http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog Keep up todate with our courses, jobs and adventures Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:15:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The George Foreman grill is the ultimate cooking companion for those protein packed meals needed by all athletes, including skiers. The meat cooks quickly and remains juicy in addition to having fantastic grilled flavour and those pleasing grill marks we all love. Following are three fantastic recipes to try on ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/three-grill-recipes-for-skiing-strength/ After writing about our top five favourite puddings the temptation to revisit them was too much, so today we made Emma’s Classic Plum Humble Crumble. Here is Emma's recipe: Ingredients A bunch of fresh plums A splosh of sherry 175 grams of plain flour 50 grams rolled oats 110 grams butter 110 grams soft brown sugar Loads of thick ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/plum-humble-crumble/ One of our favourite topics, if not our all time favourite topic, is puddings. Recently we have been pondering about what are our all time favourite desserts and whether the old classics really are the best? The question we asked ourselves is: What are our top five favourite desserts? As you can ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/pudding-special/ Christmas day has passed and Boxing Day is upon us with the eating of the leftovers from the Christmas lunch.  For all our graduates from the cookery course this autumn, they will have survived their first and possibly last Christmas dinner in their chalets.  For all of them it was a ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/happy-christmas-or-barr-humbug/ It’s been a while since I last updated our blog and ohh we have been busy at the Alpine Cookery Course.  We ran a really successful course in late September with 8 eager participants all joining us in Chamonix to get the low-down on chalet cooking and working a ski ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/eating-for-a-living/   Rhiannon on her way down the Belleveder Cable Over the last couple of days we have had colder and rainy weather in Chamonix and snow down to around 2500m, with about a meter of fresh fallen on top of some earlier snow from the week before reports were that it might ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/august-skiing-in-chamonix/ Even though it’s high summer, with some colder rainy weather in Chamonix this week I quite fancied a nice roast dinner one night, so here’s my recipe for roast pork and all the trimmings. Roast Loin of Pork with Roast Potatoes and Apricot and Hazelnut Stuffing. Stuffing serves 2 100g of bread to ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/roasted-loin-of-pork-and-all-the-trimmings/ [caption id="attachment_164" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="A veiw that is hard to beat?"][/caption] Summer is finally here both in the UK and the Alps, Wimbledon is marching towards the finals this weekend and I won’t even mention the football! Out in Chamonix the sun is blazing and the afternoon thunderstorms are in full swing.  ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/a-summer-of-fun-in-the-alps/ [caption id="attachment_149" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Carrot Cake "][/caption] Oh, the dilemmas of chalet baking. Is it cake, cookies, brownies, biscuits, butter icing, water icing, cream cheese frosting…….the list is endless and your time is not. A very important birthday called for me to make a cake so, I went out and purchased a ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/carrotcake/ Recruitment for the 2010/11 winter season has started in ernest now and all our course participants are applying for jobs and asking questions on how to write the best 6 day menu plan to go with their job applications.   Anyone applying for a job as a chalet chef, host or assistant ... http://www.thealpinecookerycourse.com/blog/menu-planning-for-you-job-application/