Cooking Classes

I love to teach cooking classes and my favorite class to teach is "Cooking With Herbs".    I've done many at my favorite store, Life + Style and I've also done classes on herbal cookery at Red Cedar and Louisburg Cider Mill in the city.

Linderhof's Herb Garden

My favorite Cooking With Herbs class that I did at Life + Style was the one that started in my garden.    Class attendees got to pick the herbs that they wanted to take back to the store to cook with.    My only admonition to the class -- do not pick more than 1/3 of a plant!

The Breakfast Room ready for the class.

And before we went out to gather herbs, there was tea in the breakfast room -- icy minty tea full of slices of lemons.  

Icy Minty Tea

And a handout of garden herbs and how they grow and how they can be used in cooking.

And back at Life + Style, we made . . .

An Individual Vegetable Tian

Vegetable tian.    Individual ones.    Each class member made their own and chose the herbs that they wanted to put in it.    It's full of zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes and onions.    Good fresh produce.    Sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and baked, it's a great side dish or a great vegetarian entree.

I love to bake with herbs and each herbal cooking class always ends with an herbal dessert.    For this class I made . . .

Orange Rosemary Fairy Cakes

Orange rosemary cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and topped with sprigs of rosemary.     The class pronounced them delicious.    They're my fairy cakes that I make so often and are really my favorite cupcakes to make with the addition of orange zest and rosemary to the batter.

Cynthia and I are working on classes for this fall.    Alas, none are cooking with herbs but we will have some fun classes and I hope to see you there!      The first class in October is "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" . . . a class on candy making.    Easy candy making.     For Christmas giving (or eating)!

We have a couple of other classes in the works for November and December but I can't tell about those until The Life + Style newsletter is out -- if you're not signed up for it, do so for it announces all of the upcoming classes and that's the best way of finding out who's cooking what when.

And, I'm really excited about the cooking class that I'm teaching on October 15, at the Le Creuset store in Overland Park at 119th and Roe.     I'm doing chicken bouillabaisse for that one.

I do hope that I'll see you at one of my cooking classes for I love sharing my love of cooking!

It's Friday and I'm joining Michael at Designs by Gollum for Foodie Friday.