Cooking Tips

The Great British Bake Off top tips: Cake week

05.08.2015

The BBC programmers have excelled themselves this week, delighting foodies everywhere with the launch of series six of the Great ...

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Top tips for the perfect BBQ

21.05.2015

The weather is warming up, we’ve switched our winter boots for flip flops and we’ve dusted off the grill – it can ...

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Top tips for preparing & cooking mussels | Alex Clark

04.03.2015

This month it’s our annual Beer & Mussel Festival at The Cornish Arms in St. Merryn on 21st & 22nd March. We asked Alex ...

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Pancakes with Mark Puckey

06.02.2015

Pancake Day falls on the 17th February this year. For those that are confident in the kitchen, you will be revelling in the chance to ...

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Happy Pancake Day!

05.02.2015

Undecided what to put on your pancakes this Pancake Day? We asked our head chefs what they’ll be enjoying for some inspiration! ...

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Valentine’s Day tips from the kitchen

04.02.2015

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so we thought we would ask Nick Evans from St. Petroc’s Bistro and Mark O’ Hagan ...

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Five tips for fish filleting from Nick Evans

30.12.2014

One of the most popular questions asked at our cookery school and when our chefs perform demonstrations of their dishes is ‘how ...

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Christmas cooking tips from Alex Clark

15.12.2014

Enjoy some more top Christmas tips- these are from our head chef of The Cornish Arms in St. Merryn, to help give your Christmas dinner ...

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Mark Puckey’s guide to kitchen knives part II

15.11.2014

Recently, Mark Puckey gave us some tips on how to source the perfect knife. In the second part of his featured blog post, he gives us ...

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