Youth Cooking Class: Eat Like an Italian — Fresh Pasta Party!

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Youth Cooking Class: Eat Like an Italian — Fresh Pasta Party!

  • date: May 19, 2018
  • time: 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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  • This class is the perfect place for young cooks, ages 7-11, with minimal experience and a taste for Italian cuisine! We will learn to make fresh pasta and handmade raviolis stuffed with ricotta cheese, and will end the class by baking off delicious ginger biscotti cookies. Both recipes highlight seasonal foods and fundamental cooking skills needed by any Italian home chef. All ingredients are locally sourced from sustainable farms. Eat like an Italian while never leaving the Pacific Northwest! 

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

    This class will focus on “Italian sensibility + sustainability.”

    Skills:
    ●    Fresh pasta– making the dough by hand, rolling it out, what makes a good pasta
    ●    Building ravioli
    ●    Baking biscotti
    ●    Learning about different flours/grains and where they come from

    Recipes:
    ●    Fresh ravioli stuffed w/ ricotta in a sage brown butter sauce
    ●    Italian ginger cookies

    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.