Mediterranean Cooking

Location: Guilderland

Our three part cooking class will help you to become confident in your cooking skills and understanding of cooking like a Mediterranean. We include the basic staples and fundamentals of Mediterranean spices herbs and way of life.

Part I - Heart Healthy Cooking and You
The objective of the class is to explore important aspects of creative heart healthy cooking and making food that is easy, delicious and fun to make. This class will provide you with good, practical advice to implement key tenets of such a diet.
Menu: Seasonal salad with low sodium, good tasting dressings that are good for you • Mushroom barley soup with low saturated fat and low sodium chicken stock • Roasted vegetables with olive oil and fresh herbs • Baked lemon chicken with olives

Part II - The Mediterranean Diet In Focus
The emphasis of this class is on the Mediterranean diet. The class will cover practical advice on how to adopt such a diet and put it into practice in everyday life.
Menu: Fruit and vegetable salad with creative and simple dressings • Chick pea and eggplant dips with pita • Baked salmon filet in citrus and pine nuts • Eggplant, tomato & chick pea stew • Basmati Rice Pilaf

Part III - The Mediterranean Diet and the Holidays
The Mediterranean diet or Life style, with its great emphasis of the consumption of fresh Fruits and vegetables, Whole grains and Legumes, Olive oil, Fresh Fish, is heralded as the healthier alternative to the fast food, highly processed foods, trans-fat rich foods and diets in our society. This Class will further explore how this diet/lifestyle will improve your cooking skills, use of herbs, spices and fresh ingredients for better cooking and better health. Menu will be based on fall harvest with on eye on seasonal and holiday food.

Instructor: Shaw Rabadi chief-owner of BFS Restaurant and Catering in Albany, for the last 20 years. Has a deep passion for great foods and education.

Course Fee: $120

This program will sellout extremely fast - Register Today!