EASY SUMMER - weekend course - May 21-24

    WHAT THE WEEKEND IS ABOUT...
     
    This course celebrates all that is good about an early French summer! Think peaches and sunshine and cool fruity wine... Think baby artichokes and wild rocket, asparagus and cherries... Think effortless summer cooking...
     
    As with all the courses, teaching is based on the 'intuitive cooking' principle in which you learn to match complementary flavours to make dishes that hum with flavour and burst with originality.
     
    Excursions may include visits to an olive press, different wine-makers, an organic bee-keeper, an award-winning goatscheese farm and an artisan baker. We can even head to the sea to watch fleur de sel being harvested, and combine it with a visit to the immense wineries of l'Hospitalet. (Excursions are flexible and changeable wherever possible... provided all guests concur).

    The course is limited to 6 people. It is informal and fun (and hands-on for those who would like this).
     
    And since we normally experience 325 sunny days in the year, I dare promise you sunshine! Can you think of a more pleasant way to learn making fabulous food that can be adapted again and again to suit all seasons and all moods?
     
    WHAT THE WEEKEND INCLUDES...

    • 3 nights accommodation in tasteful surroundings
    • all meals and all wine - both at home and in restaurants
    • all transport to and from the airport and all excursions
    • all demonstrations and tutored winetastings
       
    WHAT THE WEEK COSTS... - 590 euros - ALL INCLUSIVE (except flights)

    ITINERARY
     
    day 1 friday - pick-up from the airport and straight onto a restaurant in the medieval CITE of Carcassonne for lunch. On the way home we'll visit passionate winemaker Roland Coustal of Terres Georges and the Oulibou olive press (both for guided tastings) then home to settle in. There will be a cookery demonstration before dinner.
     
    day 2 saturday - after breakfast, a morning visit to Narbonne's famous food market. There is time for a stroll to the Cathedral and a few shops before a leisurely lunch in a city centre restaurant. Return home to relax a little - perhaps a walk along the Canal du Midi behind the house (or a swim in the river for the hardy!) - followed by another cookery session using the market produce, then dinner at home.

    day 3 sunday - a leisurely breakfast is followed by a visit to a unique beekeeper where we learn all about bees and taste 8-10 utterly different honeys. Then it is off for a picnic beside the river Orb in the company of wine expert Jacinta Delahaye who will give us a tutored wine tasting. There might be time for an aperitif on the Canal du Midi behind the house after which we will have another cookery demonstration before our final dinner at home.
     
    day 4 monday - a lazy breakfast (with time for another stroll exploring the village or the local vineyards) then we leave for the airport around 11.30. Packed lunches are provided.
     
    Guests will take home a pack with all the information covered during the week.
     

     
    For more information, please contact info@petracarter.com