Know Your Knives – One Day Cookery Course with Nigel Brown

Great knife skills are an essential in any kitchen and will give you the confidence to tackle any dish with ease.

Under Nigel’s expert guidance you’ll start with the basics of knife control with various cuts of fruit and vegetables for cooking and garnishing before moving on to the more challenging techniques of boning and filleting.

Pudding and Pie Cookery Course

You’ll learn the basics of pastry making including shortcrust, sweet paste and suet pastry before moving on to creating your very own puddings and pies. During this hands-on course you’ll make a traditional steak and kidney pudding; chicken, ham and mushroom pie; exquisite queen of puddings; everybody’s favourite sticky toffee pudding and a light fluffy lemon meringue pie.

Fish and Shellfish Cookery Class with Nigel Brown

There were lessons on filleting trout and lemon sole, oyster tasting which was a first for Tracy and Simon, how to cook the perfect tuna steak and a wonderful moules mariniere which didn’t make it to the ‘take home’ tubs!

Strawberry Cheesecake by Nigel Brown

Strawberry Summer Cheesecake
 Makes one 8 inch cheesecake
 
 Ingredients 
6 Digestive Biscuits or 12 Ginger Nuts
100g melted Unsalted Butter
 
Filling 
250g Full Fat Cream Cheese
250g Extra Thick Double Cream
1 tbsp Elderflower Cordial
Icing Sugar (for additional sweetness if required)
1 Punnet (approx 250g) Strawberries
 
 
Method
 
1. Using olive oil, lightly oil one 8″ flan ring.
2. Melt the butter to a liquid, add to the [...]

Cookery School Taster Sessions With Nigel Brown

 The Nigel Brown Cookery School
North Lincolnshire’s Finest Cookery School
 

 
                New Dates and Courses Released For The Nigel Brown Cookery School
 
The Nigel Brown Cookery School has now been launched and a range of fantastic courses are being offered to those taking their first steps in the kitchen to advanced skills and presentation [...]

Strawberry Fruit Fool

STRAWBERRY FRUIT FOOL 
Serves 4
 Ingredients  
 
Strawberry Puree
250g ripe strawberries
25g sugar
 Fruit Fool
250ml whipping cream
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
25g sugar
 Custard
8 egg yolks
25g sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
½ pint milk
  Method 
Place the strawberries (keeping a few back for decoration) into a pan with the sugar and bring to the boil, allow to simmer, cool down and blend with a hand blender. Pass through [...]

Student Cooking Guide on DVD from Nigel Brown

 

 

 
 
 
Top Chef, Nigel Brown, knows the secret of student food success. And, in this new DVD, he reveals all.
 
In this first DVD and accompanying booklet of Studentchef Secrets, our top chef shows you the art of making tasty, nutritional dinners that are cheap and filling, quick and easy and are guaranteed to impress family, mates, [...]

Nigel Brown’s Venison Sausage Casserole

Another Top Chef Recipe From Superchef Nigel Brown 
Venison Sausage Casserole 
Ingredients
 
3 Venison sausages, 1 red onion, 1 sprig of fresh thyme, 1 bay leaf, I glass of red wine, 6 button mushrooms, 1 tablespoon of tomato puree, 1 fresh garlic clove, 1tablespoon of Worcester sauce, 1 teaspoon of English mustard, 1pint of chicken stock, 1 stick [...]

New Cookery School In Lincolnshire

 
 

 
Top Chef Nigel Brown Opens His New Cookery School in Lincolnshire
Nigel often gets asked when he’s going to set up his own cookery school to share his vast knowledge of culinary expertise, so with this in mind, research is taking place to find out how popular the idea is and what kind of skills people [...]