Meet Your Kitchen Cooking Course

Lay Your Cooking Foundation with Prue Leith and “Meet Your Kitchen”

Anything worthwhile requires a good, solid foundation. Without it, much of what we learn, construct, or build would simply fail. Without the foundation, the rest of your endeavour is in jeopardy; you simply cannot create something meaningful if you start out wrong.

When a baby is born, its first seven years of life are known as its formative years, the years during which the foundation of developing characters, personalities, traits, and abilities are laid down. The stability and success (or failures) in a human being’s future depend largely on the nature and content of these years. Later on, at school, college, and university and in particular, in subjects such as mathematics and the sciences, each step of learning, understanding, and progression is based on that which preceded it, like a progression of stepping stones or building blocks. Without a sound first step, real progress cannot be made. Conversely, the better the foundation in any area, the more effective, solid, strong, and successful the eventual outcome or result will be.

In 1957, an American singer by the name of Johnny Ray recorded and released a popular song with a catchy beat, which began as follows: “Build your love on a strong foundation, and happiness will follow you”. One cannot dispute the veracity of the late Mr. Ray’s sentiments about the importance of building a strong base, applicable to his recipe for happiness as well as to our cookery, baking, and other courses on offer at Prue Leith Chefs Academy in Centurion. It is also applicable to one of our newer short courses, the “Meet Your Kitchen” cooking course. Our advanced and post-graduate courses already have foundational courses as their bases.

Meet Your Kitchen Cooking Course

 The Meet Your Kitchen short cooking course helps novice cooks gain a sound foundation in the art and science of cooking – in a professional kitchen. Confident cooks who enrol for this programme can enhance, improve, and polish their skills in the kitchen, while learning professional tricks of the trade and helpful tips directly under the guidance of culinary professionals. Over the course of twelve Tuesday evening sessions, each lasting three and a half hours, successful learners obtain a Prue Leith Certificate in Foundational Cooking. The course commences with a thorough introduction to the kitchen, before moving on to the following content, starting with the less complex, more basic professional processes first:

• Knife skills and veggie preparations;
• Sandwiches, canapes, salads, and cold sauces;
• Rice, grains, and potatoes;
• Pastas and sauces;
• Poultry fabrication and cooking;
• Meat fabrication and cooking;
• Fish and seafood preparation and cooking;
• Basic (foundational) baking;
• Basic bread baking;
• Tarts and pastry; and
• Plating and presentation.

In essence, Prue Leith’s Meet Your Kitchen cooking course is designed to equip you with everything you need to become professionally confident and skilled in your home kitchen. It is also an ideal course to undertake if you are passionate about food, but hesitant about whether a career as a professional, fully qualified chef is for you. Never lose your composure when faced with food preparation; enrol at Prue Leith now for 2018’s 15 May or 11 September Meet Your Kitchen cooking courses.