Recipes & kitchen notes

A decade of recipes from the school on Gloucester Road: the chilli con carne people drive across Bristol for, Spanish home cooking, breads and bakes, and the things our youngest cooks make on Saturdays. Every one of them gets taught, in some form, in a class downstairs.

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The Best Chilli Con Carne EVER

March 2017

The best Chilli con Carne EVER! I went to Mexico in February and my friend’s mum made this chilli con carne, which it is easily the BEST I have ever…

Pinchos Morunos Recipe

July 2019

Pinchos Morunos This is possibly my favourite way of eating meat. These are so tender that they do melt in your mouth. Enjoyed in bars all over Spain…

NO BAKE MALTESERS CAKE

February 2017

No bake maltesers cake I think that this recipe would suit a lot of children, as long as the space is quite large! And I think that they will have a great…

Self Saucing Hot Chocolate Fudge cake

February 2016

Self saucing Hot Fudge Cake This cake magically makes its own rich, thick chocolate fudge sauce while it bakes. Serve it with a big scoop of vanilla ice…

Easy cheese garlic dough balls

February 2017

Easy cheesy garlic dough balls INGREDIENTS 300ml warm water 25ml warm whole milk 1 ½ tsp caster sugar 7g easy bake yeast 400g plain 100g semolina ½ tsp…

Spanish CHURROS

January 2016

A churro is a fried-dough pastry—predominantly choux—based snack. Churros are very popular in Spain, churros can either be thin (and sometimes knotted) or…

Rye Sourdough bread

May 2020

This recipe produces a rich, dark loaf that is packed with flavour. As it contains only rye flour, it won't rise like a wheat loaf, and its dense…

Easy steps to make a sourdough starter from scratch

April 2020

Easy Steps To Making A Sourdough Starter From Scratch How does one begin the journey of making naturally leavened bread? It starts with, well, making an…