Cooking Together: a fresh take on a night out – included in Manchester Confidential’s Top 10 Manchester Pop Ups & Supper Clubs!

Ditch the conventional restaurant meal and have fun with your partner or friends. Become chefs for the evening, chopping, slicing, squeezing and peeling all the ingredients you need to produce a restaurant-style meal of your own creation.

Our Cooking Together events are as much about chatting and relaxing as they are about learning and eating. The evening is led by Chef sharing his knowledge and love of food, offering a sprinkling of tips and tricks along the way. The evening is topped off with appetizing ways to present your dishes so you can take Instagram-worthy foodie photos of the fruits of your labour!

Cooking Together nights can be exclusive for groups of ten or more – if you have something in mind, get in touch.

What you will Learn

Chef will demonstrate a first course for you to recreate in your pairs and then enjoy together around our communal table. There follows a demonstration of the main course before it’s your turn to cook again. While you enjoy your meal, Chef will prepare a delicious pudding.

Some example menus are below. Please feel free to make requests in advance of the event. Food Sorcery ingredients are seasonal and locally sourced and a vegetarian option is always available.

Example menu

• First Dish – spring rolls, Thai-style fish cakes, falafels, calamari, or home-made breads with a twist

• Second Dish – the main event will feature meat, fish or poultry (veggie options always in stock) and some seasonal veg and appropriate carb. This may be traditional, globally inspired or invented… go with it!

• Pudding –Chef-made so you can relax and enjoy your meal. Opt for the classics or something more adventurous for example melting middle chocolate puds, sticky toffee, or even a soufflé.

What’s included:

A complimentary glass of wine or beer on arrival (soft drinks also available), and the food you prepare. Copies of the recipes will be emailed afterwards. Most importantly, you don’t even need to do the washing up; all the fun, none of the work.

Fully Stocked Bar

We have a fully stocked bar with some amazing wines, beers and spirits to enjoy during your evening. A range of soft drinks are also available. These can be purchased using card or cash.

Skill Level: All Abilities

9.30am to 3.30pm

Morning wrap around care available from 8am to 9.30am – this is £5 per child per day, payable in cash on the day.   Children arriving before 9.20 will be charged.

The menu changes daily.

Your children learn the skills they need to cook with confidence, a skill that will stay with them for life.  We will nominate a theme prior to the event, please send in any requests!

Afternoons are spent doing bootcamp as well as a second cooking session.

Sample days!

Dough Day! Sleeves rolled up we will make the dough, learn to knead, all about yeast and how it needs time to work its magic. The dough will be left to prove for use in the week.

Street Food! Spring rolls and Samosas with various fillings, the children will have the opportunity to taste and design various flavours and spices to design and roll their own street food!

Italian day! Pasta dough, rolling and filling – various sauces – making sure everyone makes their own and tries different classic Italian Sauces

Spanish Tapas! Chef Jason’s favourite and again a great opportunity for learning about seasoning and textures! Spicy Lamb Albondigas , Chicken Morunos and Patatas Bravas

Take Away Using the skills and tricks learnt through the week the class will work together to either bring their dinner home.

Sample Day; 9.30am to 12noon – Cooking Session; 12noon to 1pm – Lunch; 1.15pm to 2.15pm Bootcamp; 2.15pm to 3.30pm – Cooking Session & Tidy Up!

Costs – Day rate £40 – Wrap around care £5 per session.

Fresh pasta is a delight, and learning to make it is a life skill that stays with you.  During this workshop, we look at all things pasta – from mixing and kneading pasta dough, beetroot infused and standard egg pasta, various rolling techniques, filling, shaping and chef will demonstrate some sauces.  It’s a lovely class, plenty to eat and also to take home!

Sophia Loren once said ‘Everything you see I owe to Spaghetti.’ Whilst we can’t promise you a glittering career in Hollywood after our pasta course, we can promise that you will learn how to make Italy’s staple food by hand and using some traditional kit. Our Chef will show you how to mix, knead, bash, squash and shape the dough into several of the most popular varieties – spaghetti, farfalle and ravioli.

It’s hungry work making pasta so you during the evening there is the opportunity to eat some of your hard work…Chef usually likes to demo some sauce or something to impress!

You will also learn some simple sauces & fillings to compliment your creations

Buon appetito!

Skills you will Learn:

Kneading

Drying

Shaping

Colouring – beetroot, spinach

Examples of what you might cook:

Egg pasta dough

Beetroot (pink) pasta

Ravioli

Tortellini

Tagliatelle

Farfalle

What’s included:

Refreshments, meal and glass of wine, pasta to take home

Skill Level: All Abilities

9.30am to 3.30pm

Morning wrap around care available from 8am to 9.30am – this is £5 per child per day, payable in cash on the day.   Children arriving before 9.20 will be charged.

The menu changes daily.

Your children learn the skills they need to cook with confidence, a skill that will stay with them for life.  We will nominate a theme prior to the event, please send in any requests!

Afternoons are spent doing bootcamp as well as a second cooking session.

Sample days!

Dough Day! Sleeves rolled up we will make the dough, learn to knead, all about yeast and how it needs time to work its magic. The dough will be left to prove for use in the week.

Street Food! Spring rolls and Samosas with various fillings, the children will have the opportunity to taste and design various flavours and spices to design and roll their own street food!

Italian day! Pasta dough, rolling and filling – various sauces – making sure everyone makes their own and tries different classic Italian Sauces

Spanish Tapas! Chef Jason’s favourite and again a great opportunity for learning about seasoning and textures! Spicy Lamb Albondigas , Chicken Morunos and Patatas Bravas

Take Away Using the skills and tricks learnt through the week the class will work together to either bring their dinner home.

Sample Day; 9.30am to 12noon – Cooking Session; 12noon to 1pm – Lunch; 1.15pm to 2.15pm Bootcamp; 2.15pm to 3.30pm – Cooking Session & Tidy Up!

Costs – Day rate £40 – Wrap around care £5 per session.

Spices are at the heart of Indian Cookery. They can be earthy, spicy, warming, sweet or floral. They can add colour and flavour on their own, and be combined to create delicious flavours. Some people know exactly how to do this, but if you need a little extra confidence, then this is the class for you. Learn the art of Indian Cookery and how to use spices to create delicious meat or vegetarian meals.

This weekend event gives the opportunity to get more into the detail and plan a delicious meal that you can enjoy with the other guests – you can make this a takeaway if you prefer!

At Food Sorcery we are lucky to work with Jason Palin who has cooked in more that 40 countries around the world, his tales of cooking & selling chapati on the beach in Southern Indian are priceless.

Vegetarian alternatives available if required

Skills you will Learn:

How to use spices and spice mixes in Indian cookery

Examples of what you might cook:

Laccha Paratha – soft layered crispy edge breads

Xacuti – Goan Coconut Chicken Curry

Lamb Dhansak – Parsi Lamb Lentil Curry

Ba Ka Kneema – Spiced Minced Eggs

Pudine Ki Chutney – Mint Coriander Chutney

Macchi Ke Cutlet – Fishcakes

Espress Dal

Indian Breads – including Naan, Paratha, Roti and Chapati

Spiced Rice

Raita

Bhaji

What’s included:

Refreshments and you’ll enjoy the food you create with a glass of wine, plus food to take home

Skill Level: All Abilities

9.30am to 3.30pm

Morning wrap around care available from 8am to 9.30am – this is £5 per child per day, payable in cash on the day.   Children arriving before 9.20 will be charged.

The menu changes daily.

Your children learn the skills they need to cook with confidence, a skill that will stay with them for life.  We will nominate a theme prior to the event, please send in any requests!

Afternoons are spent doing bootcamp as well as a second cooking session.

Sample days!

Dough Day! Sleeves rolled up we will make the dough, learn to knead, all about yeast and how it needs time to work its magic. The dough will be left to prove for use in the week.

Street Food! Spring rolls and Samosas with various fillings, the children will have the opportunity to taste and design various flavours and spices to design and roll their own street food!

Italian day! Pasta dough, rolling and filling – various sauces – making sure everyone makes their own and tries different classic Italian Sauces

Spanish Tapas! Chef Jason’s favourite and again a great opportunity for learning about seasoning and textures! Spicy Lamb Albondigas , Chicken Morunos and Patatas Bravas

Take Away Using the skills and tricks learnt through the week the class will work together to either bring their dinner home.

Sample Day; 9.30am to 12noon – Cooking Session; 12noon to 1pm – Lunch; 1.15pm to 2.15pm Bootcamp; 2.15pm to 3.30pm – Cooking Session & Tidy Up!

Costs – Day rate £40 – Wrap around care £5 per session.

9.30am to 3.30pm

Morning wrap around care available from 8am to 9.30am – this is £5 per child per day, payable in cash on the day.   Children arriving before 9.20 will be charged.

The menu changes daily.

Your children learn the skills they need to cook with confidence, a skill that will stay with them for life.  We will nominate a theme prior to the event, please send in any requests!

Afternoons are spent doing bootcamp as well as a second cooking session.

Sample days!

Dough Day! Sleeves rolled up we will make the dough, learn to knead, all about yeast and how it needs time to work its magic. The dough will be left to prove for use in the week.

Street Food! Spring rolls and Samosas with various fillings, the children will have the opportunity to taste and design various flavours and spices to design and roll their own street food!

Italian day! Pasta dough, rolling and filling – various sauces – making sure everyone makes their own and tries different classic Italian Sauces

Spanish Tapas! Chef Jason’s favourite and again a great opportunity for learning about seasoning and textures! Spicy Lamb Albondigas , Chicken Morunos and Patatas Bravas

Take Away Using the skills and tricks learnt through the week the class will work together to either bring their dinner home.

Sample Day; 9.30am to 12noon – Cooking Session; 12noon to 1pm – Lunch; 1.15pm to 2.15pm Bootcamp; 2.15pm to 3.30pm – Cooking Session & Tidy Up!

Costs – Day rate £40 – Wrap around care £5 per session.

9.30am to 3.30pm

Morning wrap around care available from 8am to 9.30am – this is £5 per child per day, payable in cash on the day.   Children arriving before 9.20 will be charged.

The menu changes daily.

Your children learn the skills they need to cook with confidence, a skill that will stay with them for life.  We will nominate a theme prior to the event, please send in any requests!

Afternoons are spent doing bootcamp as well as a second cooking session.

Sample days!

Dough Day! Sleeves rolled up we will make the dough, learn to knead, all about yeast and how it needs time to work its magic. The dough will be left to prove for use in the week.

Street Food! Spring rolls and Samosas with various fillings, the children will have the opportunity to taste and design various flavours and spices to design and roll their own street food!

Italian day! Pasta dough, rolling and filling – various sauces – making sure everyone makes their own and tries different classic Italian Sauces

Spanish Tapas! Chef Jason’s favourite and again a great opportunity for learning about seasoning and textures! Spicy Lamb Albondigas , Chicken Morunos and Patatas Bravas

Take Away Using the skills and tricks learnt through the week the class will work together to either bring their dinner home.

Sample Day; 9.30am to 12noon – Cooking Session; 12noon to 1pm – Lunch; 1.15pm to 2.15pm Bootcamp; 2.15pm to 3.30pm – Cooking Session & Tidy Up!

Costs – Day rate £40 – Wrap around care £5 per session.