DeStress Fest (virtual)
DeStress Fest is (3) 20-minute segments teaching ways to relax in the kitchen and throughout your day.
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Farm to Fork – Summer (virtual)
Farm to Fork builds dishes from produce you’d find at your local farmers market. Learn about interesting foods you’ve seen at the market, but never knew what to do with, as well as classic dishes with seasonal flair. Here’s some things we have made in the past…
Street Food Disrupted (virtual)
Street Food is known to be fast and flavorful. What if we added an at-home DIY version that added in a bit more health?
10 Questions with Chef Laura
Meet the Chef: Interview With Laura Stec Laura Stec is a chef, educator, and author specializing in events and products for healthy people and the planet. Her work has been featured in NPR, Martha Stewart, the Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American. We sent some questions to Chef Laura to learn more about her and her… continue reading
Snack Attack! (virtual)
Snack Attack! originally started as a hands on class for children with a program called Chefs Move to Schools, but has since morphed into a class for adults as well. Scroll down to older blogs for more recipes from past classes. Here’s a few quick snacks we made last time…
Best of Keto (and intermittent fasting)
Both topics could use a whole hour of explanation and recipes if not more, but we combine into one class which focuses on Keto and introduces fasting. I am not a big keto fan, but believe the practice can teach us a lot about how we eat. It is a good short term experiment that… continue reading
Quarantine Cuisine (virtual)
Stuck at home this Covid season? Nothing on the grocery store shelves? Learn some new ideas with foods already in your kitchen.
Plant- Forward 2020
The current trend and best way of eating is plant-forward, building your meals with plant foods and adding meat (if at all) as a condiment or side dish. Plants feed the microbiome that live in our gut and help keep our digestive system working well. Plants help keep our skin looking bright and our eyes… continue reading
Inflammation Be Gone
“How many of you suffer from inflammation?” This is the first question asked to students of the class, Inflammation be Gone. There are over 100 different types of inflammation, including the most common inflammatory arthritis. Since we all have different reactions to outside influences such as food, and different triggers to pain, it’s hard for… continue reading
The Food Classics (+ one) Exploration of a Sauce
We taught a Summer Reading series for local libraries called The Food Classics (+ one) Exploration of a Sauce. Students read or cooked from the books of Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Charles Phan, Harold McGee, and Laura Stec, and shared what they learned while we cooked from the books in class. “Exploration of the Sauce”… continue reading