Gastro! Plus Cookery
Two-day
cookery course
Our Gastro! cookery courses are among the
most popular at the Ashburton Cookery School but many people
ask us what they are all about. We call these courses Gastro!
because they’re about the art and practice of
choosing, preparing and eating good food.
This culinary weekend is an opportunity to learn how to produce
modern British classics to restaurant standards.
In choosing our food we put a strong emphasis on local, seasonal
and organic ingredients. We buy locally because Devon is blessed
with some fantastic produce from Dartmoor lamb to fresh fish
from Brixham; we also buy locally because it means our ingredients
have incurred fewer food miles.
We choose organic ingredients because they are healthier,
more sustainable, better for the environment and, we think,
taste better. We change our Gastro! cookery course
menus every month to reflect what’s in season
– what’s naturally available can change radically
over the year which means we can’t necessarily predict
what will be on the menu until the produce arrives with us
the day before the course.
In preparing those ingredients we’ll show you how to
create modern British classics like braised lamb shank, ham
hock terrine, chocolate tart, and sticky toffee pudding and
teach you essential cookery skills and techniques that you
can use to create your own culinary masterpieces or recreate
gastro-pub favourites.
Ashburton Cookery School’s Gastro! Plus weekend
gives you an opportunity not only to learn more recipes and
techniques, but to work on more complex dishes that require
longer preparation time – it makes for a stimulating
cookery holiday.
As with all our cookery courses, the skills you learn will
be used in creating mouthwatering dishes which you will be
able to taste. You will prepare a light lunch on Saturday
followed later in the day around 5pm by a sample menu and
a glass of wine with your fellow students.
On Sunday you will work through till around 2.30pm and your
course will finish with the three course meal you have prepared,
a glass of wine and, most importantly, an opportunity to review
your cookery course with a question and answer session and
informal discussions around the table over lunch.
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£269
View sample recipes from our Gastro! cookery courses:
Spicy parsnip soup with
crisp bacon and sage
Somerset brie and red onion tartlet with fresh figs, honey
and rocket
Pork tenderloin with prunes and apples in Luscombe cider sauce
Apricot, honey and rosemary mousse with Somerset cider brandy
Steamed chocolate pudding
Rhubarb and ginger parfait
Visit some of the local producers we use:
Luscombe
cider
Rod &
Ben’s
The
Fish Deli
Doves
Farm
Riverford
Dairy
Quickes
Cheddar
Participants must be 18 or over
Two-day cookery courses run from 9.30 to 5.30 on Saturday;
9.30 to 3.30 on Sunday
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