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Menu Samples The Original Quick Six Rosemary Spiked Cannellini Crostini, Spaghetti al Cavolo Nero (Black Kale), Chicken with Herbs De Provence, Popcorn Cauliflower, Nori Crunch Salad with Avocado, Elana's Famous GuiltFree Cobbler The original MEAL that started the SPIEL. Six delicious, healthy and fast recipes including Elana's Famous Guiltfree Cobbler. You will be amazed at how easy it is to make good food and increase your popularity in your circle of friends!! This class is ideal for novices and cooks with more experience and will provide you with a 4 1/2 course dinner party menu (should you decide to accept the challenge), smaller dinner party menus and "quick fixes" just for you. A Quick Six: Hot Mediterranean Menu Roasted Tomato and Burrata Crostini, Pasta with Deconstructed Arugula Pesto, Edo's Mother's Swordfish, Shores of Capperi Potato Salad (no mayo), BiColore Salad, Strawberry Macedonia with Mint A tried and true menu that will transport you to the hotblooded flavors of the southern Mediterranean. (Note, the food is not spicy, just good.) The Quick Six has become one of the signature classes of Meal and a Spiel. Come learn six fast, easy, healthy and delicious recipes that will make you popular amongst your circle of friends. This class is ideal for novices and cooks with more experience and will provide you with a 4 1/2 course dinner party menu (should you decide to accept the challenge), smaller dinner party menus and "quick fixes" just for you. Hot Tuscan Nights Tomato and Basil Bruschetta, Sliced Steak with Arugula, Shaved Parmigiano and a Balsamic Reduction, BakedNotFried Little Potato Sticks with Rosemary and Thyme, Greek Yogurt Panna Cotta with Rosemary Grove Peaches The warm windy Italian countryside sets a perfect tone for a romantic dinner amongst lovers and friends. Best, would be to actually be in Tuscany. Second best is to learn how to simply create and recreate a night of excellent food with the dolce vita carefree attitude of the nobleman's countryside. The Fast Fab Five Feta and Mint Crostini with Roasted Fig, Spiced (Grass Fed) Lamb Skewers, Cucumber Tzatziki, Quinoa Tabouli, Individual "Once You Go Black" Flourless Chocolate Cakes (gluten, wheat and dairy free)* Need new recipes? Here are 5 that will surely become a regular in your repertoire.This class offers FIVE FABULOUS recipes that can easily provide you with quick goto's for a family dinner or a fabulous menu for a dinner party. All the recipes are easy, delicious, health conscious and exemplify the best of Mediterranean Cooking. This is food that your loved ones will thank you for. *Once You Go Black, You Will Never Go Back (to any other chocolate dessert)! Elana's "Once You Go Black" Chocolate Desserts have no butter and are all about the chocolate, not the sugar, so you can satiate your cravings without the guilt. (You know you are going to eat dessert anyway, so why not learn to make it in the best way possible.) Pasta and Some Wine Level One: "Aglio, Olio, Peperoncino" This class has been changing the culinary lives of students and their families. Don't miss out! Learn the basics of whipping up an authentic Italian pasta "from nothing" as they do in Italian homes every night of the week. This class will teach you to be comfortable with the three staple ingredients garlic, olive oil and red pepper flakes which are the foundation of 90% of Italian pasta dishes prepared in the home. You will learn new dishes such as pasta with cherry tomatoes and basil, pasta with mushrooms and pasta with broccoli rabe. You will be a master of "al dente" and will be able to impress guests, lovers and yourself without taking extra trips to the market. Glutenfree brown rice pasta will be used along with "regular" semolina pasta to provide a healthier option for all. Comfort Food: The Turkey Meatball Polpette di Tacchino in Humido (Elana's Turkey Meatballs Breadcrumb and Glutenfree), Celery Root Purée, Tricolore and Herb Salad, Hibiscus Flower Sweet Tea My definition of good food is that it makes you want to roll around on the floor shouting MAMMMA!!!!! Here are recipes that exemplify the best of the Italian mammas without the unnecessary sinful ingredients that could make you look like a fat Sicilian widow in a black muumuu. Please, Meal and a Spiel aspires only to the highest of aesthetic principles. Comfort Food: Risotto Radicchio Risotto, Mushroom Risotto, Pumpkin Risotto Let me demystify two false presumptions about risotto. 1) It's complicated to make. No, its not. 2) It uses cream. No it does not. Risotto uses olive oil and butter (if desired) yet its creaminess comes from the rice itself. Come learn the technique to achieve delicious comforting risottos that will impress your most important guest: you! We will then take our risottos, once cooled, and turn them into fabulous bakednotfried arancini (risotto croquettes), the traditionally fried appetizer that has taken trendy Los Angeles by storm. That's right, you will make todiefor arancini from leftovers that can be frozen and taken out for company. Yes! MakeAhead Dinner Party: The Eggplant Parmigiana Roberto's Eggplant Parmigiana (BakedNotFried), Grilled Vegetable Salad, Baked Frangipane Fruit Packets Have fun learning to make one of Elana's most prized recipes (named after TV's Weeds Writer/Producer Roberto Benabib) and enjoy a delicious dinner in the process. Also nice to know, Roberto's Eggplant Parmigiana will teach you to make a simple, yet "better than a restaurant," tomato basil sauce that can be used all the time for pasta or vegetables. Dude Food A Fresh Lemon Margarita (I used to be a bartender), Crispy Mexican Clayudas with "unfried" Black Bean Purée and Elana's Simple Guacamole, LessGuilt Quattro Formaggi MacNCheese, Divine “Very Little Guilt” Chocolate Chunk Crunch Coconut Milk Sundae NOTE: KIDS LIKE THIS FOOD TOO. (surprise surprise). Dude Food needs to be filling and good, but it doesn't need to be unhealthy and fattening. Here are recipes that will satiate the REAL MEN out there. Each could serve as a main course or as a snack during a football game. GlutenFree Desserts Mini “Once You Go Black” Flourless Chocolate Cakes, Greek Yogurt Panna Cotta with Rosemary Grove Peaches, Warm Summer Fruit Compote, PB and J Oatmeal Cookies Not only are these desserts glutenfree, they are also mostly guilt free. They use only the minimal amounts of sugar, if at all, and in most cases prefers raw honey or agave. As someone who watches sugar intake, these recipe were developed with me in mind! Any allergy sufferers can benefit from glutenfree foods. Come and find out how to make 4 easy desserts that will leave you, your family and friends light on your feet after the meal and without any guilt to keep you from the beach this summer. Summer Appetizers Cauliflower and Toasted Fennel Crisps, Tuna Fish and Celery Leaf Croquettes with a Dollop of Puttanesca Sauce, Heirloom Tomato Gazpacho, Bresaola, Arugula and Manchego Bites, Summer Fruit White Wine Sangria Important thing about having people for appetizers, particularly on a summer eve when you just want to chill...serve food that can be prepared in advance. And serve appetizers that will bring a taste of the mediterranean to your sunkissed guests, transporting them to that hot blooded sea whether they have been there or not. Here are recipes for a good time! The Sunday Soup Class Lucky Lentil, Bok Choy Chicken Soup, Roasted Tomato Soup, Tuscan White Bean Vegetable with Black Kale Soup IS good food. And when made from scratch, with good ingredients, soup is love. Serve soup to those you care about, including yourself. Let me show you how. Spreading soup love makes the planet a better place. The Healthier Nut The Lincoln and Rose Salad (what I make at the Whole Foods salad bar on Lincoln and Rose), Baked Summer Squash Primavera with Roasted Broccoli and Spring Peas (in season) and Toasted Pine Nutts, Baked SpicedFruit Parchment Packets Dial up the day with healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and midnight snack meals that will enliven your palate and your day. Crazy Clean Delicious Eating Dragonfly Green Tea, Vegan SeizeHer Salad, Yummy Gorgeous Grains, Black Kale and Bok Choy Stirfry, FauxCo (Delicious nondairy carob cocoa) In this class we don’t diet, we eat! But we also learn the basic principles of eating healthy from a holistic perspective so we can make choices our bodies like. No one will go home hungry and in fact, these dishes have become some of my students’ all time favorites that they eat regularly and feed to friends and family. This is NOT chickfood...Men love it too! Pasta and Some Wine Level Two Pasta con le Vongole (with Clams), Pasta Francesca with Eggplant, Fresh Mint and Ricotta Salata, Meat Sauce (a no pork recipe) For those who are looking to go beyond the Italian basics and delve into more elaborate and more prized sauces. Open only to those that have taken Pasta Level One: Aglio, Olio, Peperoncino. Hors d'Oeuvres and Bubbly (choose 4 that you like) Maria's Vin Santo Chicken Liver Crostini, Baked Gorgonzola Walnut Crostini, Bresaola Bites, Artichoke with Lemon Caper Dipping Sauce, Elana's Perfect Cheese Plate, BakedNotFried Fish Croquettes with a dollop of Puttanesca Sauce, Feta and Mint Crostini with Roasted Strawberry or Fig (when in season), BakedNotFried Radicchio Arancini (risotto croquettes) Having guests over for a few appetizers is a party in and of itself.