Pudding Pie, Learn to cook at home

We are always looking at ways to improve our service and get people cooking and eating healthily.

We are soon looking to launch our new delicious Nice with Spice range. So what is it?

We will be offering a blend of spices and herbs all packaged along with a list of ingredients and instructions on how to prepare you own authentic, Thai, Indian, Jamaican, Moroccan meal etc. These kits will supply everything you need with minimal cooking to produce your own delicious meal.

Along with our new Diet Club we are also looking into our own range of ready meals to help you ensure you always have a healthy balanced meal ready to pop in the oven.

We will bring you more information on these services when we can, but if you have any ideas or feedback for us, please feel free to let us know.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, always improving our service

We have just added a new Feedback page to the site. We had all our reviews on Bizwiki, until they shut the review side down !! Very helpful … not.

Anyway we have got them all back and put them altogether in an easy to use page, where you can look at all the feedback we have received.

Happy reading !!

Pudding Pie Cookery School, proud of our customer service.

We have just posted the dates for our October School Holiday Classes.

The summer holiday dates all booked up very quickly, so to give everyone a chance to find a suitable date we have posted these dates nice and early.

Don’t hang about though they go very quickly!

Pudding Pie Cookery School, kids, food and fun.

Eggs really are an amazing food. They can thicken sauces just by being cooked. They can bind with oil to make mayonnaise and several other great concoctions. They can take on air and turn into a foamy meringue delight. They can combine with chocolate to make a lovely mousse.

They can be eaten about 4000 or so different ways, in liquid or solid form, or something in between. As a chef I love eggs, as long as I don’t think too much about what they really are or where they really come from.

The question for today is: “Do eggs really need to be refrigerated?”

The answer is “Yes” … and “No”.

Eggs come out of the “chute” with a protective coating, and as long as they are not washed, they don’t need to be refrigerated. After all in most supermarkets or shops they are on the shelf, not in the fridge!

Of course, it also depends on what you want to do with your eggs. For fried or poached eggs, cold is better. The cold eggs hold together better and the yolks don’t break as easily as room temperature eggs.

For all baking purposes, eggs should be at room temperature. This also applies to eggs that are to be used for sauces such as mayonnaise or Caesar salad dressing. For hard boiled eggs, it is better to use unrefrigerated eggs that are more than a few days old. The really fresh eggs don’t release the membrane so easily and they are more troublesome to peel after cooking.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping you informed about food.

We have just had our latest inspection from the Environmental Health Dept and are pleased to announce that we have once again been awarded the Top 5 Star Rating for our kitchen.

We did not expect anything less but it’s always nice to have it confirmed!

Pudding Pie Cookery School all clean and tidy.

As Autumn approaches we have just added some stunning soup classes to our already massive choice of lessons on offer.

From the classic soups to something a bit different, we will guide you through how to make some truly delicious soups.

With choices from just £60 including all ingredients, tuition and recipes, why not treat yourself or a loved on to something special.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, making meals for you.

We promised to keep you all updated on our search for a new premises. We have found the perfect venue, offering ample parking, easy access from the M40 and less than 3 miles from where we are now. The new facility will enable us to cook with up 15 adults or 20 children at a time, it’s not enormous but it does not need to be, we want to keep the homely warm feeling that you would get from you own kitchen. We hope to be able to reduce the price of many of our courses and classes, offer new services such as our Diet Club, Wine Tasting, After School Clubs and full days for our School Holiday Courses.

We are in the final negotiations on the contracts and hope to be able to open the doors in the autumn. We will update you all when we have any more news.

Ever fancied getting together with a group of friends and creating your own brightly coloured delicious cupcakes?

Now you can with our Cupcake Decorating Parties, we will teach you different piping techniques, decorating tips and you get to have loads of fun. We will even provide you with special cupcake packaging so you can take your wonderful creations home to wow your friends and family.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, we are the icing on the cake!

We have just added a new Cupcake Decorating Class held in our kitchen. Learn different piping techniques from daisy shapes, rose swirls, two tone swirls, plus decorating with lots of glitter, flowers, hearts and baubles.

We will then package your gorgeous creations ready for you to take home.

All classes include ingredients, packaging, recipes, tuition and refreshments.

Pudding Pie creating fun in the kitchen.

We have had many requests for this type of course and we are happy to now be able to offer it to everyone.

A lot of families may sit down and eat together, but how many actually have some educational fun and cook together?

These events are a great way for all the family to bond and learn a new skill.

Check out the class details here.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping cookery fun

As the school holidays loom closer, if you live in the South Northants area and you can get to Middleton Cheney in the holidays, then your child can attend any one of the many activities on offer, together with our popular cookery courses.

You can download an application form here.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, good fun with good food!

We are really pleased to be able to offer Wine Tasting Sessions to accompany our parties or courses.

With the knowledge of a local wine expert you will learn how to taste and distinguish between different wines. We provide everything you need from the glasses to the wine itself, all available from just £12 per person when combined with one of our services.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, delivering services on a plate!

Just thought we’d update you on some exciting news we have. It’s early days and things can always go wrong, but we think we have finally found a suitable premises to kit out, as a fully functioning school kitchen.

The idea being we can start running our Diet Clubs, Hen Parties, Courses, Kids Parties and Classes for all ages in our own custom built premises.

We hope to be able to cater for up to 20 people with ample work space and parking, Clearly it will take us a few months to get it fitted out and ready, but unless something stands in our way we hope to have it up and open by early November. We will keep you updated as we know more.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, expanding our services to you.

We have been on Twitter for some now. Whereas there are literally hundreds of networking websites, we thought we’d better keep up with the times and go on Facebook as well.

Here you can find all the latest news and events from Pudding Pie Cookery School.

Pudding Pie keeping you updated with our news.

Self-service tills have topped a list of things consumers find most irritating about doing their weekly food shop.

According to new research 73% of consumers find automated tills the most infuriating part of shopping for food.

Whilst the self-scanning machines have been introduced to most supermarkets as a method of easing the stress of a weekly shop, it appears that for a large majority of the British public, they are doing quite the opposite. Although they may ease queue congestion, the anger they invoke when they fail to work properly is turning a lot of people off using them altogether.

Marks & Spencer was the first British retailer to pilot self-service tills in a few stores back in 2002, and since then the practice has been adopted by the majority of the bigger chains, including Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s. However, independent retailers are viewing the findings as further proof that customers favour face-to-face contact over automated service.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping you updated with food news.