Enhance your skills in the kitchen and learn a fresh approach to tasting your food. Join me in my home for this fifth year of fun instruction in the culinary arts. I’ll share with you my style of combining and refining the flavors and textures in each dish we make together. I’ll cover food science and technique as we go to give you an understanding of why recipes work.
Each class is limited to 10 participants and will run from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The cost of each class is $75.00 per student. To sign up, please call me at (360) 378-7003, or email me: gretchen@rockisland.com
Note: Classes are offered at my home. I live at the bottom of a steep hill, and snow on the ground makes driving difficult. Please call for rescheduling if it snows.
Schedule:
*Special Christmas classes in December! Featuring Patrick Honeywell, former pastry chef at the Westin Hotel and guest instructor at the San Francisco Baking Institute.
*December 8th and 9th - Gingerbread Houses from start to finish. (TWO DAY CLASS)
First day - Concept, design, modeling and baking.
Second day - construction, decorating, marzipan skills. Take home your beautiful creation.
*December 15th - Christmas baking.
Bouche de Noel, Chocolate liquor truffles, Christmas Stollen bread. Get ready for the holidays and take home the yummy things that you bake.
*December 16th - Christmas baking, repeat
January 4th - The flavors of Turkish cuisine.
A Turkish meal from start to finish.
Local lamb, flat bread, eggplant, cinnamon, sumac, garlic, mint.... Yum!
January 5th - The flavors of Turkish cuisine, repeat
January 6th - The flavors of Turkish cuisine, repeat
January 12th - Celebrating Local Ingredients! Eating local for flavor and health.
A meal built around an original Island raised beef stew recipe, produce from the farmers market, fresh milk and butter from Heritage Farm. Dessert by special guest chef Patrick Honeywell.
January 13th - Celebrating Local Ingredients! repeat
January 19th - An Indonesian Meal
Sumatran style spiced goat (Lopez raised)
Roti Jala - lacy pancake
Manado style pork satay with sweet and hot sauce
Raw vegetable salad
Banana fritters
January 20th - An Indonesian Meal, repeat
January 25th - Appetizers
Crispy coconut calamari with roasted pablano chili aioli.
Individual leek and cheese soufflé
Asian scallion-crab cakes with basil crema and ginger soy drizzle
Betsy's cheese crackers
Baked oysters Rockafeller
Canapés by special guest chef Patrick Honeywell .
January 26th - Appetizers, repeat
February 2nd - Appetizers, repeat
February 10th - Appetizers, repeat
Driving directions from Friday Harbor:
West on Spring St. which becomes San Juan Valley Road as you leave town. Left onto Douglas which eventually turns sharp right and becomes Bailer Hill Rd. Left at the top of the hill onto Kanaka Bay Rd. Go beyond the end of the county road onto the gravel road. Turn left onto Mountain Shadows Lane, and then downhill past the 'Eaglesong' sign. At the bottom of the hill turn left and very shortly turn right into the driveway marked "Allison-Kirby". The house looks like a tall barn. See you there!