Thomasina Miers

Thomasina 'Tommi' Miers OBE won the inaugural BBC MasterChef before working at Michelin-starred Petersham Nurseries Café and going on to co-found Wahaca. She has written seven cookbooks, writes a longstanding column in The Guardian on seasonal cooking, and is an ambassador for the Soil Association and trustee of Chefs in Schools — recognised with an OBE in 2019 for services to food.

Chef, writer, restaurateur. Wahaca founder, Chefs in Schools trustee, Soil Association ambassador.

Course

The Building Blocks of Flavour

Award-winning chef and restaurateur Thomasina Miers shares her passion for a seasonal and simple approach to cooking in her first-ever online course. Watch over 5 hours of video lessons where Thomasina will teach you how to eat the seasons, provide practical tips, tricks and hacks for managing a kitchen - from basic culinary building blocks to planning a menu - and show you how to take the stress out of, and add the joy into, cooking for a crowd. All while wasting less, eating better and drinking a few killer cocktails along the way.

36 Lessons

Included with membership

Lesson plan — 36 lessons

01 Introduction

01 Meet Thomasina Miers
02 Thomasina's approach: food for now

02 Tool Kit Recipes

03 Chilli oil
04 Herb oil, spiced nuts, pink pickled onion and salad dressing
05 Sexy sauces - roast carrot hummus
06 Sexy sauces - anchovy mayo

03 Eating the seasons

07 Eating the seasons - upside down cake
08 Eating the seasons - roast squash and radicchio, with white mole and chimichurri
09 Thomasina’s essential kitchen kit
10 Griddled leeks with romesco and toasted hazelnuts

04 Starters

11 Spiced apple and pear chutney
12 Sticky, smoky lime and tamarind relish
13 Rosemary, sea salt and pumpkin seed soda bread
14 The ultimate club sandwich with chipotle mayo
15 Deliciously smooth chicken liver pate with pasilla relish

05 Quick, simple and delicious

16 Killer salads
17 Sweet roast red onion with lentils, watercress and blue cheese
18 Classic chicken stock
19 Asian chicken broth

06 Showstoppers

20 Marinades and meat
21 Festive slow-cooked beef shin in a guinness and ancho sauce - part 1
22 Festive slow-cooked beef shin in a guinness and ancho sauce - part 2
23 Baked mushroom, spinach & oloroso conchiglie
24 Hibiscus & pear trifle
25 Mexican green brunch eggs

07 Puddings and cocktails

26 Pomegranate granita
27 Chocolate and tequila mousse pots with armagnac prunes
28 Orange, lime and sauternes syllabub
29 Sloe ginger margarita
30 Smoky pineapple sour
31 Orange and passion fruit cocktail jellies

08 The joy of sourcing good ingredients

32 Nettlebed Creamery
33 Layla’s Bakery
34 Brooks Butchers
35 Thomasina’s local market

09 Summary

36 Closing thoughts

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