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CHRISTMAS RECIPE: Roast Potatoes

One of our favourite side dishes for this time of year (and everyday)! Our Christmas recipe for roast potatoes is quick, simple and delicious.

 

Roast Potatoes

 

INGREDIENTS

Allow 2 good sized potatoes per person
rapeseed oil

 

METHOD

1. Peel the potatoes and place in a saucepan.
2. Cover the potatoes with sufficient cold water to just cover them.

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National Vegetarian Week: Helping the planet through your plate

vegetarian week

 

15th– 21st May is National Vegetarian Week, a movement that aims to promote eating more plant-based foods. With experts saying that by 2050, the developed world will need to reduce their meat consumption by 50%, it’s becoming more important than ever for individuals and families to celebrate the humble vegetable. Here at Cookery School, we’re leading from the front, with plenty of vegetarian and vegan classes,

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Update on our Covid-secure measures 2023

The World Health Organisation have officially declared that the covid pandemic is over but that the number of deaths and hospitalisations due to covid has stabilised.

At Cookery School at Little Portland Street we are now changing the initiatives we have had in place, since our return to our kitchens after the lockdowns, in accordance with this new advice.  We feel a responsibility to look after those visiting Cookery School as we do have people that are vulnerable taking classes and courses so will remain cautious in our response.

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Become a Professional Cook in 2023

Cook's Certificate graduate

Turn your passion into a new career in food

 

Make 2023 your year and become a professional cook! With the start of 2023 heralding new beginnings, now could be the time to turn your love of food into a new career. The role of a cook or chef comes in all shapes and sizes but ultimately it’s a creative passion, whether you’re a baker, a patisserie chef,

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Baking and Breaking Bread with Dan Lepard

Dan Lepard and students

We always love to welcome one of the most respected authorities on baking, Dan Lepard, into Cookery School. His sourdough baking classes with us remain extremely popular thanks not only to Dan’s extensive knowledge, but also to the style of his teaching.

We caught up with Dan to find out some of the secrets to his success, what he feels are some of the trends within bread making and why he enjoys teaching here at Cookery School…

Q:What are some of the most surprising things you have learnt from teaching people how to bake bread?

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RECIPE: Roast Pork

Roast Pork

Roast pork, is not always easy to perfect every time. Our simple and easy to follow recipe will allow you to have the perfect crispy pork skin whilst keeping the meat juicy and succulent. To serve with your roast pork, a quick and easy homemade apple sauce makes for the perfect accompany.

 

Ingredients

2kgs/5lbs pork belly on the bone
4 cloves garlic
6 tbsps olive oil
2 tbsps rock salt
freshly ground pepper

 

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Update on our Covid-secure measures

VENTILATION, VENTILATION AND VENTILATION IS OUR MANTRA AS WELL AS MASK WEARING

We believe that to keep everyone safe, we have to keep all our covid-secure measures in place for the foreseeable future as we learn to live with covid.

We are very aware that whilst hospital admissions are not rising, we are in the middle of a serious fourth wave as can be seen by the huge rise in covid cases caused by the new Omicron variant. 

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RECIPE: Cranberry Ice Cream

cranberry ice cream

 

Leftover cream and cranberry sauce? Our delicious zero waste cranberry sauce ice cream is the perfect hassle-free Boxing Day dessert!

 

Cranberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

-cranberry sauce

-double or single cream

 

Method

-In a freezer friendly container, pour the cream and then slowly add the cranberry sauce to taste and mix well.

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Recipe: Brussel Sprouts and Chestnuts

Brussel Sprouts

Brussel sprouts and chestnuts is a must for the Ultimate Christmas dinner, discover our delicious recipe this Christmas. We guarantee this recipe will have all the family reaching for more.

Brussel Sprouts and Chestnuts

 

Ingredients

 

1 lb brussel sprouts
1 lb chestnuts fresh, vac packed or tinned
knob of butter
salt and pepper to taste

Method

-Shell the chestnuts and clean the brussel sprouts.

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RECIPE: Vegan Meringues

vegan meringues

Celebrate World Vegan Month with a delicious sweet treat!

Vegan Meringues

 

INGREDIENTS

125ml aquafaba (liquid from a drained tin of chickpeas)
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
125ml caster sugar (we like to use unbleached caster sugar)
1½ teaspoons vanilla extract

METHOD

1.Preheat the oven to 120ºC/250ºF.
2.Line a baking tray with non stick paper.
3.Place the aquafaba into a very large and clean mixing bowl.

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RECIPE: How to Poach an Egg

poached eggs

 

What is poaching?

Poaching uses a small amount of water that has been flavoured with savoury ingredients or sugar and spices, in which the ingredient being  poached is submerged in the poaching liquid and cooked very slowly. Food cooked this way stays beautifully moist. The versatile cooking method allows you can poach an array of foods such as eggs, meat, fish and fruit.

Poached eggs

Feeds 1

Ingredients

Allow 2 eggs per person

Method

1.

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Latest News – 2nd Lockdown November 2020

Having re-opened on 1 September after making our Little Portland Street kitchens as covid-secure as possible, we were able to run courses and classes and were constantly told by students that once they entered our kitchens, they felt safe and were surprised how they relaxed and enjoyed cooking with us. With the safety of everyone at Cookery School being of paramount importance, those messages have been like music to our ears!

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Urgent plea to help our children’s future

The growing scandal of the failure to provide children in the UK the opportunity to have regular schooling during lockdown, has appalled us. Their futures ought to be our major concern now. Many of them will not have set foot in an educational institution for just short of half a year and we owe them more than that!

As the founder of London’s most sustainable cookery school, a full time working teacher for over 55 years and 77 year old grandmother,

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RECIPE: Bakewell Tart

Bakewell tart

Searching for the perfect Bakewell Tart recipe? Originating from the Bakewell pudding, the Bakewell tart is an English dessert made with shortcrust pastry, jam, frangipane (a sweet filling made with almonds), and a topping of flaked almonds. The pudding was, like many fantastic recipes, a happy accident, made by a cook in the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire in the 1860s.

BAKEWELL TART

Pastry

10 ozs/250g flour
7 ozs/175g butter
2 ozs/50g caster sugar
½ level teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
2 egg yolks

Filling

6 ozs/150g of good strawberry jam
4 ozs/100g butter
4 ozs/100g sugar
4 ozs/100g ground almonds if desired
4 eggs
handful flaked almonds to sprinkle over top

METHOD

1.

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