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• Christina Pfeiffer
• escape
• April 14, 2012

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Top Mother’s Day present trips

• Christina Pfeiffer
• escape
• April 14, 2012 7:00PM

Treat your mother to a Sticky Rice Cooking School Experience

FROM spas to cooking classes, food and wine tours to wildlife experiences, spend time with Mum and show her that she’s appreciated on Mother’s Day this year.

1 Cook An Exotic Meal in the Adelaide Hills

The Sticky Rice Cooking School in South Australia has two cooking classes on Mother’s Day Stars of Siam and Middle Eastern Mezze. Learning to prepare an exotic meal will get Mum’s creative juices flowing and eating what you’ve both created together is as much fun as cooking it. Gift Vouchers are also a most popular choice and are valid for a full 12 months from purchase. Details here …

The school’s Thai, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, Japanese and Moorish Moroccan cooking classes are taught by chefs including Kurma Dasa and Katrina Ryan.

Classes cost $145.

Ph (08) 8339 1314 or see stickyricecookingschool.com.au

This is a hands-on class and the kids will learn a broad range of skills needed to produce this challenging menu. The children will enjoy their results at a sit down lunch while we do the washing up for them!

Details of the menu can be viewed at this link and remember there are 3 classes running over the 2 dates.

Class time 10am-1pm or 3pm-6pm.  All equipment, ingredients, tuition and lunch is included.

G’day food and wine lovers of SA!

Channel 7 are now casting for the 4^th Series of My Kitchen RulesJ

We are looking for passionate home cooks  to proudly represent South Australia.

Embrace this once in a life time opportunity to travel around Australia and taste amazing local produce!

Get your applications in quick!

I would love to hear from you if you would like to talk more about this! Please contact me on (02) 9877 7287 or 0459 990 747

Warmest regards,

The Sticky Rice Cooking School is a multi award winning business offering

activity based team building events and corporate entertaining packages.

Hands on interactive cooking classes, Chef led food and wine master classes, vineyard and cooking class adventures and corporate dining experiences are offered in a range of cuisines.

Our state of the art designer premises and facilities are located in the Adelaide Hills.

Recent testimonials

Thank you again for a terrific day yesterday. We really had the best time. The team are all wanting to come back for next quarter team day. (Homestart Finance)

This is a note of appreciation for the class you ran for us on Monday night. Yukiko was a fantastic chef, taking all of us Vintrepreneurs on the journey to create some beautiful Thai dishes. The next day we had many conversations about how well organised and fun the night was. Thanks for your time and efforts in making it a memorable evening. (Treasury Wine Estates)

I just wanted to say that we all had a wonderful time – the team really enjoyed all the items and challenges that were presented to them, and the interactive entrée and main meal time was just perfect. All feedback from each person has been extremely positive and glowing. No one had been there before – and I’m sure that you’ll see some repeat business from their experiences. (OBS)

I wanted to send you a quick email to say thank you to you, Genevieve and the rest of your fabulous team for our cooking class last night. Everyone had a such a good night and I think it surpassed everyone’s expectations! The staff room is full of talk this morning about the dishes created last night and how much fun it was. The feedback I’ve been getting has been excellent and so I had to pass it on. The venue, the preparation, your team’s enthusiasm and efficiency and the freshness of the ingredients all blended to make it a wonderful night which was really enjoyed by everyone. I, and all of the team, will definitely be recommending you and the Sticky Rice Cooking School and hopefully we’ll be able to come up to try our hand at another cuisine! (Deloitte Private Pty Ltd)

For information and enquries please email admin@stickyricecookingschool.com.au or tel 08 8339 1314

While music, art and fashion are a drawcard for wider interests served up with plenty of creativity in many cellar doors alongside the region’s stylish whites the food served beside the region’s refreshing whites also is becoming increasingly exotic.

Burgers, barbecues and the Mediterranean flavours remain popular, and now one of the Hills’ top gastronomic destinations is having more influence on regional tastes too.

Stirling’s Sticky Rice Cooking School, which specialises in offering ethnic cuisine cooking classes, is hosting one of the Crush Festival’s several special events, a double-header of professional chef cooking tutorials and banquet on Saturday, January 28, each with separate Middle Eastern and Thai-Vietnamese themes.

Sticky Rice chef Yukiko Anschutz, formerly of Hyatt’s Shiki restaurant, will guide the Asian session, which is matched with wine partner Lobethal Road, among more than 40 wineries opening their doors for the main Crush festival program the next day. Read More at  Adelaidenow.com.au...

Our special Crush events are as follows:

Saturday 28^th January-CRUSH 2012 at Sticky Rice Cooking School- a choice of outdoor cooking classes under the Bali Hut with wine tasting with Lobethal Rd Winery.

Middle Eastern Feast 9am-1pm- Lunch Class. Bookings essential. Browse menu and Book Online

Thai and Vietnamese Banquet 4pm-8pm- Dinner Class. Bookings essential. Browse menu and Book Online

Sunday -CRUSH 2012 at Lobethal Road -Phone 08 8389 4595 or click here for further details. 11am – 5pm- No Bookings required

ART. FOOD. WINE. MUSIC.
Join us for a day of inspiring art, fine wine, great food and toe-tapping music at the Cellar Door.

ART. Watch internationally acclaimed sculptor Silvio Apponyi at work. Observe, interact, be inspired. Silvio is also the Artistic Director for the 2012 International Sculpture Symposium, which will be held in the Adelaide Hills during April. We are thrilled that he is joining us for Crush plus it’s a great opportunity to preview what’s to come later in the year.
FOOD. Enjoy a delicious Asian-inspired menu created by Ali Seedsman and the Sticky Rice Cooking School. Grilled Vietnamese beef or Malaysian chicken, fresh carrot and beetroot salad, jasmine rice. Strawberry, meringue and rosewater delight.
WINE. Wines by the glass. Lobethal Bierhaus handcrafted beers.
MUSIC. Nikko and Snooks. If country, blues, soul and swamp pop are your bag then don’t miss these highly respected musicians.

Hope to see you there!

The Sticky Rice Cooking School Team

16 December 2011

Four South Australian tourism developments, worth a total of $2.4 million, will go ahead with the help of State Government grants.

The developments include adding luxury eco villas to an Adelaide Hills cooking school, creating a
world-class restaurant in a Barossa winery, and redeveloping a railway station to benefit an iconic
Flinders Ranges train.

Tourism Minister Gail Gago says the four $50,000 grants are part of the Government’s ongoing investment through the South Australian Tourism Commission’s (SATC) Tourism Development Fund.

The fund assists tourism operators across the state who are building new and innovative tourism
accommodation, attractions and tours, as well as revitalising and updating existing tourism ventures.

“Tourism, directly and indirectly, employs more than 53,000 South Australians, including many in regional areas, and tourism is often an economic lifeline for our state’s regional economies,” the Minister said.

Among the grant recipients is award-winning Sticky Rice Cooking School, which will be constructing two new Asian-themed luxury eco villas, increasing the availability of high-end accommodation in the Adelaide Hills, and creating a full food and wine holiday experience to encourage visitors to stay
longer in the region.

Grant recipient Claire Fuller, who owns Sticky Rice Cooking School, says she and her team have
been working closely with the SATC to promote food and wine tourism in the Adelaide Hills and South Australia for several years now.

“The new villas are part of our big picture plan,” Ms Fuller said.

“We are delighted the SATC shares our vision and will be helping us to attract more people to our cooking classes.

“This will also give people the opportunity to stay in the region and experience all the attractions of the Adelaide Hills.”

To read the full article at the Tourism Sa website click here.

I love watching people cook.

People always do things differently to me, in ways I had never considered. So I always learn about something new – a new ingredient, a new technique, a new cooking style – and it sends me straight back to my kitchen feeling inspired and energised.

So I was delighted to take part in the Thai Seafood Banquet class at Sticky Rice Cooking School a couple of weekends ago.

Sticky Rice Cooking School is run by Claire Fuller, who decided there was a place for a cooking school that offered more than a celebrity chef demonstration without the formality of a professional cooking course. Her school offers people a chance to really get their hands dirty, to learn about the culture as well as the food, to leave knowing where to buy the ingredients used (and which brands are recommended) and exactly how to cook the featured dishes at home.

Chefs at the school include David Thompson (ex Darley Street Thai, author), Katrina Ryan (ex Rockpool), Kurma Dasa (Australia’s vegetarian guru, author), Kelly Lord (Spirit House), Genevieve Harris (ex Nediz), Ali Seedsman (ex Magill Estate and Universal Wine Bar), Jordon Theodoros (Aquacaf), Brian Smith and Allie Reynolds.

Classes are typically four hours long and usually showcase a type of cuisine  - Asian or Middle Eastern – or a particular country’s cuisine. So classes are offered in  Thai, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Laos, Cambodian, Malaysian, Japanese, Indonesian Indian, Moroccan and Lebanese food.

I’d chosen the Thai Seafood Banquet class as I was keen to learn more about Thai ingredients and cooking techniques. I adore Thai food – we actually honeymooned in Koh Samui – and I cook Thai seafood salads and curries (usually from pastes) at home a lot during Summer. So I was curious to see if my take on Thai food was close to authentic.

The class was taught by Chef Yukiko Anschutz (ex Shiki at The Hyatt), who was encouraging and informative. At the beginning of each session she took us step by step through the recipe, explaining how the individual ingredients should be prepared. Here she is below teaching us one of her useful tips - use a teaspoon to peel ginger rather than a knife or peeler as they remove too much of the ginger with the skin.

Read the full article at the Hungry Australian

Sticky Rice Gift Voucher

Christmas means it’s that time again when you can treat your family and friends to an unforgettable experience at the Award Winning Sticky Rice Cooking School. We will post your voucher to you same or next business day and include our 8 page full colour newsletter with details of the upcoming classes and special events calendar plus news from our Chefs and the school.

If you woudl like to sign up for an email copy of the latest newsletter from Jan- June 2012 you can leave youe email address at this link.

Merry Christmas from all of us.