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Food courses are coming back in 2022! Our new Food course schedule will be released in November 2021.
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Preserving the Harvest: Lacto-Fermentation
Make the most of the summer's bounty of fresh produce by learning how to preserve vegetables through the traditional yet simple method of lacto-fermentation. You'll prevent food waste and be able to eat locally all year. Lacto-fermented foods are the foods that can be called “probiotic” based on their production of health-enhancing bacteria. In this class, you will learn how to make sauerkraut and other fermented veggies. We’ll also discuss the healing qualities and nutritional importance of live-culture foods. All participants will bring home a jar of sauerkraut and receive a booklet with instructions and recipes for dozens of fermented foods easily created at home.
Course Fee: $55 - Supply Fee: $20 Location: Folk School
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Cheesemaking Workshop
Join homestead cheesemaker Julia Gold and find out how how simple and easy it is to make cheese in your own kitchen. We will discuss and sample several simple cheeses that can be cultivated at home. After our discussion we will get to work making Mozzarella and Chevre. You’ll also learn some cooking ideas for whey, a byproduct of cheese making. Students can build on this introduction to create many varieties of cheese at home. While the class will focus on goat cheese, cheese made from milk will also be discussed.
Each student will take home the supplies necessary to begin their own homestead cheesemaking: culture, recipes, resources, and cheesecloth. A good concise cheesemaking book is optional, but highly recommended. A list of information and materials will be provided. Course Fee: $75 - Supply Fee: $10 Location: Folk School
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Cheesemaking Intensive
This hands-on intensive class will cover everything you need to get started making simple cheeses that are easily created in a home environment. You will learn about cultures, equipment, ingredients and cheese making concepts, and will work with both cow and goat milk to complete a number of cheese making projects including: yogurt, feta, ricotta, Brie, buttermilk, sour cream, chevre, mozzarella and cultured butter. The process of making hard cheeses will also be discussed. The end of this two-day workshop will culminate in a community feast in where we share food, sample the cheeses and enjoy the friends we have made working together!
Each student will take home the supplies necessary to begin their own homestead cheesemaking: culture, recipes, resources, and cheesecloth. A good concise cheesemaking book is optional, but highly recommended. A list of information and materials will be provided. |
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Knife Sharpening Demystified
Nothing is more satisfying than working with a truly sharp kitchen knife! In this class, participants will learn a simple and exact series of steps that will enable you to reliably bring your knife's edge to shaving sharp. While the focus of your lesson will be kitchen knives, you will also learn how to apply the same principles to other tools. While there will be knives on hand for practice, you should also bring knives from your home kitchen to perfect your skills!
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Cottage Food Industry: Make Money Selling Your Homemade Foods
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Learn how to set up your own cottage-based industry and how it relates to the permaculture concept. Examine which foods are allowable for sale and the requirements for labels and listings. Find out about sales records and how to plug into the network of existing cottage food operations.
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Farm to Table Cooking Workshop
Farm-to-table cooking focuses on using fresh, seasonal and local ingredients. Our class will begin at the Dixboro Farmers' Market, where we'll pick out fresh seasonal veggies and meats from local farmers. We'll then retreat to the Dixboro kitchen to prepare our fresh ingredients and learn how to create delicious, family-friendly dishes. The kitchen will become a place of creativity as you learn how to cook without a recipe, using intuition vision and your relationship with the food as your guide.
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The Kitchen Grocery: Buy Once, Grow Forever
The “kitchen grocery” is a term used to describe growing food inside your home kitchen all year round. Since good quality food is expensive, it makes sense to acquire the knowledge necessary to reduce your grocery bills, improve your nutrient intake and maintain a fun project. While it may be unlikely that you can completely eliminate a grocery bill, you can grow certain foods yourself and in a most special way: regrowth. From upcycling basil stems to regrowing celery, a little effort can go a long way. This class will teach you the tricks and guide you through the steps of regrowing. You will take home a few goodies to get you started.
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Hearty Soup in a Sourdough Bread Bowl
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Winter is here and there is nothing quite as comforting as a hearty bowl of soup served in a homemade bread bowl! Join us in the kitchen as we warm up our souls while we bake a classic sourdough French boules. As our bread bakes, we will prepare a pot of New England–style clam chowder. Some bread baking experience is recommended as this class is more about developing culinary skills. Bring your apron, a sense of culinary wonder and a hearty appetite
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Sourdough Bread 101
Using tools and equipment that are standard in every kitchen, you'll leave class with the know-how to create delicious sourdough breads. This class covers everything you need to know to create beautiful, mouth-watering sourdough bread at home. It begins with a brief discussion of bread science, techniques, ingredients and equipment. Then it's time to roll up your sleeves and get baking! You'll learn every step involved in the bread-making process, including kneading, fermenting, shaping, proofing and scoring. You'll use your sensory knowledge to assess the readiness of the dough through look, taste, feel and smell. Bread will be baked and the results will be evaluated with ideas for troubleshooting.
Each participant will bring home recipes and sourdough starter for countless loaves of home-baked sourdough bread. |
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Cajun & Creole
Learn to cook traditional dishes from New Orleans, such as gumbo and bananas foster. The course will discuss techniques and the history of the dishes alongside the recipes.
Course Fee: $70 - Supply Fee: $20 Location: Folk School
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Cooking By Campfire
Class will demonstrate cooking techniques over an open fire circa 1800s. The course will start with fire building and safety. Coursework will emphasize food safety while camping, and will include recipes, techniques, and a meal.
Course Fee: $70 - Supply Fee: $20 Location: Folk School
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Date Night
This course will focus on getting couples cooking together in the kitchen. Students in pairs will prepare a fun meal that requires teamwork to complete successfully. At the end of the class students will dine together.
Potential Menu: Seafood St. Jacques Rainbow Chard Salad Dessert Course Fee: $75 - Supply Fee: $40 Location: Folk School
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Intro To Cooking: Lasagna
Making and assembling a lasagna utilizes many rudimentary cooking techniques. This course will use homemade lasagna as the entree to introduce basic kitchen techniques such as knife skills, mother sauces, boiling, searing, braising, and baking. At completion, students will be familiar with kitchen fundamentals and take home lasagna (assembled but not baked) and a recipe.
Course Fee: $75 - Supply Fee: $35 Location: Folk School
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Mother Sauces
Mother sauces are the basic building blocks for all sauces. They are a fundamental part of French cuisine with a rich history. This course will cover the 5 basic mother sauces, a sampling of "daughter sauces", and techniques to maximize sauce success. Students will leave with sauces, recipies, and techniques that can be applied to nearly everything they might cook.
Course Fee: $75 - Supply Fee: $35 Location: Folk School
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Week Night Dinners
Instructor will demonstrate 5 unique dishes (changed seasonally) that can be prepared in under 15 minutes while providing instruction on how to prepare them along with basic cooking tips. Students will be provided small platings of each meal, recipes, and a shopping list.
Course Fee: $75 - Supply Fee: $30 Location: Folk School
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Wood Fire Pizza Basics
Learn how to make Neapolitan Pizza in your own backyard!
Get familiar with how to make and stretch dough, making a sauce, building and maintaining a proper fire, baking the pizza and more. Course Fee: $75 - Supply Fee: $25 Location: Folk School
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