TOP 10 COOKING CLASSES IN PORTLAND, OR, USA - PAGE 5

Join Luca Ponti, chef and founder of Squirrel Meals, on a deep dive into making sourdough at home. Learn how to grow and care for your very own sourdough starter, gain tips on how to handle the dough, and the best techniques for developing a perfect crust.

Join the Cookshop instructors for this eight week series. In this weekly class, we will work our way through lessons on important kitchen techniques, ingredient investigations, and essential cooking skills.

Join Leta Merrill, chef and pasta maker extraordinaire, for an evening of mixing, rolling, shaping, and eating delicious pasta! In this class, we’ll be making an egg pasta dough from scratch.

We'll teach you all the tricks to a successful macaron, and create several different interesting flavor combos.

Learn how to introduce solids to babies, incorporate flavors and textures for a well-rounded palate and understand the nutritional needs of our young eaters.

In this class, you’ll learn all the tricks to making a successful puff from scratch, along with several recipes to use your finished puff, including mushroom puffs and jam turnovers. 

The first thing any chef needs to know is how to correctly use the most important tool in the kitchen. This is a hands-on class, and will equip you with the skills and knowledge to be a more confident cook!

You’ll learn how to make this great appetizer recipe, plus dipping sauce. And, we’ll turn this dish into a full meal when you make the pancakes into tacos!

From crème brûlée and flan to pudding and ice cream, all these delicious desserts fall under the category of custards. Beginning with similar ingredients and techniques, these desserts are wonderfully diverse and endlessly customizable. Join Chef Luca as he walks us through some of his favorites...

Together we'll make kushiyaki (grilled vegetable skewers), onigiri (rice balls), and tsukemono (pickled cucumber salad) teaching you a variety of techniques and flavors used in Japanese home cooking. You'll get the chance to build your own skewer, shape and fill a perfect rice ball.