Whether 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.

Sauces

There is nothing better than a beautiful sauce to complement the perfect dish. In our Sauces class we will make restaurant-quality sauces and learn the necessary skills to execute amazing dishes at home. Participants will prepare many of the French “mother sauces” and understand how to balance richness, acidity, intensity and refinement.

Understand how to make everything from perfectly balanced vinaigrettes and mayonnaise, to pan sauces and béchamel for amazing homemade macaroni and cheese along with a few other fan favorites. We will also explore plating and how to serve sauces in a variety of dishes.

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.