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Bombay potatoes - menu on the Indian cookery class at the Cooking Academy

Original Indian cookery classes – London & Hertfordshire

The temperatures outside are pretty close to those at the foothills of the Himalayas this morning, the cuisine is also going to pretty close. 

Today we’re running our Indian cookery class where delegates will learn the art of creating highly authentic spice blends and masala’s.  This 1 day Indian cookery classes focuses on developing an understanding of the essence and flavours of herbs & spices used in Indian cookery.  Delegates will touch , feel, smell, taste the spices as individual component ingredients to gradually begin to build a spice blend.  In doing so,discover the flavours and the variable tastes of the spices to their palette. 

To find out more about our Indian cookery classes please contact The cooking Academy on 01923 77 8880.

Tasty food - cookery classes for healthy eating

How to eat more and weigh less  Nutritional cookery classes at The Cooking Academy

There is a fine art to achieving the complexity of eating well and actually more, yet losing weight.  Here at The Academy we achieve this by examining the chemical composition of ingredients and cooking with foods that maximise the taste buds, fine tune the nutritional value and satisfy the stomach and soul.  

In this Nutritional cookery class we teach you to cook with ingredients that are healthy, have high nutritional value and taste exceptionally good.  If food doesnt taste great – it won’t become part of your cooking habit, before long you’ll soon fall back into your old ways of eating;  you’ve probably seen and heard this before.  Therefore it is important that food isn’t punitive or dull.  Contrary to common belief healthy food doesn’t have to be boring.  Our own food scientist and chefs in the cookery school will teach you how to get the best out of the food you buy, prepare and cook it.  Together we will share our nutritional knowledge of ingredients and recipes to pair up great food ideas to create a perfect marriage of excellent ingredients and delicious tastes, inspiring you to eat healthy, tasty and appealing food, encouraging you to stick with a cooking programme very easily at home.   This nutritional cookery class is designed for people who want to eat well, stay well and enjoy fabulous food.  If you care about your diet and well being, want to lose weigh,  yet enjoy eating real food then book onto this course now!   

Next class availability : Thursday 19th April 2012

Location: Rickmansworth/Hertfordshire  - The Cooking Academy

Thai cookery classes at The Cooking Academy in Rickmansworth

Thai Cookery classes in Hertfordshire

Flavours of the East from beautiful Bangkok are summed up in this highly original and authentic Thai cooking class, here at The Cooking Academy in Rickmansworth.  

Thai cuisine is made up of lightly prepared dishes packed with spicy, fresh and well-balanced flavours.  As with Asian cooking it is based on the five taste senses of  heat through chilli,  sour flavours with the use of tamarind,  salty flavours typically using fish sauce, sweet flavours using jaggery, pure sugar, from cane juice and and unami flavours, bitter from lime.

We cover some of the classic Thai dishes that appear in menus throughout Thailand, highly original recipes that hit the note with all our customers and will leave your guests wanting to come back for more.   Our cookery classes are entirely hands on with all the recipes being cooked by attendees – No demonstrations, we want you to actually learn by making the cookery journey yourself and experiencing first hand to ensure you remember and can re create the dishes at home in your own kitchen. 

To book on one of our Thai cookery classes here email Cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk

Saturday 17th March, Thursday 29th March, or Saturday 12th May2012, or for further information call us on 01923 778880.

Corporate Cookery events - Teambuilding at The Cooking Academy

Cookery team building at Hunton Park Hotel – Watford

At the Cooking Academy we’ve teamed up Hunton Park hotel one of the De vere’s flag ship properties to offer fabulous team building events in a wonderful rural setting. 

Take your team out of the office enviroment and get them to really work with their colleagues and get to know each other.  Cooking is a great way to break down barriers and something that can appeal to most people whether they cook regularly or not.  Our corporate cookery events are recommended by our clients who have enjoyed such as BMW, Barclay, Astra Zeneca, Oracle, RBS and Roche to name but a few. 

To find out more information about our cookery team building email cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk  or call us 01923 778880.

Great food, Nutritious - learn to cook it - on the nutrional cookery class

The smart food for weight loss – The really effective diet

Diets are not really about punishment or food deprivation.  diet actually means  ‘a great way of eating’.  If that doesn’t sound like your diet then you need to come to our Nutritional cooking classes where you really can learn to eat more and weigh less .   Losing weight means you need to increase your metabolic rate.  You won’t achieve that by reducing your intake of food.  Infact you will have the reverse effect on your body – resulting in slowing down your metabolic rate and therefore not losing weight at all – worse still potentially gaining it when you start to eat normally.  

Our nutritional cookery classes examines the effects of eating  on the body and looks at ways to increase the metabolism and eat the things that are efficient for the body to digest and speed up your metabolic rate.  We’ll teach you to eat food that is good for you, your taste buds and your waist line! 

Call us on 01923 778880 to book your class or email Cara for more information. cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk

Middle Eastern Cookery classes at the Cooking Academy

Middle Eastern Cookery classes At The Cooking Academy

 Middle Eastern cookery classes are becoming ever popular with more and more of us interested in this wonderful aromatic cooking.  One of my favourite places to enjoy Middle Eastern food is Maroush in theWest End,Edgware Road, just past Marble Arch.   

 I started cooking Middle Eastern food many years ago and have come to serve this cuisine at numerous dinner parties and has always gone down very well as it has a very relaxed style of eating and enjoying food the balance of spices is generally pleasing to most palettes.

 The classic staples of Middle Eastern food is Lamb, chickpeas wheat bread and aubergine all subtly touched with fragrant spices and herbs and accompanied with liberal servings of some form of yogurt.  In many ways Middle Eastern food, whether it is Lebanese, Iranian or Persian isn’t too dissimilar to Indian food, though perhaps the use of chillies are not as liberal in this cuisine.  Its use of paprika, cumin and many other aromatic spices share common ground with north Indian food. 

 In our Middle Eastern cookery classes we unearth the spice trail and look at the aromatic flavours created by these ingredients.  We will prepare exotic dishes such as chicken tagine with dates & honey, and aromatic lamb meatballs simmered in a tomato sauce with cherries, Spicy vegetables in apricots oven baked, Lamb with chickpeas in a casserole with sweet paprika and an aromatic layered pilaf rice dish. 

 Be prepared to cook a wonderful feast of food to share with your family.

 To find out more information about our cookery class please contact Cara Brummitt on 01923 77 8880.  Or email her on cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk