Today's farmers' markets and grocery stores are brimming with unfamiliar produce, fruits, and herbs that can take consumers b

Today’s farmers’ markets and grocery stores are brimming with unfamiliar produce, fruits, and herbs that can take consumers beyond the repertoire of everyday recipes. Yet while professional chefs have embraced diverse blossoms, berries, leaves, and roots, the curious everyday shopper still has a plethora of exciting ingredients to discover. Michelle McKenzie‘s new cookbook Dandelion & Quince: Exploring the Wide World of Unusual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs acts as a guidebook to these new ingredients, shifting the perspective about flavor and showing how one item can change the very nature of a dish by elevating it from the flat or familiar.

In this workshop, Michelle will lead the class in creating several simple but special recipes to encourage and inspire home cooks. She’ll give tips and techniques for using uncommon ingredients like sumac, nduja, dried shrimp, and raspberry vinegar. Participants will explore exciting produce, gain solid and versatile techniques, and find inspiration in the sheer diversity of local and international products readily available to the home cook. The class will learn about stocking the vegetable-lover’s larder while preparing and tasting the following:

Sardine Pate with Fennel Pollen

Charred Padrons, Purslane, and Vinegared Torpedo Onions

Crispy Eggplant, Coconut Oil, Pickled Shallots, Green Chile, Mint

Caramelized Kabocha Squash with Pomegranate, Toasted Seeds, and Crispy Shallot

Huckleberry Hand Pies

Michelle McKenzie is the author of Dandelion & Quince: Exploring the Wide World of Unusual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs, a cookbook that celebrates the unique produce now available at our local grocery stores and farmers’ markets. She is also the program director and chef at 18 Reasons, a nonprofit community cooking school in San Francisco’s Mission District, where she teaches cooking classes, curates the course calendar, and prepares the food for wine dinners and special events. Michelle has a knack for making simple food seem special—at once healthy and hedonistic, elegant and effortless—and is full of amazing tips for making every meal both memorable and attainable. To learn more, visit michellemckenzie.com.

FEE $40

Oct 2, 2016
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

LOCATION

Healdsburg SHED
25 North Street, Healdsburg, CA, United States

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