Cooking with Local Speciality Ingredients
Worried about Food Miles? Concerned about nutrition? Want to buy British? Or simply just want to cook something new and exciting?
The Green Cuisine cookery course is all about reducing food miles using locally-sourced, often low-fat ingredients but at the same time trying something new!
This cookery workshop uses as much fresh, regional and local produce as we can find and where ingredients are not available locally they will be British if at all possible!
In our surrounding region local producers are offering some unsual and interesting produce such as - bison, ostrich, Derbyshire speciality mushrooms, local cheeses as well as locally grown vegetables.
For this course we aim to take some of these and create an exciting menu that is ideal for cooking for guests around Christmas, Easter or for other special occasions!
The bulk of the produce for this course will be bought fresh from the local farmers' market the day before this course. We will also use the contents of our weekly veg box scheme delivery to help the menu along!
A multi-course lunch of all the recipes cooked is included. On the menu for the first course [9th December 2007] was Derbyshire Mushroom and Skylark Hill Goat's Cheese Crostini for our first starter, followed by Local Squash Soup with Lincolnshire Poacher Bunuelos. For our main courses we cooked Lincolnshire Ostrich with Eryngi and Blewitt Mushrooms and Leicestershire Bison Roast served with seasonal vegetables and Crimini Mushroom and Chestnut Loaf. Our dessert needed to be a little light after all that - so it was Local Pear Dessert with Cheshire honeycomb.
One of our guests has sent this feedback..................
I did enjoy the day and will definitely be putting bison on my shopping list. I love the crostinis and bet they would make great starters with friends and I'll have them as party food for my New
Years Eve. Hope to see you in the New Year - trying to persuade friends to do an Indian night with me.
From Miriam - who attended the Green Cuisine Cookery Course in December
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This course is available for groups of 6 people and another date will be added if sufficient enquiries are reached - please enquire if you want to do this course.
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