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
​

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 $60.00 per person.  You will eat all the food and receive copies of all the recipes.  A glass of wine is included, however, you may bring your own wine.


GIFT CERTIFICATES FOR COOKING CLASSES MAKE
    A WONDERFUL GIFT FOR THAT SPECIAL PERSON
​
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, Sept. 24, 2018, beginning at 6:00pm
​NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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. This is a HANDS-ON Cooking Class.
THE MENU
Thai-style Fish Cakes
Lemon Grass Shrimp and Vegetable Lo Mein
Cajun Salmon with Cream Sauce
Cornmeal Crusted Grouper with Southern Tomato Gravy
Flounder with Turmeric & Dill
Red Curry Mussels
Asian Shrimp & Grits

Cooking with Cheese Class, Oct. 22, 2018 beginning at 6:00pm
NO LONGER AVAILABLE

We are collaborating with Deanna K.B. Kent who has studied extensively with the American Cheese Society and Institut de Fromage. Deanna over the past 15 years has worked for Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods Specialty Cheese Counter and Oakville Grocery. In each place she perfected her knowledge and expertise in Cheese with a special emphasis on small Artisanal producers. She has traveled the United States, visiting farms, meeting with farmers, makers, and curators to learn as much as possible about their products. She now has her own Tampa Bay Business, “The Traveling Cheeseboard” and will bring cheeses you may purchase after class.

Together we have formulated a menu that focuses on Cooking with Cheeses and showcasing many fine little known producers with their uniquely flavored products. This class will make the case for why the Cheese you purchase can elevate (or not) each dish you choose containing cheese. You will experience some great foods cooked with some special cheeses.

THE MENU
Blue Cheese Stuffed Meatballs and decadent Blue Cheese Sauce
Lobster, Cavatappi Pasta and Manchego/Goat Cheese Mornay Sauce
Seared Sea Scallops topped with Ossau Iraty (grated raw sheep’s milk cheese)
Individual Baked Cheesecakes with Goat Chevre or Fromage Blanc(savory)
Aligot - the cheesiest mashed potatoes ever! Using Morbier (France)
Saganaki, the Fried Greek Specialty with Halloumi Cheese
Brie en Croute with Tomato Jam and Port Candied Nuts

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 $60.00 per person per class.  You will eat all the food and receive copies of all the recipes.  You may bring your own wine.

To register: Call 727-433-1889 with your Credit Card to secure your reservation for $60.00 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