Cooking Classes
In the Privacy of Your Home
Learn to prepare your favorite meal, improve your cooking skills and enhance your culinary journey.
We offer hands-on cooking skills classes and demonstrations for individuals and small groups that are tailored to your interests.
Tap into your imagination and our experience to design a personalized learning adventure.
Here are a few examples of learning opportunities:
Perfectly roasted chicken dinner.
From stocks to sauces: Transform shells and bones into intensely flavorful stocks, soups and sauces.
Fish Basics: Overcome your fear of cooking fish through 3 basic and flexible dishes.
Prepare a seasonal dinner in your backyard.
Prepare a three course mean meal from the Country or Region of your choice.
Sample Agenda - "Perfectly roasted chicken dinner"
30 Min. Set-up, mise en place (ie. butter r.t., butter melted, chicken salt & pepper, trussing string, gloves)
60 Min. Chocolate mousse: measure quantities, prepare bain marie, select large mixing bowls for whipped cream, custard, meringue
30 Min. Knife skills: knife basics (ie. Grip, types of knives, honing vs. sharpening), small, medium and large dice mirepoix; asparagus, string beans prep
30 Min. Prepare and *cook chicken and chicken stock: 1. set oven 450F, remove wish bone, cut wing tip, clean and dry chicken, fill cavity (thyme, s&P, bay leaf, mire poix), truss, butter skin, insert temperature probe, start chicken. 2. Start chicken stock from bones: brown bones and start pot with mirepoix, bouquet garni
(*Baste and reduce temperature to 350F when chicken browned*)
30 Min. Blanch and chill string beans, then asparagus, then cauliflower; Make yuzu-goat cheese vinaigrette dressing
45 Min. Chicken stock and reduce to jus, two ways (in roasting pan, and separately with browned parts)
30 Min. Remove chicken (keep warm), make pan sauce
30 Min. Carve chicken, plate vegetables and serve dinner
45 Min. Eat and Q&A