Name: Stocks, Sauces and Soups Cooking Class with Wine
Price: 295.00 AUD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.7 (3 reviews)

Highlights

Hands on cooking class with an expert chef
Learn and taste what you make
Pick up tips, tricks and a recipe booklet to keep!

Stocks and sauces play an important role in the culinary world as they form the basis of creating wonderful rich, flavoursome dishes. Now it's your chance to master these techniques in this hands-on cooking class and impress your friends and family with your delicious culinary creations.

What's included?

Six hour cooking class guided by an experienced chef
Learn the fundementals and techniques of soups, stocks and sauces
Morning tea/coffee, cake and biscuits
Four course lunch built around the stocks, sauces and soups, plus more
Comprehensive recipe booklet

Great cooks know how to make great stock. In this class, you learn how to make sensational stocks, with which you will make great sauces and soups. Good stock is the secret to enlivening your sauces and dishes. Cooking begins at 9am when you will get into the kitchen for an interactive morning of learning and fun. Chef will teach you a broad range of stocks, sauces and soups, such as beef, chicken, fish and crab, vegetable and ham stocks. Sauces include hollandaise, béchamel, crème pâtissière, soups such as gazpacho, chowders, hot and chilled, as well as a few extra dishes to include in the lunch. To learn to cook well you need to master the fundamentals of cookery; you need a solid knowledge of basic cooking principles, methods and techniques. It is from this mastery you are able to develop and produce wondrous dishes from your kitchen and wow all your friends. Master chef Julia Child said ‘Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again’.

Chef will teach you a broad range of stocks, sauces and soups, such as beef, chicken, fish and crab, vegetable and ham stocks. Sauces include hollandaise, béchamel, crème pâtissière, soups such as gazpacho, chowders as well as a few extras to include in the lunch. You will learn how to cook these successfully in a multitude of ways and you will have the opportunity to taste what is created. You will receive a comprehensive, thirty page recipe booklet to take home with your new found knowledge, as well as samples of your delicious creations and photographs from the day.

Important information

Session Length

This is a full day experience
Cooking classes run from 8.45 am to 3.30 pm.

Guidelines

All participants must be over 18 years, unless accompanied by a participant who is an adult
Equipment is all supplied on the day

Cancellation

Once this experience has been confirmed, changes are at the discretion of the experience provider and are arranged directly with them according to this policy:

No charge if cancelled 7 days or more of experience
$30 administrative fee if cancelled 1-7 days of experience
No shows, Late Arrivals and same day cancellations: participants forfeit their experience and therefore are not entitled to a refund or re-book. Participants are advised to make their own insurance provisions in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Numbers on the Day

There is a minimum of 6 participants for this experience.

Dress Code

For safety reasons, it is advised to wear comfortable, covered-in shoes and have your hair tied back.

Other Info

This experience offers a unique hands-on cooking class day, learning to cook whilst experiencing the glorious view of Port Phillip Bay. The class culminates with your wonderful luncheon, served at a beautifully set table, with local wine and interesting conversation. You feel like you are at a private dinner party. All classes cook appetizers, soups or entrées, main course and dessert.

Location

This experience takes place in in St. Kilda, VIC.

Reviews

4.7

3 reviews

5 stars 2

4 stars 1

3 stars 0

2 stars 0

1 star 0

Very worthwhile experience

Sue 12 May 2016

All go from the moment we entered Tonya's kitchen! Very well explained plan and take home folder and then lots of chopping, dicing, stirring, whisking and tasting. Tonya is absolutely delightful and her passion is contagious. Sat and ate the amazing results of our toil in a magnificent setting with a lovely glass of wine and a relax. Lots of left overs to take home and I have been so inspired I haven't stopped cooking!

this was a great experience

kristy 5 April 2016

Learning about how to make stock was very interesting and Tonya was a great teacher in explaining each receipt in detail.

A great way to spend a Sunday

Lorraine 5 April 2016

This class was a most enjoyable experience. Tonya covered the foundations of stock making and the dos and don'ts to ensure a clear stock. She was engaging and more than willing to pass on her wealth of knowledge. The class was relaxed but industrious and the morning flew. Due to time constraints we could not finish all the stocks but were able to make the chicken and fish stocks and prepared the beef stock ready for the final cooking at home. We used the pre prepared ham stock to make a tasty Green Pea and Ham soup and the fish and chicken stocks to make delicious restaurant worthy sauces. We were given the opportunity to make a delicious hollandaise sauce as well as a sweet sabayon sauce.The wonderful lunch that we shared using the dishes and sauces - both sweet and savory - that we had made was a marvellous way to finish a most enjoyable day. I went home with copious notes, tasty stocks and truly inspired to continue to build on these foundations.