and updates from Claremont Farm including the Festival
Loads n loads
NEW Cookery Courses for 2012
Curry with Nisha Katona and Sushi with Xiong Chen see forthcoming events page for details
Claremont Kitchen Cookery School
New Cheese and Sausage course dates. New Vegi-table dates and NEW Angels Cupcakes courses, all on the forthcoming events page!!
Chef & Producer workshops
The Vegi-table
Mo and Sarah creating wonders with vegetables:-
Years of catering experience in conjunction with training and tutoring at the renowned Cordon Vert School in Cheshire has culminated in the creation of our own unique cookery experience days, located at Claremont Kitchen.
Paul Peacock
Paul Peacock is an expert on plants, gardening, preserving, cooking, brewing, and self sufficiency. He is the editor of Home Farmer magazine and author of many books, including Patio Produce, The Urban Hen, and, with his wife, Diana - Grandma's Ways for Modern Days and Seasonal Cooking.
Paul writes for The Daily Mirror as Mr. Digwell and is also a regular on the panel of BBC 4's Gardener's Question Time
Claire Lara
Claire Lara, has been crowned the first ever female winner of MasterChef: The Professionals! Claire grew up in a small town on the Wirral and it was after Claire left school and she joined a YTS in food and catering that her love affair began.
“My life is just cooking. This is definitely more than a job, it’s a way of live, no doubt. It’s a brilliant, brilliant job. I teach youngsters, we just give them a trade, give them an opportunity, give them options. I get a lot of satisfaction from passing on knowledge, I just really enjoy it.”
Claire is about to launch her new restaurant, La Mouette, at the Royal Hilbre Boutique Hotel and Spa based in Hoylake. This new joint venture with husband Marc at the helm will be serving modern european cuisine using only the finest, freshly produced and locally sourced ingredients whenever possible.
Angels Cup Cakes
Angels Cupcakes is a home-based family business specialising in home-baked, hand-decorated cupcakes and cakes. As a family we are passionate about good food and excellent quality and we wouldn’t expect any of our customers to eat anything we wouldn’t eat ourselves.
Due to popular demand we are now offering a range of cupcake decorating workshops and full day courses so that we can pass on our skills to you, the keen cupcaker!
The Chocolate Cellar
Award winning Bala from the Chocolate Cellar, with her indulgent chocolate workshops and birthday parties.
With a shop and hot chocolate café in Liverpool, you won’t meet a more passionate chocoholic!!
For more info contact visit www.thechocolatecellar.co.uk or for up and coming workshops visit the forthcoming events page.
Clippy’s Apples: Preserving the Nation
Clippy is the founder of Clippy’s Apples, a unique awarding winning brand focused on British-apple based preserves. Her products are sold nationally through Ocado, Harvey Nichols, E.H. Booths and Fortnum & Mason and - of course - Claremont Farm. Over the past 15 years Clippy has travelled across the globe, savouring the delights of diverse cultures; from apple butter to green figs picked from Atlantic rooftops and from bohemian cafés to camping under the stars. These memories have inspired Clippy’s taste buds and in her ‘Preserving the Nation’ workshops no two preserves are the same – from ‘Bramley & Rosy Raspberry curd to Marinated Goats’ cheeses infused in saffron & garlic oil. This is why BBC Countryfile recently commended Clippy as “pick of the best… preservers” in the UK. Her passion is infectious and her talent for preserving anything is impressive, if you stand still long enough, she will ‘preserve’ you!! Gillian Cowburn Cumbria’s famous foodie described Clippy as “The star of the show, Clippy is so enthusiastic about her subject, it’s impossible not to be encouraged in your relish endeavours”. Come and see ‘The Master Preserver’ in action.
For more info about Clippy’s visit www.clippys.com or the forthcoming events page to find out when she’s “Jammin” down at the farm!
The first ever ‘National Jam Week’ will occur June 21-28!
www.jamweek.org
Clippy’s mission to ‘preserve the nation’.
www.preservingthenation.org