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**Postponed!** Fundamentals of Cooking Workshop: Knife Skills, Soups & Stocks, Quick Breads
April 4 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$225.00Whether you’re a beginner or already well-versed in the kitchen, our fundamentals classes offer a thorough guide to cooking essentials. Enhance your knife skills, perfect ‘mis en place’, and master techniques like blanching, sautéing, soup making, stock, and sauce creation. Use fresh ingredients from our Stone Tree Farm and top-quality local products. Our hands-on classes empower you to cook with confidence, providing a transformative culinary journey, not just a class.
Knife Skills
The knife is the most important tool in the kitchen. This class will take you step by step through proper knife technique and a variety of the most important cuts using vegetables as your guide. Learn how to select the proper knife along with the care and honing of your blade. This class will provide you with lots of repetition to get you cutting, slicing and dicing comfortably and safely like a pro.
Soups and Stocks
Stocks are one of the most important building blocks in the kitchen. In this class you will not only learn how to make beautiful, delicate stocks, but also how to use them as a base for amazing seasonal soups. Our chef instructor Sarah, will teach how to construct soups that are both silky smooth and hearty in preparation. Topics will also include mire poix, the importance of simmering, how to balance flavors, seasoning and how to adjust the proper consistency of soups.
Quick Breads
No yeast or rise time required! Unlike yeasted breads, quick breads don’t need to be proofed or kneaded. You will learn different mixing methods and create varying dough consistencies to make stiff or soft doughs and drop or pour batters. Quick breads are great for breakfast, tea time or to accompany your homemade soup for lunch or dinner!
Class Details
Hands-on Cooking Class 4pm-8pm, $225 Includes SCS logo apron & recipes
All general cooking class sales are final and non-refundable 10 days before the scheduled class for purchases of 4 people or less, and 30 days before the day of the class for purchases of 5 or more guests. If you are within the above stated windows of time, reservations cannot be canceled or rescheduled. We recommend travel insurance as we cannot make refunds for cancellations due to medical, family or business emergencies or other unexpected events. You can always transfer your reservation to another person.
Payments for classes cancelled more than 10 days (4 or less people) and 30 days (5 or more people) before the scheduled class may be applied to a future class or may be refunded.
*If a particular class does not reach minimum numbers or for some unforeseen reason must be cancelled, you will receive a full refund or you may select a future class to attend.*
About Chef Sarah Goff
Chef Sarah has always had a passion for food. From an early age, she loved family gatherings because of the diversity of food that would come through the door and be presented beautifully on her table. People would gather, converse, laugh, cry and sometimes laugh until they cried. Food was always at the center of every gathering, no matter what the circumstances.
After graduating from culinary school in 2001, Sarah embarked on her career as a line cook in some notable restaurants in The Napa Valley. Chef Sarah also obtained a California teachers credential and developed a high school professional culinary and hospitality program; which she taught for 8 years. After leaving this program, she has been teaching private clients in their homes in addition to teaching culinary enthusiast classes around the Valley.
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Indulge your recipe book and your taste buds with Silverado Cooking School’s hands-on cooking classes in Napa. In our state-of-the-art kitchen, students will use some of the finest equipment available along with fresh, seasonal ingredients from our own farm to prepare delicious meals.
During our Napa cooking classes, you do the cooking under the guidance of a professionally trained chef. After a brief introduction, you will be given various seasonal recipes to prepare. As the dishes are completed everyone will come together to enjoy the meal that they have just prepared.
All classes are hands-on unless otherwise noted and geared towards adults and teens 16+ (with parent consent unless accompanied by an adult). Occasionally, we offer demonstration classes, which are a great way to learn new techniques and observe how to properly prepare regional cuisine.
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