Let’s Cook for Friends and Family

What you’ll make:

• Prawns with garlic, parsley and wine sauce and French bread
• Thai minced pork with green beans
• Vegetarian lasagne, side salad and dressing
• Beef carbonade
• Chicken escalope’s
• Victoria sponge
• Squidgy chocolate brownie

Course Content:

These are great recipes for every season. The range of dishes will give you a wide repertoire for elevated everyday cooking, whether you want to serve supper for the family or have a few friends over.  We have included our delicious classic Victoria sponge and our most popular squidgy triple chocolate brownie. We will teach youeasy recipes to make for Friends and family dinners including, how to make a French baguette with basic bread making skills that can be transferred to other types of bread, casseroles, a quick stir fry to compliment a pork dish, as well as cake making skills and a guide to making the perfect brownie.

What to expect:

On arrival tea, coffee and fresh pastries will be ready for you to enjoy.  You are welcome to arrive early and stroll around the house, leaf through the cookery books in the library or wonder around the garden weather permitting and play with the kittens.

The course starts promptly at 10am.

In the morning, you will join Sophie and Karen in hands on cooking and demonstrations, where you will make the main dishes and learn the best ways of keeping your kitchen organised while cooking a feast. You will have some of the mains together for lunch along with lovely wines, soft drinks and a mocktail that you will be taught to impress the whole family.

Following lunch, you will make the Victoria sponge cake and brownies and enjoy a cup of tea and some sweet treats while we box up some of the dishes for you to take home.

You will take home a recipe booklet, the Victoria sponge cake and your homemade brownies, together with a few portions of the main dishes.