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Cooking with Tea
Start the New Year with Kris James, who will show you how to incorporate tea into healthful, flavorful recipes. Sample a selection of tasty teas and foods that taste so good you hardly know they're good for you. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic here in Minnesota to medical institutions in the Netherlands and Japan have documented the health benefits of various teas. Handouts provided. Together we will prepare: Chinese tea eggs, sesame green tea vinaigrette, jasmine tea-scented couscous, chai-scented almonds, Ceylon cheese crisps. Take home plenty of these goodies for later.
Skin Spa Morning
De-stress and protect yourself from our harsh Minnesota winters! Kris James will help you prepare a variety of herbal spa treatments to take home - a chocolate/tea facial, lavender/sage hand and foot soother, grapefruit/juniper sugar scrub - and receive recipes for many others.
Pizza Making Party
Friends and family of Dr. Bruce Hubbard will tell you that an invitation to a pizza party at his home means an invitation to a GREAT party. Learn hands-on how he makes a large batch of perfect dough/crust from scratch, and uses it to entertain and feed guests for hours. This recipe works for warming your home in the middle of winter or turns your barbeque into a pizza oven in the summer! Taste a variety of pizzas; and take home ideas for other mouth-watering combinations. You will leave class with a small pizza and dough for making another one at home.
Chocolate Lovers
We'll be playing with chocolate in this class and making high-quality, molded chocolate flowers and many other shapes. Kris James will show us how to mold and flavor chocolates, create some simple rolled truffles, and make a fool-proof, easy chocolate soufflé. You'll take home a variety of unique chocolate delights to share with family and friends.
Mothers' Day Treats
Celebrate Mother's Day with some delicious home baked treats. Join Kris James, baker extraordinaire, and create several varieties of both savory and sweet scones and mini quick breads. Using ingredients like mangos, apricots, figs, fresh herbs and hazelnuts, you'll take home some wonderful goodies for your family. We'll also prepare some beautiful, flavored butters to accompany our irresistible goodies.
Gifts from the Kitchen
Add pizzazz and creativity to your holiday gift-giving and party menus. With Kris James, we'll learn how to make sweet and savory butters in fanciful shapes and homemade mustards using fresh herbs and spices. We'll also prepare visually stunning tortas, creamy cheeses layered with fresh and innovative flavors, such as garden-fresh vegetables, pestos, and edible flowers. Another simple, elegant way to put the "wow factor" onto any holiday fare is with homemade chutneys and relish. Dress up a pork tenderloin with ruby-colored spiced cranberry or pear-and-star-fruit chutney, or create a colorful Pennsylvania Dutch pepper relish to adorn homemade crackers, cheeses or sausage. Relish the thought - we've got you covered for gift-giving and party fare with extra flare!
Cookies with a Twist
Back by popular demand, with new flavors! Add excitement to holiday cookies using local and exotic herbs and spices. Lemon verbena, lavender, fresh ginger, matcha, and other international spices are just a few of the ingredients you'll learn to combine for deliciously different cookies. After tasting several varieties, you will create more of your favorites to take home and enjoy yourself - or stash in the freezer to use later. Instructor Kris James has taught cooking classes and traveled extensively for more than 15 years. She will share interesting facts and origins of ingredients from Japan, India, Spice Islands, China and the United States.
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