Overview
‘Cooking with Confidence’ is a three-part cooking course series that takes place one evening a week for 6 weeks, helping you go from beginner to confident in the kitchen. Through exploring a range of exciting and versatile recipes, you’ll build up a rounded cooking skillset, focusing on a new skill each week from baking and breadmaking, to meat and fish cookery and knife skills.
Each part of the series may be taken in succession to obtain a complete kitchen skillset or take courses individually in any order. Part 1 covers all the kitchen basics, knife and cutting techniques, kitchen organisation and some delicious recipes to grow your cooking ability and encourage you to expand your repertoire. The evening format allows you to learn on your terms around your 9-5 commitments.
Skills covered:
- Knife skills
- Baking
- Soups
- Sauces
- Fruit preparation
- Meat cooking
- Fish cooking
- Shellfish preparation and cooking
- Custard
- Vegetable cooking
- Egg cooking
- Slow cooking
- Grain cooking
Example recipes:
- Soy glazed chicken thighs and drumsticks
- Avocado fattoush with za’atar crisps
- Celeriac soup with crumble
- Cheddar scone bread
- Gingerbread with vanilla mascarpone
- Lamb tagine with herbed rice
- Mango and passionfruit pavlova
- Seabass on papillote with slow cooked tomato and fennel
- Lemon and poppy seed cake with lemon icing
- Minced lamb kofta with tabbouleh and flatbreads
- Prawns alla busara
- Brioche and chocolate bread and butter pudding
Sample recipes may be subject to change
