Weekday Cooking Lessons with Chef Dana: Make-Ahead Holiday Dishes, Christmas Cookies and More!

The holiday season is right around the corner and finding the time make and bake your holiday meals and cookies can be stressful. There are all those holiday parties, presents to buy (and wrap!), kids’ Christmas programs to attend, just to name a few.  

Enter experienced culinary instructor Chef Dana Holland with a plan to help you get ‘er done. At the end of this interactive class, you'll get to take home a freezer meal and some awesome Christmas cookies.  See, you’re already one step ahead! You’re welcome.

Chef is a rock star in the kitchen, and he makes learning to cook and bake, easy-peasy.  Not to mention, he’s tons of fun and teaches in an easy-to-understand style that you’ll love.

He'll show you how to minimize effort and time commitment using make ahead techniques and time-saving tips. We’re talking proper storage techniques, shelf life, and how to freeze foods (freezer burn…a major no no).

Let’s have a whopping good time while we’re at it.  In today’s 4-hour class, you’ll explore baking fundamentals as you learn a simple recipe for a versatile freezer-friendly cookie dough (you won’t know how you lived without it!). Then. he'll teach how to use the dough as a base and add in some mixin’s to make several of his favorite Christmas Cookies variations. They’ll freeze well so you can make batches ahead of time and all you have to do is put ‘em in the oven to bake for holiday parties or when unexpected guests drop by. Boom!  Now, there’s an idea that should get your whisk a whippin’! Can I get a Ho-Ho-Heck-Yes?! 

Next, Chef will show off his mad cooking skills as he teaches basic culinary principles like knife skills, chopping, sautéing and more that you’ll get to practice as you tie on an apron and work alongside this engaging culinary professional.

Get ready to learn a Breakfast Casserole that your family will love and Christmas Chicken Enchiladas with Red and Green Sauce that can be ready at the drop of Santa’s hat. Finally, a bubbly Fruit Crisp and a savory Mulled Cider.  Oh yeah.

These pre-prepared, ready-to-bake freezer hero's are sure to save the day this holiday season.  Cooking has never been so easy (or fun). As always, you'll take home all of the recipes so that you recreate these gems at home for family and friends. 

Hey, I’ll bet that Mrs. Clause freezes dishes for Santa and his Elves during the hectic Christmas season, so why shouldn’t you do the same for your family and friends!

Grab your bestie and join us for this timesaving weekday cooking class! You’ll be glad you did.

Hands On | Tasting & Take-Home Freezer Meal & Cookies
Wed 11/06/19     10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

If you plan to attend this class with another party who signed up separately, please add their name(s) to the COMMENTS section of your online registration so that we can seat you together; otherwise we cannot ensure that you will be seated together for the class. If you register for multiple students at one time, that registration will prompt you to supply the names of all students you are registering and we will know to seat you together.  Thank you!