Upcoming Cooking Sessions......

This session, in addition to the dinner classes, I am adding a baking class per request. The upcoming class schedule is as follows:

Dinner Classes - Wednesday or Friday from 3:30 - 4:45
Wednesdays, February 11th - March 4th
Fridays, February 13th - March 6th
The cost of the Dinner class is $120.00.

- In our cooking classes, the children will make a complete dinner to feed your family. On the night of their class, they will come home with dinner all made and ready to be popped into the oven. I will have the oven preheat times posted before the classes so you can have the oven all preheated and ready to go when they come home.
- We try making different recipes that enable them to learn about and try a variety of kitchen appliances and gadgets so they feel comfortable using basic kitchen tools.
- Each student will have their own apron and cooking station, complete with their own set of basic kitchen equipment to use during class.
- At the end of every session, they will get a recipe book with all the recipes used in the class.

Dessert Classes - Mondays from 3:30-4:45
Mondays, February 9th - 23rd
The cost of the dessert class is $65.00

Basically the same things apply in the baking class as the dinner classes except the students will come home with desserts instead of dinner.

Please email me at anna@onceuponawhisk.com to register for classes.

Little Meat Loaves and Cheesy Potatoes!

"Meat loaf with lemons?!", the girls asked.

A little trick for chopping onions without crying, cut your onion in half and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes before chopping. Unfortunately for Makena, I forgot to put the onions in the freezer until right before the girls came so she got a little teary..... :)

The oven for today's dinner needs to be preheated to 350 for both dishes. The meat will cook for 45 minutes and the potatoes for 30 minutes, both at the same temp.

The girls had fun today juicing lemons and making homemade lemonade!

Maiya loved cutting the lemons and did a great job doing it!

Sidney loved juicing the lemons!

The lemonade recipe is as follows:
1 cup lemon juice
3/4 cup sugar
2 quarts water
Add more or less sugar to your liking!

Okay girls, you were sent home with lots of fresh lemon juice. Try this yummy recipe for lemon bars this week at home!

Lemon Bars

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2/3 cup powdered sugar

3/4 cup butter, softened

3 eggs

1 1/2 cups sugar

3 tablespoons flour

1/4 cup lemon juice

1/3 cup powdered sugar for decoration

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.

2. Combine the flour, 2/3 cup powdered sugar, and butter and pat dough into prepared pan.

3. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until slightly golden.

4. While the crust is baking, whisk together eggs, sugar, flour, and lemon juice until frothy. Pour this lemon mixture over the hot crust.

5. Return to the preheated oven for an additional 20 to 25 minutes, or until light golden brown.

6. Cool on a wire rack. Dust (dust means to sprinkle, using a fine strainer works best or you can can shake over the top with a spoon) the top with powdered sugar. Cut into squares. Yum-O!!

Friday's Class....

Here are some of the girls "tossing" their fresh salads. Putting your chopped up salad and veggies in a big ziploc, is a great (and fun) way to mix or toss the sald before putting in a bowl!

For next week's class, we will be making Little mini meat loaves with potatoes. For those of you who want to come home straight from class and pop it in the oven, the oven needs to be preheated to 350 degrees. See ya' next week!

Chicken Pot Pie, homemade applesauce, salad w/ homemade dressing....

>The girls have learned so much! It's so fun to hear and see them using the skills they learned in the last session! They did a fabulous job making a great, nutritious meal today. Who remembers how many food groups we covered in one meal? Most of which are from one dish!

Sydney's mom, Leslie, had a great idea with the applesauce. She suggested eating it warm, topped with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce after dinner! Yum! Sounds delicious! I'm going to have that for dessert tonight.....

A perfect example of what I hope the girls come away from these classes with - inspiration (among learning some cooking basics!) I hope cooking these dishes inspires you girls to think of different combination's, try substituting things, changing things and creating your own recipes! That's one of the things I love most about cooking.

What else can you do with homemade applesauce? What else could you put in your chicken pot pie? What other meal could you make using the idea of the pot pie?

And, will someone please remind me to take pictures?! Each week I leave it out so I can capture your cute faces as you eyeball your measuring cup or have your tongue hanging out the side of your mouth while you carefully pour something in and, I FORGET!! Too many things going on I guess......so please help me remember!!

Hope you enjoyed your dinner, you did such a great job with everything!