By Clara Galán
Cookery Course
- Menu Planning
- The Process
- Timings
- Nutritional Aspects
- Occasions
- Samples of Menus: daily and feast days, diets, eating habits, rethinking menus
- Trends in Food
- Healthy eating- what you eat today affects your health of tomorrow- can we find a happy balance?
- Seasonality- eat the seasons for better nutritional value, reduce food cost, eco-friendly
- Sustainability- from the home the impact we can make, choice of ingredients, food waste reduction
- Class content
- Soups: How to make the different types of soups
- Sauces: How to make roux-based sauces, basic hot and cold sauces
- Vegetables: versatility, seasonality, cooking methods and cuts, matching vegetables & meats, fish
- Meat: cuts, cooking methods, times and temperatures
- Fish: how to prepare and handle, how to cook
- Desserts: Gelatine based desserts, use of pastry, the art of assembling, get ahead of the game, desserts easy to make and done before in advance