January Cookshop Cooking Classes

WILTON CAKE DECORATING – COURSE 1: DEOCRATING BASICS – Sundays, January 15 & 22

The Wilton Method® Decorating Basics Course is a great foundation for anyone interested in cake decorating. Kathie will show you the right way to decorate, step by step, so that you will by the end, be able to complete a decorated, iced cake. Learn how to bake a great cake, see how to make and color icing and learn the best way to ice the cake. You will also learn to decorate cookies and cupcakes too!

Essential skills for decorating the perfect party cake — piping stars, shells, rosettes, lines, zigzags, and dots; creating drop flowers, pompom flowers, shaggy mums, simple ribbon roses, and leaves; and creating printed and script inscriptions.

Chef: KATHIE BRATKOWSKI & YOU!
1:00-5:00 pm
Three courses for $329* or each course for $149*

RICARDO’S MEDITERRANEAN KITCHEN – Tuesday, January 17th.

Join Chef and Author Ricardo Scebba on a culinary journey of the Mediterranean. Ricardo will share recipes from his recent cookbook ‘That’s Amore’. Enjoy a menu inspired by his own mother’s Italian recipes! Tonight you will enjoy:

  • ·  Roast garlic and brie soup
  • ·  Morel mushroom risotto with truffle oil drizzle
  • ·  Linguine Vongole – fresh clams in a garlic & olive oil toss
  • ·  Pork Tenderloin with Gorgonzola cream sauce, concord grapes, Seigelinde potato galette and crisp vegetables
  • ·  Coconut panna cotta – Toasted coconut, Malibu rum glaze, fresh fruitCHEF & AUTHOR: RICARDO SCEBBA
    THAT’s AMORE – FROM RICARDO SCEBBA’S MEDITERRANEAN KITCHEN
    6:00 – 9:00 pm
    $59* each or 2 for $99*

    FISH HOUSE FAVOURITES – Wednesday, January 18th

    Tonight Executive Chef Karen Barnaby has prepared a fabulous menu featuring Fish House favourites. If you have not been to the restaurant, this is your opportunity to learn Chef Karen’s seafood tips and tricks and enjoy several signature house dishes! This evening’s menu features:

  • ·  The Fish House’s famous clam chowder
  • ·  Prawn pad Thai
  • ·  Crab cakes with angel hair pasta
  • ·  Seared ahi tuna with Diane sauce
  • ·  Chocolate lava cake with espresso crème AnglaiseExecutive Chef: KAREN BARNABY
    THE FISH HOUSE IN STANLEY PARK
    6:00 – 9:00 pm
    $79* each or 2 for $139*

    FUNDAMENTALS OF COOKING – 6 CLASS PARTICIPATION SERIES – Fridays in January & February

    A good grasp of the basics of cooking will not only give you the ability to apply the technique, you will also learn the standards of quality. French-born and trained chef Eric Arrouze will lead you into the classics. The classes will cover, knife skills,vegetable cuts, sauces, stocks, meats, vegetables, seafood, desserts and more in these full hands-on workshops. Gain confidence to cook like a chef in your own kitchen!

    COOKSHOP certificate upon completion of the series!

    Executive Chef: ERIC ARROUZE & YOU!
    www.911cheferic.com

    6:00 – 9:00 pm
    $449* for the series or $129* per class

    VALENTINES DAY CANDLELIGHT DINNER – Tuesday, February 14th – 6:00 – 9:00pm

    Join your sweetheart in our elegantly appointed dining room that combines a romantic and unhurried pace with expert culinary instruction! White linens, candlelight, fresh flowers, fine wines and epicurean decadence awaits you with a sumptuous menu prepared by French Chef Robert Vaillancourt. You will also take home a bottle of bubbly and a special Valentines Day treat!

  • ·  Fig wrapped in prosciutto with blue cheese
  • ·  Dungeness crab cake with micro greens salad
  • ·  Duck confit and mushroom risotto
  • ·  Blood orange sorbet
  • ·  Rack of lamb for two with seasonal vegetables

·  Duo of creme brule and creme caramel

Chef: ROBERT VAILLANCOURT
$299* per couple
6:00-9:00pm