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Gastro!

One-day cookery course

Enjoy gastro-pub food in your own home - we'll show you how to produce modern British classics like braised lamb shank, ham hock terrine, chocolate tart and sticky toffee pudding.

Our Gastro! cookery courses are among the most popular at the Ashburton Cookery School but many people ask us what they are all about.

We call these courses Gastro! because they’re about the art and practice of choosing, preparing and eating good food.

In choosing our food we put a strong emphasis on local, seasonal and organic ingredients. We buy locally because Devon is blessed with some fantastic produce from Dartmoor lamb to fresh fish from Brixham; we also buy locally because it means our ingredients have incurred fewer food miles.

We choose organic ingredients because they are healthier, more sustainable, better for the environment and, we think, taste better. We change our Gastro! cookery course menus every month to reflect what’s in season – what’s naturally available can change radically over the year which means we can’t necessarily predict what will be on the menu until the produce arrives with us the day before the course.

In preparing those ingredients we’ll show you how to create modern British classics like braised lamb shank, ham hock terrine, chocolate tart, and sticky toffee pudding and teach you essential cookery skills and techniques that you can use to create your own culinary masterpieces or recreate gastro-pub favourites.

Ashburton Cookery School's Gastro! Plus weekend gives you an opportunity not only to learn more recipes and techniques, but to work on more complex dishes that require longer preparation time - it makes for a stimulating cookery holiday.

And as for the eating, at the end of each day’s cookery we’ll sit down together and enjoy the fruits of our labour with a glass wine in a relaxed, sociable environment.