On this cookery course we will teach how easy entertaining and dinner parties can be. If you love to have people round for dinner, enjoy cooking for friends or simply want to be able to do it better and add some lovely dishes to your repertoire, then our 4 day cookery course is perfect for you. We will teach how easy hosting dinner parties can be. Tricks of the trade, forward preparation, timing, portion size & spending more time with your guests.
Example itinerary
DAY 1 Friday/Saturday We will pick you up at Bergerac Airport and take the picturesc 30 minute drive to our house “Les Caulins”. A quick tour of our house, relax, kick off your shoes, have a drink & settle in. We will meet at 7pm for aperitifs, canapés and a 4 course dinner with local wines.
Example dinner
Canapés & local pink fizz
Chicken liver parfait, onion marmalade.
Fillet of Cod “Bourguignon”
Local cheese
House profiteroles
Of course local wine
DAY 2 Help yourself to; continental breakfast/ warm croissants, toasted mais bread, house Jam, tea, coffee Juice, etc….
A visit to Issigeac market to get some wonderful fresh ingredients and have a stroll around and a coffee in one of the cafés. Back to the house for lunch and ready for some cooking in the afternoon.
Afternoon prep; Quick knife skills just to check you’re not going to injure yourselves. Onions, tomato concassé, Cossoulet, oyster chucking, goats cheese potato cakes, poached pears.
Example dinner
Cocktails & canapés
Oyster from the market hot & cold:-
Mignonette, Rockefeller, Chinoise, Basquaise
Duck cassoulet
Local cheese and fig marmalade
Mulled wine poached pears
DAY 3 Help yourself to tea, coffee Juice, & if you would like Emma’s beautiful scrambled eggs and truffle….
Todays prep; lobster stock, thermidor sauce, salmon tian, pasta agnolotti
Late Lazy French Sunday Lunch / Dinner French Sunday lunches are celebrated for the way people take their time to enjoy multiple courses of food accompanied by good wine and good conversation. We start with aperitifs and canapés, followed by whatever is in season. Cheese follows and a typically Ice Cream.
Example dinner
Cocktails & canapés
Potted salmon
Grilled bavette & king prawns, potatoes Salardaise, grilled Caesars
Cheese and quince
Pear frangipan
Local wine
DAY 4 Monday Help yourself to; continental breakfast/ warm croissants, toasted mais bread, house Jam, tea, coffee Juice, etc….
A visit to Maison Guingets chocolate shop/factory and a visit to Duras and our local market . A coffee at our local café Sylvy’s.
Back at the house a lunch of award winning Goats Cheese that has been made just 2km from the house by the wonderful shepherdess Stephanie.
After a lunch a tour at one of our local vineyards.
Example dinner
Cocktails & canapés
Crab & avocado tian
Crispy pork belly, “petit sal”
Local cheese and fig marmalade
Crème brulée
DAY 5 Help yourself to; Continental breakfast/ Croissants, house Jam, Tea, Coffee Juice, etc…depart for the airport.
What’s included?
4 nights’ accommodation in a room with super king size bed, Egyptian cotton bed linen, flat screen TV English channels, en-suite bathroom with walk in showers;
All meals breakfast, nibbles, lunch & dinner.
All aperitifs & wine with meals. Coffee, tea, biscuits and cakes.
All ingredients for the cookery course.
Bergerac airport pick up
What’s not included?
Flights are not included. We are 35 minutes from Bergerac airport & 80-100 minutes from Bordeaux.
The price per room based on 2 people sharing is £1650.00
Single occupancy £1195.00
3-6 persons on each course
Interested in this weekend? Then please complete the form below; name, how many people? and it is always good to know where you are coming from.