Gourmet Supper Club - Christmas Menu Revealed

Hartingtons Gourmet Supper Club reveals its menu for its 'Alternative' Christmas Feast.  The select band of Gourmets will reconvene in Hartingtons converted saw mill on the 7th of December for an informal tasting of 6 gourmet food courses along with a tutored wine tasting of 6 of the very best seasonal wines. The wines are carefully selected by John Hattersley Wines in Bakewell to perfectly compliment each of the stunning dishes.

This unique menu prepared by Robert Stordy, the University Chef of the Year for 2012, draws on some of the classic Christmas seasonal flavours and gives them a unique and surprising twist.  Spaces for the Gourmet Supper Club are strictly limited and sell out each time so please contact us to reserve your place.

The menu for the 'Alternative' Christmas Feast' is as follows:

Christmas bacon and egg & prawn cocktail canapes
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Pumpkin and ricotta gnocchi with roasted squash and sage butter
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Salad of smoked salmon with peashoots and cream of horseradish
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Elizabethan spiced beef with braised red cabbage and a seasonal selection of locally grown vegetables
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Hazelnut cake, pistachio ice cream and toasted almond cream
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A serving platter of Cropwell Bishop Stilton

Please join us for a night of fun, food and not least merriment.
The event starts at 7.00 p.m and finishes between 9.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. Food and drink are  provided by Hartingtons, with all wines and food being included in the £40 ticket price.

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Bread making and Cheesemaking Courses in the Peak District

 
Since Chris and I started the School of Food in Bakewell in January this year our two most popular courses have been Bread making and Cheesemaking and with the festive season fast approaching we now have just 3 bread making courses and 1 cheesemaking courses before Christmas.

One of the courses is completely sold out and just a few places remain on the other three courses:



Thursday 8 November - Intro to Artisan Bread making Courses - SOLD OUT
Saturday 11 November - Intro to Artisan Bread making Courses - 2 PLACES LEFT
Tuesday 13 November - Intro to Artisan Cheesemaking Courses - 4 PLACES LEFT
Sunday 2 December - Intro to Artisan Bread making Courses - 6 PLACES LEFT

If you are a complete novice or are a regular breadmaker but are looking to improve your breadmaking skills these bread making courses are for you!

And as the saying goes "man cannot live by bread alone"........ so why not learn how to make cheese?

The cheesemaking course is taken by Chris Ashby, who has over 40 years experience in the Industry and delivers the same course for Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall at River Cottage. This course is ideal for people who are simply curious about cheesemaking as well as people considering making cheese on a small scale. 

All four courses are likely to sell out quickly so if you are interested don't hesitate or you're likely to miss out!

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Food Fair in Baslow nr Chatsworth

Hartingtons Food and Drink Fair returns on Sunday 4th of November to Baslow (nr Chatsworth) after a short Summer break with over 20 artisan food producers from Sheffield and the Peak District. Some of the gourmet delights on offer will be traditional desserts, artisan bread, potted meat, jams and preserves, cheesecakes, pates, dressings, oils, cakes, charcuterie, pork pies and speciality teas.

If you are going to Chatsworth for a walk or a wander why not pop in (it's FREE).

A highlight of the Baslow Food Fair will be a pop up Italian Mercato from Nonnas selling Italian delights including fresh pasta, antipasti and a wide range of authentic Italian goodies from the Nonnas larder.  Outside hot bacon and sausage sandwiches will be available all day courtesy of award winning Moss Valley Fine Meats as well as gourmet coffee and an exotic range of culinary and garden plants from Dawsons Yard.

Sunday 4th November from 10.30 am - 4.30 pm at Baslow Village Hall (DE45 1SP).

FREE ADMISSION and exclusive show offers on artisan food & cookery courses and lots of free tastings. There will also be a free prize draw to win a cookery course at Hartingtons new School of Food in Bakewell. Further info about the event at www.hartingtons.com or 01629 888586.


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Seasonal food & drink courses

Well the Summer is fast becoming a distant memory (did it actually happen at all?!)

Hartingtons is already embracing the new season of Autumn with a whole range of unique seasonal food and drink courses.  How about learning to make artisan cider with Ray Blockley an award winning cider maker from Nottinghamshire.  Ray will show you have to make a great use from all those lovely apples that are growing on your fruit trees and are getting ready to be picked.

What about learning to make a real English classic for Christmas.  The pork pie course taken by Jacqui Marsden who comes from a family of pork pie makers and is a acclaimed maker of her own pork pie will show you all the tricks of the trade and how to customise your pies to create your own 'classic'.

After selling out on there Tuscan Autumnal Feast we can announce that Nonnas and Hartingtons are pursing their 'Passion for Pasta'.  Learn how to make three fantastic fresh pastas along with the perfect authentic pasta sauce.

If you like eating gourmet food as well as creating it yourself how about the forthcoming Alternative Christmas Gourmet Feast?  This event which will be the culmination of our journey of experiencing gourmet food and drink.  Not a slice of turkey or nut roast in sight!  Just ground breaking exquisite gourmet food & wine carefully selected to fire up your taste buds!

We can't reassure you on what the weather will be up to this Autumn but one thing you can guarantee is that you will be taught by an expert and each of the seasonal artisan food & drink courses will be led by inspirational tutors.

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Wild Food & Foraging Coming to Hartingtons

We are so looking forward to the first Wild Food and Foraging Course by world renowned food forager Chris Bax. Chris is unusual in that he is also an accomplished chef. As well as his interest in the natural world and flora Chris looks to use his foraged food to add and enhance peoples everyday cooking. After a 3-4 hour forage in the glorious Peak District on the edge of Bakewell Chris will come back to Hartingtons School of Food and demonstrate how to make:

"Goats cheese, sweet cicely and pickled blackberry toast,  Pressed lamb shoulder with ground ivy and wild herb choux potato dumplings,  elder rob mousse crumble as well as a Hedge Jelly preserve to take home.

I for one can't wait.

For more details of the Foraging Course as well as many other innovative and exciting food based courses please check out our website.

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Award winning chef joins team of over 20 experts

Robert Stordy, multi award winning chef, is the latest expert tutor to join the team at Hartingtons School of Food in Bakewell, Derbyshire. Robert will be cooking up a French Autumn Feast for the second of the acclaimed Gourmet Supper Club, with people travelling from all over the country to attend this evening of exquisite food and wines.

Chris Horne, co-owner of Hartingtons School of Food, comments: "We are so pleased to have Robert working with us at Hartingons. Robert, a classically trained chef & expert on fine dining, will also be delivering a course on Canapes leading up to Christmas, which will be ideal for those looking at entertaining over the Festive Season".

A team of experts

Robert joins the team of over 20 artisan food and cookery experts delivering courses at Hartingtons School of Food in Bakewell.  Chris Horne of Hartingtons explains: "When Julie and I set up Hartingtons our vision was always to get in the leading experts in each of the areas we run courses.  We simply don't believe that one "in house" chef can be an expert in all areas of cooking and artisan food production. We are so delighted that we have been able to work with some of the leading food experts in their chosen area. This probably helps to explain why people are now travelling to us from all over the country to take part in our artisan food and cookery courses. We even had one couple fly over from Dublin to learn how to make an artisan pork pie!"

Hartingtons has been delivering artisan food and cookery courses since January and is rapidly gaining a national profile for the quality of its artisan food courses and cookery courses.  For more details visit www.hartingtons.com.

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The Gourmet Supper Club - are you in the know?

Hartingtons held its first ever Gourmet Supper Club (GSC) in our converted saw mill in Bakewell on Friday. For those NOT in the know there seemed nothing special about the dimmed lights and flamenco beats coming from the first floor of the historic Rutland Mill on the banks of the River Wye but for a small group of enthusiastic foodies who were in the know....what a way to start the weekend! Fantastic food, sumptuous wine & inspiring company all in a beautiful setting. As our Facebook page shows our School of Food could have almost be mistaken for a little part of Catalonia just for the evening.

Authentic tapas were provided by El Toro courtesy of their Spanish Chef Eddie Morales and each of the fantastic six food courses were carefully matched with a scintillating wine selected especially by John Hattersely Wines to provide the perfect accompaniment to each dish.

For those that have missed out on the first Gourmet Supper Club our next one is on the theme of a French Autumn Feast and will take place on the 26th October.  The food will be created by multi-award winning chef Robert Stordy who will also demo how he created several of the dishes.  Again a tutored wine tasting, this time of French wines. will take place.  Places are limited so please if you do read this blog keep it to yourself - it's our little secret!

For more details email:  gsc@hartingtons.com