It's time to advance your culinary skills.
This virtual, skills-based series is designed for home cooks who already have some comfort in the kitchen, but are looking to advance their culinary chops. Each weekly cooking topic will focus on multiple variations and ingredients to drive it home, to help expand your recipe repertoire.
Each 2-hour class meets once a week for 6 consecutive weeks.
Week 1: Vegetables
SKILLS COVERED: Knife Skills Review ~ Vegetable Combining ~ Vegetable Soups
YOU’LL MAKE: Roasted Ratatouille, Kale Salad with Garlicky Breadcrumbs, Gingered Butternut Squash and Apple Soup
Week 2: Fish
SKILLS COVERED: How to Buy Fresh Fish (wild vs. farm-raised) ~ Pan-Searing: Skin-On vs. Skin-Off ~ Slow-Roasting ~ Sauces for Fish
YOU’LL MAKE: Fish Fillets with Lemon-Caper Butter Sauce, Crisp-Skinned Fish with Fresh Green Herb Sauce, Slow-Roasted Fish with Oranges + Fennel
Week 3: Pasta
SKILLS COVERED: Making Fresh Gnocchi ~ Dry vs. Fresh Pasta ~ Proper Pasta Saucing Technique
YOU’LL MAKE: Fresh Ricotta Gnocchi with Basil Pesto, Pappardelle with Meat Ragout, Tricolore Salad
Week 4: Braising
SKILLS COVERED: Braising Techniques (white vs. brown) ~ How to Make Gravy
YOU’LL MAKE: Braised Pork Tenderloin (or Chicken Thighs) with Apple-Cider Gravy, Braised Chicken with Mushroom Ragout, Smoky Braised Kale
Week 5: Shellfish
SKILLS COVERED: Choosing, Cleaning, and Cooking Mussels, Clams, and Shrimp
YOU’LL MAKE: Mussels Provençale with Garlic Toasts, Linguine with White Clam Sauce, Spanish Garlic Shrimp
Week 6: Doughs
SKILLS COVERED: Pie Crust 101 ~ Yeasted Doughs
YOU’LL MAKE: Seasonal Fruit Hand Pies, Yeasted Flatbreads, Fattoush Salad with Feta and Olives (to eat with the fresh bread)
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
School Notes: For NYC In-Person Classes:
You’ll receive a complete recipe packet and enjoy a full sit-down meal at the end of class with your classmates. Our classes are BYOB, and you are welcome to bring a bottle to enjoy at the sit-down meal (not including our baking or dessert classes).
Our classes are hands-on, coupled with demonstration-style teaching. Everyone is situated at their own cutting board/chef’s knife station around a large wooden work table that accommodates the whole class (10 people max). We work together as a group, with the chef at the head of the table.
We focus on knife skills, preparing ingredients for cooking, and we strive to find every opportunity to offer you a hands-on experience at the stove and at your station, all within the spatial parameters of a single stove/family-style kitchen. We ask for volunteers to assist in all cooking.