New Cooking Classes, a very special mailing list, and 20% off if you tell me…
The westerlies have arrived, I’ve fallen in love with my hot water bottle and I’m fantasising about chocolate soup (and chocolate cookies, choc marble cheesecake, chocolate self saucing pudding, chocolate babka…) at quite inappropriate times. Winter must be here! This means a whole new set of cooking classes to make the most of this too-short cold season of ours. There’s a spicy pickle class, a marmalade and fruit butter class, a tofu and tempeh class (of course- it just keeps filling!), a pressure cooker class, a meat stock class and a vegetable stock class. Feel wintery enough to you? If you like hearing about [...]
Learning for the Soybean Masters Cooking Class THIS SATURDAY
Hi everyone, there’s just a couple of spots left in this Saturday’s cooking class at Taste. In this class – the first in a series offered in 2012 celebrating authentic vegetarian dishes – we’ll make tofu from scratch (a tofu that will blow all other beancurds out of their slightly rancid water baths!), we’ll experiment with the fermented delights of tempeh, and we’ll use both tofu and tempeh in a series of dishes direct from the soybean masters (Indonesia and the Sichuan Provence). For more details, see my cooking classes page. (And if you want to know if my classes are any [...]
Last Cooking Class for 2011, ‘So you want to cook a turkey for Christmas?’
Hi everyone, Just a quick note to remind you that my last cooking class of the year is on Wednesday 30th November. We’ll be cooking turkey, lots of it! I’ll show you how to separate the breast meat from a whole turkey (much cheaper than buying turkey breast by itself) and what to do with the remaining turkey. We’ll prepare the breast in a couple of different ways: by butterflying it and then rolling it with a filling and by poaching it, very slowly in a flavourful stock. We’ll also roast a whole turkey using some techniques that will ensure [...]
Cooking Class Details Finalised, Basic Cooking Skills for Vegetarians and Omnivores
I’ve received lots of interest and some useful feedback about the cooking classes I’m offering, and so I’ve been able to finalise their form, dates and fees. To begin with, I’m now offering a smaller set of Introductory Cooking Classes, for people who want to develop Vegetarian Cooking Skills, or Omnivore Cooking Skills, or both. These cooking classes are intended as an introduction to more in-depth classes down the track (for those who want to continue on). The classes will be shorter (2 1/2 hours rather than 4 hours), the class sizes slightly increased, and you can come to one class [...]
Beginner Cooking Classes for Vegetarians, in Brisbane
For an updated list of cooking classes, please click here. Thank you! So, looks like there’s some interest in specifically vegetarian cooking classes as well as the omnivorous classes I’m definitely offering. These vegetarian specific classes will be designed for anyone who would like to learn foundational skills in vegetarian cooking. You may have previous experience in cooking a more omnivorous diet or very little cooking experience in any diet. All skill levels can be accommodated. If you’re interested, first have a look at the general description of my cooking classes. For those of you wanting more details about the classes, [...]