Description
The Fire and Feast course is the art of making good meals over a campfire out in the woods. Much of what is cooked up is done with few if any utensils, with the aim of encouraging resourcefulness and less reliance on modern gadgetry. So whilst we won’t be using unnecessary gadgets, we will be using one of my favourite pots for cooking; a Dutch Oven (more on this later).
So what can you expect from a day of cookery? Well you can expect to be baking, steaming, roasting and of course cooking on and over a campfire. We will also be covering tool use; knives and saws and showing you how to make useful items for cooking.
We will start our day with some foraging, gathering a few items to add flavour to our cooking and firewood to keep our fire going throughout the day (don’t worry we will have a stack of logs already prepared too – but they’ll still be opportunities to cut some more firewood).
For courses run in the Spring, foraging will include gathering wild garlic, we have an abundance in the woodland and we will experiment with different methods for using this wonderful plant. When in season we will also be preparing and cooking game and if not game, we will be preparing cooking fish. There will always be a variety of foods being cooked, providing opportunities for learning different cooking techniques.
An amazing experience cooking and learning out in nature. Would highly recommend David to anyone, he was very knowledgeable and accommodating to our extra needs. I look forward to more opportunities to learn in the future.
We will be baking some fresh bread and bannock too, two very different ways of baking bread – one that takes a little time and more preparation, but is better for all the work and the other that is rapid and delivers a tasty and filling staple to go with almost any meal.
