Three times a year, 12 individuals unite over a love of cooking, transforming from enthusiastic culinary fans to talented and passionate cooks through our six-week intensive Cook’s Certificate. With a sustainable and principle-led teaching approach, students are armed with all the tools they need to be both competent and confident in the kitchen, whatever the end goal. So, should you be enrolling in our next intake?
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Cook's Certificate
May 13-19 marks National Vegetarian Week so we’re celebrating with one of our favourite dinner recipes – Vegetable Bolognese. With more than five veggies per serve, it’s a great way to pack in your five-a-day in a delicious way.
It’s a real crowd pleaser – just make sure you make enough for leftovers!
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ingredients Recipes
This is a great way to use up leftover hot cross buns and any remaining Easter eggs you may have. It’s a mouthful to say and not the prettiest of dishes but it tastes absolutely delicious!
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Recipes Sustainability
With thanks to our founder, Rosalind’s, loving mother.
Passover is the Jewish Festival of Liberation which lasts seven or eight days and this year starts on April 19th. During this period any type of leavened bread or bread product is prohibited, making this delicious nut cake the perfect sweet treat for Passover.
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-Grease and paper the base of a 25cm”
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Recipes
Get lost in some sticky goodness, with our sensational seasonal spring jam! The perfect recipe to get the whole family involved.
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450g granulated sugar
450g rhubarb
Juice 1 lemon
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-Wash and dry the jars, then sterilise in the oven at 150ºc.
-Chop the rhubarb into 1 inch lengths.
– Place the rhubarb, the sugar,
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Recipes What's in season?
A recipe is like a strategy. It’s the how you will do the thing you’re doing, or in the case of cooking, it’s how you will make the thing you’re making. It has directions and a clearly defined input and output. It also has an anticipated outcome that can easily be measured – both qualitatively and quantitatively.
When teams collaborate to deliver on a strategy, there is responsibility, accountability, delegation,
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Corporate cookery
Team building activities and away-days tend to be unfairly weighted toward Christmas time when the office is ready to go off-site for a bit of a jolly. But just like puppies, team building events are not just for Christmas!
Throughout the year, there are many opportunities where some bonding time is just the ticket to keep your teams, clients and business happy and productive. Here are 6 reasons we’ve come up with:
Leftover budget – Have budget leftover at end of the fiscal year?
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Corporate cookery
Considering a change in career or wanting to improve your home cooking? We speak with Anna Barbieri (@apinchofbarbs), 2018 graduate, to ask about the benefits of enrolling in the Cook’s Certificate course at Cookery School at Little Portland Street. Read on!
What were you doing before the Cook’s Certificate?
I was working as a PA in a media company for two years. Before that, I was a front of house manager in my family’s restaurant in London’s Soho area.
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This Saturday marks the start of Real Bread Week. This week-long campaign highlights additive-free breads and those who make them, like your local, independent bakeries and even you if you enjoy baking at home! We’re kicking things off early with this recipe for soda bread. Share your home-baked bread photos online and tag them #RealBreadWeek to show your support.
SODA BREAD
This bread is risen with bicarbonate of soda,
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Recipes
Last week I was alerted to a tweet that stated the author felt deceived by the cooking community after he had read a 2012 article on Slate.com about how long it really takes to caramelise an onion (35-40 minutes) versus what a recipe typically says (5-8 minutes).
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