It’s not easy to cook a hot meal in 5ft of floodwater. This Sunday November 13, my friends at the Picnic Basket, the Penny Ice Creamery and I will take the time to appreciate our warm, dry kitchen by making a delicious Thai curry to benefit the people of Thailand who have been struggling with catastrophic floods and unable to cook a meal of their own for some time.

Come join us in a bowl of Khao Soi, a curry noodle dish from the Northern region of Thailand. Picture a piping hot bowl of tender egg noodles, smothered in fragrant, warmly spiced curry, topped with squiggles of crispy noodles, pickled mustard greens, shallots, and a wedge of lime. The cilantro on top is optional. As are the fried chili and the smoky, spicy chili oil that...

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Edible Holiday Gifts: Dec 3 (sold-out), Dec 2 (just added)

Learn how to make delightful salted butter caramels, perfect madeleines, luscious chocolate truffles with armagnac prunes, New Orleans pralines, French gingerbread pain d’épice, alfajores and other delectable, edible gifts that’ll make you the toast of the town come this holidays. We’ll also show you some great packaging ideas so your gifts are as delicious outside as they are inside!

Macaron Madness Workshop: Nov 5, Dec 10 (sold-out), Dec 9 (just added), Jan 14

We keep adding new dates for this incredibly popular workshop, and they keep filling up just as soon as we add them! If you’re ever interested in learning how to make proper, dainty,...

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Macaron Madness Workshop – October 15 & November 5, 11am-3pm

There are two upcoming macaron workshops to add to our super popular series at the farm this Fall. (One is coming up this weekend, and there are even a couple more spaces left if you want to join us.) If you’re ever interested in learning how to make proper, dainty, delicious French macarons, this workshop is for you. If you don’t believe me, take a look at the photo right above this paragraph. They’re pretty, aren’t they? And you know what? I didn’t even make them. The students at the last workshop did! How cool is that, huh?

This is not a demonstration class, by the way. The only way to learn how to do macarons properly is to feel...

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I’m having so much fun teaching at Love Apple Farms’ gorgeous teaching kitchen space I’m adding more classes to fill up the summer schedule. Check them out.

Mid-summer Jamming, Saturday, July 23, 12pm-4pm

White peaches, yellow peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, mid to late summer is the time for stone fruits. In this class we will cover the fundamentals of stone fruit jamming. This includes the best method for coaxing natural pectin out of the fruits (so that we won’t have to add commercial pectin), safe uses of the delicious noyaux (the “stone” part of the fruits), and how to infuse herbs and spices to your jams (so that you can experiment with unique flavor combinations).

Plus, you’ll get...

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