Wickedfood Cooking School news

Our January and February individual cooking class programmes are up on the internet – click the relevant month  for the programme January / February.

Wickedfood Cooking School runs classes with a minimum of 8 participants and a maximum of 12 as this gives everyone hands-on experience  and keeps the class small enough for maximum learning.

• Tuesday 19 January at 6pm – 30 minute meals (R380 pp). In this class we will show participants how to produce quick and easy 30 minute meals that are delicious, and at the same time low in fat and well balanced. Dishes include Moroccan spiced chickpea soup, orange spiced lamb stir-fry, and pasta and seafood casserole.
• Thursday 21 January at 6pm – Sushi 1 – The basics of sushi making (R395 pp – maximum 18, so book early). The basics of sushi making – cutting fish, making rice, California and maki rolls, nigirizushi (finger), and hand rolls.
• Sunday 24 January at 4pm – Flavours of the South African Portuguese Table (R370 pp per class). 7 tasty dishes including trinchado, chicken livers, caldo verde, chicken peri-peri, Portuguese salad and crème caramel.

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

Looking for info on food? – The Wickedfood blog took off in a big way in 2009, with lots of questions coming in from our readers.  If you have any  food-related question, 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.

Cookbook of the week –If you’re seriously into cooking and you do not yet have this book, then  Ginette Mathiot’s mammoth masterpiece, I Know How to Cook,  is a must.  First published in 1932, and periodically updated since then,  this 975 page bible of French cooking has sold over 6 million copies to date. With over 1,400 easy-to-follow recipes for every occasion it will assist any aspiring cook. Click Here for more.

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

Did you know: –The French started offering canapés to their guests in the 18th century, and the English adopted the practise at the end of the following century. The more modern version of the canapé is the amuse-gueule. Amuse-guele literally means ‘gob amuser’ but is translated more delicately as ‘palate pleaser’.

Food quote of the week: – “Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.” – Delia Smith

Recipe of the week – Salade Lyonnaise

The Wickedfood Team

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 – team building 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.