Entertaining & Seasonal Cooking

Inspired Entertaining

Inspired yet simple dishes for entertaining: This day will give you the confidence and inspiration to entertain with flair. The day will be a combination of demonstration and hands on experience to ensure that you leave with some well honed skills as well as host of new ideas. Built into the day will be discussions on how to plan different styles of party and balancing the menus. The course runs throughout the year and menus change with the seasons.

Just Desserts

An inspiring day preparing desserts with a difference to pep up your entertaining repertoire. A combination of demonstration and hands on experience, you will sample everything prepared and have a little something to take home at the end of the session. The menus are seasonal and desserts prepared will reflect this and be different on each session. Style of dessert prepared have included: raspberry souflee, ginger and chocolate roulade, french style summer fruit tarts, framboise and basil fruit jellies, choclate pithiviers. A light lunch will be provided.

Inspired Entertaining  – Saturdays - Elegant Entertaining with flair and flavour

A day for the enthusiastic cook and foodie. The menu for these sessions changes according to the seasons so if you have enjoyed one you can return to enjoy another day with us. Working with fresh and seasonal ingredients you will be guided through demonstration and practical sessions to produce a fabulous meal packed with flavour.  You will leave inspired and with a myriad of tips for advance prepartion to help you to entertian with panache.

These sessions are often given as gift vouchers and so we have changed the format of the day to invite the voucher giver, a friend or partner along to enjoy the meal with you (£20 additional cost – one person only). After lunch you will both be able to enjoy an inspiring demonstration before departing.

Stirring Stuff reserves the right to change the dishes cooked. If you have a food allergy, intolerance or difference or a disability or medical condition which we should be aware of please let the school know on booking your course.

Edible Gifts for Christmas

A fun day for family. Come and prepare a range of yummy edible gifts to give away to friends and family. a selection of the following will be cooked:

Cheesy and sweet biscuit selection, chocolate and truffle selection, Christmas chutneys and relishes. A light seasonal lunch will be provided.

Christmas Canapes

Warm soup shots with crispy cheese biscuits to mini roulades and croustades, plus a range of mezze style canapes adapted from our word cuisine courses. The mouthwatering array of canpes demonstrated during the session aim to help your entertaining to be inspired and different this Christmas. Enjoy the evening with a friends and a glass of bubbley.

Stirring Stuff reserves the right to change the dishes cooked. If you have a food allergy, intolerance or difference or a disability or medical condition which we should be aware of please let the school know on booking your course.