Book a fun cooking class and expand your home cooking capabilities!

Whether you want to refine and boost your home cooking skills or enjoy a laid-back afternoon of fun Mexican cooking with friends having a laugh and learning how to make tortillas and tacos, we have a little mini-course for you.

Improve your home cooking by learning basic knife skills, veggie prep tricks and how to save money on grocery bills in our cookery basics class suitable for any age and cooking background. If you enjoy that and are hungry for more or keen to jump ahead we have our advanced basics class for home cooks who want to refine and hone their culinary game and learn technical cooking processes.

For a more informal relaxed fun afternoon throw on your somberos and join our Mex-I-Can-Cooking Fiesta Class, which finishes with a mini mexi-fest and a jug of Mojito Drink! Also, a great idea for hen’s parties. * CALL OR EMAIL to inquire about bigger group bookings. *up to 10 guests.

Gift vouchers are available; Give the gift of cooking!

Can’t decide? Purchase all 3 in a bundle deal!

3 Cooking Classes – Valued at $320

Pre-purchase today for $270 Save $50

LEARN ESSENTIAL COOKERY BASICS

Refine your cooking talents by mastering the basic chef practices. After learning basic knife skills and vegetable-cutting techniques you will be shown how to break down a whole chicken so you can SAVE MONEY on daily shopping bills. A whole chicken costs approximately $7 per kg – a pack of two chicken breasts is $19 per Kg. Just stop a second and process that! After this mini-course, save up to 65% on fresh chicken knowing all the tips ‘n’ tricks to make the most out of purchasing a whole chicken.

FREE PARING KNIFE AND R2R TEATOWEL

WORTH $33

PLUS – A MINI FEAST AT THE END OF THE COURSE, AND TIME FOR ANY OTHER COOKING QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

 ALL OF THIS

$99pp

Topics covered in the course:

• How to maintain and sharpen your knives
• Demonstrating how to hold food correctly while prepping to avoid nasty cuts.
• How to correctly cut basic veggies eg: learn how to dice onions like a chef!
• Tips to cut tricky foods such as watermelon & pumpkin safely.
• Tips for slicing a cake and cutting cheese correctly.
• Making an easy tasty basic meat marinade.
• How to debone a whole chicken.
• Be shown how to make fresh stock
• Learn the correct technique to cook proteins so they don’t stick to the pan and are golden brown.
• Discuss simple ways to decrease wastage in your cooking, saving you money.

WHO DOESN’T LOVE A MEXICAN FIESTA?

Hola! This fun-filled Mex-I-Can Fiesta Class is a relaxed dive into the flavours of Mexico, by the end of the afternoon, you’ll want to throw your own at-home Taco Party loaded with all the tools to make it a bloody great success.

The Mexican lesson is kicked off by making a quick and versatile condiment ‘Cebollas Curtidas’ (Mexican Pickled Onions). Then you will transform into a Mexican master, learning 3 types of tortillas, and cooking fresh tasty rustic corn chips. Savour the tortillas eating them as scrumptious tacos, and taste fantastic fresh salsas with your corn chips expanding your Mexican cooking repertoire.

Don’t fret about forgetting everything, a mini recipe book will be emailed to everyone after the event of the days dishes. While eating the tacos, dips n chips, we explain the best ways to cook meat for tacos such as pulled pork, slow-braised beef, chicken tenders, fish and vegan taco options.

FREE APRON + 10% OFF TORTILLA PRESS

AND 5% OFF OUR TACO ACCESSORIES!

WORTH $30 +

PLUS – A MINI FEAST & MOJITO DRINK

 ALL OF THIS

$99pp

GOT THE BASICS DOWN PAT?

Build on your passion and fine-tune your love for cooking today. Grow your talents working closely together with a qualified chef and see first-hand some of the trickier elements of cookery! Ask questions while you’re shown and explained carefully step-by-step how to make a fresh hollandaise sauce, and poach an egg perfectly. You’ll be obsessed with homemade eggs benny every Sunday after this tutorial and yes, you’ll enjoy a late afternoon brunch! We will also make a beautiful jus, shuck and eat fresh oysters & fillet a whole fish. Plus learn how to “pin-bone” the fish fillet without damaging it and remove the skin professionally. Lastly, there will be tips on presenting food and how best to garnish & plate your food.

Walk away from the day ready 2 win the next series of Master Chef!

** Classes will be small and cosy, running with a min of 2 people max of 4 so you can ask questions and take your time while learning the different techniques.

RECEIVE 5% OFF PURCHASES STOREWIDE ON THE DAY. PLUS EATING OYSTERS, FRESH FISH AND EGGS BENNY!

 ALL OF THIS

$120pp

Head Chef – Bec Telford or Bex-da-chef or El Becco!

Bec has gained a wealth of knowledge having worked in some of the top Australian restaurants over her 25-year career. After dropping out of school at 16, she dived into kitchens and completed her City & Guild Diploma of Culinary Arts while in N.Z in 1999 and has been busy cooking since. Seize the opportunity to tap into this vast food experience and ask any questions you may have.

Fun Fact: For 8.5 years Bec travelled & worked all around Australia in a 74 VW Kombi Van!  🙂