Culinary Group Activities
Our Chef Steven can offer a range of culinary experiences for your group. As an activity, you might schedule a cooking class for your participants. We also can offer a "Bend Bounty" event during a meal or hos d'oeuvres time, to showcase local producers of farm products, artisan cheeses, micro brews, wines, and distilled spirits.
Cooking Class Descriptions
Sauces & Soups
This class will cover the preparation and application of stocks, the four mother sauces (White, Brown, Tomato & Egg), and how to expand upon these sauces. To compliment Fish, Meat, Vegetarian and Poultry dishes. We will also learn how to make a wide variety of soups from hot to cold, and vegetarian.
Fusion Cuisine
Fusion cuisine focuses on the combination of ingredients and techniques from diverse cultures to create an end result which challenges the artistic and creative abilities of the chef and the dinner. We will be covering the blending of Asian, French, Southwestern, and American dishes.
Wine and Food 101
This class will cover the basics of pairing wine and food to enhance your dinner. We will discuss how to pick out the right wine to go with the right food, for all occasions from appetizers to dessert. You will learn how to pull the flavor components out of wine and food for a unique pairing experience. I will also show you how to prepare a simple four course wine paired dinner in your home.
Basic Baking
This class will cover how to prepare some basic desserts and simple dessert techniques. We will make everything from custards to chocolate desserts. I will demonstrate how to melt chocolate, make crème brulle, flourless chocolate cake, tiramisu and fruit tarts. We will also cover how to garnish and present the desserts.
Sophisticated salads
This class we will discuss how to dress up the ordinary salad into a meal of its own. We will cover how to make a wide variety of dressings from simple vinaigrettes to more advanced emulsion dressings. You will learn how to make hot and cold salads, and how to make salads that fit every season, using the freshest of ingredients.
Food Basics
Abandon those fears! There is a kitchen in your house. Don’t be afraid to use it. This class will cover a wide variety of topics from simple to more sophisticated techniques. The Preparation and cooking methods used for meats, poultry, fish and vegetables will be covered. We will also cover proper knife skills, ingredients, cooking theories, and how to shop for your house.
Under the Sea
This class will be diving into the depths of the ocean to learn about the many different varieties of fish and shellfish out there. We will cover how to shop, clean and prepare a variety of fish and shellfish.
