Wickedfood Cooking School, SUNNINGHILL

Information & bookings (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Hi all,

At last, the World Cup is a over. Hopefully we can once again get on with business.  We had some great individual classes during the World Cup, and hope to continue these for the rest of the year.  Many of our cooking classes for individuals are filling up quickly, our sushi making class is already  fully booked for next week.  Should you however wish to do a sushi making class, please contact the school and they will place you on a waiting list for the next class. Should we have enough enquiries, we will run another class.

We also have a specialist database and we advise people on these databases when the next class that they are interested in, comes up. Please contact the school should you wish to be placed on the data list, together with your interests.

The August  programme for individuals is now up on our website.

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Wickedfood Cooking School news

Cooking class programmes are up on the internet, click the relevant month for the July and August programme .

Wickedfood Cooking School runs cooking classes with a minimum of 8 participants and a maximum of 12 as this gives everyone hands-on experience and keeps the cooking class small enough for maximum learning. These cooking classes are conducted by our senior instructors who have extensive experience in the food industry and share a variety of additional cooking tips throughout the  class.

• Sunday 18 July at 4pm – Entertaining Italian style (R350pp). Great Italian cooking class, with dishes for entertaining with Italian flair including rice croquettes, Siena bread soup, semolina gnocchi, poached chicken with a caper/egg sauce and baked pears.
• Monday 26 July at 6pm – A taste of the sea, Portuguese style (R395pp). A selection of tasty seafood dishes from our Portuguese cooking class, including codfish balls, squid tentacles, Madeira squid stew, prawns peri-peri, and tuna steaks.
• Sunday 01 August at 4pm – Classic Indian dishes (R370pp). Authentic Indian cooking class, dishes including chicken mulligatawny, classic lamb buriyani, soya korma, spicy chick peas, naans and coconut pasties.

Please contact the school should you wish to make a booking:

Looking for info on food?

If you have any food-related questions, or a dish that you just can’t get right or even a certain recipe that you are looking for, but just can’t seem to find, then contact us and we will do our best to answer it as soon as possible. Click Here for more information. Hope to hear from you soon.

On food

Cooking up a storm

Doing research for the newsletter, I came across this charming story.  It may not be to everyone’s taste, but it certainly touches on some  interesting  theories.

As the OAP who baked cannabis cakes to ease her aches and pains and those of her disabled friends, Pat Tabram became something of a celebrity. Now, about to be sentenced for her crimes, she explains why she is willing to go to jail to continue doing it … Click Here to read the full article .

Cookbook of the week

Reuben Cooks: Food is Time Travel

If it’s local South African celebrity chefs you’re interested in, then Reuben Riffel is it. He is a Cape lad with a humble upbringing, has become one of the shining lights in the Franschhoek culinary world. … Click Here for more.

Click Here to see Wickedfood Cooking School’s top 10 food-related books for 2009.

Food quote of the week

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis, author.

Recipe of the week:

Seafood Laksa

A laksa is the closest one will get to a hearty warming Southeast Asian soup.  It comes in many guises.  Once you have mastered this recipe substitute the seafood for chunky vegetables or chicken breasts. … Click Here for the recipe.

The Wickedfood Team

Wickedfood Cooking School runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studio. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – teambuilding cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and team building cooking classes these events are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.