In-home Private Cooking Classes

But it can. All you have to do is phone me and book an Nouveau Dinner party. I’ll plan with you a fabulous meal of dishes you and your friends would love to learn, I’ll arrive the appointed day with all the groceries and recipe packets and I’ll clean up when I’m done.

Any size kitchen, any degree of equipment, I can show you how to entertain without feeling stressed, leaving you the ability to eat, drink and be merry with your guests. Think of the fun wedding showers, baby showers, birthdays and hoilday parties you could have!

Just a Few Examples

Quick and Easy Suppers
wild mushroom and roasted garlic penne, seared tuna with nicoise sauce, roasted vegetable open faced tart with fontina cheese, black bean tostadas with pickled onion slaw, prosciutto stuffed chicken breasts in white wine pan jus, saffron risotto, shrimp creole, rigatoni with sausage fennel sauce and many more.

Knife Skills
Learn how to sharpen and hone your knife, how knives are made, how to hold a knife and how to brunoise, chop, mince and roll cut like an Iron Chef. Includes a light meal of Cobb salad and Minestrone Soup and a soup kit to take home.

Regional Italian Menus
The sky’s the limit here but here are a few ideas:

• Emiglia Romana
  homemade tortellini, hearty meat sauce from Bologna, fennel roasted with aged balsamic vinegar from Modena, zabiglione with fruit and wines.

• Piedmonte
  bagna cauda- hot anchovy dip with vegetables, handcut angel hair with truffle, rabbit (or chicken) peperonata, bunet- chocolate amaretti steamed pudding, cheeses and wine tasting.

• Tuscany
  Authentic recipes from Florence like crostini Toscano, ribolitta-white bean soup, arrista- roasted rosemary pork roast with potatoes, cantucci- almond biscotti with vin santo wine.

• Venice
  Sole in sweet and sour onions, fresh tagliatelle with fresh tomato, prosciutto wrapped warm mushroom salad, caramelized Seckel pear and Gorgonzola cream crostini and wines galore.

• Sicily
  arancini- cheese stuffed rice croquettes, spaghetti with tomato fennel seafood sauce, caponata- sweet and sour eggplant, and hazelnut gelato.

Thai
Your choice from a long list of recipes I learned while in Thailand: Shrimp salad rolls, hot & sour soup or Tom Kha Gai (creamy coconut soup), hand pounded curry paste for green curry chicken, pad thai, pad kee mao, pork and tamarind curry with young ginger and peanuts, sticky pineapple cakes with lime or mango sorbet.

Spicy Mexican
Your choice from a long list of yummies like avocado-Seafood cocktail, ceviches, a trio of salsas, shredded chicken enchiladas verde, turkey mole, tamales, smoky poblano Spanish rice, black beans with bacon, pineapple- cinnamon napoleons with rum caramel.

French
Pick from Mixed greens with goat cheese croutes, herb crepes with smoked salmon and chive crème fraiche, caramelized onion soup, Nicoise stuffed vegetables, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, beef daube-Burghundy beef stew with brandy, chocolate gauteau l’opera, berry napoleons with lots of wines.

Spanish Tapas
Gazpacho with Dungeness Crab, sherried mushroom wheatberry salad, leek and goat cheese tartlets, shrimp in garlic sauce, paella, grilled fish in Romesco sauce, potato and herb tortilla, sherry tasting.

Fee

Contact Ivy for details.