Technique & Fundamentals

- Gluten-Free chocolate Avocado Pie- chocolate Chip Quinoa Cookies
- Gluten-Free Pizza Crust
- Lemon Cupcakes

- Classic Buttermilk Fried Chicken- Roasted Chicken (with herbs and vegetables)
- Braised Coq au Vin (browned in salt Pork with pearl onions)
- crispy Skin Duck Breast (with honeyed haricot verts and hazelnut vinaigrette)

- Simple Focaccia - Neapolitan style Pizza Margherita
- Cinnamon Rolls

- Perfect Risotto (made with parmesan, lemon, and spring-fresh peas)- Lemon Curry Basmati Rice (a unique rice that will often become your long-grain white rice replacement)
- The Best French Fries (crispy, delicious, cooked the proper way - no need to go to McDonald's)
- Greek-Style Roasted Potatoes (crispy)
- Quinoa Pilaf (pilaf is a style of preparing rice or any other grain. Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is an ancient grain originally used in South America)- Morroccan-Style Couscous (with dried fruit, almond, and honey)

- Mussels (with blue cheese and white wine sauce)
- Pan-Seared Scallops (with sweet raisin compote and roasted cauliflower puree)
- Barbecued Shrimp (with smoked gouda grits)
- Oysters Rockefeller (on the half shell or barbecued, your choice)
- Boiled Lobster (for lobster bisque in stocks and soups class)

- Traditional Pasta Fresca (fresh homemade pasta, rolled out and cut into spaghetti noodles) - Pasta Rossa (red pasta, rolled out and cut into lasagna sheets for cannelloni)
- Pasta Verde (green pasta, rolled out and cut to shape for tortellini)
- Spaghetti al Pomodoro (spaghetti with tomato sauce)
- Cannelloni agli Spinaci (spinach cannelloni) - Ravioli al Funghi (mushroom-stuffed ravioli)

- Creamy European Style Scrambled Eggs - Poached Eggs - the modern way
- Hard Cooked (Boiled) Eggs
- French Omelettes
- made in less than 1 minute
- Frittata;(aka Tortilla Espanola) - only for the brave at heart!- Ham and Egg Quiche

- Basic Sweet Savory Crepe Batter- French Ham, Egg Cheese Crepes
- Crepes Suzette Flambee
- Chocolate Soufflee Seafood Soufflee

You will learn:'- About what knives to buy that are right for you (here's a hint, you won't need that big knife block on the kitchen counter!)
- How to hold your knife properly - How to maintain and care for your knives
- How to dice chop onions, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, bell peppers, and herbs with rapid speed! (hopefully)- How to become a ninja warrior! (maybe)

In this class you will learn to cut:'- A Whole Chicken (learn to cut breast meat, drumsticks, thighs, keeping the much sought after "oyster", and saving the bones to make wonderful stock for your soups and sauces)
- A Whole Fish (learn how to cut the skin off cleanly, and how to cut filets on a snapper or other round fish, saving the precious fish bones to make a flavorful soup and fish stock)