Harmony House is based
near York in North
Yorkshire
these are our Cookery
Courses for 2011
One day course £90 per
person
√ 10.00am
– 3.30pm/4pm √
Max 8 persons √ Refreshments include homemade cakes &
biscuits √
Demonstration of food to try √ Full
explanation & guidance on recipes √
All ingredients included √ 3
course lunch with wine - eat what you cook
√ Recipe
folder & apron to take home
Cookery Workshop £60
√ 10am to
1.30/ 2.00pm √ Max 10
persons √ Refreshments include homemade cakes &
biscuits √ Demonstration of basic principles √ Cook a
selection of dishes as a group √ All
ingredients included √ Lunch
provided - eat what you have cooked √ Complimentary recipe folder & Eco bag or tea
towel to take home √ Aprons
provided - purchase for £9.50
Residential £225
√ 2 nights B & B based on
sharing a twin/double room √ 2workshops plus evening
demonstration √ Refreshments including homemade
cakes & biscuits √ All ingredients included √ Complimentary recipe folder, &
apron to take home √ Non participating guests £100 to
include 2 nights b&b plus join in one meal
√ Single room supplement £30 per
night
'Just a
bite' courses perfect for a friends get
together.
£30 each or 3 for £80
√
2 hour
demonstration with participation if desired √
Includes recipe folder & ingredients, √
Refreshments and tasters of food prepared
Young Harmony - Children's Cookery Days
Short courses 10 to 12.30 or 1 to 3.30
£25 children and parents welcome for
family days
Half-day course 10 to 2 -
£40 cook a meal and more √
Includes recipe folder, refreshments,
ingredients and lunch from the food produced.
Taster
evenings £50 each 6 pm to 9/9.30pm
A themed cookery session with supper which
you have cooked. Ideal for
after work events and corporate
entertaining.
From March 2012 all
Saturday courses ( except March 31st
Mediterranean) will start at 11 am and
finish one hour later than scheduled above
February
Saturday 4th
Simply entertain: Friends for Supper 10 –
3.30pm £90
For those who can cook, but want to increase
their repertoire. Dishes will include choux
pastry, chicken breast rolled with ham &
leek mousse, paprika pork, pear & almond
frangipani, lemon meringue roulade.
Wednesday 8th
Simply Cook –Great British Baking 10 to
1.30pm £60 or 2 for £100 with light lunch
Baking and re creating homemade cakes and
pastries with a touch of nostalgia. Choose
from lemon
drizzle cake, sponge drops, maids of honour,
marbled chocolate cake, Swiss roll, cherry
and almond cake, Devonshire scones, date &
walnut loaf, coffee cake, orange ginger
cake. cheese and chive muffins. Share and take home.
Thursday 9th
Simply cook: starters & snacks demonstration
10 – 12.30pm £30 No places available
A demonstration of simple dishes that can be
served as a starter or light meal including
double baked soufflés, fish cakes & savoury
mousses.
Tues 14th – simply fun – children’s day 10 –
2pm over 10yrs Cook and eat a two course meal. Learn
how to make savoury and sweet pastries and
quick and easy stir fries to look after
yourself.
Wednesday 15th No places
available
Simply fun: Chocoholics workshop for all
ages 10 – 12.30pm £25 each or 2 for £40
Have fun with all things chocolaty including
posh chocolate drops, chocolate brownies,
chocolate mousse and decorating handmade
chocolates. Family day Suitable for children from
7
years.
Wednesday 15th -
Simply fun: Chocoholics workshop for all
ages 2pm to 4.30pm £25 each or 2 for £40
Have fun with all things chocolaty including
posh chocolate drops, chocolate brownies,
chocolate mousse and decorating handmade
chocolates. Family day suitable for children from
7
years.
Friday 17th simply cook -
Vegetarian pasta workshop for all ages over
14 yrs. £60 10 – 1.30 Make your own pasta, pesto and
vegetarian sauces to accompany. Butternut
squash and courgette Lasagne fettuccini with
orange and coriander pesto, primavera pasta,
tortellini with Quattro formaggio sauce and
more.
Friday 24th
Simply entertain: Friends for dinner 'Retro and classic dinner
party' with a twist. 10 – 3.30pm £90 Update a selection of seventies &
classic dishes such as coquilles St Jacques,
mock crab French onion soup, duck a l’orange,
steak Diane or chicken a la king, brandy
snaps with lemon mousse, or caramel oranges,
marbled arctic roll or crème caramel
Saturday 25th – simply
cook – hot and comfort desserts 10 – 1.30pm
£60 2 for £110
Sticky toffee pudding and butterscotch
sauce, chocolate fondants, Orange bread &
butter pudding, Queen of puddings, almond
and pear frangipani are among the choices to
cook This course together with the retro
course can be a residential course
March
Thursday 1st
Simply cook: Vegetarian workshop 10 – 1.30
£60
New ideas for vegetarian dishes such as
mushroom & blue cheese tart, savoury
roulades, butternut squash & courgette lasagna, black eye bean patties, onion tarte
tatin & aubergine Parmigiano.
Saturday 3rd
Simply Cook – bread making with light lunch
11 – 2.30pm. £60 or 2 for £100
Make your own bread loaves, buns, plaits and
then create speciality breads of your choice
with a variety of savoury or sweet fillings,
foccaccia, soda bread, Stromboli, gorgonzola
and walnut, spinach, garlic and parmesan,
chilli, olives and tomato, Chelsea buns,
cinnamon twists or honey bread
Wednesday 21st
Simply cook taster evening Indian -£50
or 2 for £90 6- 9pm Cauliflower parathas, samosas, butter
Boona beef, chicken tikka Marsala chapatti
and more.
Friday 23rd
Simply world - Chinese & Thai workshop 10 -
1.3-pm £60
Includes Thai crab cakes, Thai chicken
curry, spring rolls, beef with black beans,
sweet & sour chicken.
Thursday 29th
Simply entertain: Seasonal Spring recipes 10
– 3.30pm £90 No places available
Using fresh local produce we will make
seared asparagus & Parma ham parcels with
hollandaise sauce, rosemary & garlic lamb,
spatchcock poussin with a wild mushroom
sauce, rhubarb syllabub with walnut
shortbread & tarte au citron.
April
Residential Weekend: Friday – Sunday £225
Saturday 30th March No places available
Simply entertain: Mediterranean cookery 10 –
3.30pm (£90 if booked separately)
Including dishes from Spain, Portugal &
Italy such as chicken piri piri, chicken
with orange pesto, pork Marsala, paella or
chorizo & prawn risotto, almond tart &
Tiramisu cheesecake.
Sunday 1st No places available
Simply cook: Meals in Minutes 10 – 1.30pm
(£60 if booked separately)
Learn shortcuts and ways to cheat without
resorting to a packet or tin. Quick and easy
recipes including chicken liver pate, beef
stroganoff, chicken encroute or en-papilotte,
chocolate mousse & hot lemon pond pudding.
Tuesday 3rd
Simply cook taster evening Italian £50 or 2 for £90 6-9pm Italian cooking – making your own
selection of some Italian classics as meat
or vegetable lasagnes, cannelloni, Quick
pasta dishes with your own pasta, Stromboli
bread or pizza, chicken or aubergine
parmigiana, and more.
Wednesday 4th
Simply World Cooking: Mexican workshop 10 –
1.30pm £60 No places available
Make fresh salsa, guacamole, chicken
enchiladas, sticky chipotle lamb with
caramelised corn, green rice, Mexican
chocolate pudding.
Wednesday 11th April
Simply Fun: Children's cookery course 10 –
2pm £40 each, 2 for £70.
Suitable for ages 10 – 15
Cook lunch from a selection of chicken
korma, sweet and sour chicken, Italian
risotto, chicken breasts with homemade
pesto, savoury pancakes. profiteroles and
chocolate sauce, chocolate roulade or
banoffee pie.
After lunch we will prepare savoury and
sweet baking and decorate cupcakes and make
chocolates
Saturday 14th
Pasta and sauces workshop 11 - 2.30pm £60
A morning of making pasta, tortellini,
ravioli with various sauces and fillings,
gnocchi, risotto marinara, foccaccia bread
and torte di almonds or Limon cello
Friday 20th
Simply cook: One for the Boys 10 – 3.30pm
£90
A day devoted to cooking all the things men
love to eat, including pate with onion
marmalade, pork fillet with sage cream and
caramelised apples, gingered garlic lamb,
sticky toffee pudding. orange & Cointreau
bread & butter pudding.
Wednesday 25th
Simply cook: Fish course 10 – 3.30pm £90
Knife skills, filleting and skinning flat,
round, oily and white fish will be the first
demonstration of the day. Quick and easy
starters of mousses, tiâns and dips will be
followed by cooking a selection of fish
dishes such as Moules marinieres, crab
cakes, sea bass & scallops with a leek
veloute, sole Florentine, mackerel with
chilli and ginger and prawns Provencal
together with a dessert.
Friday 27th
Simply fun Chocoholics workshop 10 –
1.30/2pm £60
Make filled chocolates with praline and
ganache, truffles and boxes and caraque and
compliment that by creating chocolate
desserts - choose from chocolate roulade,
rocky road, white chocolate cheesecake,
marshmallow brownies, chocolate torte
May
Wednesday 2nd - No places available
Simply Cook - Summer Desserts and Barbeque
al fresco ideas demonstration
10 - 12.30pm £30 or 3 for £80 Berry ripple pavlovas, mini summer
pudding, mojito cheesecake and various
desserts in a glass with a lunch of barbeque
and al fresco ideas
Thursday 3rd
Simply cook – pastry workshop 10 – 1.30/2pm
£60 or 2 for £100
Learn to master the art of pastry making
from savoury pie to sweet flan and choux
pastry, with ideas of how to adapt recipes
using Filo. Traditional minced beef or pork
and apple pie, French apple or fruit
frangipani, profiteroles or savoury Gougere
and baklava or filo topped savoury pie.
Tuesday 8th - No places available
Simply Cook workshop Pastry master class 10
to 1.30pm £60
Including short crust, choux, pate sucree.
Using the pastry to make sweet & savoury
pies and pastries.
Friday 11th
Simply entertain: Friends for Supper 10 –
3.30/4pm £90 No places available For those who can cook, but want to
increase their repertoire. Dishes will
include choux pastry, chicken breast rolled
with ham & leek mousse, paprika pork, pear &
almond frangipani, lemon meringue roulade
School closed 10th to 22nd
May
Wednesday 23rd
£50 or 2 for £45 6 – 9pm Simply cook Novice
taster evening
Getting the basics right. Taking you from
sauces to soufflés, learn some basic recipes
that you can confidently recreate, including
sauces for pasta, risotto, fish cakes and
stir fries
Saturday 26th
Simply world - America and the Caribbean
workshop 11.00 to 2.30pm £60
To cook a selection from prawn gumbo,
jambalaya, Creole chicken, steak with
chimichurri salsa & onion tart, key lime
pie, raspberry New York cheesecake and
brownie dessert, devil's food cake.
Tuesday 29th
simply Cook - afternoon tea party 10 to
1.30pm £60 or 2 for £100
Baking and re creating homemade cakes and
pastries with a touch of nostalgia. Lemon
drizzle cake, sponge drops, maids of honour,
marbled chocolate cake, Swiss roll, cherry
and almond cake, Devonshire scones, date &
walnut loaf, coffee cake, orange ginger
cake. Share and take home.
June
Friday 8th
Simply fun - children and parents baking day
10 – 1pm. £30 each or 2 for £50.
Learn to make sponges and pastries together,
a selection from pies, patties and quiches,
roulades, sponge drops or cupcakes
Tuesday 12th
Simply entertain eating alfresco taster
evening 6 – 9pm £45
Cook your supper and make barbeque
marinades, chicken chermola, chimichurri
beef, king prawns with gremolata, slaws &
salads, quick desserts
Thursday 14th
Simply Entertain – Summer dinner parties 10
– 3.30pm £90 including a three course lunch
With a selection of recipes including, Three
tier fish terrine, asparagus soufflé pork
paprika, salmon en papilotte with julienne
of vegetables and hollandaise sauce, Limon
cello yoghurt ice-cream, individual berry
and cassis puddings, rippled fruit meringues
Tuesday 19th No places available
Simply Cook – Foods without Gluten workshop
10 – 1.30pm £60
Sundried tomato bread, chocolate fondants,
Glamorgan sausage rolls, lemon meringue
roulade, chicken with orange and honey,
crème brulee
July
Thursday 5th Simply Cook workshop – Summer starters
and desserts 10 – 1.30/2pm £60 with lunch
With a selection of recipes including, Three
tier fish terrine, asparagus soufflé &
hollandaise sauce, gravadlax with dill
sauce, alfresco nibbles, individual berry
and cassis summer puddings, rippled fruit
meringues, desserts in a glass
Saturday 7th Simply entertain – Summer Friends for
supper 10 – 3.30/4pm £90
For those who would like to increase their
repertoire and learn more tips and
presentation ideas to include Asparagus
soufflé, 3 tier fish terrine, chicken & pink
peppercorn sauce Salmon lattice koulibiac
with Hollandaise, St Clements roulade and
desserts in a glass – raspberry ripple
cheesecake
Wednesday 11th Simply Entertain Mediterranean Day 10 –
3.30/4pm with three course lunch £90
Cook recipes from Italy, Spain and Portugal,
choose from Piri piri sauce, Tapas – batatas
bravas,, garlic & sherry prawns, tortilla,
Chicken with walnut or orange pesto, pork in
marsala sauce, Paella or risotto marinara or
cod portugaise chocolate diplomatico, Torte
di almond
August
Wednesday 1st Simply Entertain – A taste of Yorkshire
10 – 3.30/4pm with three course lunch £90
Enjoy a day cooking with the products and
recipes of this great county. Wensleydale
double baked soufflé with Kilnsey trout, Mrs
Bell’s garlic mushrooms with chive muffins,
Beef &Yorkshire pudding, Toad in the hole,
Whitby fish pie or Yorkshire curd tart with
lemon curd ice cream, rhubarb and orange
syllabub with Yorkshire parkin
School closed
Thursday 30th Simply cook – Budding chefs pastry day 10
– 2pm £40 From 10yrs
Learn how to make shortcrust, choux and
sweet flan pastry and create a savoury pie
for lunch followed by profiteroles and a
fruit flan
Friday 31st Simply fun – stir up a treat children’s
day 10 – 1pm 7 yrs onwards £30 each or 2 for
£50
Cook a lunch and eat with friends or family
choices from chicken and herb or tuna
patties and mixed slaw, cannelloni with
tomato sauce, chocolate Jaffa pots,
strawberry shortbread or lemon honeycomb.
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