OCTOBER COOKING CLASSES 2012

ITALIAN ARTISAN BREAD WORKSHOP

ARTISAN BREADS OF ITALY ~ Bread Baking Workshop with Lunch ~

Saturday, October 6th 10 AM-3:30 PM

Recipes include: ~ Italian Ciabatta Bread ~ Biga Wet Sponge Starter ~ Italian Focaccia Bread – Sundried Tomato-Parmesan; Fresh Rosemary-Red Grape ~ Focaccia Basil Pesto Breadstick Twists ~ Stone Baked Southern Italian Semolina Bread

$95 per person

"Breadmaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells...there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread." ~ M.F.K. Fisher

NIGHT OUT IN ROME Thursday, October 11th 6 PM There is nothing like the energy of Rome at night – from the ancient fountains, floodlit piazzas to dining in quaint cafes. This class will explore the foods of Rome and end the evening with decadent Tartufo Cake – Italy’s answer to death- by-chocolate! Recipes include: Roman Spaghetti alla Carbonara – pasta tossed with a creamy parmesan cheese sauce and Italian pancetta bacon; Fresh Baked Crusty Garlic Bread; Char Grilled Classic Caesar Salad with Homemade Caesar Dressing; Decadent Italian Dark Chocolate Tartufo Cake – a dark chocolate cake with vanilla-latte crème anglaise sauce. $65 per person

COUNTRY-STYLE RIBS Friday, October 12th 6 PM Recipes include: Braised Country-Style Pork Ribs with a Rich Velvety Cider Gravy; Farmhouse White Cheddar Mashed Potatoes; Grilled Autumn Peach-Prosciutto Salad – char grilled country peaches wrapped in Italian style prosciutto on a bed of crisp organic lettuce with fresh basil oil and a balsamic de cream drizzle; Decadent Caramel Layer Cake – moist fresh baked four- layer cake with creamy homemade caramel frosting. $75 per person

GIFT CERTIFICATES More than a gift…a culinary adventure! Perfect answer for any occasion… holidays, birthdays, bridal showers, weddings, anniversaries, employee thank you, house warming or 'just because'. Use towards cooking classes or purchases from our gourmet cookware shop!

LET US HOST YOUR NEXT PARTY! Le Chat Gourmet is available for private holiday cooking parties. Great for office parties or family gathering! Call us at 517.663.7322 for details and dates.

KITCHENAID ARTISAN SAUSAGE MAKING WORKSHOP

Join Chef Denene Vincent in the kitchen for a day of fresh sausage making! In this class, we will use the legendary KitchenAid mixer plus the meat grinder and sausage stuffing attachments to create many varieties of homemade fresh sausages. You’ll learn to select and trim meat, prepare fragrant spice mixtures, grind meat and stuff sausage links. At the close of class, enjoy your creations with an assortment of mustards, artisan bread, roasted bell peppers and onions.

Saturday, October 13th 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Techniques: ~ Grinding fresh meat ~ Stuffing Sausages ~ Using a Pestle and Mortar ~ Creating your own spice mixtures ~ Trimming Meat

Recipes include: ~ Spicy or Sweet Italian Sausages ~ Mexican Chorizo Sausages ~ Homemade Brat Sausages ~ Breakfast Sausage Patties ~ Polish Sausages

Lunch included: We’ll enjoy our homemade sausages with artisan bread, assorted international mustards and roasted bell peppers and onions

$95 per person

IN ADDITION: 10% off KitchenAid Attachments Save $50 Artisan Stand Mixers Save $100 Professional 5 Plus and 600 Stand Mixers ordered the day of class!

FREE – KitchenAid Gift for Everyone!

KNIFE SKILL TECHNIQUES

Basic knife skills are an important component of any culinarians repertoire – whether you plan to earn a living in the kitchen or simply cook for your family and friends. Learning to handle a knife correctly will be safer, speed up your prep time and result in uniformly cut food products that will cook more evenly. The mastery of classic knife skills and methodology will also vastly improve the look of your food, garnishes and plate presentations.

Wednesday, October 17th 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Knife skills techniques include: ~ Learn to hold and cut correctly ~ Knife Safety ~ How to purchase a quality knife ~ Learn to hone and sharpen a knife

~ Learn the following knife cutting techniques… ~ Mince ~ Chiffonade ~ Julienne ~ Bruinoise ~ Batonnet ~ Dicing an onion ~ Lozenge ~ Bias ~ Rondelle ~ Fans ~ Paysanne ~ Apple Swan ~ Use your knife skill techniques to create two salsas… Tropical Mango-Pineapple Salsa and Mexican Salsa Fresca served with tortilla chips

$65 per person

In addition, save 10% on ALL your retail purchases over $150 including Wusthof knives the day of class only! This is a great opportunity to update your knives or add a specialty knife or two to your collection.

PROVENCAL TABLE

Thursday, October 18th 6 PM Recipes include: Seared Maple Leaf Farms Duck Breast with Creamy Spelt Risotto, Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, Shaved Parmesan Cheese and Truffle-Honey Sauce; Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Smoked Olive Oil Drizzle; Autumn Crème Puff Profiteroles with Pumpkin-Vanilla Custard Filling and Maple Frosting Glaze. $75 per person

ITALIAN WINE COUNTRY

Friday, October 19th 6 PM Recipes include: Char Grilled Filet Mignon Steak with Fontina Cheese Crust and Fire Roasted Red Pepper-Prosecco Sauce; Creamy Mashed Potatoes; Italian Wine Country Salad – organic baby greens, autumn red pears, toasted walnuts and creamy gorgonzola ranch dressing; Italian Chocolate Genoise Cake with Sparkling Prosecco- Raspberry Sauce. $75 per person

KIDZ KITCHEN – Calzone Pizza, ages 8-16

Saturday, October 20th 10 AM – 1 PM Recipes include: Make Your Own Calzone Pizza; Homemade Calzone Pizza Dough; Calzone Pizza Sauce; Calzone Fillings – select from pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, red onions, ham, fresh pineapple, bell peppers, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese; Italian Vanilla-Chocolate Chip Gelato Ice Cream. $50 per person

CHEF’S AUTUMN TABLE Saturday, October 20th 6 PM Recipes include: Mesquite Wood Smoked Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Homemade Sweet and Sticky BBQ Sauce; Tangy Green Apple-Nutty Celeriac Slaw – julienned green apple and celeriac root slaw with homemade poppy seed dressing; Autumn Bourbon Peach Cake – moist cornbread cake with caramelized autumn brown butter peaches and liquid caramel-bourbon sauce. $75 per person

TUSCAN TRATTORIA

Thursday, October 25th 6 PM Recipes include: Char Grilled Beef Tenderloin Steak with Creamy Gorgonzola-Sage Sauce; Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes; Italian Fontina Cheese Fritters with Sweet Chianti Onion Marmalade and Char Grilled Crostini Toasts; Italian Caramelized Apple Butter Cake with Amaretto Whipped Cream. $75 per person CHEF’S OCTOBER TABLE

Friday, October 26th 6 PM Recipes include: Succulent Oven Roasted Chicken with Bibb Crunch Lettuce, Fresh Garden Tarragon, Crispy Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Sweet Peas and Lemon-Butter Buerre Blanc Sauce; Ultimate Coconut Layer Caker – four moist layers of white cake with coconut custard cream filling and vanilla buttercream frosting. $75 per person

Le Chat Gourmet’s Cooking Show Saturday’s 11 AM WHTV Channel MY18 or Comcast 8

SAUCE MAKING WORKSHOP

A superb sauce created to accompany food and enhance its flavors can turn a simple dish into a gourmet creation. In this culinary workshop, Chef Vincent will reveal the fundamental techniques and skills in creating classic sauces including the essential French ‘mother sauces’ which all sauces derive from. Sauce making is often what separates the home cook from a professional chef but with a few important techniques we will have you creating sauces like the pros!

Saturday, October 27th 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Techniques: ~ Discuss Various Thickeners – cornstarch, arrowroot, butter, heavy cream and roux ~ Reduction Sauces ~ Mire Poix ~ Making a Bouquet Garni ~ Deglazing ~ Emulsions ~ Blooming a Sauce ~ Mise en Place ~ Using an Immersion Blender ~ Wine Reduction Sauce ~ Create White Sauces ~ Create a Brown Sauce ~ Create the Five Grand ‘mother’ Sauces (all sauces derive from these) – Espagnole Beef Sauce, Veloute, Béchamel, Tomato Coulis and Hollandaise –

Recipes include: ~ Homemade Veal or Beef Brown Stock – classically made with roasted bones ~ Espagnole Brown Sauce ~ Demi Glace Beef Sauce ~ Homemade Chicken Stock ~ Homemade Mayonnaise ~ Garlic Aioli ~ French Béchamel White Sauce ~ French Mornay Cheese Sauce ~ Chicken Veloute Sauce ~ White Roux ~ Tomato Coulis ~ Classic Hollandaise Sauce ~ Clarified Butter ~ Artistic Crudités Vegetable Platter – we will serve the sauces with a crudités vegetable platter, artisan bread, pasta and char grilled meats

$95 per person

It is the sauce that distinguishes a good chef. The Saucier is a soloist in the orchestra of a great kitchen ~ Fernand Point