In The Mood For Food: Gourmet Vegetarian Cuisine

Saturday July 14
noon
limitd space for 8
$50/peron
for more information or to register, vegshaku8 at gmail

We will explore Chinese summer dishes, this class!

Homemade noodles with cold sesame sauce
dry fried string beans
eggplant with basil
ma po tofu
sichuan cucumber pickles

and more

Another in our series of hands on classes, exploring the world's cuisines. This time we will prepare some amazing summer dishes from the Middle East.

Sunday July 8
noon
Limited space for 8
$50/person
for more information or to register, vegshaku8 at gmail

homemade pita bread
fattoush (bread salad)
hummous
baba ganoush
cucumber salad
beet salad
baklava

Saturday, August 25
8 pm
limited space for 20
$55/person
byob

5 course menu to be listed, soon.

Performer for this night will be the incredible dulcimer player/percussionist, Joe Venegoni. Joe has been living in the bay area for many years but just took a position at Julliard so is moving to NYC shortly after this gig

Returning for yet another party at Erin and Anthony's beautiful home in the Berkeley Hills on Monday evening.  Looking forward to preparing and serving them and their friends; always a total joy to work with these people.  This time we will prepare a Spanish style spring buffet along with one of each of their favorite finger foods from prior events, knishes and sopes.

Menu
Paella: saffroned rice with spring vegetables
Asparagus roasted with pine nuts and lemon
zuchini, ajillo style
green salad with sherry vinegar dressing
knishes (semolina-olive oil dough stuffed with roasted root vegetables and broccoli served with batampte mustard)
sope (homemade tortillas stuffed with black bean puree, guacamole and salsa
giant beans with olive oil and rosemary
fried polenta chips with smoked paprika
roasted eggplant dip
garbanzo bean dip
rosemary-sage flatbread
cherry chocolate cake
cherry ice "cream" (cashew based)

Photos taken by Michelle Regenbogen, www.macchiatto.com




soba salad



tofu hiiki burgers



cucumber stuffed with hijiki and umeboshi

rice 

Another in our series of explorations of international vegan cuisine!

all hands on so you will be creating all these dishes!

Saturday, June 30
noon
limited space for 8
$50/person
for more information or to register, vegshaku8 at gmail
loft in Oakland

We will be preparing these dishes:

skillet corn bread
roasted corn salad
grilled corn with cilantro pesto
corn chowder
thai style corn fritters