Public Cooking Classes
Let us help take the mystery out of healthy cooking! Don't let new terms, unfamiliar ingredients and unusual cooking methods keep you from exploring your culinary curiosities and preparing delicious and nutritious food.
We offer a variety of classes geared toward exposing you to new ideas, tastes and foods. Join us and learn practical ways to improve the way you eat. New dates are added each month.
Private Classes
GreenGourmetToGo is happy to offer private classes for groups and couples. These intimate, private classes are a great way to celebrate birthdays, bridal showers, team building events, or just getting friends together! Classes can be tailored to cover areas of particular interest or choose from class calendar. Private classes make a great wedding or shower gift. Rates vary based on number of participants and class design.
Breakfast of Champions!
Billed as the most important meal of the day, breakfast often gets short shrift due to lack of time, planning and inspiration. Healthy breakfasts don't come in wrappers, boxes or drive-thrus but they can be delicious, creative and provide important nutrients to help you get the day started right. Join us as we explore easy, delicious and nutritious recipes that will have you looking forward to the morning alarm.
Wednesday February 29, 6-8 p.m.
$45
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"Juice it Up!"
Seems like everyone is doing it, young people, old folks, kids, maybe even your next-door-neighbor. Juicing is not a fad, it's here to stay. Learn about this simple healthy way to pump your body full of essential vitamins, minerals and other good stuff! We'll explore the healing potential of juicing and how to create juice to help cure what ails you. Enjoy lots of sampling and leave with a packet of recipes you can recreate at home.
Tuesday March 6, 6-7:30 p.m.
$40
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Introduction to Whole Foods Cooking
Can you tell your amaranth from your kasha? Not sure how to make beans without a can opener? Think healthy cooking can't be done without alienating your family? Healthy cooking is more than following recipes, it's about understanding whole food ingredients and how to bring them together to make delicious and nourishing food. Come and learn the basics of cooking and combining grains, beans and delicious vegetables to create well-balanced dishes. This is a demonstration class with sampling.
Vegan Soups and Salads
Soups and salads seem to go together - maybe because they are filling without a lot of calories and it’s a great way to add nutritious veggies, grains and beans to your diet. Join us for an evening of good food and learning. All the soups and salads are gluten-free and vegan. We’ll create 2 soups, 2 salads and salad dressings. There will be plenty to taste and take home. Soups; Tomato Cashew Cream, Indian Coconut Lentil & Apricot. Salads; Liver Detox, Mega Protein.
Plant-Based Protein
Whether you’ve already adopted a vegetarian or vegan diet or are just thinking about it, you’ve probably asked yourself where you’ll get your protein. Tofu, tempeh, seitan, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds...what are they and how do you cook with them? In this class, we will create several delicious vegan dishes using these popular plant-based proteins. You’ll leave with a new-found affection for these ingredients and be able to tempt your family and friends into trying wonderful new tastes and textures.
Meatless Mondays
You’ve heard about Meatless Mondays and how people around the world are forgoing meat and animal protein once a week to improve their health and make a positive impact on the environment. Don’t you want to be part of this worldwide movement that is growing in popularity? If you’ve been shy about joining simply because you don’t know how to go about preparing a delicious, vegetarian meal, then this is the class for you! You’ll leave ready to adopt Meatless Mondays in your home.
Healthy Baking - Converting Guilty to Guilt-Free
What’s life without sweets? Not worth living in my book! In this class, we’ll explore conventional baking ingredients and healthier replacements so that you can get your sweet tooth-fix but in a health-supportive way. After reviewing approaches to converting recipes, we’ll step into the kitchen to see and taste several delicious treats. You’ll leave with the know-how and the recipes to recreate in your own kitchen and you’ll take home samples to remind you how delicious healthy baking can be.
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