METROPOLIS LIVING - Quick nutritious cooking for busy lifestyles

Description

With the growing awareness of lifestyle costs, our eating patterns have changed to include cooking at home as a fundamental lifestyle choice. Whether you are a vegetarian, vegan or neither, this course covers a lot of fundamentals and, in fact, most attending are neither of the above but are interested to incorporate more meat free options into everyday cooking. This intense workshop delivers practical recipes for both every day eating when time maybe short but nutrition is a priority, through to weekend treats to share with family and friends. The content aims to open doors to a creative approach, and reapplying everyday ingredients that one already maybe familiar with, albeit applied in a very different way. This also introduces new ingredients to adapt and replace traditional pasta, potato, carbs, etc, into daily cooking. This is an extended workshop incorporating some features from our professional workshop but, equally suitable for beginners. The workshop commences with a detailed recipe review incorporating essential culinary skills, techniques and consumer knowledge, followed by the bulk of the workshop, which is hands on, with each person cooking their recipes independently. The day ends at approximately 15.30 with a lunch break included; the remaining cooked cuisine is taken home. We cover no less than 7 recipes with added demonstrations and adaptations to the recipes to multiply and accommodate preferred or restricted diets like kosher, low fat, low carb, etc.

What's included in the price?

Ingredients, aprons, recipes, tea, coffee.

Cancellation policy

Easy - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 2 weeks before the course starts

Maker

Maria White at London Vegetarian and Vegan School

with Craft Courses since 2025

Message the tutor

London Vegetarian and Vegan School extends well beyond an average cookery school; it is in effect a lifestyle centre. The concept originated in the Alte Forsthaus in Frankfurt which moved to Hampstead in 1989 followed by London Bridge to the current location; the artist’s quarter in Forest Hill, the establishment teaches a wide range of international vegan and vegetarian cooking classes in London including specialist regional meat free cuisines from entry level to advanced cooking class workshops. The cooking school hosts small class sizes that enable us to put emphasis on teaching; there is a running commentary and explanation on most ingredients or components used – differences in olive oil grades, preparation of the allium (onions, leeks, shallots etc) family, why some oils like sesame sometimes need a carrier, the importance of sautéing spices, the effects of heat and oxygen in a pan, the salt and sugar components in bread making and more. Equally important to complement this is vegetarian and vegan cooking structure and skills and how to apply culinary techniques manifold across a broad range of international cuisines and flavours thus multiplying one’s abilities and expand creativity. Veganism has changed over the last few years and we have introduced a greater number of vegan cooking workshops in our programme We avoid introducing highly processed manufactured vegan ingredients but instead prefer to create our very own – eggs being a good example. This collage of information is to demystify the art of cooking and sometimes it means going back to basics in order to get a thorough grounding and understanding of cooking essentials which so often this level of information and detail one cannot find nor read in glossy magazines. Most important to qualify all the above is personal attention to individuals and hands on experience so one gets the opportunity to try out different knives and associated skills, types of professional pans and their applications and in this process instill both confidence and kitchen management making cooking experience days more enjoyable. The cookery studio has a bright professional designer studio fitted with high tech German only appliances. The Baroque quarter is light and ideal to chill out after a culinary workout accompanied with Baroque music and a cocktail where friends may come and enjoy the soiree too. For us the cookery classes in London we offer are just one element; how you deliver, present, organise a dinner party, set the environment which includes lighting, music and colours are all important which we coach our students on our profi week long courses.