Youth Cooking Class: Let’s Veg Out — Grains, Grains, Grains!

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Youth Cooking Class: Let’s Veg Out — Grains, Grains, Grains!

  • date: June 16, 2018
  • time: 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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  • Join us for a delicious afternoon of all-vegan cuisine! Learn how to prepare exciting grains and accompanying vegetables. You will build your own grain bowl by choosing a grain, preparing a vegetable or two, cooking some tofu, and topping it off with your own vinaigrette. Then, we will all learn how to make Lebanese stuffed cabbage leaves, full of flavor and, yes, grains! Are you ready to challenge your palette, explore all that grains have to offer, and learn some of the fun-damentals of cooking?! All ingredients are locally sourced from sustainable farmers nearby.

    This class is intended for kids ages 8-11.

    Class prices include a meal. Accommodations for dietary restrictions upon request.

    This class will focus on vegan cooking and sustainability!

    Skills:
    ●    Basic knife skills
    ●    Grains: preparation, sourcing + production
    ●    Tofu- baked or fried
    ●    Creating flavors: building your own vinaigrette
    ●    Stuffing vegetables

    Recipes:
    ●    Delicious grain bowl with: various roasted available vegetables (asparagus, potatoes, broccoli, kale, turnips, mushrooms, leek); tofu baked or fried (cornmeal, simple spices, oil for frying); rice, quinoa, or lentils; vinaigrette (mustard, oil of choice, vinegar of choice, herb/onion of choice)
    ●    Lebanese lentil and rice stuffed cabbage leaves

    Instructors: Alice Carli & Erica Weisman of Seattle Cucina Cooking School

    Seattle Cucina Cooking School leads creative, hands-on classes to improve students’ nutrition, how they relate to their families and community, and how they participate in sustainable food systems. Cofounders, Alice and Erica, teach in local schools, community centers and after-school programs in the greater Seattle Area.

    Alice received her degree in Public Health from the University of Washington and is interested in the intersection of cooking, nutrition, and childhood development. She has been cooking avidly for the past 10 years for friends and family!

    Erica has worked as a professional cook for the past few years, most recently at the James Beard Award nominated restaurant, Canlis. She has managed a food cooperative and loves working alongside peers to bring the greater Seattle community delicious, wholesome food.

    To register, make your selection from one of the choices in the registration box.

    Learn more about 21 Acres’ cancellation and refund policy.