Cooking With Class offers cooking classes for all ages and skill levels. We pride ourselves on teaching people "how to cook" not "how to assemble food." Classes can be demonstration or hands-on and topics range from techniques to different ethnic cuisines.

Cooking With Class opened in October 2005 and is located in the City Plaza strip center on the corner of Fir Road and University Drive in Mishawaka. The store has a wonderful kitchenware boutique offering All-Clad, LeCreuset, and Berndes cookware, Wusthof, Kyocera, and other brands of cutlery, bakeware, gourmet foods, spices, and many gift items.

    Cooking Classes- Summer 2007

Summer Date Night:
"That's Amore!"

Looking for a little creativity and spice in your love life? Look no further than the kitchen. Indulge in an evening that will stir up more than just delicious dishes for you and your lover. Your culinary date will surely be a night to remember. As Dean Martin sings, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore. When the world seems to shine like you’ve had too much wine, that’s amore."

Join Jenn Curran, our director of education, in a popular Couple’s Date Night setting as she demonstrates, with volunteer help from the audience a menu to include: Grilled Country Bread with Garlic Perfume, Ensalada Caprese, Broccoli with Sicilian Lemon Oil, Chicken Scallopini with Angel Hair Pasta, Anguria Imbrigà col Gelato (Drunken Watermelon with Ice Cream). NOW, that’s amore!

The trees are heavy with the bounty of summer. Come to this hands-on class prepared to roll up your sleeves and learn how to make the perfect pie crust, from scratch! Jenn Curran, director of education at Cooking With Class, will discuss and demonstrate different fillings. Participants will have the opportunity to make a complete pie to take home and enjoy.

All participants will receive an Emile Henry ceramic pie dish as a gift to be used during the class. Pie choices to include: Best Ever Blueberry Pie, Old Fashioned Peach, or Tart Cherry with a lattice crust.

Note: This is a fully hands-on, lab style class. (Please bring a rolling pin to class with you or our store sells a wide variety if you need one!)

Tip:

Any fruit pie can be converted to feed a crowd by making it a "sheet or slab pie.

Generally speaking, simply multiply your double crust pastry recipe by 2.5 and filling recipe by 2.

Roll out the pastry into two 20X14 rectangles and line a 15X10 jelly roll pan with one sheet of the pastry, fill and then top with remaining sheet of dough. Reduce oven temperature by 20 degrees and increase the bake time by 12-15 minutes.

Voila! Pie to feed the masses.