The Gables School of Cookery Blog

We have recently said goodbye to another cohort of our four week residential students. We are always proud of what our students manage to achieve when they come on our courses. They see themselves transformed from nervous novices to confident and happy cooks!
Today, we would like to share with you the menu that our July [...]

August Seasonal Spotlight – Beetroot
Beautiful, deep red beetroots are in season this month. Sadly, none of our beetroots have survived the slug onslaught in the Cookery School vegetable patch this summer. One year, we grew so many beetroots that we didn’t know what to do with them. We ate as many as we could, pickled [...]

There is something so very appealing about a perfect white meringue nest covered in cream and studded with beautiful seasonal fruit. People may think that meringues are too complicated to bother with, but we assure you that they are not! And homemade meringues are so far superior to those powdery shop-bought versions that it’s really [...]

We have just finished a very successful one day vegetarian cookery course. Here at the Gables, we love vegetarian food and encourage our students, even the determined meat eaters, to think of vegetarian food as an exciting and varied alternative menu. Students on our vegetarian courses are often interested not only in the health benefits [...]

“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nibbling at your nose, Christmas Carols being sung by a choir…”
At the Gables, we are very proud of Australian connections. Two of our partners are dual Australian and British citizens, which gives us a great insight into life on the other side of the world. One custom [...]

We had an Italian One Day Course running this Saturday and it has reminded us of our recent travels there. Nothing quite beats walking through the Italian Mountains during the day and watching the sun set over the Italian Lakes with a cool, crisp glass of wine in the evening. Italy is a superb and [...]

We have just started another intensive residential four week course here at the Gables, which means that the school is full of new enthusiastic students ready to develop their cookery skills and take their first steps to becoming trained, confident and happy cooks. As we write this, we can smell their first batch of fresh [...]

Juicy red raspberries are in season this month and at the Gables we thought we would share with you some of our favourite easy raspberry recipes from our book ‘Simply 3-5.’
We all know that raspberries make beautiful desserts, but how often have you tried them in a savoury context? One of our most popular starters [...]

To be honest, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked why I started the Gables Cookery School. The subject came up only the other day when I was talking about old times down under with my sister Kathy…