13 Days Basic To Brilliant Cooking Course in London, UK

The Avenue Cookery School will guide you to improve your cooking skills. The program will be divided into two-week sessions - providing the building blocks in the first week and creating more imaginative dishes in the second week. Your daily program will start with a demonstration and an explanation regarding the today recipes in the morning and then, you will have a break for the light refreshments where you will enjoy the morning delights of ‘The Duty Team'. This team will choose the morning meals such as bread, cake, and lemonade that will be made each day so your energy will be restored at every 11:00.

Thereafter, you will begin cooking in pairs and apply the knowledge learned in the demonstration. The Avenue Cookery School will give you the Avenue recipe book that is easy for you to follow. However, it is used as your reference and inspiration as The Avenue Cookery School will focus on teaching to understand every step you do. Thus, in the end or even after this course has finished, you can cook without looking at the instruction.

In the first week, it is assumed that you have no previous cooking experiences or want to take away the bad habits in your home so you will start everything here from the beginning. You will work carefully on the most basic techniques and these could be covered several times to enhance your skills. Also, you will learn knife skills, food management, kitchen hygiene, and menu planning. By the end of the week, you will have cooked a wide range of useful basic recipes and have a chance to be more confident in the kitchen - you can handle each dish that has been taught without looking at the recipe.

You will enjoy a well-known Avenue dinner party on the first Thursday and you may invite a couple of guests to join this party. Furthermore, in this opportunity, you will prepare the exquisite dishes for your relatives who will come and enjoy this glorious party. By doing this, you will learn how to prepare foods for a larger number of people and also enhance your timing skills.

In the second week, with the same structure, you will learn more advanced techniques such as international cuisines and tasty dinner party dishes. In addition, you will learn how to prepare dietary requirement dishes for those who need them. This learning is very flexible. Thus, if you feel any gap in the knowledge, it can be easily filled. The Avenue Cookery School welcomes all of your questions if you’re not sure about something as they believe that there’s no stupid question.

Offers

• Years of experience to share
• Excellent and engaging teaching
• Fun and relaxed atmosphere for learning
• Professional advice
• Intensive, hands-on cooking program
• Confidence in the kitchen
• Organizational and quick cooking tips
• Wine tasting and origins of alcohol talk
• Dietary requirement knowledge
• The Avenue Basic to Brilliant cooking certificate
• An Avenue apron
• An Avenue cookbook
• Use of all facilities, equipment, and ingredients
• Food Safety Level 2 Certificate (extra 39 GBP)

Skills acquired

• Knife skills
• Variations of bread making including Diana’s bread, focaccia, plaited white loaf, and soda bread
• Cake making
• Making your own soft drinks
• Three-course menu cooked each day
• Canapé making
• Food presentation
• Boning meat and handling fish
• Preparing and cooking a wider variety of vegetables
• Learning to cook international foods and techniques
• Time and menu planning
• Hygiene and first aid in the kitchen

Course timings

First week

• Monday to Wednesday from 09:00 to 17:00 (lunch included)
• Thursday from 09:00 to 21:00 (lunch and dinner included)
• Friday from 10:00 to 16:00 (breakfast and lunch included)

Second week

• Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 16:00 (breakfast and lunch included)

Note: You will arrive on Sunday.

You will get daily breakfast, 10 lunches, and 10 dinners (every weekday). Also, you will have wine tasting and origins of alcohol talk. The Avenue Cookery School suggests that you should eat before arriving if you want to stay from the Sunday night. Furthermore, The Avenue Cookery School can cater for vegetarian and dietary requirements. However, this does not mean that the dietary food will be available in the demonstration.

• Intensive, hands-on cooking program
• Organizational and quick cooking tips
• Wine tasting and origins of alcohol talk
• Dietary requirement knowledge
• The Avenue Basic to Brilliant cooking certificate
• An Avenue apron and cookbook
• Use of all facilities, equipment, and ingredients
• Daily breakfast, 10 lunches, and 10 dinners
• 12 nights' accommodation

• A reservation requires a deposit of 12.1% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.