Alpine Cookery

Learn how professional Chefs create top quality French cuisine with ease and efficiency on The Venture Sun Alpine Cookery Course. Inspired Gourmet Cookery School and Venture Sun have teamed up to create a rich residential cookery course. Venture Sun offers luxury chalets as a base for fun mountain holiday experiences for all ages. Attend a cookery course while everyone else in the family is able to engage in mountain activities and leisure pursuits. Visit the Inspired Gourmet web site for full details on their courses, methods and professional instructing chefs:  http://www.inspiredgourmet.co.uk/alpine_cookery.asp

COURSE 1 / 2010

Monday 9th - Saturday 14th August: Mountain Chefs - five full days of cookery instruction to learn breakfast, tea and a four course dinner!

COURSE 2 / 2010

Monday 23rd - Saturday 28th August:  Mountain Chefs - five full days of cookery instruction to learn breakfast, tea and a four course dinner!

Let Inspired Gourmet Chefs help develop new signature classic Alpine dishes to add to your cooking repertoire. Learn the timing to create four delicious courses, chop like a pro and to present each dish beautifully on the plate. Amaze friends and family with new skills and menus.

Each afternoon, be welcomed by our Head Chef with a drink and a light bite to eat that demonstrates the new dishes to be taught during the afternoon's course. Then, in the Venture Sun domestic chalet kitchens, learn the art of replicating the dish. Discover how easy it is to serve irresistible food without the brigades and gadgets of a commercial kitchen. After a full cookery demonstration, recreate the meal under the guidance of our instructing Head Chef who is on hand to answer all queries.

Create, learn and be inspired with these hands-on lessons in French Alpine cuisine. Our chefs will reveal all that one needs to know about cooking like a professional Chef.

At the end of the cookery lesson, spend the evening dining with fellow classmates on each dish created accompanied by appropriate regional French wines. Finish the meal with delicious coffee and hand made chocolates.

The Venture Sun Alpine Cookery Course
All courses include professional instruction from qualified head chefs, all ingredients, a gourmet four course dinner with wine, refreshments and recipe cards.

Course Recipes
Below is a list of the types of dishes taught on The Alpine Cookery Course.

Canapés
Bruschetta with rosemary chicken and aubergine caviar
Mini kebabs of chorizo sausage, silver skin onions and cornichones
Mini Croques Monsieur
Cream cheese and chive en croute topped with smoked salmon and caviar

Menu one
Sweet potato, coconut and chilli soup, coriander oil
Fillet of pork, orange carrots, prune and cognac sauce
Brioche bread and butter pudding, crème Anglais

Menu Two
Tomato and mozzarella salad, Salsa verde
Roast leg of lamb, Mediterranean vegetable tian, and spiced cous cous
Glazed lemon tart, passion fruit syrup

Menu Three
Roasted vegetable and pesto tart, Balsamic reduction
Pan fried sea bass, Asian spiced butternut squash risotto
Vanilla & mascarpone cheesecake, ginger nut biscuit

Menu four
French onion soup, gruyere croute
Tartiflette, charcuterie, green salad
Crème brulée, raspberry compote

Menu five
Ham hock terrine, pineapple compote toasted brioche
Duck breast, sugar snap pea stir fry, potato fondant, honey and soy dressing
Chocolate brownie, caramelized banana, chocolate milkshake

Menu six
Goats cheese, smoked bacon and grapefruit salad
Fillet of beef, potato rosti, parsnip puree, Savoy cabbage, peppercorn cream
Roasted pineapple and exotic fruit, passion fruit sabayon

Contact Us now to find out more or enroll on one of the Alpine Cookery Courses!