Dordogne
Breaks
Relaxed friendly hands-on COOKING, PAINTING & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY courses in the Dordogne, France
Bombel • 24290 • St Amand de Coly • Sarlat • Dordogne • France           GPS: N 45° 01.915 / E 001° 15.295          Tel: 0033 (0)553 302405

The Masterchef-Style

Cooking Challenge

As the climax to a great week - and as a bit of fun to boot - we’re going to have a bit of a masterchef-style cooking challenge…

By Friday, you'll have picked up a plethora of new skills and recipe ideas, so we thought it would be a great idea to allow you to put them to use straight away.

So, early on in the week, and purely for the purposes of the Friday challenge, you’ll form into three groups.

Devise and prepare a three course Masterchef-quality meal...

Using the skills, techniques and knowledge you'll acquire during a week of intensive cooking, your collective challenge will be to devise a three course menu for Friday’s farewell dinner.

Over the next few days, you'll be able to plan your part of the meal using the huge range of tips, advice and recipe ideas that you'll pick up over the course of your cooking holiday.

Spend a morning buying ingredients...

After breakfast on Friday, we’ll descend on nearby Sarlat where each group will be given €20 Euros in order to buy five core ingredients for their chosen dish.

We’ll then return here for a light lunch of local bread and cheese after which each group will be responsible for preparing and cooking one course out of the three i.e. a Starter, a Main Course or a Dessert.

Use ingredients we already have here...

With a full range of store cupboard items already here, a good selection of cookery books to browse through and ex Masterchef contestant, Jim Fisher, on hand to dish out sage advice, a Masterchef-quality dish will be well within your grasp!

Prices

Prices

How to pay  Terms and Conditions

£/GBP

€/EUR

All inclusive Five day/Six night residential cooking, painting or photography holiday (per person, based on two people sharing a room):

745

1,085

One, Two , Three & Four-day courses (Per person, per day.  Additional B&B accommodation available on request. Evening meal £15 per day):

130

175

Non-participating friend or partner (five day/six night. Meals extra @ £10 & £15 per day):

445

620

B&B accommodation (per room, per night):

35

50

Return airport/rail transfers
(Per person. Selected flights only - see below: email us prior to booking):

50

70

Single occupancy supplement
(an en-suite room all to yourself):

245

355

To book an activity holiday, email us your desired dates.

We collect you from either Limoges airport or Brive la Gaillarde train station in our own vehicles each Sunday and return you there the following Saturday for a fixed fee of £50 per individual.

This service is timed to meet the lunchtime (arr 13:05/dep 13:25) Ryanair flight from London Stansted or one of the early afternoon (arr 14:30-ish/dep 11:00 or later) trains. If you want a transfer at another time or on another day, please EMAIL US or Tel: 0033 (0)553 302405 in order to discuss the possibilities.

Transfers are conducted on a first come first served basis, therefore, detailed dates and times are to be agreed with us prior to booking your holiday. Limoges airport is 1hr 30mins away by car and you won’t reach Bombel until gone 15:00, so please make sure you have made arrangements for your lunch

The optimum number of participants on a course is eight, but sometimes we have fewer than that and occasionally take up to twelve.

Booking...

Booking is easy, and only an email or phone call away, so why wait?  Strike while the iron's hot - book a vegetarian cooking course in France now and share an experience you'll never forget!





































 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 













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Gift Certificate - Cooking and Painting Course

Need a unique gift for someone special?

Then why not send them here on a course?

Infinitely flexible and valid for up to a year from date of purchase, gift vouchers can cover our full range of courses.

So, make someone's day a special one - order a gift voucher now and we'll get it to you today!


Five Day/Six Night Cooking and Painting courses include:

• Expert hands-on tuition in English

• All cooking ingredients, equipment and aprons

• An evening meal on the day of your arrival

• Breakfast and lunch each day

• Dinner (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)

• A meal at our favourite local restaurant on Friday

• Tea, coffee and wine

• En suite centrally-heated accommodation

• Entrance fees to places visited

• Private and secluded pool

• Internet and Email access

• Recipe pack containing all the dishes cooked during your stay

Some of the things you'll be doing:

Learn how to cook pastries, breads and soups

Select and prepare the best fish and shellfish

Butcher common joints of meat

Cook classic French and Italian sauces

Construct modern dressings

Master the art of stylish contemporary food presentation

Our day courses:

• Hands-on practical tuition with an experienced chef

• All ingredients

• Utensils

• Aprons

• Breakfast

• Lunch

• Wine and beverages