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Un Dimanche A La Campagne

October

Sunday In The Country: October

Sunday October 2, 2011 - 3-7 PM

$75/ person

 

The cooking class series “Un Dimanche A La Campagne” or “Sunday in the Country” teaches students simple ways to create flavorful and healthy meals from local seasonal ingredients, using fresh vegetables, fruit, herbs and meat/poultry sourced from small local farms.

 

We also discuss the art of building a menu and we thoroughly go through preparation timing, so you can easily reproduce the whole menu on your own for entertaining.  The classes are lively with lots of practical tips, tangents into gardening, food history, vegetable storage, dish variations etc. The classes are small in size and students are invited to participate. Recipes provided.

 

Attend one or every classes (discount available when registering for several classes at once).

 

In October the days really shorten and temperatures cool down. Time to bring in some heartier dishes combining the late summer crops with the returning greens and winter squash. We will make:

· Fall Tomato Soup

· Mushroom & Butternut Lasagna (a red sauce and a white sauce version)

· Fall Salad (And Learn The Art of Vinaigrette)

· Quince Ice-Cream With Caramelized Asian Pears

 

If you are interested in one of our workshops but can’t make it, contact us, anyway. If we have enough interest, we’ll repeat the workshop on an alternative day - or we can arrange a private lesson!

Growing & Cooking with Herbs

Saturday May 23, 2009 - 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM

$65.00/  person

In mid-summer, many herbs reach a peak of lushness and flavor. Come and learn about the lore and cultivation of reliable favorite herbs - as well as more unusual ones. This is the prefect time to harvest many herbs to dry, to make herbal vinegars, unusual ice-teas, etc … We will show you how. Also learn how to incorporate herbs in your everyday cooking and in simple yet sophisticated special dinner dishes! We will demonstrate the making of several dishes featuring herbs (appetizer, main, side, dessert) and give you recipes to replicate at home – but only after you’ve had a chance to sample everything we made.

Very Cool Desserts

Thursday June 25  – 1:30 PM 5:30 PM

$65.00/  person

In this workshop, we’ll learn to make sorbets & ice-creams using our abundant summer fruit, as well as fruit mousses, and spectacular layered cold desserts. We don’t need to heat-up our kitchen to produce dreamy refreshing desserts! Recipes and degustation included.

 

Pizza Making

Wednesday June 24 - 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon

Monday July 6 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

$45.00 per person

Simple, nutritious, fancy or rustic… pizza is the height of refined simplicity. Learn to make pizza dough at home as well as a variety of pizza toppings. Recipes included.