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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Hot Summer Nights – Cooking for Singles
Saturday, August 18th and Sunday, August 19, 2007

August 18th - Straight | August 19th - Gay

*$100.00 per person.

If you’re a foodie-about-town, this class is for you. If you’re not, dump your dude or bounce your babe and head on over to meet and mingle with other foodies on the prowl. After a few mimosas, we’ll show you how to make a fool-proof dazzling date dinner that will leave you with plenty of time to charm your special person.

» Speckled romaine salad with lemon anchovy vinaigrette and soft-boiled eggs

» Linguine with fresh tomato, rock shrimp and basil

» Peach and blackberry buckle with vanilla bean ice cream

 

Back to School – Salads and Vegetables
Saturday, September 15th, 2007

*$100.00 per person.

This class will be the first in a series of classes on the Basics of Cooking. In this first class will focus on salads, cold sauces and the proper cooking of vegetables.

  • Salads – Chopped salads, lettuce salads, vegetable salads
  • Sauces – Un-emulsified vinaigrettes, emulsified vinaigrettes, sour cream/crème fraiche sauces
  • Vegetables – Cooking red vegetables, cooking green vegetables

» A trio of salads: Chopped summer vegetable salad, baby greens with roasted beets and goat cheese, summer squash salad with garlic, chili and Pecorino cheese

» Poached salmon with green beans, new potatoes and tarragon aioli

» Pluot brown butter tart with almond ice cream

 

Indian Summer Menu
Saturday, October 13th, 2007

*$100.00 per person.

Here in Northern California, we have the good fortune to enjoy the best of summer alongside the best of winter, all at the same time. Tomatoes and apples, eggplant and broccoli; it’s all at the market during our Indian summer.

» Roasted garlic and eggplant soup with mint crème fraiche

» Mesquite-grilled Kobe beef tri-tip, marinated heirloom tomatoes and salsa verde

» Caramelized broccoli with garlic and lemon

» Apple tarte tatin with caramel swirl ice cream

 

Thanksgiving 2007
Saturday, November 17th, 2007

*$100.00 per person.

Last year we did a traditional roasted turkey dinner. This year we’re cooking up a special new menu, one that you’re sure to remember when you’re eating your turkey noodle casserole.

» Oyster chowder with house-smoked bacon and marble potatoes

» Escarole salad with garlic, lemon and chili

» Roasted crown rack of Berkshire pork stuffed with prunes

  • Maple-glazed carrots
  • Sautéed Brussels sprouts leaves with brown garlic
  • Potato gratin Dauphinoise

» German chocolate cake

 

Christmas Dinner
Saturday, December 15th, 2007

*$100.00 per person.

» Chilled Maine lobster with chopped vegetable salad

» Dungeness crab bisque, cognac cream

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

  • Creamed spinach with double smoked bacon
  • Twice baked potatoes

» Buche de Noel