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KENT COOKERY SCHOOL
What’s on offer at your school?
An expansive selection of fun,
hands-on courses to whet any
cooking enthusiast’s appetite,
from short evening classes to
full day courses which run
on weekdays and weekends.
Subjects range from world
cuisines such as Thai, Mexican
or Turkish to skill-based
options such as Knife Skills,
Bread Making, or Patisserie.
How are the courses taught?
We have specialist tutors for
each subject and this year
some fantastic new tutors
will start teaching Turkish
Cuisine, African Street food
and French Patisserie. The
courses use demonstrations
followed by hands-on cooking
and finally, everyone sitting
down to enjoy what you
have made on the course.
Can all abilities take part?
Absolutely! Some courses are
aimed at more adventurous
and confident kitchen
enthusiasts but many
are designed to build
confidence, teach new skills
KENT WINE SCHOOL
and most importantly have
fun and inspire people
to try something new.
Where do you find inspiration
for your courses?
The seasons are our
inspiration. Courses like
The Fish Course, The Kent
Cookery Course, and Easy
Entertaining all follow seasonal
recipes. We try to make
the recipes interchangeable
through the seasons, so people
can experiment at home
with different flavours.
Where do you source
ingredients?
We are so lucky in Kent to
have some of the country’s
best producers on our
doorstep. We also grow a
lot of our own produce at
our allotment, but we use
Haywards Butchers and
Marchants Butchers for our
meat, Sankeys Fishmongers for
our fresh fish, Plurenden Farm
for our dairy and Eckley Farm
for our local rapeseed oil.
kentcookeryschool.co.uk
Kent Wine School have been running wine courses and tastings in
Tunbridge Wells for almost a decade. They focus on enjoying and
learning about wine in a relaxed, friendly setting with professionally
trained tutors. They are independent and don’t sell wine so the
focus is purely on learning and enjoying! There is a huge range of
themes including regular English Wines events and ever-popular
gin tastings, plus there are plans for other spirit and beer themed
tastings. No previous experience is necessary and they are for all
levels of knowledge. At the more expert end, they are the leading
provider of WSET courses in Kent and an approved provider of
Wine Scholar Guild courses. kentwineschool.com
Ready, steady, cook!
Learn something new in the kitchen
COURGETTE & SHEEP’S CHEESE FRITTERS
with tomato & bean salsa
Serves 2 Prep time: 15 min Cooking time: 40 min
For the salsa:
• 200g tinned
cannellini beans
• 3 tomatoes
• 1 chilli
• ½ red onion
• 15g chervil
• olive oil
• 1 lemon
For the fritters:
• 2 courgettes
• 1 garlic clove
• 15g dill
• 1 egg
• 50g self-raising
flour
• 75g sheep’s
cheese or feta
• oil for frying
1 Drain the tin of cannellini beans. Put
half in a bowl. Dice the tomatoes. Deseed
and finely chop the chilli. Peel and finely
chop half the onion. Finely chop the bulk
of the chervil leaves and stalks.
2 Add the tomatoes, chilli (to your taste),
onion and chervil to the beans with a
drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon
juice to taste. Season and leave to one side.
1 Coarsely grate the courgettes. Line
a colander with a clean tea towel. Put
the courgette in it. Fold up the sides,
and squeeze several times to wring
out as much liquid as you can.
2 Peel and finely chop 1 garlic clove.
Finely chop the dill leaves.
3 Beat the egg in a large bowl. Add the
courgette and flour and mix. Crumble
in the sheep’s cheese. Add the garlic
and dill. Season and mix together.
4 Heat your oven to 140˚C/ Gas 2. Heat a thin layer of
oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. In batches,
spoon dollops of the batter (approx. 2 tbsp) into the pan,
flattening them slightly. Cook for 3-4 mins on each side,
until golden. Drain on kitchen paper, pop them onto a plate
and keep them warm in the oven while you cook the rest.
5 Serve with the salsa and your side of choice.
Recipe provided by Riverford, the organic veg box company.
Check out riverford.co.uk for more recipes and their awardwinning
range of organic, seasonal produce.
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