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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!
Course Fee: $45 - Supply Fee: $10 Location: Folk School
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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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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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