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Why not treat yourself to a deluxe culinary experience? A two week cookery course immersing you in a wonderful world of tastes, techniques and cookery skills to leave you a more confident cook. This course is ideal for the home cook who is looking to get more from their cookery and learn new tricks and techniques as well as discovering a wider range of cuisines and ingredients. Or maybe you are thinking about a career in food and drink? This is the perfect taster as you begin your culinary journey. What’s included on the course? International dishes from India, Thailand, North Africa, China, France, Italy and the Middle East. How to make Fresh Pasta and delicious Ravioli and Tortellini with different sauces to accompany them. A range of pastries including Rough Puff, Shortcrust, Hot Water Crust and Choux. Seafood - Preparing gorgeous local scallops from scratch as well as filleting a Flat Fish, a Round Fish and learning different techniques to cook them. A range of Breads. Farmhouse, Ciabatta, Soda Bread, Flat Breads and Sourdough are all covered. Basic butchery. How to joint a chicken. Ice creams and sorbets. Dairy. How to make your own Butter, Yoghurt and Soft Cheese. Stocks and Sauces. Cover Vegetarian and Vegan Cookery. How to use Herbs to best effect. The importance of Seasoning. A visit to a local Scottish Assured Venison Park and Venison Cookery. And lots more…

Why not treat yourself to a deluxe culinary experience? A two week cookery course immersing you in a wonderful world of tastes, techniques and cookery skills to leave you a more confident cook. This course is ideal for the home cook who is looking to get more from their cookery and learn new tricks and techniques as well as discovering a wider range of cuisines and ingredients. Or maybe you are thinking about a career in food and drink? This is the perfect taster as you begin your culinary journey. What’s included on the course? International dishes from India, Thailand, North Africa, China, France, Italy and the Middle East. How to make Fresh Pasta and delicious Ravioli and Tortellini with different sauces to accompany them. A range of pastries including Rough Puff, Shortcrust, Hot Water Crust and Choux. Seafood - Preparing gorgeous local scallops from scratch as well as filleting a Flat Fish, a Round Fish and learning different techniques to cook them. Baking a different loaf of Bread every day. Farmhouse, Ciabatta, Soda Bread, Flat Breads and Sourdough are all covered. Basic butchery. How to joint a chicken. Ice creams and sorbets. Dairy. How to make your own Butter, Yoghurt and Soft Cheese. Stocks and Sauces. Cover Vegetarian and Vegan Cookery. How to use Herbs to best effect. The importance of Seasoning. A visit to a local Scottish Assured Venison Park and Venison Cookery. And lots more…

The evening is aimed at demonstrating which wines go well with different types of food. Our detailed food and wine matching workshop will help you understand which wines to pair with a wide variety of meat, poultry, fish vegetarian dishes as well as desserts and cheese, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CHRISTMAS since it is the time to be jolly! ;-)

The evening is aimed at demonstrating which wines go well with different types of food. Our detailed food and wine matching workshop will help you understand which wines to pair with a wide variety of meat, poultry, fish vegetarian dishes as well as desserts and cheese, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CHRISTMAS since it is the time to be jolly! ;-)

Join us at The Italian Villa for a fun wreath making workshop with Hillview Flowers! Let's get crafty and create festive wreaths together.

The French make arguably the best sparkling wine in the world, Champagne, but how does it stack up against other fantastic Sparkling Wines from around the world? In total we will taste 6 wonderful, sparkling wines from Champagne, Egnland, Italy and further afield. It's a fantastic opportunity to do some comparing and contrasting. Will you be able to taste the difference - and which will you prefer? Great value at £35 with 6 wines to taste and some cheese to nibble on inbetween!

Helping you produce top quality beautiful bread that will have you bursting with pride and satisfaction!

There are lots of people who think that the first task of any wine is to be red. We meet you at our events, and while you’re (usually) very polite about the white wines, your eyes light up when we say, ‘And now let's move on to the reds…’ So we’re putting on a tasting just for you, in which we’ll focus on rich red wines, seven of them, with some rather tasty cheese on the side. To show that red wine can be full-flavoured without being full-bodied, we’ll begin with reds that are refreshing and fragrant, probably from Italy and France. Then we’ll move on to wine that are draughts of the warm south, most likely from countries close to the Mediterranean. Spain. And we’ll finish with gutsy Malbec or Australian Shiraz (aka Blood-and-Thunder from Down Under). Or possible both. Whatever the line-up, you can be assured of an excellent, belly-warming and tooth-staining evening.

Pairing food with wine should be easy and fun, yet so many people become stressed at the idea of make a wine faux pas. Yet the best part about pairing food with wine is the experimentation and delights at finding a pairing that YOU enjoy. 

Pairing food with wine should be easy and fun, yet so many people become stressed at the idea of make a wine faux pas. Yet the best part about pairing food with wine is the experimentation and delights at finding a pairing that YOU enjoy.