New Year’s Resolution: learn to master the kitchen with great deals on cooking classes

There’s nothing like the beginning of a New Year to kick start some creativity in the kitchen. Gourmands seeking healthy post-Christmas sustenance, hearty comfort food or a taste of the exotic are in for a treat – the culinary craze continues and classes abound in the UK, so sign up now and whip up a storm.

If you are in the capital, you will find some excellent short courses allowing you to unleash your inner Masterchef. Leading London cookery school Leiths School of Food and Wine specialises in classic and creative cuisine and still has places on its four part fish evening course. Learn to prepare and cook fish and seafood and become a confident cook with a repertoire of recipes and practical knowledge.

Leiths’ trained chef Angela Malik is running superbly priced evening and day courses in Thai, Indian and Vietnamese cooking at her cookery school. If the thought of being able to produce ambrosial Asian dishes out of the finest ingredients appeals, check out this and other leading London deals.

Has the doom and gloom of January left you struggling to leave the house? The good news is that now you don’t have to: London based School of Food will send a private tutor to run a class of your choice from your own kitchen.

Can’t find a class that fits with your busy schedule? Courses For Cooks in Nottingham offer tailored cookery classes for individuals, couples or groups. You choose the recipe or skill you are hoping to learn on a date that suits you, allowing you rustle up a risotto or fillet a fish as and when you like.

Experience the taste of sweet success at Strawberry Cupcakes for half a day of cupcake making and decorating. It’s a steal of a deal on a plate – enjoy one to one tuition then take all twelve scrumptious little sponges home with you. Check out Nottingham deals to see what’s cooking.

Perhaps you would like to seek out the chefs at Italian home cooking school Taste Italia in Essex, and enrol on their Cooking on a Budget course – after a day with the supremos you will be sampling wholesome tucker and laughing all the way to the bank.

The Smart School of Cookery in Danbury specialises in Modern British, European and Indian Cuisine and its latest, lusciously low priced deal is not to be sniffed at. Run by former BBC Masterchef contestant Ann Hood, budding foodies will receive expert tuition for a half or full day, creating their very own three or five course meal, later enjoying the fruits of their labours with a glass of fine wine. Don’t miss out, search for Essex deals now and find out what’s on the menu.

A far cry from the gastronomic joke it was once was, the UK now boasts exquisite foods, excellent chefs and world-renowned restaurants. With cookery classes to suit everyone, jump on the gravy train and sample a piece of the action today.