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Come cook with us in our kitchen
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If you are in the Roanoke, VA region, come cook with us.
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Do you want to sharpen your skills?
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Is your son or daughter about to jump off into their new career and you want to give them a social advantage?
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With a little guidance, real skills can be developed and no one needs to sweat in a restaurant kitchen.
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We offer both private and group cooking lessons.
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Hands on classes that will build fundamental culinary skills.
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Courses cover
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Fundamental techniques such as, organization, mise en place, and making stocks.
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Knife skills. Learn how to prep fast and efficiently! Usually chefs learn how to use a knife in school or in their first jobs. We will show you how to use the chefs most important tool.
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The different cooking techniques, Searing, braising, baking, poaching, grilling and more
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Sauces. You will learn and make all of the basic sauce types. More importantly learn the saucier tricks of the trade.
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Specific recipes. We will walk you through dozens of specific fine dinning recipes.
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Course format
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One on One individual classes - $60/hour For private, intensive training.
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Small group classes - $40/student/hour for classes of 3 students - book a group of friends, have fun, learn and cook
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Dinner and a show - $200/couple (up to 2 couples) sit back, have a glass of wine and watch the chef cook a 7 course meal. A unique opportunity to observe, pick up technique and then enjoy a fabulous meal.
You will be able to talk directly to the chef as they cook, asking questions, watching and soaking in professional culinary technique.
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5 lesson progression - 5 sessions, each one building on the previous ones. Combining culinary fundamentals, knife skills, specific technique and actual recipes. when the progression is over you will be a strong cook with fundamental culinary confidence.
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Individual Technique Classes - one class, one subject, focused and thorough.
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Typical Class Contents
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Class I
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Knife Skills
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- Dice an Onion
- Finely Mince a Shallot
- Chiffonade
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Foundations
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- Mise en Place
- Clarified Butter
- Proper Searing technique
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Menu
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- Pan seared scallops with curried beurre blanc sauce
- Pan seared chicken breast with lemon basil reduced cream sauce
- Roasted garlic mashed potatoes
- Pan tossed asparagus
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Please Click 'Register Now!', on the upper right, to find a class!
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