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Boil, blanch and poach – cooking technique class Cooking technique class on boiling, blanching and poaching. If you really want to learn to cook without recipes, understanding the main cooking techniques will help you enormously. Even when you still feel stuck following other people’s recipes. Knowing what the main cooking techniques are all about, will […]

If you really want to learn to cook without recipes, pureed soups are a great dish to practice with. You can see them as a canvas that you can color any way you like: cook a bulky vegetable in stock, then puree and season. In this pureed soups cooking class we will play with the

When my students in our cooking classes ask us about typical Dutch food, we have to bring up stamppot. It’s typical Dutch, and Dutch people to rank their boerenkoolstamppot (kale mash) number one in every ranking of Dutch food. On December 5th, when Sinterklaas (sounds like Santa Claus) visits the Dutch children and shoves presents

Save your turkey bones and learn how to make stock of them! Making stock isn’t that difficult, but there are a few things you should know. Like: don’t boil it when you’re making any meat or fish stock. In this class we will use your Thanksgiving turkey bones, or your chicken bones from the Cook

Get ready for Thanksgiving and learn to cook a whole bird “If you know how to cook one whole bird, you also know how to cook other whole birds too.” That’s what my culinary school teacher said when I asked him how to cook a whole goose (!). Info Cook a whole bird cooking class