Kids Cooking Classes

4 - 7 Age Group

For children ages 4-7 without prior cooking classes, the class centers around teaching cleanliness, how to measure, safety concerns, fun in the kitchen like giving parents a gift of food or making breakfast in bed. 

They are shown different vegetables to see if they know the names of them.

They are shown how to set a table and to make sure they know that cleaning up washing the dishes afterwards is important.

Healthy eating is talked about with an emphasis on how your body reacts to healthy food. They are talked to about their favorite foods in order to get them talking about things they already know and like, and adding to that knowledge.

Choose from the following:

Blueberry Pancakes or waffles,
Omelets with choice of veggies, cheeses, Bacon or Sausage

Biscuits and Gravy

Yogurt and Fresh Fruit Bowl

Egg Panini’s

Breakfast Buffet

Breakfast Class Sat or Sundays

Especially for the young or picky eaters

Choose a Favorite Menu

Grilled Cheese, Homemade Tomato Soup and desert of choice

Baked Chicken Fingers, Veggies and Dip, Sweet Potato Fries

Homemade Mac & Cheese, Salad Bar, and Homemade Cupcakes

Spaghetti and Meat Balls made from Scratch, Garlic Bread

and yummy fresh Cookies

Mexican Favorites

Lets create Fajitas or Tacos

Black Beans and Rice

Taco toppings 

 Warm Homemade Sopapillas with Honey

Mexican Class Date: Sat. or Sundays booked according to age

Pizza, a Sure Favorite

Lets make our own dough, learn how yeast works. 

Homemade sauce and make it  your own by

creating your own toppings

Salad bar with many healthy choices

Homemade Chocolate Brownies 

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Homemade Pasta Class

Its not hard but there is a technique. Mixing the dough,

how much to handle it, cutting by hand and also learning to use the attachment of a mixer which is always fun.

How do you dry the pasta and cook it just right?

Next we will make a homemade sauce of choice, either a red sauce, alfredo or just butter and parmesan. 

Lets make a Lava cake cupcake for desert, a favorite for sure.

Homemade Pies 

Flaky Crust and Fruity centers a sweet ending to any meal. We can

make a warm cozy apple pie with ice cream or a ooey, gooey pecan pie.

Pies are a great addition to a Holiday gathering. Some choices are

Raspberry, Pumpkin, Chocolate, Lemon Meringue, banana cream,

or the filling of choice. Even an ice cream pie !!

There are special techniques to get a flakey crust, using the

right ingredients  and rolling out the dough can be tricky.

Let’s do it together to make it fun and easy.

Pie Class Date: 2023 Sat or Sun. booked according to age of child

Mouthwatering Delicious Cakes

Make a party or special occasion even better.

Share a slice of your favorite cake. Learn some simple

decorating tricks and present your cake with pride.

Zero in on your next baking expedition. Get creative and personalize

it with a favorite sports team, a special activity your loved ones activities, a feeling you want to share, a musical instrument,

shape it into something meaningful 

Cake Class Date: Age appropriate and booked

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

These are a hit always ! We will start by learning the techniques of scalding milk, temperatures for and what makes yeast rise?

Do we add cold or room temperature ingredients?

Feeling the dough as we use the mixer to knead or do it by hand,

how should it feel to make the rolls turn out soft and yummy.

A great gift to give.

We will learn to make a frosting to top them off.

Cinnamon Rolls Class Date:

A Birthday Party Special Event

Tell me what your special birthday person would like to learn,

their favorites from start to finish. 

Invite their friends , we’ll play a cooking game and learn to cook

I can decorate for a small charge and the set -up, clean up is all up to me. You are free to just enjoy !

Birthday Party Class Date: Open to your dates. Lets plan it !

Chile,A Down Home Favorite

Chile can be made mild or spicy according to preference.
Starting with fresh herbs and spices, and adding just the right

amounts, it is a favorite for many. It’s fun to make because you can switch out so many ingredients according to taste.

Top it with cheese and bake.

Homemade corn bread is a must. Adding chiles and creamed corn and baking it so the edges are sweet and crunchy.

Meatloaf Meal

Meatloaf and Scalloped Potatoes

Scalloped Potatoes made with a mandolin, heavy cream, cheese and spices are sure to please anyone. Add a homemade meatloaf made as one size for families or individual ones to impress.

Add a medley of vegetables baked to perfection, especially tasty.

A special chocolate desert adds to the meal.

Chocolate Mouse is fun to make and learn the technique of folding in the cream. A desert sure to please.

Meatloaf Class Date: Open

Italian Lovers

Who doesn’t like Italian Food and it can be healthy as well as delicious? Let’s start with an Italian chopped salad. We will learn knife skills chopping all the vegetables in bite size pieces. Then we will create homemade spaghetti sauce with homemade meatballs and a red sauce or if preferred make a creamy Alfredo sauce with chicken strips and along with which spices can be added using fresh or dried spices. Garlic bread is a must or Bruschetta is a special touch.

Italian cookies go well, rolling the dough into thin ropes and then swirling them into a spiral.  We can add lemon flavoring or anise or just add a simple sugar frosting and sprinkles.

Italian Lovers Class

Shepherd’s Pie

Learn to use a Mandolin to thinly slice cucumbers to make a

Tomato /Cucumber and Onion salad or yummy Cucumbers

and sour cream salad.

We will learn about browning onions and garlic adding the

ground beef at just the right time. Yummy spices and tomato paste added to the mix along with other flavors to make the ground beef mixture delicious before we work with making the mashed

potatoes to go on top with flavor you will love.

Top it with cheese and bake. 

Country butter cake for desert learning to mix ingredients, measuring and techniques to make the batter come out moist and delicious. We will top it using a stencil with a powdered sugar design.

Shepherds Pie Class Date: Open

A Fancy Fare

Chicken Milanese with a Lemon-Thyme butter sauce.

Lets start with a wedge salad. A favorite among many.

Cutting a lettuce wedge, browning bacon strips, learn to cut

tomatoes and the difference in toppings which can be blue cheese, ranch or a homemade dressing of choice.

We will learn to cut a chicken, how to bread it, and of course

making the delicate Lemon -Thyme butter sauce.

How do you cook chicken so it is moist and flavorful?

Peeling potatoes, cutting into wedges and topping them

with spices to roast in the oven.

Homemade Brownies for desert with or without nuts while

learning to use the mixer, measuring and baking times.

Chicken Milanese Class Date: pick an evening to have with your kids

Kids Xmas Break Have fun and Learn to Cook with Chef Irene!!