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Kitchen Conservatory offers a wide variety of cooking classes, both participation and demonstration. Please scroll our current schedule to find a delicious cooking class that is right for you. Multiple refinements can be used to find the very cooking class of your dreams. Or purchase a gift certificate for any cooking class. All cooking classes are held at Kitchen Conservatory. Bon appetit!

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GREENS AND GRAINS

Sharon Tutko, health and wellness coach, offers dishes with bursts of flavor to bump up the fiber and protein in your diet with Minnesota wild rice, buckwheat, Einkorn wheat, quinoa, arugula, Swiss chard, leeks, spinach, and kale, starting with a winter vegetable buckwheat crostata with white cheddar and lemon-sesame honey drizzle. Enjoy wild rice pilaf with roasted butternut squash, arugula, pecans, cranberries, and feta, plus a quinoa Buddha bowl with massaged kale, roasted carrots and chickpeas topped with 3-ingredient tahini dressing and hemp seeds. #vegetarian #healthy #weekday

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Sharon Tutko
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Demonstration
$55 Per Person
Fri, Mar 7
11 am to 1:30 pm

ST. PAT EATS GREEN

Celebrate the Irish vegan-style with the amiable Lisa Buchmeier for a class that is a powerhouse of nutrition and antioxidants, and is free of cholesterol, meat, dairy, and eggs. This hands-on class will make naturally sweetened shamrock chia cream shake garnished with kiwi, stuffed cabbage rolls with citrus avocado and short grain brown rice salad served with a garlicky cilantro dressing, tempeh minced meat shepherd's pie with green beans and cremini mushroom gravy topped with piped swirls of whipped sweet potatoes with nutmeg and fresh chives, plus oil-free spelt spice cupcakes drizzled with sweet caramel date cream. #healthy

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Lisa Buchmeier
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$65 Per Person
Sun, Mar 16
12 to 2:30 pm

VEGETABLE-CENTRIC

Delicious vegetables are at the center of the plate for this hands-on technique class with Produce Manager Matt Sassman using familiar and unfamiliar vegetables, roots, tubers, leaves, legumes, and aromatics. Learn to roast, braise, blanch, steam, mash, fry, pickle, and create a gratin of any vegetable, cream of any vegetable soup, butter-braised vegetables, roasted vegetables, vegetable purée, plus how to cook leafy greens, and enhance vegetables using dairy or cheese. #vegetarian #healthy

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Matthew Sassman
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$65 Per Person
Wed, Mar 19
6 to 9 pm

PALEO AND GLUTEN-FREE COOKING

Devon Drag shares the paleolithic hunter-gatherer approach to cooking, combined with a gluten-free menu for an exciting hands-on class, starting with shredded romaine-red cabbage-carrot salad with green onions and toasted almonds and a sesame-date dressing, topped with toasted sesame seeds. This hands-on class will make "cream" of broccoli soup with leeks and shallots and onions sautéed with curry powder and blended with vegetable stock and coconut milk, honey-garlic shrimp stir-fried with asparagus served over sesame-garlic fried cauliflower "rice", plus sautéed lacinato kale and Swiss chard with garlic and lemon zest. #healthy #glutenfree

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Devon Drag
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$65 Per Person
Tue, Mar 25
6 to 8:30 pm

TRUST YOUR GUT WITH LOW FODMAP COOKING

Sharon Tutko lights up when sharing a wealth of knowledge on gut health and how to feel better with the foods you eat, what to avoid, and methods for digestive healing. Enjoy an informative afternoon with a low FODMAP dinner with a welcoming cup of herbal cumin-coriander-fennel tea, roasted carrot-ginger soup with a tahini drizzle and gluten-free croutons, porcini-dusted grouper over asparagus with maitake risotto, biome broth, plus brown-butter flourless dark chocolate brownies. #healthy

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Sharon Tutko
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Demonstration
$55 Per Person
Sun, Mar 30
12:30 to 3 pm

A BIG WYNNE FOR BREAKFAST AND LUNCH

Christy Wynne shares her love for creating gluten-free and dairy-free winning dishes with superfoods great for breakfast or lunch, starting with a wild blueberry acai bowl with fruits and vegetables topped with homemade granola. Enjoy creamy chocolate-coconut smoothie with hidden cauliflower, kale salad with toasted pecans and dried cranberries tossed in lemon shallot vinaigrette, crunchy rainbow cabbage-kale Thai salad with quinoa and carrots topped with almond butter-sesame dressing, plus chocolate chip zucchini bars. #healthy #weekday

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Christy Wynne
Culinary Educator
Demonstration
$55 Per Person
Thu, Apr 3
11 am to 1:30 pm

DATE NIGHT FOR COUPLES: THE VIETNAMESE FUSION VEGAN-IZER

Join the enthusiastic Lisa Buchmeier for an evening of plant-based cholesterol-free and dairy-free high-fiber Vietnamese fusion dishes in a hands-on class designed for couples, starting with pho with rich flavors from star anise, cloves, cinnamon and garlic topped with peanuts and crispy tofu. Learn to make roasted portobello and vegetable banh mi with spicy mayo and pickled vegetables, caramelized sticky sweet miso eggplant, plus pandan-infused cinnamon rolls made with almond and oat flour topped with a cashew and maple glaze naturally sweetened with dates. #healthy

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Lisa Buchmeier
Culinary Educator
Hands-On
$150 Per Couple
Fri, Apr 4
6 to 8:30 pm

NOURISH YOUR BODY

Sharon Tutko is the driving force behind guiding this class down the right path to a balanced approach to nutrition, incorporating healthy fats, protein, and plenty of fiber. This hands-on class will create a nourishing and nutritious meal with quinoa-black bean-avocado salad with cilantro and bell peppers tossed in citrus dressing, grilled salmon with lemon-dill sauce, roasted Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes, plus sticky date cake with chia seeds topped with cardamom whip served with berries, and a refreshing ginger-lemon-mint digestive tea.

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Sharon Tutko
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$65 Per Person
Fri, Apr 4
6 to 8:30 pm

HEIR AND A PARENT: WAKE UP CALL

Retired school teacher Marci Boland is always on the go and shares healthy make-ahead breakfast options that are fast and easy for adults and children. This hands-on class will create homemade maple-cinnamon granola, pumpkin mini loaves with chocolate chips and walnuts, protein whole wheat bagels, almond chia pudding with a variety of mix-ins, build-your-own breakfast egg muffins with any combination of cheese and bacon or sausage and vegetables, make-ahead ground turkey breakfast burritos, and peanut butter balls. This class is designed for children, ages 7 to 11, plus a parent. #healthy

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Marci Boland
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$125 For Parent and Child
Sun, Apr 6
12 to 2:30 pm

WHOLE 30 HEALTHY EATING

Certified yoga instructor Devon Drag shares the benefits of removing five food groups from your food regimen for thirty days to create a healthy way of eating. This hands-on class will make romaine-spinach-radicchio salad with tomatoes and olives and red onions tossed in lemon-chive dressing, roasted tomato soup with thyme and cashew milk garnished with homemade pesto, Tuscan chicken with a coconut cream and sun-dried tomato sauce with spinach and artichoke hearts served over garlic cauliflower mash, roasted broccoli with lemon zest and garlic, plus a sparkling pomegranate-cranberry mocktail. #healthy

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Devon Drag
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$65 Per Person
Wed, Apr 9
6 to 8:30 pm

HOW IS THIS GLUTEN-FREE?

Sharon Tutko takes a page out of the famous cafe cookbook, Tartine: A Classic Revisited by Elisabeth Pruiett and Chad Robertson, to recreate some of Elisabeth's gluten-free treats. This hands-on class will bake cream cheese short dough apple pie, rice-oat-tapioca thyme gougères, sticky date pudding cake with hot toffee sauce, plus "best ever" cinnamon rolls. #healthy

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Sharon Tutko
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Hands-On
$65 Per Person
Tue, Apr 15
6 to 8:30 pm

BEYOND BE-LEAF

Lydia Gwin shares four great vegetable salads perfect for the vegetarian or anyone who loves salad. Enjoy charred broccolini Caesar salad with kale and chickpeas, charred leeks and asparagus salad with jammy eggs and smoky sherry vinaigrette, white bean-avocado salad with radish salsa, and roasted carrots and beets salad with citrus and lemon vinaigrette. #vegetarian #healthy

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Lydia Gwin
Kitchen Conservatory Staff
Demonstration
$55 Per Person
Thu, May 1
6:30 to 9 pm

FOOD FOR LIFE - ALL DAY, EVERY DAY

From the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, certified plant-based educator Lisa Buchmeier is a Food For Life instructor eager to share meat-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan dishes for every meal of the day that are low fat, high fiber, oil-free and cholesterol free. Enjoy a sunrise fruited quinoa bowl sprinkled with chia seeds, summer squash salad with short grain brown rice and an oil-free zesty herb dressing, caramelized roasted sweet potatoes drizzled with maple-red chile sauce topped with a medley of hearty black beans and vegetables and fire-roasted corn served with braised collard greens with a hint of lemon, plus creamy strawberry-banana oat "nice cream". #healthy

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Lisa Buchmeier
Culinary Educator
Demonstration
$55 Per Person
Sun, May 18
5:30 to 8 pm