Private Cooking Lessons

If you’d like to learn to cook or perfect your skills or learn new techniques and recipes, we’ve got just the answer for you - Private Cooking Lessons for one to three people in your home kitchen.
We can start with Cutlery Skills, progress to Cooking Methods and Techniques and prepare some new recipes to showcase your new skills.  Work with a professional chef in a hands-on lesson to become the home cook you’ve always wanted to be.
Wow your friends and family with your new found culinary skills and prepare exciting new dishes.  Call 727-433-1889 or email chefjohns@outlook.com

Upcoming Cooking Classes
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These classes have limited enrollment to insure that everyone learns each technique involved in the preparation of the dishes. We teach these classes in the commercial kitchen of the Church of the Good Shepherd, 639 Edgewater Dr. in Dunedin 34698. 

Unless otherwise noted, classes begin Monday evening at 6:00 pm and cost $50.00 per person.  You will eat all the food and receive copies of all the recipes.  You may bring your own wine or we have some available for sale by the glass.


GIFT CERTIFICATES FOR COOKING CLASSES MAKE
    A WONDERFUL GIFT FOR THAT SPECIAL PERSON
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Adult Hands-on Cooking Classes - A fun, tasty way to spend a few hours together making some really great food and enjoying a glass of wine or two.


Seafood Cooking Class, December 9, 2019, beginning at 6:00pm

Learn to cook Seafood perfectly each time without flaking the fish apart. Add some new ways to prepare seafood and shell fish to broaden your repertoire of dishes.
THE MENU
Shrimp in Pastis
Scallops with Maple Bacon Cream Sauce
Grouper Francese
Lemon Grass Glazed Sea Bass
Whole Red Snapper, Oven Baked
Salmon with a Honey Rosemary Drizzle
Creme Brulee

Surf and Turf Cooking Class, January 13, 2020, beginning at 6:00pm
THE MENU
Lemon Grass Shrimp and Vegetable Lo Mein
Flounder with Turmeric & Dill
Red Curry Mussels
Mustard Tarragon Lamb Chops
Mushroom & Garlic Ragout
Pork Tenderloin with Juniper Sauce
​A Surprise Dessert

Foods of New Orleans Cooking Class
February 17, 2020, beginning at 6:00pm
THE MENU
Crawfish & Sausage Etouffe
Creole Red Beans & Rice
Firecracker Shrimp
Crab Stuffed Flounder
Mirliton and Shrimp Dressing
Grouper Cheek Chile
Roasted Banana Bread Pudding with Praline Bourbon Sauce

Mixed Proteins Cooking Class
March 16, 2020, beginning at 6:00pm
THE MENU
This class will focus on both Seafood as well as Meat and
a Plant based dish. We use some new ways to prepare
these dishes to broaden your repertoire of meals.

Spring Seafood Stew with Peas and Potatoes
Lobster, Pasta & Cheese
Crispy Skinned Salmon with Green Romesco
The Perfect Steak Recipe with Chimichurri
Fennel Rubbed Pork Chops
Kohlrabi Brandade
Bananas Foster over Homemade Ice Cream

We teach adult classes at our catering kitchen in the Good Shepherd Church, 639 Edgewater Dr., Dunedin. The classes begin Monday (unless otherwise noted) evenings at 6:00 pm and cost $50.00 per person per class including tax.  You will eat all the food and receive copies of all the recipes.  You may bring your own wine
​or we will have some wine available.

To register: Call 727-433-1889 with your Credit Card to secure your reservation for $50.00 per person, along with the name, telephone and email contact. Further information may be obtained by calling 727-433-1889 or email to chefjohns@outlook.com


FOR KIDS, CLICK ON KIDS COOKING CLASSES