Cooking Classes

Spaces for our perennially sold-out classes are won in a lottery. To put your name in for the drawing, please complete the form below. We’ll do the drawing approximately four weeks before the class and contact the winners by phone.

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Our Annual California Lobster Boil
Saturday, July 12, 2008

*$125.00 per person.

The Boil
» 1-1/4 lb. Live Maine lobster
» Steamers
» Sweet corn on the cob
» Red new potatoes

The Fixin’s
» Cocktail sauce, drawn butter, spiced butter
» Iceberg lettuce salad with St. Agur bleu cheese dressing
» Chopped summer vegetable salad

The Sweet Stuff
» Peach and blackberry buckle with vanilla bean ice cream

 

Back to School – Summer Grilling
Saturday, August 9, 2008

*$100.00 per person.

» Grilled peaches wrapped in home-made pancetta
Arugula salad and candied pecans

» Grilled Gulf prawns
Gigante bean and grilled vegetable ragout

» Grilled double-cut rib-eye steaks
Heirloom tomato salad, salsa verde

» Grilled dapple dandy pluots
Vanilla savarin, Pyrat XO rum crème angalise

 

Tomato Celebration
Saturday, September 13, 2008

*$100.00 per person.

» Heirloom tomato gazpacho
with Dungeness crab salad

» Crispy-fired stuffed squash blossoms
tomato-basil vinaigrette

» Roasted Alaskan halibut
tomato risotto, spicy tomato sauce, currant tomatoes

» Frog Hollow peach napoleon
falky puff pastry layered with sweet goat fromage blanc and tomato jam

 

Back to School – Hot Sauces
Saturday, October 11, 2008

*$100.00 per person.

» Fried Green Tomatoes
over grilled radicchio and arugula salad with almond brown butter sauce

» Seared Maine scallops
on parsnip and potato puree with caper beurre blanc

» Roasted tenderloin of beef
Potatoes baked in cream, king trumpet mushroom ragout, cabernet sauce

» Caramelized apple tart
Balndy’s 15 year malmsey Madeira sabayon

 

Thanksgiving
Saturday, November 8, 2008

*$100.00 per person.

» Pacific oyster stew
with double-smoked bacon and marble potatoes

» Warm escarole and radicchio salad
with garlic, lemon and Pecorino cheese

» Berkshire Pork Roast with fixin’s
Roasted rack of Berkshire pork stuffed with prunes

Maple-glazed carrots
Braised Brussels sprouts
Potato gratin Dauphinoise

» German chocolate cake

 

Holiday Menu for 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008

*$120.00 per person.

» Chilled Maine lobster
chopped vegetable salad

» Dungeness crab bisque
cognac cream and chervil

» Roasted dry-aged prime rib of beef
au jus, horseradish cream sauce

Creamed spinach with double smoked bacon
Twice baked potatoes

» Buche de Noel