The Wildside Kitchen
Upcoming Cooking Classes
The Wildside Kitchen offer guests a wide range of cooking school classes. From catching and cooking your own trout, to investigating the local bee population, to making your own cheese, our classes give you a unique opportunity to learn cooking skills from our local chefs and cooking tutors.
Booking a class is simple, just get your group together, decide what date you would like to do your course, then call reception on (03) 6289 0111 and we will organise your event for you.
The Tarraleah Estate offers a range of discounted accommodation packages to all our class participants for guests wanting to stay overnight.
Browse through our current selection of cooking classes at Tarraleah. If you have a suggestion for a cooking class we are always happy to help.
Make your own Blue Cheese with Grandvewe Cheesery
Cost per person : $160
Minimum people : 8
Inclusions: course, lunch (with samplings of Grandvewe’s cheeses), guided village tour (optional 3 course dinner with wine/beer - $60 per person additional)
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Make your own cheese at home It's easier than you think. Learn easy techniques for mastering world class cheese in your own home. Enjoy a coffee and chat in the morning while Diane gives you an introduction into cheesemaking procedures and processes. Start making your very own bl..
Chocolate Indulgence - Rich, Dark and Tempting
Cost per person : $120
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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Chocolate for Lovers! Learn to make your own delicious chocolates. There is only one thing nicer than eating chocolate…. making them yourself! For the ultimate control freak, this chocolate-making workshop will teach you how to make sensuous, silky, hand-made chocolates in a beautiful wil..
Beer & BBQ - The Mans Domain
Cost per person : $120
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning Tea. BBQ cooking session, Lunch and beer sampling, sample recipes and expanding basics cooking session. Complimentary guided walk and evening BBQ and Beer at the Highlander Arms hotel
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The perfect present, send Dad and his mates to learn how to really host a Barbie and at same time learn about beer and sample some of the various local varieties. Of course there is lots of tasting of both beer and bbq cuisine throughout the course. We will be looking at the history of beer ..
Soup - from the Bones up
Cost per person : $80
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning and afternoon tea. Cooking sessions in the morning and afternoon. Lunch Inbetween cooking sessions.
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The Ultimate comfort food, soup has been served since man invented fire… and pots. For the apex of culinary achievement, you really need look no further than a top-notch soup. On a cold winter's day, soup lifts the spirits, and warms our bodies. It soothes us when we're sick and keeps us ..
Sausage Making
Cost per person : $100
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Coffee and tea on arrival, Sausage making cooking session, lunch at teez Cafe, sample recipes and hands on sausage making session, complimentary guided walk and dinner.
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Our Highlander Arms chef has a passion for sausages and making up interesting flavor combinations. Sausages are a fantastic way to enjoy meat and, once you know how easy they are to make, the sky is the limit as to what you put into them. Learn what equipment you’ll need, how to source and..
Cool Climate Wines in Tarraleah! Now that’s Cool!
Cost per person : $55
Minimum people : 5
Inclusions: 6 Wines, cheese, fruit plate &chocolate platter, tea & coffee, village history tour, guided walk to Tarraleah Falls, discount on wine if dining in the HIghlander Arms
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Sit back and relax for a full afternoon of amazing highland scenery, informative wine sampling, and good company! If you like to indulge in wine and great food, then this is for you. Relax and enjoy an afternoon of pampering as you sample your way through Observatory Hill’s range of..
Boutique Beer Making
Cost per person : $120
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning and afternoon teas, lunch, all ingredients. Plus you get to take home 20 litres of unfermented beer that you made during the course!
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Ever wanted to make your own boutique beers? Join Todd, our professional home brewer, at the Wildside Kitchen and learn the art of making your own beer. Todd will share his secrets with you and you can enjoy a boutique beer tasting PLUS you get to find out how to brew your very own beer from scr..
Ricotta, Ravioli, Cannoli and Jazz
Cost per person : $120.00
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Tutor, morning and afternoon tea, lunch, guided walk, dinner, pre dinner drinks, jazz and printed recipes.
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Join us for a day of traditional Sicilian cooking in the Wildside Kitchen. Learn how to make your own Ricotta and find out ways to use your fresh ricotta in savoury and sweet dishes. In the afternoon learn how to make your own Cannoli shells and fill them with Crema di Ricotta and Crema Pasticc..
Traditional Sicilian Christmas Pastries and Jazz
Cost per person : $160
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Tutor, morning and afternoon tea, lunch, guided walk, dinner, pre dinner drinks, jazz, breakfast and printed recipes.
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Join us for a day of traditional Sicilian Christmas baking in the Wildside Kitchen. Learn how to make Cuccidati, and Vopi, traditional Sicilian biscuits using almonds, figs and pastry. In the afternoon learn how to make Biscotti, and Italian Panneforte. These biscuits make lovely gifts for Chr..
Tasmanian Wine Tasting & Degustation Dinner – A Cool Climate Love Affair!
Cost per person : $150
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Tutor, all tasting wines, guided walk, degustation dinner
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Led by Christine Richardson from Observatory Hill Vineyard you will participate in an afternoon and evening of tasting wines from the different wine regions of Tasmania. You will get to taste and evaluate these finely structured, cool climate wine varieties while enjoying the beautiful Tarraleah..
Buns in the Oven – Breadmaking, Sourdough & Sweet Buns
Cost per person : $80
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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At its simplest, bread is made up of flour, water, salt and yeast. Sounds simple! Join Christina for a day of hands on bread making in the beautiful Wildside Kitchen. Christina will teach you all you need to know to make hot steaming home made bread for family and friends. The mysterious Sourdo..
Cooking with Fish
Cost per person : $80
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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We are really spoilt for choice here in Tasmania fresh fish both fresh water and seafood. Fish is one of the easiest foods to cook. Its also one most easy to dishes to unintentionally spoil so we teach you all the tricks of the trade to ensure all the flavours are retained. Given our loc..
Decadent Desserts – Sweets for the Sweet
Cost per person : $80
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Tutor, morning and afternoon tea, lunch and printed recipes, take home samples. Complimentary 1 hour guided village walk prior to course commencement for guests staying Friday night
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Sumptuous Sticky and Brazen Desserts. Sinful, indulgent, and calories with no shame. Not sweet enough already? Need a little more sugar? For the unashamedly luscious “sweeties” of the world you’ll love our dessert cooking class! Forget the main course. Who’s for dessert? ..
Flamenco and Paella
Cost per person : $110
Minimum people : 8
Inclusions: Morning Tea, Catalan/Spanish food cooking workshop, lunch, Flamenco workshop and evening concert with Paul Gerard.
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Learn the secret of Catalan /Spanish food and its distinctive style of cooking that relates to the Mediterranean Sea. Spend some time in our Flamenco workshop with Paul Gerard learning the finer points of how to distinguish a Solero from a Tango. Then head back into the kitchen to be taught the ..
Food and Seduction at Tarraleah
Cost per person :
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Seductive cooking and tasting sessions with Christina
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The Food of Love They say the best way to the heart is through the stomach. It's about food and romance, and the premise that everyone should master one seductive dish to enchant and captivate that special someone in their life. In our sessions we will spend some time exploring the myths and..
French Pastries - Croissants and Choux
Cost per person :
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, French pastry session in the Wildside Kitchen.
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Do you wish to learn the art of French cooking in a fun, relaxed atmosphere ? Pastry recipes are an important part of French cuisine. A fine French meal is never complete without them! Discover French culture through a hands-on cooking class and learn recipes that you can recreate at home. L..
Gourmet Game
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Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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Tasmanian Salmon and trout feature heavily in this section. You even have the opportunity to catch your own salmon from our own lake or to catch one of the wild trout in the many surrounding lakes nearby. We also have classes showing you how to prepare duck, rabbit, hare and venison. Course Idea..
Homemade Preserves
Cost per person :
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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Led by Polish born Marlene, jam maker, preserver and pickle maker extraordinaire you’ll learn some of the forgotten arts of preserving. Day one will see you working on the sweeter side of life with Jams and on day 2 you will making chutneys and preserving meats. At the End of the Course ..
Hot & Hearty - Sensual Steamy Soups
Cost per person : $80
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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Soups from the Winter Kitchen. Hot, Spicy, and good for you! In this class, Christina will take you through a number of hearty and satisfying soups and stews made from a selection of colourful farmer's market veggies and local meats. She will teach you how to create rich, intense, base flavors a..
Learning Olive Oil Secrets
Cost per person : $150
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning and afternoon teas, lunch, and lots of olive oil. A Bottle Tarraleah blended olive oil to take home.
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Olive oil was first commercially available in Crete as long ago as 2500 bc. Slightly more recent to Australia, olive oil is more than just a cooking oil. Its medicinal, magical, seeped in history, and an endless source of wonder. Here in Australia we grow some of the finest of all the o..
Makin Bacon - Curing and Smoking
Cost per person :
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Bacon curing and smoking sessions with Christina
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We like bacon around here. In fact, who doesn’t like bacon? Using pork belly Christina will take you through the steps of curing and smoking your own bacon. We will even get creative and add some flavouring! How about some honey mustard or maple? Or even some fresh herbs like rosemary and ..
Pies and Soup
Cost per person :
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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Two iconic foods and two great dishes that will never go out of fashion. Its soup making again using only the best Tasmanian ingredients. We look at ways to use meat fish and vegetables to create soups from the hearty winter warming soups to the gourmet eclasic enterees. Day 1 One day one of..
Salmon & Trout – from the Lake to the Plate
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Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking class.
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In this class we start by taking you to one of the local lakes and teach you how to catch your own salmon or trout. We wil be catching salmon and having caught the fish we look at how to deal with it from there. On Day 2 we look at some other great tasmanian fish to include, Oysters, Sc..
Slow Cooking - Juicy Succulent Meats
Cost per person :
Minimum people : 6
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Cooking sessions in the Wildside Kitchen and dinner in the evening.
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A dish that cooks itself may seem too good to be true, but with the slow cooker, it's a simple reality. Want to have the flexibility to cook your favourite, succulent slow meals in the oven, on the stove or in your slow cooker? With just a few quick steps earlier in the day, the slow cooker tend..
Tarra Wine and Whisky Tasting Weekend
Cost per person : $150
Minimum people :
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Wine and Whisky Tasting.
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The Wildside Kitchen invites you to explore and indulge yourself in the world class local Tasmanian wines and whisky's. Sip on samples of Tasmanian sparkling wines or appreciate a single malt. We also have non-Tasmanian wine and whisky's if that is your preference. Wine Weekend Itinera..
Tarraleah Whisky Tasting
Cost per person : $30
Minimum people : 2
Inclusions: Morning tea, Lunch, Whisky tasting and tutor.
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Visitors to The Lodge will have already been fascinated by the range of over 50 whiskys and single malts on display in the Lodge Library. The collection has been sourced from all around the world and includes some of the local talent. Guests wanting to experience a Tarraleah Whisky Tasting just ..
The Essential Italian - Cuchina Italiana buon appetito
Cost per person : $80
Minimum people : 4
Inclusions: Tutor, morning and afternoon tea, lunch and printed recipes, take home samples. Complimentary 1 hour guided village walk prior to course commencement for guests staying Friday night
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Pasta, Gnocci, & Traditional Sauces. That delicious restaurant gnocci dish is not that hard to prepare. Join Christina on an Italian journey through history and discover traditional approaches to pasta preparation. Learn how to make gnocchi from scratch and prepare several sauces to accompan..
