We start with a picking walk on the domain, where Michel likes to share her knowledge about these ingredients, discover, smell, taste and feel them. These factors are an important part of any workshop.
After the workshop you can start working independently.
Dining together and enjoying what has been picked and prepared is the icing on the cake of every workshop.
You take the necessary ingredients with you to do everything yourself at home. We provide online follow-up and support for each workshop.
Kids workshop
On this three-day 'Little chef’ workshop, children get to work with everything nature has to offer us at that moment and we get the kids excited about cooking with nature.
Workshops.
Making
ice cream
We will work with what the food forest brings us in the season. We come into contact with different types of ice cream preparations. Both plant-based milk ice cream, ice cream, sorbets, granita and popsicles. Semifredo is also featured with well-known and less known herbs, edible flowers and wild plants, spices and other aromas.
With or without an ice cream maker, after this workshop you can make delicious ice cream at home.
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Details workshop
Price:145 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Culinary wild-picking walk
During a long walk through the food forest in Ardooie, Michel brings you into contact with unknown herbs, plants and flowers. All too often, they are mistakenly seen as weeds. We get to know them and get to work with them in the kitchen.
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Details workshop
Price:145 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Learning
to ferment
Fermentation is one of the oldest forms of preserving vegetables.
Michel teaches you everything you need to know about the art of fermentation.
From the more 'classic' fermentation methods for vegetables, to special combinations with spices, wild herbs and fruit applications, as well as making kimchi.
We conclude with lunch.
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Details workshop
Price:145 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Little chef
During this three-day course, Michel teaches through various small workshops how children get started with everything nature has to offer us at that moment and she gets them excited about cooking with nature.
Michel goes into nature with the children and after the necessary detective work, they come back with a basket full of surprises. They will work on this during the workshops in the morning and afternoon.
To regain their strength, they enjoy a picnic or hot meal in the afternoon. There is also a workshop in the afternoon.
On the last day we provide a feast where the children let their parents taste what they have learned. As a reward, their first chef's diploma and a cookbook of which they are the authors themselves!
Possible workshops are:
Pizza bambino
Baguette magique
Lemonade
Salad folle
Fries & plant-based miso mayonnaise
On fire
Ice cream & fruity popsicles
Burgers
Tofusticks
Springrolls
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Details workshop
Price:240 euros
Duur:2 days 10-16h
Last day 10-19h, dinner 2 parents included last dayParticipants: 20
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Cooking
with fire
The traditional wood-burning oven in the Atelier, cooking on an open fire, but also smoking ingredients are central to this workshop. Michel Gonzaga will take you into a wilderness of flavours, into a moment of abundance and all this with her own take on terroir cooking
We will work with what the food forest of the Houtmeerschen offers in the season. Here we learn to understand 'wild cooking'. You can use numerous preparations to get creative at home.
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Details workshop
Price:145 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Kombucha
In this workshop, Michel takes you into the wonderful world of Kombucha - which in addition to being very tasty - has numerous health benefits, including for your immune system and intestinal flora.
On top of that, some other drinks are discussed such as water kefir and the better homemade ice tea.
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Details workshop
Price:145 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Pizza&
flatbread
This workshop focuses on the wood-burning oven in the workshop! A day where Michel shares her knowledge of sourdough pizza & flatbread with you, from preparing the dough to the art of shaping it.
Michel takes the abundance of ingredients from the food forest into her typical style of garnishing the pizzas and flatbreads.
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Details workshop
Price:145 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Baking bread
Sourdough bread is tastier and healthier than regular bread, digests more easily and thus keeps your blood sugar level up. Baking sourdough bread is exciting, very varied and not as difficult as you think. In this workshop, Michel shares her experience with baking sourdough bread. You bake your own sourdough bread and are ready to do it again at home.
We enjoy lunch together where our homemade bread is central.
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Details workshop
Price:160 euros
Duration:5h
Prior knowledge: none
Lunch: included
Recipe and ingredients to get started at home included
Online follow-up included
Participants: 15
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Workshops
at the beautiful venue
De Houtmeerschen
St Maartensveldstraat 8
in Ardooie,
West-Vlaanderen
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Geen idee wat iemand wil? Grote kans dat ze nog nooit op een wildplukwandeling zijn geweest. Of zuurdesembrood hebben gebakken boven een houtvuur. Of ontdekt hebben wat je kan doen met een paddenstoel die je zelf hebt geplukt.
Een Growing a meal-waardebon geeft iemand een ervaring die blijft hangen. Kies zelf het bedrag, de ontvanger kiest zelf de dag en de workshop.
Geldig voor het volledige aanbod van Growing a meal: workshops, tastings, en brunches. De bon wordt digitaal bezorgd en is 2 jaar geldig vanaf aankoopdatum.
Klik de waarde aan.
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