Food Experiences with M

Private Cooking Lessons

There is only so much you can learn from a recipe book, or a cooking programme. A private cooking lesson allows you to learn to cook whatever you’d like. You can ask as many questions as you like, you’ll be guided through dishes and recipes with me by your side sharing lots of tips and tricks and giving you confidence that you may feel you lack in the kitchen. This never fails to bring joy and satisfaction, and most people book again and again. Whether you are a novice or like to spend every spare second honing your culinary expertise, I can guarantee this will be a joyful experience.

Past Lessons Include:

Fresh Pasta Sauces

Meat Sauces

Sweet and Savory Pastry and Fillings

Canapes Masterclass

Vegan Inspiration

Elevated Dinner Party Dishes

Middle-Eastern Inspired Dinner Dishes

Adding Flavor to Healthy Eating

These lessons take place in the comfort of your own kitchen and include:

• Planning session to decide what dishes/techniques you would like to explore

• Detailed ingredient and equipment list sent a week prior to the session

• Three-hour private lesson

• Detailed methods for each recipe sent after the session

The cost for this experience is £175 plus travel, discount available for multiple sessions.

Chef demonstrations

Food brings people together and creates an opportunity for a shared experience. If you would like to include a cooking demonstration as part of the experience, event or occasion you are planning, which could be anything from a corporate away day activity to a unique experience for a group of friends, please get in touch and let’s talk food!

Food and walking experiences

After food, my next favourite joy-giving activity is spending time outdoors, ideally walking or running through the countryside. Thankfully I live in the Yorkshire Dales so am surrounded by stunning scenery. Sharing this environment with people who want to immerse themselves in nature and enjoy some delicious food is one of my most favourite things to do. Routes are designed to suit the group and food offerings fit into the activity as you wish.

These experiences make for a unique corporate away day, you can walk and be fed, or walk and help create what you eat! They are also fantastic for hen parties and stag parties who’d like to do something a little different, equally for people visiting Yorkshire on holiday who would like to visit less well travelled areas of the region. I’ve been fortunate to host people from as far away as Adelaide and Alaska!

I can host groups of up to 12 people, and as always the food offering is created to suit your requirements.

Give the gift of vouchers redeemable against any With M service or product

  • Ted Innes Ker – Owner of Reiver Travel

    Michaela is an outstanding chef. My clients fly over from the USA every year and insist Michaela is with them for their trip, she has become an absolutely essential part of the experience thanks in large part to her exceptional cooking with the freshest of produce, turning her hand to anything, being very flexible, as well as being huge fun to be around

  • Karen Turner – Owner of Laudale Estate

    Michaela has often cooked for us at our estate in the Highlands where we entertain large groups of friends. She also looks after corporate guests and private celebratory gatherings there, usually for around 20 people.

    Her food is always superb: Michaela can cook whatever is required to a very high standard including for multiple generations of mixed dietary requirements - never easy!”

    Planning is always precise, the kitchen is always calm, organised and tidy and Michaela can turn her hand to last-minute changes with ease and good humour which is essential in a family kitchen-style cooking environment.

  • Andrea Sutton - Private Function Client

    The most delicious food imaginable! Michaela at With M created a selection of wonderful dishes for a big family celebration, which went down a storm. Her attention to detail and passion for her craft can only be described as 'love'. She puts everything into it and the results are spectacular dishes of food which are talked about for years afterwards. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

  • Emma Gannon - Intelligent Appliances

    What shines through with Michaela is her instinctive passion for all things food and cooking. She backs this up with a wealth of knowledge and expertise.

    As a private chef and our Better Living Champion, Michaela brings our Intelligent Appliances to life. She helps us and our customers to get the best out of our appliances and to put them at the centre of our purpose of helping people to lead healthier lifestyles.

    Michaela has shown us how to cook with seasonal ingredients sourced with TLC. And she gives our customers the confidence to embrace the produce, its preparation and to start cooking with a fresh perspective. We love having Michaela with us on our journey