Weekend
Course: Fish Orgy
Cost: €195 Demonstration Small
class - no more than fifteen people. Two days devoted to cooking
fish, fish, fish, fish and more fish. Includes a demonstration
from West Cork's leading fishmonger (Coleman from Central Fish Market in Bantry). Includes
morning coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and supper with a glass of wine. 9th
10th February 2008
24th-25th May 2008
4th-5th October 2008
This
is my quickest filling course. Fish cooking has become more popular, and people
seem to be rather intimidated when it comes to cooking fish. By Sunday evening
this problem is no more! It is going to be a weekend devoted to all matters
fish. It will cover every aspect of the subject with the single exception of catching
them. As we go we will be considering different tastes, textures and properties
offered by different fish. We'll do a little filleting and also learn about which
fish are politically correct to eat (Icelandic cod is in, I am afraid wild Atlantic
salmon is definitely out). Then - then - we'll get down to some serious
fish dishes: West Cork Fish soup (famous from my café menu); We will cook
some seasonal shelfish from Dunmanus Bay, depending on the time of year it could
be scallops from the end of October to March, lobster from May to October or something
as simple as shrimp. Smoked haddock tart, roast fish with lemon and honeyed onions,
grilled tuna with tomato and caper dressing, cod with saffron mash, baked John
Dory with chilli, cannellini beans and thyme. Plus you'll learn how to do proper
chowder - something we don't encounter often these days. Plus much, much more.
Since we'll be eating everything we are cooking I'm going to briefly cover a couple
of interesting salads and vegetable options so that we have something to accompany
our sea fish orgy. Most important of all I will show you how to pan-fry a piece
of fish to perfection! Probably even more important, we will have to do something
with chocolate. What a perfect way to finish the day! As you'll have gathered
I am not afraid to over-promise but in the case of this weekend I can categorically
say that never, in the history of Irish weekend cookery courses, will so many
different types of fish be cooked in so many different and DELICIOUS ways by so
few. | Enrolment- Remember,
you will receive a complete set of notes and recipes at the end of all my courses.
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