Student Cookery Courses

Pre-university Course Description

This course is designed to help you see that cooking is fun, sociable and very rewarding.  Learning a few different recipe's gives you the confidence to cook for your friends.  Tasting your cooking as you go will give you confidence. At Lady G's it is all about you doing the cooking and us coming alongside you to make sure you are on the right track, if you go off the track we are their to put you back on. 

We will teach you the life skills to be confident and enthusiastic around food, an invaluable lesson when you venture away from the comfort and security of the family home.  

By the end of our 4 day course you will have the skill and confidence to create your own signature dish having found the flavours you love, learnt how to bring different ingredients together to make your tastebuds go mad with delight.  A few examples of the dishes our students will create:

Home made Lamb and Mint Burgers with a Tomato Salsa

Plum Bakewell Tart with home made Custard

Chicken and Apricot Tagine with a Spicy Vegetable Couscous

Groups will consist of a maximum of 10 students.  Each day will be split into a practical cooking session and a theory session, ie. shopping budgets, menu planning, healthy seasonal eating.

Price includes all tuition fees, full board and use of all the facilities

Duration 4 day Residential

Cost Starting at £550 per 4 days, ranging from £550 - £650

 

Chalet Cookery Course Description

This Course will involve a more in depth tuition.  We will teach you to create delicious meals to feed your hungry tired guests.  Our aim is to teach you to be able to 'WOW' your guests with tasty stylish dishes as well as satisfy their palates. 

We will get you to plan your days efficiently, a Chalet season has so much to do with organisation, this will be an area we will focus on.  On day four of your course we will set you a challenge.  To work out a three course dinner, or two courses and canapes, to go and buy the ingredients you will need, cook the food to the stage where you can then leave it, exactly as if you were in a ski resort.  We will then get you to finish the meal for us all to taste and discuss with you. 

Our aim is to prepare you for the need to be organised as well as give you confidence to help you get there. 

A few examples of the dishes you will learn to cook;

Smoked Haddock Chowder

Fillet of Pork with a Sage and Onion crust

Individual Potato Dauphinoise

Individual Bread and Butter Pudding with Prunes and Armagnac

We will also show you how to plan weekly menu's to a budget, select wine to compliment food, manage your time efficiently to enable you to satisfy your guests requirements and enjoy your own skiing and down time

Price includes all tuition fees, full board and use of all the facilities

Duration 4 day residential course

Cost: Starts at £580 per day, ranging from £580 - £680

The cost of each course includes:-

Bed and full board

All tuition fees

Recipe folder and apron

With the Chalet  courses, we will be inviting in local cheese producers and wine merchants to help our students gain more knowledge.