Wickedfood Cooking School Newsletter 23 March 2011
Wickedfood Cooking School, SUNNINGHILL
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Hi all,
This Sunday we have our annual all you want to know about Beef cooking class (click to see one of our previous beef classes in action). This is one of our highlights of the year. In this beef cooking class we'll teach you how to work with meat, in conjunction with one of Johannesburg's top butchers – Braeside butchery. In the class students will have the opportunity to taste proper free-range grass-fed beef. This Beef cooking class is definitely not to be missed, only 8 places left, so book early.
The April cooking class programme is now live. We Look forward to seeing you at one of the classes.
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Wickedfood Cooking School news
Cooking class programmes for the next two months are up on the internet, click the relevant month for the March and April programmes.
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 cooking class.
- Sunday 27 March at 4pm – All you wanted to know about… beef (R390pp). This meat cooking class is part of our master class series. In conjunction with our head instructor, one of Johannesburg’s leading butchers will give an in-depth hands-on demonstration in choosing and preparing beef for a variety of dishes. Students will learn the secrets of cooking a number of classic mouthwatering beef dishes.
- Monday 28 March at 6pm – South African Indian (R370pp for the class). This South African Indian cookery class is a combination of Indian spices and local ingredients creating dishes unique to the South African Indian community including samoosas, dhal soup, tamarind fish curry, bunny chow, roti and vermicelli pudding.
- Monday 04 April at 6pm – generic viagra
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Cookbook of the week
Forgotten Skills of Cooking
Darina Allen runs the world renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland. While teaching students, she discovered that as a society, we have lost kitchen skills that our grandmothers had known. In her latest book Forgotten Skills of Cooking. She has spun her courses into a one book, with 700 recipes in 600 pages – it is not the type of book you would read in a meeting hall, but rather something to devour snuggled up in your most comfortable favourite chair. It’s one of those books that should stand as the sole cookbook for those who want only one book on food. For those drawn by the rural allure of sustainability and being more in control of the food that comes to your table, this book is even more of a gem. .… Click Here for more information.
Food quote of the week
“Every time we go to the supermarket, an increasing number of items are oven-ready or ready-to-eat: cheese is grated, mushrooms sliced, fruit segmented — I swear, if they sold toast we’d buy it.” – Darina Allen
Recipes of the week:
In celebration of St Patrick's day and a cookbook of the week, we have two interesting recipes.
Irish beef stew – a simple yet hearty stew, full of goodness, perfect for the cooler weather that we're having every now and again.
Irish soda bread – an easy bread recipe, for when you want bread in a hurry – it's ready in less than an hour.
Click Here for all our recipes.
Wickedfood Cooking School runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built Johannesburg cooking studio. Cookery 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 cooking lessons 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.