Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Summer Cooking Camps are Back!

Join us for a week-long course, for elementary-age kids, designed with a unique and exciting theme that offers hands-on participation, detailed cooking instruction and their very own notebook full of recipes to take home!  Plus, every day the kids get to eat what they create!  The camps will run Monday through Thursday during the months of June and July at my home in Fairfield.  Your kids are invited to join the fun as I look forward to teaching them the art of cooking!

 

 

Cooks and Books Returns

June 8-11           $65

Mon.-Thurs.   10 am-12 pm           K-6th grade

                   2- 4 pm                  K-6th grade*

 All new books and all new recipes will make this a favorite class for children of all ages. 

Think “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”!!  Kids will look at stories a whole new way, as they create recipes inspired from some of their favorite books.  Classic children’s stories like “Stone Soup” and new favorites like “If You Give A Pig A Pancake” offer plenty of inspiration for growing gourmets.  We will bake bread like the little red hen, eat like the hungry caterpillar and perhaps reprise our favorite “Green Eggs and Ham.”  Come hungry for good books and good food.

  

Around the World in 4 Days

June 15-18                   $65

Mon.-Thurs.   10 a.m.-12 p.m.       K-6th grade **morning class only

Kids will be transported around the world as they learn the customs, culture, language and food specialties of countries different from their own.  Campers will learn that trying new foods can be fun, especially as they are enveloped in the culture of a foreign land.  We will “visit” Japan, Greece, Italy and France as we travel around the world, learning how to prepare exotic food for friends and family.  What a fun way to learn to cook…especially when chopsticks are included!

 

*** I will be traveling to Europe between these classes…from London to Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris…looking for yummy recipes to bring back to the children for the next class.

  

Manners Matter: Traveling in Style

July 13-16           $65

Mon.-Thurs.   10 am-12 pm           K-6th grade

                   2- 4 pm                  K-6th grade*

Having good manners are important every day, not just when we sit down to dine at a fancy restaurant.  This four-week session will focus on etiquette, setting the table and good table manners as we cook recipes that test even the neatest and most polite child!  Please don’t think this is a “stuffy, boring” class…for we will use our etiquette expertise to “travel” to exotic lands and have…high tea in England…pastries on the sidewalk cafes of Paris…fondue on the long voyage aboard the Orient Express from Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam to Turkey…and a fine dining experience at the Plaza in New York.   

  

Camp-Out Cuisine

July 20-23           $65

Mon.-Thurs.   10 am-12 pm           K-6th grade

                   2- 4 pm                  K-6th grade*

You don’t have to be a master chef to prepare camping foods, but if you use the culinary skills of one, you are sure to elevate these simple and fun recipes to an art form.  In this class, we will learn how to prepare food in foil over a campfire, learn what foods to take on the trail, create dinner on a stick and how to safely use the outdoor grill.  We can’t forget the classic s’more…but we will try it with our own homemade marshmallows.  Yum!

 

*Two classes will be offered as long as there is enough participation. 

3 comments:

  1. So sorry, just saw your comment on my blog. I do not have the recipe for Cafe Eccells Strawberry Tart with me anymore.

    I do know that the shell is a brown sugar based almond lace cookie. We scooped it out w/ an ice cream scoop onto foil squares and flatten a bit. Bake and while still hot mold it the shape of a flower using a bowl. It HURTS like the dickens and your fingers will never forgive you.

    The filling was a mixture of pastry cream and sweetened whipped cream whipped together.

    Halved Strawberries w/ melted apricot jam brushed on top.

    Hope this gives you an idea.

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  2. My daughter is very interested in cooking classes, though we aren't able to make any of the camps this summer because of conflicts. Will you be offering classes again this fall? We are really interested! :-)
    Thanks,
    Dana, drleeds at sbcglobal dot net

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  3. Thanks Melissa! I think I may have recreated the strawberry tart...at least a close copy, but your description helps me with the thickness of the batter for the shell. I appreciate it.

    And yes friends, in the next couple of days I hope to post my Fall schedule. Thanks for your comments!

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