BASIC CUISINE

PRACTICAL LESSON OF THREE HOURS

Dedicated to young people who “leave the house, and find themselves struggling with the shopping cart and the time to do it, the wallet and the organization of the kitchen, the need to eat as healthy as possible, taking into account taste.
Dedicated to young people and beyond. Dedicated to those who want to do things themselves, want to keep them.

This course is dedicated to those who want to find out what lies behind and inside the food, to those who already have a culinary base and to those who are approaching cooking for the first time.

The program is structured in modules, each module consists of 1 to 4 lessons according to the topic covered.

You therefore have the opportunity to attend all the lessons of the entire program or decide to attend only the modules that interest you most: also from this point of view the cooking course follows the same philosophy it wants to teach: one eye on shopping and one on nutrition, an eye on the wallet and one on the taste of eating that Pellegrino Artusi defined as “art”.

Those who teach are food “technicians” and their contribution is always professional: the explanation of “what happens” inside the food helps us to understand the method for treating them. Everything happens in a fluid, empirical way: that is, it starts from the hands, from what they feel and what our senses perceive. From experience, we get to practice by passing through a short theory phase. Often theory and practice go hand in hand because one supports the other during the work of “cooking”.

We cook then we taste. We taste and comment. The experience of the Italian Table is completed with all the culture, memory and sharing it brings.

TIMETABLE AUTUMN 2021 / WINTER 2022
Rice (1 lesson)
Saturday 6 November at 10:00
Risotto with aromatic herbs
Risotto with violets
Mushroom and carob risotto
Pork in white wine with apple risotto
Japanese rice
Venere rice with thyme fish and green cream

Beef cuts: roasted, braised or pan-fried? (2 lessons)
Saturday 13 November at 10:00
Saturday 20 November at 10:00

Roast Peposo from Impruneta
Chunks of beef, Chianti and blackberries
Beer stew
Roast beef with chestnuts
Rolls

The basics of desserts: sponge cake, shortcrust pastry, custard, Bavarian (2 lessons)
Sunday 28th November
Saturday 4th December at 10:00

Sponge cake
Shortcrust pastry
Paté a choux
Custard cream
Traditional Bavarian
Crunchy orange wafer
Chocolate-mousse
Pear cake with oil shortcrust pastry
Lemon cake
Panna cotta
tiramisu

Il Pane – baking techniques (2 lessons)
Saturday 11 December at 10:00
Saturday 18 December at 10:00

Tuscan bread
Altamura bread
Pizza
Calzone with Neapolitan dough
Long rising pizza
breadsticks
Pan Brioche
Fruit bread

Fish: not all can be cooked the same way (2 lessons)
Saturday 8 January 2022 at 10:00
Saturday 15 January 2022 at 10:00

Fish tartare
Sicilian Swordfish
Sea bream with eggplant
Tuna with pistachios
Mediterranean monkfish
Sole with almonds and sautéed zucchini
Gilded and fried anchovies
Cod alla Mugellana
Stockfish with dried fruit
Golden stockfish
Fried black squid
Mussel soup

Le salse per la pasta e non: olio caldo, olio freddo? (2 lezioni)
Sabato 22 gennaio 2022 alle 10:00
Sabato 29 gennaio 2022 alle 10:00Fusilli con salsa di pomodoro piccante

Salsa di pomodoro con metodo “olio freddo”
Bucatini all’amatriciana
Salsa di carne
Busiate al pesto cotto di pistacchi
Spaghetti alle vongole
Straccetti al germe di grano con carciofi e topinambur
Pasta ai frutti di mare
Linguine al limone
Pesto di rucola
Pesto di sedano
Salsina veloce di Parmigiano

Le salse di base: bechamelle e altre vellutate, maionese, bearnese (1 lezione)
Sabato 5 febbraio 2022 alle 10:00Bechamelle

Salsa di crostacei
Salsa all’arancia
Salsa vellutata
Salsa di menta
Maionese
Salsa Bearnese
Salsa Mouselline
Salsa chili
salsa rafano
Salsa paprica
salsa al limone
Salsa sesamo

Le verdure: tutte buone, tutte difficili. Come pulire i carciofi, come trattare le melanzane, come cuocere gli spinaci, come usare le bietole. Tuberi, radici e altre cose sotto terra (2 lezioni)
Sabato 12 febbraio 2022 alle 10:00
Sabato 19 febbraio 2022 alle 10:00Verdure invernali al forno con crema all’aglio

Polpette di sedano rapa
Carciofi trifolati
Fagiolini al pomodoro
Sformato di verdure
Frittelle di fiori di acacia
caponata
Vignarola

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