Leiths Cookery Week Archives - Peach Trees and Bumblebees

July 19, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day five

On to my final day on the Leiths one week intermediate cooking course! On Friday we made tarte tatin, followed by monkfish and hollandaise. The demo was about dinner party cooking, and we watched our chef make two three course dinners compromising of tartlets, halibut, and panna cotta; and haloumi salad, harissa lamb, and roasted figs. I’ve made tarte tatin...

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July 18, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day four

This is a round up of Thursday 11th July on the white intermediate course at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Thursday was focused on fish preparation and cooking, which is something I didn’t know a huge amount. We also made a meringue cake – the only non fish themed thing of the day! We kicked off in the demo...

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July 17, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day three

So, if you’ve read Friday’s preview, you will know that this week I’m doing a day by day review of my week at Leiths School of Food and Wine. This is the round up of Wednesday 10th July on the white intermediate course. Day three at Leiths was all about pastry, summer rolls, and raisin and hazelnut bread. We started off in the...

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July 16, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day two

So, if you’ve read Friday’s preview, you will know that this week I’m doing a day by day review of my week at Leiths School of Food and Wine. This is the round up of Tuesday 9th on the white intermediate course. Tuesday started off in to the demo room, where we watched two sessions – one on bread and one on meringue....

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July 15, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day one

So, if you’ve read Friday’s preview, you will know that this week I’m doing a day by day review of my week at Leiths School of Food and Wine. This is the round up of Monday 8th on the white intermediate course. My group (32 ish) was split into two classses of 16, each with two chefs (plus an amazing...

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July 12, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week preview

A few months ago, I signed up to do a week long cookery course at Leiths School of Food and Wine. For the last few years I’ve toyed with the idea of cooking full time but I’ve never committed – mostly because I couldn’t afford to take the time off to train, partly because I would hate to work chef hours, and...

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Leiths Cookery Week – day five

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Leiths Cookery Week – day three

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Leiths Cookery Week – day one

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