Carsington Water Food Festival - Christmas Bonanza

For foodies and lovers of Carsington Water just outside Derby.  There is a double whammy this Sunday when Carsington Water hosts the Hartingtons' Carsington Water Christmas Food Festival in it's historic courtyard.  Come along and be treated to a selection of artisan food producers along with a Christmas choir all helping foodies to get in the Christmas spirit.  Talking of which mulled wine will be available to keep out the winter chill.

Carsington Water Food Festivals

Learn To Master Indian Spices & Flavours

This is a hands on cookery course for people that love Indian spices and flavours but don't quite understand how to create the authentic taste at home without resorting to the ubiquitous supermarket curry paste.

Join personal chef Frank Boddy for a tour of Indian flavours from Indian street food to authentic indian deserts. Despite Frank's lack of Indian heritage his passion for Indian cookery and flavours is obvious and his recipes amongst the best we've tasted.  Frank relaxed informal style will make this course suitable for novice inexperienced cooks to keen home cooks looking to get more out of cooking with authentic indian herbs and spices.

On the day you will make the following dishes :

Egg Curry [Baida Curry]
Cheese, Tomato and Pepper Curry [Paneer Jalfrezi]
Calcutta Prawn Curry [Kolkata Chingri Curry]
Minced Lamb Patties [Kheema Tikki]
Manuka Tamater Ki Chutney (Raisin and Tomato Chutney) & 
Nashpati Chutney (Pear Chutney)

Indian Cookery Course

Foodie Tour of the Peak District

Hartingtons Foodie Tour of Bakewell Farmers Market and Bakewell will give keen foodies unique insights into the artisan food producers and food heritage of the Peak District.

The foodie tour is to be led by Julie Ryalls and Chris Horne owners of Hartingtons School of Food in Bakewell and the team behind, Baslow Food Fair and Carsington Waters growing Food Festivals.

The foodie tour will enable food lovers to meet some of the fantastic food producers in the Peak District and obtain unrivalled insights to their back stories, products and how they produce their artisan food products.

In addition, to the free tasters along the route the foodie tour will provide an unrivalled 3 course gourmet ploughmans lunch featuring many of the products that you will see on the day.

This foodie tour would make a great foodie gift and places are strictly limited.

Foodie Tour Peak District

Cookery courses - to inspire!

Our cookery courses are there to inspire you to experiment and learn new cookery techniques.  We always use an expert tutor so that you have the experience of being taught by an expert every time.  From learning to cook authentic Thai Food with Thai tutor Kwang to season regional Italian food with Sheffield institution Nonnas. 

What about learning the skills to create stunning dishes with Game with celebrity chef Rachel Green?  Rachel will show you how to combine modern and traditional flavours with a whole range of Game to create stunning dinner party recipes.

Indian flavours are amongst the most inspiring of any food.  Let Frank Boddy demystify how you use the range of Indian spices to create a range of regional Indian dishes from scratch.

Foraging & wild food throws up some magical ingredients.  Chris Bax will show you how to use natures finest food to enhance your cookery.

So let's get cooking!

3 day microbrewery course for 2014

Following on from the demand for our 2 day setting up a microbrewery course we have decided to give aspirant microbrewery owners an extra day in 2014 and the option of taking an additional day visiting the Barn Brewery operated by Peak Ales.  For those people serious about setting up their own microbrewery in 2014 this 3 day setting up a microbrewery course will give give you the essential knowledge base for making your beer brewing dream happen next year.

Course microbrewery

Foraging courses & wild food cookery

Food foraging courses can be a mixed bag.  Some foraging courses can be as much about a Ray Mears survivalism showing you what you can eat and survive.  Hartingtons food foraging courses are more about being able to locate and harvest foraged foods that are going to enhance your food and drink.  Led by Chris Bax an expert forager and chef from Taste the Wild the foraging courses are all about how to enhance your cookery with wild ingredients.

We now have a range of foraging courses:

1. How about foraging for food along the beautiful Monsal Trail in Bakewell in the Peak District followed by a demonstration by Chris Bax on how to cook up a wild food menu using some of the food foraged on the day.
2. For those people who want to learn how to cook with foraged food how about a full day hands on wild food cookery masterclass.
3. Wild food can be used to create some wonderful drinks and alcohol beverages.  How about elderflower champagne and wild spiced mulled wine along with a wild mint and cumin cooler for starters?

Come along and find out how to enhance your food and drink with foraged foods.  It's tasty, healthy and naturally free.

Food foraging courses

Brew School is born!

Hartingtons Brew School is one of the countries leading locations for learning to brew beer. With a panel of expert beer brewing experts including Paul Taylor, Head of the Lab at Murphy & Son in Nottingham and Alex Barlow of Sheffield's All Beer being amongst their roster of sort after expert tutors.

All courses take place in Hartingtons converted Mill in the picturesque Peak District town of Bakewell and brewing enthusiasts can learn all the skills from kitchen sink home brewing to how to match beers with food to going to the next step and setting up their own commercial microbrewery. 

To celebrate Hartingtons Brew School's position in brewing education; Hartingtons can reveal their new Brew School logo.  Going to School has never been so much fun and the great thing about Brew School is that drinking on the premises is not only allowed…it's positively encouraged!

Beer Brewing Courses