Nella Cucina Offers Cooking Classes in the New Year

Greetings!
It's due to snow tomorrow. I'm hopeful that it comes down in the big, fat, fluffy form that kickstarts my Christmas glow. Fingers crossed.
If you're searching for an unusual gift for a hard-to-buy-for person, why not consider cooking courses at Nella Cucina?
The home to all things delightful and culinary on Bathurst offers a variety of cooking classes in the new year, including An Evening In Italy and Romantic Valentine's Dinner.
Cheers,
Vanessa

Cooking Classes at Nella Cucina

Nella Cucina on Bathurst has a set of cooking classes lined up for the upcoming Autumn evenings.
Courses include Couples Eastern Mediterranean; Easy Italian; and Saturday Scones.
Check out the full schedule.
Cheers,
Vanessa

Cooking Classes at Nella Cucina on Bathurst

Nella Cucina is a great (and great big) store on Bathurst that sells "all things kitchen."
It's also home to cooking classes. June's topics include Under The Tuscan Sun, Kitchen Basics II and Gluten Free Baking.
June 25th features Table 876 with Fidel Gastro, which promises "an evening of incredible food from Fidel Gastro, Beer from Beau’s and your very own Le Creuset piece! Enjoy four courses of game-meat inspired dishes with beer pairings to match as well as prize giveaways every hour.
Ole!
Chicken fried rabbit with thick grits
Sticky wild-boar ribs
Oxtail stuffed baked potato 
Porchetta style goat with fennel red onion slaw."
Bon appetit!
Vanessa

Cooking Classes at Nella Cucina

I think that everyone should know how to cook; I believe that it is an essential skill. However, some of us make it to adulthood without knowing the basics and tackling a meal can be daunting.
Never fear! Nella Cucina on Bathurst offers cooking classes, including one called Knife Skills, which, no doubt, covers the basics.
Other courses in January and February include Make & Take Pie; How To Feed A Family; and Warm Soups & Salad. There's also a March Break kids' cooking camp.
Cheers,
Vanessa

Cooking Classes at Nella Cucina

I passed Nella Cucina on Bathurst recently, which reminded me that I haven't Blogged about it lately.
The establishment sells "food equipment and smallwares for the restaurant industry and home use" and also offers cooking classes.
I can get a bit long-winded about the need for people to know how to cook, including teenagers. So it's only fair that I share cooking class information.
On the upcoming schedule are classes as varied as Knife Skills; Around the Mediterranean; and Cooking with BEER.
Cheers,
Vanessa

Nella Cucina Cooking Classes

I love walking past Nella Cucina on Bathurst, north of Bloor, and just gawking at whatever's in the window. The kitchen items they sell are beautiful to ogle.
More than a store, the establishment also offers cooking classes. The schedule for December includes classes devoted to Christmas Brunch and Holiday Treats.
Cheers,
Vanessa

Cooking Classes at Nella Cucina And Dish

Fortunately, I love to cook. Although I am the youngest in my family, I have been in charge of the big family meals since I was 14 -- and, yes, that includes Christmas dinner.

I regard cooking as a necessary skill, but I think I'm a bit old-fashioned in that regard. I have been insistent about teaching my kids to cook, though the likelihood might be, as with their peers, that when they grow up many of their meals will be order-in or eat out. Still, I'd like them to have the option to cook.

My inspiration to teach my kids sprang from two things: watching fresh, young University students, newly released to live on their own, standing in terror at the local Metro as they eye the food lining the aisles, wondering how to make the items in cans, boxes and plastic wrap resemble a meal.

The second has been observing some of the younger generation of my extended family at family functions and realizing that they have no idea how to put a meal together. I mean not... the... first... clue.

I have the luxury of teaching my kids how to cook and bake. For the most part, I work from home and I am underemployed.
It's much more common these days to have two busy parents who spend any spare time shuttling children from one activity to the next, or keeping up with house work and social commitments. Finding the time to teach the kids to cook might be a challenge, if not impossible. Also, of course, some parents themselves don't know how to cook.

The solution? Cooking classes and there at least two local options.

First, cooking classes at Nella Cucina on Bathurst, north of Bloor. Second, cooking classes for parents at Dish Cooking Studio on Dupont. Non-cooking parents could bring their newfound cooking skills home and share them.

In addition to being educational, both sets of cooking classes look like fun, too! Themes include Indian Vegetarian Cooking Adventure and Boot Camp 1 Baking Basics at Dish and at Nella, Winterlicous for Kids, which features Indian cuisine. At Nella, some of the classes are for children only, but most are for parents and kids.
Sounds like a fun way to spend a day together.

Happy cooking,

Vanessa

Dish Cooking Studio

I was reading about the new cooking school opening up at St. Lawrence Market, The Market Kitchen, when I remembered that we have our very own cooking school, too!
Dish Cooking Studio on Dupont has a chock-full calendar of events.
It also has a little cafe if you're into consuming more than creating.
Cheers,
Vanessa