Thai cuisine is one of the tastiest foods on the planet – fresh, healthy and potentially mind blowingly spicy!  Join us to explore the amazing flavours that can be achieved using plant based ingredients in the vegan Cooking Together.   A ticket is for 2 people, and this is a really sociable experience with the meal shared

Thai food is all about combining bold flavours to experience sour, sweet, salty, bitter or spicy tastes in a meal. Authentic ingredients are readily available but frequently misused or misunderstood.

Chochaba likes to delight her guests, so if there is anything you’d really like to learn please let us know.

What’s included

Glass of wine or beer on arrival, the food you eat and food to take home

Skill Level: All Abilities

Perfect for both the commited Vegan or a curious convert, join us to expand your plant-based horizons learning some delicious dishes in a relaxed atmosphere with like minded people.

The vegan diet attracts positive and neagtive opinion, but there is no doubt that the major growth market in UK food is veganism.  During this class you will see how to use ingredients you recognise differently to give you a balanced, nutritious, plant-based meal.

A combination of demonstration and hands on cookery, all ingredients provided, a drink on arrival and plenty to eat and takeaway.

What’s included:

All ingredients; food you prepare to eat as you go along and to take home

Recipes circulated after the event

Expert Chef tuition

Skill Level: All Abilities

Learn to cook Fit, healthy, repeatable meals with a focus on taste. This class specifically looks at plant based protein dishes to balance your diet, inspiration for dishes to cook at home and take with you. All the dishes are big on taste and simple to prepare.

All classes can be adapted to suit most allergies and dietary requirements, just let us know at checkout.

Our 3 hour cookery class allows ample time for demo and hands on cooking.  All ingredients are provided and you will both eat during the evening and take home extra’s.  During the session you will look at three individual dishes, main, starter and mid morning snack – recipes will be sent to you via email after the event.

Kitchen Maverick Jan spends his time researching different diets – This class was first delivered to the wellness team at Bupa on behalf of UK Sport – if you’d like to know more about our workplace wellness workshops contact lovetocook@foodsorcery.co.uk

Skills you will learn:

• Tips and tricks to make delicious plant based dishes packed with protein

What’s included

• Drink on arrival, food to eat as you prepare it and also to take home and enjoy

Suitable for:

• People who want to eat healthily without compromising on taste.
• Gluten Free – all Fit Food classes are gluten free
• Vegan & Vegetarian options always availalable.
• All skill levels.

A chance to explore bringing Asian flavour to your vegetarian and plant based diet.  With the drive to increase the amount of plant based food in our diets, we like to step back and look at how to make it taste fantastic.

Vegetarian Cooking opens the door to a vast array of dishes, cooking styles and techniques and most importantly fantastic flavours!  It’s such an huge area of cookery, it becomes a little daunting.  This course will give you the basic skills to equip you for a vegetarian diet, perfect to be adopted for all your meals or just if you want to change your eating habits on a occasional basis.

Please note that this class can be adapted for a Vegan diet.

This weekend class has the opportunity to delve deeper than our midweek class

What’s included:

All ingredients; food you prepare for throughout to eat and to take home

Welcome drink, all ingredients, expert chef tuition and all the washing up!

Skill Level: All Abilities

In recent years, discoveries from leading scientific researchers have found that the state of our gut bacteria is not only the key to weight loss but also could lead to better mood, immunity and skin.

During the class, we will delve into the world of fermentation, and you will learn how to get started with fermenting at home. You’ll drink Kombucha and Keffir on arrival and learn to make it as well as understand and the best places to buy ready made versions, both drinks are packed with probiotics, fundamental in helping to balance the gut microbiome.

You will then made kimchi and sauerkraut which you’ll take home in jars provided.

Both are famous side dishes which can be eaten with any meal and are traditionally made by fermenting cabbage but many other vegetables can be used. Korean kimchi is hot and spicy whilst sauerkraut has a distinctive sour flavour –  the result of lactic acid formed when the bacteria ferment the sugars in the cabbage leaves.

Our Fit Food classes are run by Jan who spends his time researching diffferent diets – the pros the cons and then more importantly how to make it taste great while obeying the rules! If there is a specific diet you are interested in, please let us know. Each class will have a different dish, so you can come back for more! If you would like to book a series of classes, let us know.

Skills you will learn:

Tips and tricks to make delicious fermented food.

What’s included

Probiotic drink on arrival and a jar each of quick kimchi and sauerkraut to take home.

Skill Level: All Abilities