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In Season & Fresh from the Garden, the Fields, the Orchards & the Woods
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Laughing Duck Gardens & Cookery |
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Workshop Details
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Gardening & Cookery Workshop: Growing and Using Small Fruit Saturday June 5, 2010, 10:00 AM to 3:30/4:00 PM - approx! (with 1 hour break) $125/ person - Gourmet lunch included. If you are not growing small fruit in your kitchen garden you should! In this class, you'll learn about the history and the cultivation requirements of some of the more common small fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and other brambles) as well as some more unusual ones (currants, figs, ground cherries etc). We'll discuss and/or demonstrate how to select, plant, grow, maintain and harvest small fruit for your kitchen garden or your edible landscaping. We'll discuss some specific cultivars and their fruiting calendar. After a lunch break, we'll use the small fruit that's in season in early June (strawberries) to demonstrate some fun and tasty things you can create at home to amaze your friends: minty strawberry sorbet, strawberry liqueur, strawberry sauce and we'll also create a spectacular strawberry parfait! The class will be held at Artemisia’s Garden in Sperryville, VA. Please register on the Artemisia’s Garden Web Site.
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! |
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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. |
