Pudding Pie, Learn to cook at home

We promised to keep you updated on our search for a premises. Well it finally looks like reality!

We are due to take the new unit on 1st October, then the hard work starts to fit it out and get it all up to Environmental Health & Fire Safety Standards. We are aiming to have it operational by mid November (fingers crossed).

We will be able to offer larger in house Classes, Diet Clubs, Kids School Holiday Courses and lots more. If you have a course or party booked with us around the November time, we will advise you which premises it will be in!

In the meantime we are still looking for willing staff, either part-time at weekends or in the afternoons weekdays, if you are interested give us a call.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, getting there slowly.

Just finished a fun Corporate Event, we made lots of Thai food, yummy!

If you have a team event coming up and fancy something a bit different why not give us a try?

This is our 9 year old daughter helping deliver soup, cakes and sandwiches to over 80 of our village’s more mature residents. This event was part of a local community programme aimed at bringing the children and adults closer together in the village. It was a great event and we were very proud of Ijanna for helping out. Her brother (13) also helped so well done to him as well, although he managed to dodge the camera!

Designed this potato salad for a buffet yesterday, with gherkins, mayonnaise, potato, ham, petit pois, spices, all gluten and dairy free, I think it looks great even if I say so myself!

I hope they enjoyed it looks yummy…

Just been to Le Manoir Aux Quat Saison.
It was fabulous. We both (Martin and I) had the taster menu. We were well looked after and it was very delicious…I feel inspired to try some new things in the kitchen. We are going to take the kids later this month, they will love it.
I’m sure we will also have a new update regarding the new premises soon. So exciting.

We have just completed this months first Duke of Edinburgh Cookery Class. We had 4 teenagers taking part this time all aiming to achieve their Bronze Award.

We had great fun learning about sauces, food hygiene and safety as well as many other areas, the course will last over 3 months which by the end will give them all the practical and the course work they will need to get their award. If you know a young person that would like to focus on obtaining a life skill as well as a recognised award, give us a call.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, helping young people achieve their goals.

We have a unique opportunity for a new member to join the Pudding Pie team.

We are looking for an individual with cookery/chef experience to help us deliver the increasing business from schools and children’s birthday parties.

We offer good rates of pay and full training in the Pudding Pie way will be given. All applicants will be required to undergo a CRB check.

If you are interested in being considered for this exciting role either on a full time or part time basis, please get in touch.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping cookery fun.

We have been amazed at the number of young people choosing to do Cookery as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Award.

We are now fully booked on our courses going into the summer and will be opening up new dates to cope with the rush.

It’s great to see young people making an effort to do something constructive with their time, instead of sitting in-front of a computer game!

If you know any young people aged between 14 - 24 that may be interested in learning new skills, you can check out their website here.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, helping promote healthy eating.

Entering into our last week with schools before the Summer Holidays, we have been cooking Lamb & Halloumi Kebabs with a Tzatziki followed by Home-Made Vanilla Ice Cream.

They loved it! We look forward to the new term in September.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, helping children develop their potential.

We are aware that we only have Adult course dates posted until the end of July, we apologise for this, we’ve no excuse except we’ve been very busy. We will try and get dates posted for the rest of the year by next week. Thanks.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, helping people realise their potential.

According to weather forecasts, the coming weekend is going to be pretty hot! They don’t always get it right but lets hope they do this time, the Bank Holiday was a bit of a washout and it would be great to get some sunny weather whilst the kids are still on their half term.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, hoping for a hot weekend.

Heston’s back doing what he does best! Cooking up some really unusual dishes to test even the most daring of palettes.

When we visited The Fat Duck restaurant we were fed, snail porridge, breakfast for dessert cooked with liquid nitrogen and experienced some very strange sensations with food.

If you like something a bit unusual with cooking it’s worth a watch.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, we like something unusual!

Just got back from visiting Leonardo De Felice in Banbury. They supply fantastic quality Italian ingredients and for a chef like me it’s like paradise.

I look forward to making some mouthwatering Italian dishes.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, cooking around the world!

At the weekend we went to see the progress on the new Farm Shop at Farthinghoe. Run by a family who are passionate about keeping old farming traditions alive. They will be supplying home grown vegetables, their own reared meat, eggs, herbs, home-made jams and chutneys and there will be a lovely Tea Room to relax after all the shopping.

We will be using them for a lot of our fresh produce and wish them all the luck for their opening weekend. Visit the Limes Farm website here.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, proud to support local businesses.

Just in case you thought we had disappeared, don’t worry !! we are OK…

It’s been so busy we have not had the chance to post any messages for a few days now. We have been cooking at a school every day for the past 2 weeks and at weekends running Kids Cookery Parties. Just a quick reminder that the dates for our School Holiday & Adult Cookery Courses are all now available until the end of the summer, don’t leave it to long to book as they are filling up quickly.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, busy having fun with food.