Let’s explore some delicious, healthy and stick to your ribs winter dishes. Join me to make some tasty foods and share our favorite winter foods. Monica Peabody makes soups, salads, meals and desserts for the Olympia Food Co-op deli and loves to share favorite recipes and cooking tips with others. REGISTER HERE
Quick pickles - a staple of every good cook, quick pickles are a way to make a delicious condiment or a zesty ingredient for your everyday cooking. We will cover the basics of quick pickling as well as sampling multiple kinds of pickles while we practice the art of quick pickling. We will explore common […]
We'll make a White Chocolate Rose Cheezecake and an Avocado Lime Pie. Desserts include nuts (cashews, walnuts, coconut and/or pecans). Elaine Hacker currently cooks in the deli at the Olympia Food Co-op. She was in the Bakery and Pastry Arts Program at SPSCC and has worked at various local bakeries. She has been inspired to […]
Learn to safely and easily make your own raw fermented sauerkraut packed with health benefits and beneficial bacteria. Meghan will review the history and science of fermentation, discuss equipment and ingredients options, and demonstrate how to make sauerkraut from start to finish. This class is for all experience levels and includes recipes, Q&A and OlyKraut […]
We will be preparing Asparagus and Cheese Potato Soup from our cookbook, FITCUI® (short for Fitness Cuisine). The idea of the cookbook is to exercise while in the kitchen preparing a meal. FITCUI® provides step by step recipe instructions with corresponding step by step exercise instructions. The result is meal prep packed with healthy exercise […]
Spring is a great time for cleansing. Join Stephanie Petersen for an evening discussing healthy diet, herbs, supplements, and other lifestyle techniques that enhance the body's natural detoxification processes. In this hands-on class, you'll learn a wide variety of ways to gently stimulate detoxification through the liver, kidneys, colon, lungs, lymphatics, and skin. Stephanie is […]
We will be showing you how to make crispy chicken katsu and delicious tempura. Chicken katsu is a chicken cutlet, prepared with Japanese panko breadcrumbs and fried to perfection. Tempura is a light, thin batter which is used in Japanese cuisine to fry your favorite vegetables and proteins. Rina Scharf is from Japan. She then […]
We'll make 2 dishes that are a fan favorite from the Olympia Food Co-op Deli, a marinated tempeh (contains almonds) with a quinoa salad and millennial pink noodles (contains peanuts.) You will love the strange alchemy that turns the noodles pink. Elaine Hacker currently cooks for the Deli at the Olympia Food Co-op. She was […]
It’s also a delicious healthy drink that is a joy to make and drink with friends and family (or by yourself)! From the Arabic word sharãb, shrubs are easy and affordable to make. In this hands-on class, you will learn about the history and will taste a ginger/turmeric shrub that will have already had some […]
Come for a deeper look that goes beyond the buzzwords and examines what inflammation really is, what it means for your health, and what to do about it. This information is particularly pertinent for anyone struggling with heart disease, asthma, allergies, autoimmune disease, arthritis or cancer. We’ll cover: The origins of inflammation in the body […]