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This month has been about plotting, planning and cooking - we’ve announced our headline act for next February’s Assembly House Food Festival, welcomed lots of great students into the cookery school and had our much-anticipated photo shoot for this year’s big themed afternoon tea for Summer (the reveal will be in the next week - if you want to secure your table, the big tea starts on August 1 and runs until September 1). Midsummer madness indeed!

There’s plenty to tempt everyone into the cookery school this month as we travel to North Africa and Scandinavia, learn how to make gluten-free doughnuts, drink England’s finest wines and have a sizzling time with Jamie Archer!

See you at the stove!

Richard

MY LAST SUPPER WITH JAY RAYNER

- Thursday 27th February 2020, 8pm

Imagine you are about to die. You have one meal left. What are you going to have? It’s the question award-winning restaurant critic, MasterChef judge and writer Jay Rayner has been asked most often by audiences across the UK. It happened so often that he decided the time had come to investigate the concept of the last supper and why it intrigues us so.

Tickets £25.00pp. To reserve your tickets please call us on 01603 626402
(payment required at the time of booking)

NORFOLK HOME CHEF OF THE YEAR

- CLOSING DATE JUNE 23

We had SUCH a good time at last year’s Home Chef of the Year competition that we’ve decided to do it all over again, and we’d like you to join us!

Open to amateur cooks from across the county, entrants will produce a two-course meal for two people showcasing local produce or a local recipe if they get through to the cook-off at the Richard Hughes Cookery School on August 11.

We’re looking for home chefs, not master chefs – last year we had a great time tasting some fabulous food including a bread and butter pudding we’re still talking about, a whole roast dinner in a pie (genius idea!), strawberry and buttermilk ice cream and, of course, winner Mark Fitch’s lobster thermidor!

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SUPPLIERS’ STORYTIME WITH ARCHER'S BUTCHERS

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 11am
It’s going to be a banger! Jamie Archer and his team are the undisputed banger kings of Norfolk and take their sausages very seriously. Today, Jamie will tell us the story of his much-loved family shop on Plumstead Road in Norwich and doubtless give us some sizzling barbecue tips too.

£34.00. Book two spaces for £60.00.

HANDS ON COOKERY SESSION GLUTEN-FREE SWEET DOUGHS WITH STEVE THORPE

- Tuesday 9 July 2019, 9:30am

The brilliant Steve Thorpe has more than 45 years of catering experience both cooking and teaching and has had a huge influence on Norfolk hospitality. We are absolutely delighted to add Steve to our team. Diagnosed with coeliac disease in his mid-50s almost six years ago, Steve discovered that his diagnosis had given him newfound vigour in the kitchen as he began developing new recipes and adapting the popular dishes he’d always loved.

In this session, you will learn to make the sweet and enriched doughs gluten-free. These are the base doughs that are used for doughnuts, Chelsea buns and Devonshire splits to name but a few, as well as making a traditional rum-baba.

£125.00 (£200 for two students)

THE SCANDINAVIAN TABLE

Saturday 13 July 2019, 9:30am
This hands-on cookery class has been a huge hit this year. Cook up a veritable smorgasbord of delights from one of the most influential cuisines of the past decade. On your scrubbed pine table will be gravadlax, pickled mackerel, potato salad, rye and raisin loaf, venison meatballs with beetroot and caraway, spiced apple and sour cherry cake. Fair Isle jumper-wearing not compulsory.

£160.00 (Last two spaces available for £250.00 per couple)

Five of the best things I’ve eaten this month:

1. A fresh Sheringham lobster, snaffled from our crab and lobster cookery class, and turned into a classic Thermidor!

2. My Mum’s strawberry and lavender pie. As featured in Step by Step in the July edition of EDP Norfolk Magazine (and also snaffled from the cookery school!)

3. A grey mullet, purchased from City Fish on Norwich Market. The whole fish cost me less than £7 for four decent portions, (it was sitting next to a single Dover Sole priced at £34.00!). The fish are quite filthy inside, algae being their diet of choice, but once cleaned up they are a real treat. Pan-fried with butter, lemon and garlic. See Marco Pierre White’s quote below!

4. Marsh Pig Truffle Salami. This beauty is being launched at this year’s Royal Norfolk Show but we had a sneak preview at a Suppliers’ Storytime event with the wonderful Jackie and Sarah from Marsh Pig. Their charcuterie is the very best I’ve eaten and with added truffle it’s absolutely historic!

5. We’ve taken our famous Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie and gone one better, adding some Baron Bigod cheese. Find the recipe here!

COOK BOOK OF THE MONTH:

Floyd in the Soup: Or My Life and Other Great Escapes, Keith Floyd

I’ve read this book countless times over the years and it never disappoints. It was published more than 30 years ago, and I picked it up for 50p in a charity shop, yet the advice about cooking, the tales and tribulations of running a restaurant and advice about how to keep a customer happy is all priceless. If you don’t own it and you see it: buy it - it changed my life!

FOOD QUOTE OF THE MONTH:

“The more you do to food, the more you take away. The more components you put on a plate, the less chance you have of achieving perfection.”

- Marco Pierre White

Richard Hughes Cookery School, The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1RQ
Tel: 01603 626402 | enquiries@richardhughescookeryschool.co.uk