dishes yourself whilst
the demonstration
evenings are all about
kicking back relaxing and
watching - and perhaps
going as far as
volunteering if your chef
host asks for a helper -
as everything from
Gazpacho and Gambas to
Tarka Dal and Thai
Chicken Stir Fry is being
prepared before your very
eyes.You'll discover
these cookery courses in
Suffolk are as much about
tasting food and wine as
they are about actually
making the dishes. We
think this is one of the
friendliest cookery
schools we have on the
books and you're sure to
have a fun and memorable
day or evening being
entertained by Mark and
his team in their swanky
demo kitchens. Don't
forget to check our main
cookery courses page for
similar courses in other
areas of the country.
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