Practical cooking courses, one evening a week

Cookery Evening Classes

Enjoy both the cooking and the class while you learn how to interpret recipes, handle cooking equipment, understand technical terms and produce delicious food in these hands-on cooking classes. You will learn how to entertain at home confidently and efficiently.

There are no formal entry qualifications. These are practical 10-lesson courses held on weekday evenings for beginners or for more experienced amateurs,or 4 to 5 weeks for the Quick and Easy Cooking course.The food cooked can be taken home afterwards or eaten at the end of the session in the case of the Quick and Easy course.

Carving demonstration - evening
One Wednesday evening
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9 Dec 2009£60waiting list
Confident Cooking
Monday evenings for 10 weeks
11 Jan 2010£630places available
Beginners Cookery Skills
Monday evenings for 10 weeks
11 Jan 2010£640waiting list
Beginners Cookery Skills
Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks
12 Jan 2010£640places available
Confident Cooking
Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks
12 Jan 2010£630places available

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Cookery Evening Classes are taught at these levels:

Beginners Cookery Skills

This is a practical ten-lesson course held weekly for people who are complete beginners, lack confidence in the kitchen, or want to learn basic skills properly. You will learn to interpret recipes, handle a variety of cooking equipment and understand technical terms, so that you can produce delicious food at home with confidence.

The emphasis of the course is on enjoyment of both the cooking and the classes.Students take home the dishes to serve two people most evenings.

Evening classes begin at 6.30pm and generally finish at about 8.30-9pm. The price includes a copy of Leiths Bible at £30.

Techniques covered

Knife skills, stocks and soups, egg cookery, fish and shellfish, meat preparation and cooking, baking, pastry making, breads and vegetable cookery.

Sample recipes

Tuscan white bean soup, scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on toasted bagels, salmon baked with sweet and hot crust, prawn pilaf, lamb tagine, chocolate and hazelnut cookies.

Confident Cooking

This 10-week course is particularly designed for busy people who want to put a delicious dinner party together quickly and simply. We assume a basic knowledge of cooking.

This course covers knife skills, making fresh pasta, classic pastry, bread dough, filleting flat fish, sweet sauces, risotto and warm salads. It will incorporate Middle Eastern, Japanese and Modern British styles of cooking.

Classes start at 6.30pm and finish at 8.30-9pm.

Sample recipes

Pork tenderloin with fresh bay salt and cider sauce, spatchcok grilled poussin with gremolata, banana maple tatin, pear and Amaretti cake.

Quick and Easy Cooking

This is a practical course for beginners and for those who want to learn how to put together very easy meals with little effort but achieve maximum effect.

Students will cook in pairs in a very relaxed environment. At the end of the session they will sit down and enjoy what they have cooked with a glass of wine. There will be few technical skills taught, but lots of handy tips and hints.

The cost of the course includes Leiths Simple Cookery Bible.

Courses run from 6.30-9pm.

Sample recipes

Honeyed goats cheese salad, pear and lemon risotto with pan fried salmon, redcurrant and raspberry creams.