Our Duke of Edinburgh Award Course continues to be very popular, it’s great to see so many young people taking the initiative to do something useful with themselves. It beats sitting in front of the telly, these young people will grow up having learnt some great life skills.

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

At Pudding Pie Cookery School, cooking with Schools has been a great success for us and we are proud to support Flora’s 2010 campaign which will be their last year.

Cooking with Schools is all about putting healthy eating at the heart of the classroom, showing children how to prepare and cook healthy food – and having fun in the process.

Through this exciting initiative, Flora will provide thousands of pounds worth of cooking equipment to primary schools, equipping school staff to teach children the importance of eating well and maintaining a healthy heart.

Check out their website for more details.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, putting children’s health first.

As we approach 500 followers on Twitter, we are celebrating the success we have had using this present day contact tool.

We are being followed by people like Ocado, who offer a fantastic home delivery service, we have used them for a while now, they deliver good quality ingredients and the most important thing is you don’t get substitutes, you get what you order, something other suppliers seem to have trouble with!

We are also being followed by celebrity chefs and other catering related businesses all over the world.

So why not keep up to date with our special offers, booking discounts, course details, free recipes and much much more, by following us on Twitter.

We have introduced some new discounts for our Children’s School Holiday Cookery Courses and also our Adult Cookery Courses in our kitchen.

Basically the more you book, the more we give you for free!

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping cookery interesting.

Kids in the Garden is a fun and accessible guide for children to use on their own or with adults. Packed with over 50 project ideas and recipes, Kids in
the Garden encourages children to learn about gardening, healthy eating and caring for the environment in a simple and engaging way.
With easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, colourful photography and fun illustrations, Kids in the Garden will appeal to children of all ages and their parents. Covering a range of gardening topics such as harvesting seasons, encouraging wildlife in your garden, growing plants from seed, and the water cycle, Kids in the Garden is ideal for any inquisitive youngster, whether already green-fingered or a complete gardening novice. You can read the Press Release here.

Pudding Pie customers can get a 40% discount off the retail price of Kids in the Garden – to order, email Jess Atkins at jess@blackdogonline.com with your delivery address – quoting ‘Pudding Pie Offer’ as the subject of your email.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, promoting healthy eating.

Check out our March 2010 Newsletter here.

We have just also launched our latest Adult Cookery Courses and the next Children’s school holiday courses.

Book 3 or more and get a discount, check the Course pages for details.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping cookery fun.

Just got back from the 2010 Hotelympia show, they had some fantastic hand-made cakes and the catering equipment was out of this world. Gave us a few new ideas for our outside and classroom catering.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, striving to improve our service.

Quick to make and delicious, we hope you enjoy them!

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 x 400g cannellini beans
1 400g can red kidney beans
110g white bread crusts removed
25g grated cheddar
1 small carrot grated
2 cloves garlic crushed
2 tbsp fresh coriander finely chopped
Half tsp chilli powder
2 tsp cumin
¼ tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp tomato puree
Salt & pepper
Plain white flour for coating
Olive or sunflower oil for frying

Method

•    Drain beans, tip onto a chopping board and roughly chop them up.
•    Put bread in a food processor to make crumbs.
•    Mix all the burger ingredients in a bowl with a fork.
•    Shape lightly into 8 burgers.
•    Coat lightly in flour.
•    Chill in fridge for about an hour to develop flavours or cook straight away.
•    Heat oil in frying pan, cook gently for 5 minutes each side till cooked through.

So far this year (Jan & Feb) we have taught and cooked with over 500 children, running After School Cookery Clubs, Birthday Parties, School Holiday Courses,  and private Bespoke courses.

We are due to host much more in the coming months including a roadshow with WRAP & The Love Food Hate Waste Partnership, together with a large Summer School Holiday Workshop over 5 weeks!

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping children cooking.

The trials on our new Diet are going well. We have people with weight losses of up to 1 Stone (14lbs) within a 4 week period.

All this is achieved by eating healthily, no processed foods, you are still able to eat fruit, vegetables, meat, cream, milk, cheese etc, it just has to be done in the right stages and mixed with the correct foods. Once you get into the swing of not eating junk food and processed ingredients it’s easy.

We hope to launch this to a wider trial audience soon.

Pudding Pie Diet Club, It’s healthy, it’s nutritious, it works.

We have just posted the April & June dates for our School Holiday Cookery Courses.

These are now split into 3 different age groups throughout the day. Courses start from just £35 for 2.5 hours, including refreshments, aprons, hats, food to take away and recipes.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, teaching children to eat healthily.

Check out our February 2010 Newsletter here.

We have just also launched our latest Adult Cookery Courses and the next Children’s school holiday courses.

Book 3 or more and get a discount, check the Course pages for details.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, keeping cookery fun.

A study of more than 100 obese children and teenagers found more than half were overweight by 24 months and 90% were overweight by the age of five.

We run regular classes for children and we see a huge difference in the types of foods they eat. Some don’t even recognise common vegetables in their raw form!

If you need help in understanding healthy options or if you need to learn to cook from scratch we can help. Check out our Courses either in your own home or our Cookery School Kitchen.

Pudding Pie Cookery School, promoting the health of our children.

Just thought we would keep you up to date with the progress on our New Diet Club.

You may remember we started trialing our new diet a little over a week ago. Well the results are fantastic, with the average weight loss in the first week of 4-5 pounds. The diet simply cuts out all processed foods, sugars and anything that’s not natural, combined with some tasty recipes a few rules of what you can eat and when, and you have a diet that feels like you can eat plenty but helps you lose weight in the process. We hope to roll this out as a pilot exercise soon, so if you fancy giving it a try for us, just get in touch.

Pudding Pie Diet Club, it’s healthy, it’s nutritious, it works.