About this Event
HGS Home Chef presents Thursday night mini classes, a new format in our cooking tutorials. Held on the occasional Thursday from 5-6pm these in-person classes focus on specific techniques or pantry items intended to expand your home cooking skills and flavor game. Instead of our more costly, 2.5-hour classes, followed by full meals, these weekday mini classes offer instruction, recipes, tastings and expert advice, all for just $45.
This Preserved Lemon class begins with the traditional process of making salt-preserved lemons—cutting and salting fresh lemons, packing them into jars, and learning how the combination of salt, time, and the lemons’ own juices transform into a unique and versatile condiment that is tender, intensely citrusy and salty.
Once the preservation process is complete, we can quickly transform the lemons into a paste that becomes a secret ingredient and concentrated flavor booster, ready to use in a vast array of recipes, both sweet and savory.
Together, we will sample preserved lemon cake and hummus made with preserved lemon, exploring just how versatile this bright, complex ingredient can be. You will leave with a sample of preserved lemon paste, several recipes, and plenty of inspiration to create your own zingy, flavorful dishes at home.
This one-hour demonstration class and tasting is limited to ten people
About Lee:
Lee Davenport left NY at the age of 23 and immediately connected her love of food with farming in the Midwest. Signing up to be a worker share member at a CSA farm in Madison sparked many culinary adventures: working farmers' markets and farm-to-table restaurants, delivering produce for a collective of organic farms to Chicago area restaurants, owning a food cart and a jam business, and serving as farm chef on two different CSA farms. After relocating to Portland, Oregon to live in an Ecovillage and try her hand at growing food in community, a cross-country road trip completed the circle with a move back to upstate NY. Here she is connecting with farmers and chefs again in her work at Zinnia's Dinette and HGS Home Chef. An excellent baker, Lee is grateful for the opportunity to share her lifetime experience of creating a wide variety of delicious dishes.
Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets.
HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY - at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.
HGS Home Chef – 2635 NY-23, Hillsdale NY – 518-325-7000. Plentiful parking behind the shop.
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HGS Home Chef, 2635 Route 23, Hillsdale, United States
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