🇫🇷 Kildare & Dublin, at your place
Simple recipes, Irish ingredients. Easy French home cooking in your own kitchen, with ingredients you can find in your local supermarket. And why not brush up on your French while you are at it?
€149 per session
One menu, three courses, about two hours. The easiest way to find out what a cooking class in your own kitchen actually feels like. You pick a date, I bring the ingredients.
From €29 per hour
Looking to brush up on your French? No textbook, no grammar drills, just a conversation, with drinks. Homework and grinds support also available.
The two things together: you learn the recipes and improve your French, all in one session. Available on request, and it can be added to any package for €30 per person. Honestly? Best fun to be had.
Most popular · about 2h · up to 2 people. Pick one dish per course. Creamy cucumber or vegetables and vinaigrette, then creamy chicken and bacon with purée or steak with shallot sauce and sautéed potatoes, then cherry clafouti or apricot and almond tart.
About 1h · up to 2 people. Popular dishes for the whole family, especially kids. Pick one combo: crêpes savoury and sweet, croque monsieur with gratin dauphinois, or cordon bleu with purée.
About 1h · 2 to 6 people. The French way of starting an evening: drinks and small things to pick at. Tomato and cheddar sticks, tuna dip, tomato dip, creamy dip, ham and lettuce wraps, garlic cheese rolls. €99 for two, then €29 per extra person.
About 1h30 · up to 2 people. A main and a dessert. Cordon bleu with gratin dauphinois or stuffed peppers, then gâteau nantais (almonds and rum) or apple tart.
About 1h · up to 2 people. Some of my favourite dishes, not French cuisine, done the Julien way. Pick a main, Julien's carbonara or rösti, then a dessert: crumble or banana cake.
Ideal for the people who already have everything. You pick a package, I send the code by email, and they choose their own menu and date. Valid for a year.
Choose your package and the dishes you want to cook.
Select your date. You get a confirmation and a payment link straight away.
I do the shopping based on your choices.
A hands-on session at your own counter.
Who is doing the cooking
I have always loved food (mostly cakes, I admit) and I love cooking. No frills, no thrills, just plain, simple, honest, tasty everyday food. And I love sharing it, which is why I am here to share my recipes and a bit of France with you.
Finding the same ingredients over here is not always obvious, so I have adapted my recipes to Irish products you will find in any supermarket next to you.
Julien
The kids loved the Banana Cake, I'll definitely make that again!
It was so much fun, and so quick and easy to do!
Simple, tasty, fun! Thanks for the recipes!
Choose what you feel like cooking, block my agenda, and I turn up at your doorstep with the ingredients.
or just write to me:
1 Which package
2 Your date
Times
3 Your menu and your table
4 Your details
2 Your gift voucher
The code is worth its value in euro and lasts a year. Whoever receives it is free to spend it on another package or another date.
Secure card payments by Stripe. 100% of the price will be charged. Free cancellation up to 48 hours before the cooking session. Your details are used only to arrange the session. Photos and videos of the session are only taken and published if you tick the box above, and never otherwise. See the privacy notice.
I am based in Maynooth, so most of North Kildare is a short drive. Travel is included in the price anywhere in the list above. For Dublin and Meath (except the Dunboyne and Kilcloon areas), contact us for a quote.
Yes, that is the whole idea. The session happens in your kitchen, with your oven, your hob and your utensils, which is exactly why what you learn is repeatable. You do not need a big kitchen. If two people can stand at the counter, it works.
Whatever you use every day: a hob, an oven, a sink and a bit of counter space. I bring the ingredients. If your kitchen is missing something we need, I will have a back-up in the car.
Up to 2 people for a cooking session. The price is for the session, not per head, so it costs the same whether you cook on your own or with someone. The Apéro is for 2 to 6 people: €99 for two, then €29 per extra person.
Yes, and it is one of the most popular reasons people get in touch. Gift vouchers are valid for a year, and the person receiving it picks the menu and the date. Popular for birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas presents for those who already have everything.
Not at all. Sessions are taught in English. If you do want to practise, the Cook in French option runs the whole session in French at whatever level suits you, and I also teach conversational French lessons on their own, at home or online.
Any specific requests, let me know! Most dishes are self-explanatory but if in doubt, get in touch.
