Learn how to use cultures to make your own sour cream or yogurt and Mozzarella cheese.
At the same time understand some cheese making fundamentals.
Discover how to flavor your cheese, as well as how easy and quick it can be made. Enjoy meeting new friends. Bring cheese home.
Adult $45
Have guests coming for the weekend? Here is a recipe that is sure to please! Enjoy some “down-time” and relax with friends or come meet new ones while spending time in the Art of Cookery kitchen. You will learn to make Country Scones.
Included are great tips and tricks for baking pastries…and scones in particular. Students will make and bake scones and take theirs home.
This recipe is great for adapting to any seasonal fruit, dried fruit, chocolate chips.
Adult $29
Yes you CAN!
Rock your pressure canner! Learn how to pressure can so you can capture the gourmet delight of every season.
Chef Valerie has been trained and certified by the Department of Agriculture through its Better Process Control School to teach home canning and has been canning for over 45 years.
It is important to know safe pressure canning and if your canner itself is safe. The product to be canned will be announced as we get closer and will usually reflect what is in season. Chef Valerie will consider specific requests for what will be canned in class.
Learn the differences between pressure canning and water bath canning and when to use which method. Discover many tips and tricks. Product canned will be dependent on available produce, but results guaranteed wonderful. Feel free to ask questions about other methods of preserving the harvest, such as dehydrating and freezing.
Make, bring, or meet friends! Students will take home one jar of canned product. Feel free to bring your canner for a brief overview of its safety by Chef Valerie.
Adult $40
Pierogi are essentially filled dumplings that are boiled and often, then fried. They hail from central and eastern Europe. Homemade pierogi are a traditional Christmas Eve food in many homes. But these delicious little gems shouldn’t be limited to one day of the year and can be adjusted in both fillings and sauces to every season. They freeze well and make great last minute meals.
Come and learn this wonderful food that can be both savory and sweet. While potatoes are often the main filling they can be switched up to suit your fancy. Discover how to adjust their flavors.
Make pierogi as part of this class and take home some for dinner.
Adult: $36
There truly is a difference in flavor when making a pumpkin pie from natural ingredients…and we mean the pumpkin too. Learn how to easily make a pumpkin pie by opening ZERO cans of anything.
Upon arrival, participants will be putting a pie in the oven to bake while they learn all of the steps to getting to that point.
Start by making the pastry and learn tips for keeping it from getting soggy under the wet custard. Next, see how easy (and hands-off) it is to roast your own pumpkin, then. Finally, make the pie filling using items normally on hand, as well as learn a few ways to adapt it to your tastes and bring it to another level. At the end, get the pie from the oven while learning what it should look like when it is finished baking. Bring a pie home with you.
$35 per person or $60 for a team of 2 making one pie.
Does pie making challenge you? Chef Valerie says it shouldn’t, and she should know, she was named one of the top 6 Pie Makers in Michigan!
Join us for a pastry session that will make you famous. Learn to make pie crusts and follow it up with baking a tasty pie using in-season fruit. You’ll take your pie home to enjoy (and brag about)!
Truly with a few good tips it is easy to get rid of store-bought and be the pie maker that is famous in your family. Bring your beverage of choice if you wish.
You will start by assembling a pie and getting it in the oven. Then, while it is baking, learn all of the steps by making the pie pastry. Examples would be tips on adapting the recipe to any fruit pie, how to finish a great pie with various top pastry adaptions (lattice crust, cut-outs, rustic), and finishing options (egg wash, cream wash, etc.) Even learn about some tools that would be helpful.
Onsite: $35 per person making 1 pie
Onsite: $60 for 2 people making 1 pie
In each box below, click on the name of the class you are interested in to see it’s description and schedule. Remember you can request a class to be scheduled at a time/date that suits your calendar. Use the Select by Category box to jump around by various topics. Don’t see a topic of interest? Make a request, the Chef loves a challenge.
Pie Perfection – Flavor is seasonal
Pie Perfection – Flavor is Customer’s Choice
Mincemeat – Really, give it a try
Real Pot Pie – No Cans/Boxes
Cheesecake Pie
Cream Pie – Flavor varies
Pecan Pie – (old school, real food ingredients, no corn syrup)
Pumpkin Pie Perfection – (from a pumpkin)
Single Crust Pie – Flavor is Customer’s Choice
Learn to waterbath can too!
July and August, September (and even into October) are months bursting with harvest to preserve. Here is a class that you can learn how to make crunchy, zesty dill slices (with cucumbers, zucchini, green tomatoes…) and learning how to properly water bath can.
You will also learn when it is crucial to pressure can and how to know the difference.
The pickles you will take home will be a wonderful blend of garlic and dill. You can even decide to make them spicy.
$29.00 (all materials provided)
$21 Bringing 2 jars/lids/rings (the number of participants will determine how many jars)
Fresh pasta and sauces… Learn these and become a food hero to those you feed. You can bring your own favorite wine to enjoy as you learn how to make pastas. Create ravioli, gnocchi, tortellini, linguini and more. The class will be different each time, so you can keep coming back! One time make egg noodles and ravioli with alfredo and marinara; the next linguini and gnocchi with lemon cream sauce and a parsley-pistachio pesto, another time it’ll be fettuccini and tortellini with a mushroom Bolognese and brown gravy. If you are the first to book this class, you can request specific pastas; and they don’t have to be the pairs listed together above. Spread the word and let’s have a pasta party!
Each session includes instructions and samples, plus divide what is made in class to take home.
You will make two types of pasta and two sauces…AND see how easy it is to make again in your kitchen!
Adult On-Site $40, or $35 each if booking 3 or more
Adult Online $30
