The Sauce Club

Feeling stressed & overwhelmed by the thought of cooking dinner after a long busy day? Rebuild your kitchen confidence and feel empowered with my fun stress-free 6-week online cooking course that’s guaranteed to change the way you feel about cooking dinner.

Sign up the waiting list. New dates Autumn 2022

The Sauce Club is an absolute game-changer for busy people who at the end of a long day want to be able to cook confidently a rewarding delicious healthy dinner without feeling indecisive, stressed or wasting time looking up recipes.

Sign up to the waiting list, New dates Autumn 2022

Previous Members..

I absolutely love The Sauce Club with Paola. It's so great to have a way of doing this, without leaving the house and getting to know other people all across the country. I left the 6 weeks leaving empowered to cook these new dishes again and again and with a new mindset to give myself the time to enjoy the process of cooking, rather than feel stressed or overwhelmed by it.

Holly Wood

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"Sauce Club has been a little time in my week just for me. It’s been a space where I have been able to relax, think about something enjoyable, learn new skills and have a lovely meal at the end. It’s changed how I think about food and cooking. A treat for me used to be a takeaway and a bottle of wine, now a treat is heading to the fish mongers on a Saturday morning and seeing what’s in season, and making a tasty, special and stress free fancy dinner! I have actually lost weight since starting Sauce Club because I am cooking healthier, tastier and more satisfying food. 100% "

Rebecca Aryes

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"Paola is absolutely brilliant - I had the pleasure of attending a one-off online cooking party with her last year, and then signed up for her 'Sauce Club' which offered regular online cook-a-longs as well as generously and thoughtfully curated cooking tips, recipe ideas and a friendly community. Paola brings passion, expertise and a whole lotta love to everything she does. I cannot recommend her highly enough!"

Laura Attridge

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Why home cooking Is more than just creating meals

I get it.

Cooking doesn’t come easy to everyone. Having a busy working family lives may mean that cooking dinner is the last thing you want to do. Some of you may even think that you can’t cook the dinners you really crave and don’t see the point, when ordering a takeaway is the easier option. But there is something so self-rewarding in creating food that you love to eat.

What we choose to eat is the most important decision we make everyday. It provides us with the energy to deal with everyday life, and has a massive impact on how our body, mind and soul function. But for some of us, it’s too easy to search other alternatives to feed ourselves, which in the long run can have a negative impact on how we feel.

The Sauce club is created for those who want to have a different attitude when it comes to cooking dinner and want to learn techniques that will help build your cooking confidence and not stop looking up new recipes or rely on other meal alternatives to arrange dinner.

Rather than feel overwhelmed by the thought of cooking dinner, you’ll learn to love to cook and in the process eat better and feel happier for it.

It’s all about BELIEVING IN YOUR OWN SAUCE.

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6 Week Online Course Outline

Course dates: Oct/Nov 2022

Each week we have a 2-hour virtual cooking session (these will take place on Tuesdays, 6;30 pm, GMT) where I will share with you a different cooking styles. By learning essential home cooking techniques, your confidence will grow each week and you will end up learning a wealth of recipes and methods to create the food you love to eat.

(Sessions are recorded, so if you’re unable to join the lives, you can watch back and cook at your pleasure. Alongside that, you’ll receive recipe cards for everything we make together.)

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Session 1

Lets stew

Italian fish potato stew with homemade garlic bread

In our first session, I will share with you my easy techniques on how to layer different flavours in a guaranteed crowd-pleasing stew. It’ll be made with fresh, simple ingredients to create an easy, sexy, healthy and comforting dish that can be adapted in any number of ways

Session 2

How to pimp up your basics

The best Italian basil pesto pasta dish, plus a classy fruit tart

In this class, you’ll learn how to take the most basic of ingredients, and transform them without breaking a sweat. You’ll learn the best way to match a pasta sauce to shape, and how to make the most of ready-made pastry. No one will know the difference.

Session 3

How to perfect pan frying (meat, fish and veg)

The perfect steak, the perfect pan-fried fish and pan-fried potatoes, plus sauces

Pan frying is one of the quickest ways to cook food. But did you know there are different techniques required to cook different ingredients to meet their very best potential? I will share you my top tips, from when to season to how to judge temperature, and avoid over-cooking.

Session 4

Master how to cook a creamy risotto

Sausage red wine risotto and broccoli breadcrumb salad

Have you shied away from making a risotto before, as you’ve heard it’s too difficult? Or have you had a bad risotto experience, that’s put you recreating it at home? In this live session, I share with you my top tips on how create the perfect al dente creamy risotto- No salty rice puddings here.

It’s guaranteed to become a regular rotation in your weeknight repertoire.

Session 5

Roasting/oven baking

A choice of roasted meat or fish served on a bed of Italian vegetables, a parsley anchovy relish, roasted lemon potatoes. Plus a sexy baked fruit pudding

Sticking everything in an oven after a long day at work is what some of us need – and done right, it can be a low-effort way to create some properly spectacular food. In this live session, I will be sharing with you how to create different roasting dishes from savoury to sweet, and my tips on how to get it right.

Session 6

How to create the ultimate lasagna

Porcini mushroom and sausage lasagna with seasonal vegetables.

My lasagna never misses: it’s a guaranteed winner. In our final session, you’ll learn the tricks to making one of the most popular crowd pleasing Italian dishes on the planet. I will share my tips on layering, flavour combinations, and how to perfect your sauces. You’ll never look back.

Previous Members..

"For the first time in my life I knew how to shop in a supermarket – as in I knew what fresh ingredients I could buy to make a healthy wholesome meal for my family. Week by week I grew in confidence. The Sauce Club was what I was lacking in my life – without me ever really knowing I was lacking it! ."

Jessica Criasa

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"It has given me the confidence to get back in the kitchen and start enjoying cooking. It has been such a warm and welcoming environment with great food to tuck into at the end of each session."

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"Really got my mojo back with cooking after losing it over lockdowns and learnt loads of lovely new Italian dishes that I'll be making again"

Lauran Irlam

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Sauce Club Faq's

Is there a payment plan?

There are two payment options. You can pay for the course all at once. Or pay across 3 monthly instalments

Do you have a refund policy?

Refunds can be offered if you change your mind before the course starts. But becomes non-refundable from the first day the course begins.

Where do the live cooking sessions take place?

All live cook-a-longs are hosted virtually on Zoom.

What happens if I miss one of the live sessions?

All live cook along sessions are recorded and is sent out the day after along with the digital recipe cards. It is also uploaded into the Facebook group to refer back to whenever you wish. So if you struggle to make the live sessions you can watch back when you have time. Plus, you can ask me questions within the Facebook group.

How much time per week do I have to spend on the course?

If you have time to join the live cooking session on Tuesday, at 6:30 pm you will need two hours set aside.

Apart from that, you can cook the other recipes at your leisure. You will be sent recipes and tips to try each week but you can fit those in based on your own availability. You won’t be tested at any point so you can even catch up after the course has ended.

I would like to join the Sauce club and build my kitchen confidence, but I’m vegetarian.

The Sauce club shares tips and recipes on how to cook fish and meat as well a vegetables. However, please check out my next vegetarian Saucy Cooking Class if you’re looking to learn to cook some easy sexy healthy dishes.

I’m a shy person and feel nervous about joining

It can always feel a little daunting to meet a new group of people. However, it’s very important to me that everyone feels comfortable and feel part of the community. If you don’t want to actively interact, you’re more than welcome to turn off your video during any live sessions. But I encourage you to join when you’re ready as you will get the most out of the course that way.

I’m not the most confident cook. I only know to cook a handful of basic dishes. Do I need to have certain skills to join the Sauce club

The Sauce club is open to all levels of cooking and is all about helping you find your inner love for cooking. You don’t need any basic cooking skills to join. Through out the course, I will help build your confidence by teaching you the essential skills to help you become more creative in the kitchen.

I don’t have Facebook, is this going to be a problem?

The private Facebook is where all the other bonuses including the recipe ideas, foodie recommendations, etc will be exclusively shared. Plus it’s a great place for you to interact and engage with the other members in between the live sessions.
However, most of the content will be shared in the email roundup sent each month.

T&Cs

Price is per person, and not household. If two people from one household would like to cook together, they should book 2 different spots.

Please do not share digital recipe cards or live cooking sessions with anyone who isn’t part of the sauce club.

If you choose the 3 monthly payment plan, you have a legal responsibility to pay the final payment even when the 6 weeks course has ended. The Sauce club is non-refundable as soon as the new course starts on 7th February.

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A personal invitation to cook with me..

I’m a professional qualified cook. Plus I have travelled all over Italy learning from the best home cooks. All the tips and cooking secrets that I have learnt over the years I’m now sharing with you to help you get motivated and build your kitchen confidence rather than have it feel like a chore.

I’ve taught hundreds of people in fun stress-free cook alongs’ and have regularly helped others fall in love and create a positive mindset toward cooking.

I have my own personal story where cooking helped me find my own confidence, not only in the kitchen but in my own self. Eating better food gave me the energy and focus I needed to deal with everyday life and I have never looked back. All it took was to change my mindset. Rather than look at it as a chore I realised that it was a way to better myself.

You may have never considered yourself a ‘foodie’. You may have never felt you belonged in the food world which meant you never thought you could cook EASY, SEXY, HEALTHY delicious food. But I believe that eating well is not a luxury. It’s something we all have the right to do and learning how to cook with confidence and create delicious dishes with a handful of ingredients is a great place to start.

If you’re ready and committed to make changes to your eating habits and have a desire to learn to love to cook food that you love to eat, then you’re in the right place. I’m so here for you and I can’t wait to cook with you.

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Other Ways To Cook Along With Me

A free community where people can start their own cooking journey and get inspired with easy recipes, simple tips to help build confidence.

Live one-off interactive group cook alongs where I teach people sexy, healthy delicious Italian inspired dishes to cook for themselves, friends and family.