Testimonials
Rachael: November 2009 (Hen Party)
Dear Hannah,
Thank you so much for everything last night. I hope you weren't home too late.
We all thoroughly enjoyed last night and have come away with some yummy recipies. I'm glad we went for the choc pots, a real winner. The pasta was delicious as was the beef and the potatoes were to die for. Safe to say they will all be made again soon!!
You have a great skill and and I loved the way you just slotted in. I will definitely be spreading the good word about Kitchen Queen!!!
Thanks again for everything!
Gayle: April 2009
When I came across The Kitchen Queen website, I was so excited by what you could offer that I chose it as one of my 40th birthday presents from my partner, Gary. As an already quite good cook, it was great to be able to learn restaurant standard cooking and presentation techniques for a menu of my own choice, in the comfort of my own home and to serve my friends a birthday dinner with such a wow factor. And the brilliant thing was that it wasn't just about cooking one meal for one day - throughout the day, Tamsin showed me or talked me through how I could use the same ingredients for alternative dishes as well as substitute ingredients to create similar effects, plus much, much more.
I won't pretend that it wasn't hard work, with Tamsin and me working flat out for the entire day, but it was absolutely worth every minute. Thanks to Tamsin's expert advice and tips, everything was perfectly reheated / cooked and ready to serve on time and my girlfriends gave help with plating & serving, etc so all looked brilliant. We were particularly impressed with our very contemporary looking fruit tower plate with the fruit coulis being designed using cocktail and chopsticks !!! May be not as Tamsin would have done it, but after a few glasses of wine it made us girls laugh a lot and the men probably just thought that's the way it should look !
I wasn't a bad cook before, so even though that wasn't the focus of my day I still learned a great deal from that perspective, but my presentation skills have improved 10-fold and I am now armed with expert knowledge on how to prepare as much as possible in advance, but serve it looking as if it's all been cooked from scratch on the spot.
Thank you so much to The Kitchen Queens, who certainly made my 40th memorable !
Kristen - December 2008
Hi Hannah!
I just wanted to let you know that the evening (as well as the day, obviously!) was a TOTAL SUCCESS! All the ravioli went down a treat and we never even touched the roast chickens! I sent one home with my guests and we'll have the other tonight. We were so happy with the pasta and foccacia that there wasn't room for anything else. Everyone had different opinions on a favorite ravioli, which I think means they were all sublime. Everyone (except the two little girls) agreed that the sauce for the lobster ravioli was the best thing of the whole dinner, but the girls thought the spinach ravioli was by far the best, and no one could get enough fried sage. I completely forgot the lobster tails to garnish! So I shall saute them and toss them with some mayonnaise and lemon zest for my decadent lunch today.
The foccacia was amazing, as well and we ate all but two wedges which I sent home for the child who couldn't make the dinner. And the tart! Absolute perfection. Every piece came out perfectly, I couldn't believe it. Everyone was VERY proud of me, and we all think you are a star. I had one of the greatest days of my whole life, thanks to you, and now the teenage boy who came to dinner wants a pasta-making lesson.
Thank you! I will definitely be in touch soon. Would you like to make a stab at French stick?
All my love,
Kristen
Mark – December 2008
As a keen cook, I have been looking for individual cooking lessons for some time that focused on the areas that I wanted to develop not what they wanted to teach. The concept offered by Kitchen Queen was ideal, I got to cook exactly what I wanted to cook, get tips in the areas that I have struggled with and all in the comfort of my own kitchen. I would highly recommend Kitchen Queen and would also advise bringing a group of friends over afterwards, in order to enjoy the product of the lesson.
Julia & Rob – October 2008
I found Kitchen Queen on the internet looking for cooking lesson. What I liked best about it is that you can do it in your home, where you can be comfortable and only cook with the utensils you have available.
The day was good fun and the dishes were lovely. We will definitely be experimenting more with food now on the basis that Hannah has shown us that nearly everything goes.
We booked the lesson to get some ideas about our day to day cooking and realised that actually cooking is not that hard. We will definitely keep it up!
Duncan - September 2008
Hi Hannah,
Just back! Thanks so much for the dinner - it went down fabulously and is definitely still a topic of conversation!
Best wishes,
Duncan
Isobel - August 2008
Hi Hannah, Firstly Thank you for such a great day on Friday - last night we had friends over and the meal was a wonderful success. I will use your recipes in the future and hopefully they will turn out just as nice. Take care and I will speak to you soon.
Isobel
Adam - July 2008
Thank you so much for such a lovely evening. I enjoyed every minute and if I occasionally looked a bit baffled it was only the slightly surreal sensation of being in my own kitchen for longer than 5 minutes and nowt to do with your excellent explanations! I have been stuffing my face all day long and it's still weird to think I had something to do with the creation of such yummy delights. My suspicious flatmates can't quite believe it either so I'm gonna have to do it again with them watching to prove I didn't cheat.
Shelina & Ali - June 2008
The Kitchen Queen makes cooking easy for those of us who shy away from the kitchen! Her recipes are easy to follow and taste delicious! I'll never fear throwing a dinner party again!
Oliver - June 2008
My cooking lesson experience was far better than expected, I really enjoyed the experience and loved eating the food I cooked! We cooked 3 meals all of which I couldn't have dreamed of cooking before the lesson, but they were made so simple that now I feel very confident in cooking them myself. Also this experience has given me the confidence to try other dishes that are similar. All in all I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone that wants to learn to cook, it was great value for money. Also the Kitchen Queen is lots of fun to be around!!
Oliver
Nick, Ash and Luke - May 2008
Kitchen Queen not only taught our group step-by-step how to cook some fantastic dishes in only 3 hours but we also had one of the most uniquely entertaining and enjoyable evenings in a long time! From remarking on each other’s whisking techniques to the buoyancy of our brulees, Kitchen Queen strikes the right chord of laughing and learning!