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Spring Classes

 


 

Our mission is to teach, share, and experience the love of food and wine in an interactive community setting.
 
Our classes range from beginning to professional levels with emphasis on practical knowledge, solid skills, and seasonal ingredients. 
 
We offer basic-technique, nutrition, child /teen, and special-event cooking courses. 
 
All classes are designed to engage learners in practical participation, gaining valuable hands-on experience. 

Class Schedule

 
Footjoy Farmers Market CSA Lunch and Presale

 

  • Date: April 4th 
    and May 31st 
  •         Day: Saturday
  •     Time: Noon-2:00pm
  •     Cost: $ 45

 


Class Description:

 

My Wish Has Come True!

 

I have been trying for years to put this event together with Chad but every time I was too late in the season and all of his shares were already sold out. This year I marked my calendar and caught Chad just in time.  He has produce and shares of his farm for sale-hooray!

 

With great excitement, you are invited to a very special afternoon with a very special benefit.  Not only do you get a great afternoon of food, a chance to buy awesome produce but you get to be a part of a dynamic new way to support your local farmer.  START buying LOCAL and you’ll taste the difference and make a difference for Community Supported Agriculture.

 

Class Highlights

 

·         Meet Footjoy Farmer Chad Forsberg.

·         Buy farm fresh produce.

·         Buy shares in Footjoy Farms and receive ultimate produce all summer long.

·         Watch, taste and enjoy lunch prepared with Footjoy farms vegetable, demonstrated by Chef Marianne Miller. 

·         Souvenir Recipe Packets

 

Notes About This Class : The Chefs’ Best Friend

Want to know where the top chef’s in town buy their exotic gourmet greens you can’t find in the grocery store?  Foot Joy Farm. 

 

Walk into the back of any fine dining restaurant in the cities as just ask the chef what they think of Chad Forsberg. First a wry smile will cross the chef’s face and then the stories start…. “Oooooh, did you try his micro Thai basil, its mind blowing!” Not only is he truly the nicest guy you’ll meet but produces the coolest, most rare fresh produce with the utmost passionate care.  

 

From the Land Stewardship Project website

 

What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
At their most fundamental level, CSA farms provide a weekly delivery of sustainably grown produce to consumers during the growing season (approximately June to October). Those consumers, in turn, pay a subscription fee. But CSA consumers don't so much "buy" food from particular farms as become "members" of those farms. CSA operations provide more than just food; they offer ways for eaters to become involved in the ecological and human community that supports the farm.

 

Footjoy Farm
Chad M. Forsberg
5512 Canine Road
Sparta, WI 54656
Phone: 608-272-3821
Footjoy Farm is a specialty produce farm located between Black River Falls and Sparta, Wis. We run a small CSA and deliver produce to many of the finest restaurants around the Twin Cities. The best chefs always look for the highest quality produce and our farm shares are loaded with the same produce these chefs look forward to every week. We grow many heirloom vegetable varieties that bring unusual colors and Old World flavors to heighten your culinary experience.

Our shares run about 20 weeks, starting in June. In the first weeks you will see a lighter mix of salad greens, lettuce, green garlic, peas, radishes, rhubarb and broccoli. As we get into the summer you will see an abundance of beans, zucchini, beets, carrots, cucumbers, eggplants, red peppers, onions, garlic, shallots, melons, herbs, potatoes, turnips and heirloom tomatoes. We produce many other specialty crops for the restaurants; at times they find their way into the CSA shares and make for wonderful surprises.

You won't be disappointed with the quality nor quantity of the produce in our shares. When the season allows for abundance, we provide it, giving away boxes of heirloom tomatoes and other extras to our members.

We have several drop-sites around the cities but are looking for new members to host drop sites in the Uptown and Downtown areas. Please call for more details.

 


Victorian Spring High Tea

 


  • Date: June  7th, 2009
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    Day: Sunday
  •     Time:
  •     Cost: $ 55
  •     Attire:Ladies Fancy Hat


Class Description

 

Grab your daughter, mother, best friend (or meet new friends), put on your best Churchill Downs hat and enjoy the finest in refinement at our High Tea Afternoon. 

 

Spring is on its way and what a wonderful way to spend a leisurely afternoon on the lake sampling and sipping a fine selection of tea and savoring cucumber sandwiches! 

 

An informative tutorial of tea and high tea accouterments will be demonstrated and tasted.

 

Tea Sampler

 

·         The history of Tea

·         Tea Types - White, Green, Black  and Exotic

·         How to make the perfect cup at home.

·         Tasting – 4 different teas

·         Tea Time Treats Recipes and Demonstrations

 

You will receive step-by-step instructions and recipes for making scones and specialty sandwiches (yes, with the crusts cut off). 

 

The Afternoon Tea Class Menu

 

·         Your choice of tea.

·         Assorted pinwheel sandwiches.

·         Devonshire Scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam and/or/lemon curd.

 


 

Cooking Boot Camp for Couples

 


  • Date: June 13th
  •     Day:  Saturday
  •     Time:-6:30-8:30pm
  •     Cost: $160 per couple
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    * Bring a bottle of your favorite wine to share with the group and receive 20% off the total class fee.

     


    Class Discription


    Dish up romance with a date night cooking boot camp class. Together you will connect as you cook and learn the basic (most overlooked) culinary skills.

     

    This is an interactive and demon-stration cooking class.  The goal of this dynamic class is to bring couples together in a participatory environment and to lean solid culinary techniques, and to settle long held culinary disputes! 

     

    Couples will be broken up into teams and will cook selected recipes from the featured menu while enjoying the friendly atmosphere, views from Lake Minnetonka, and syncopated jazz.

     

    Boot Camp Menu

     

    ·         Fry an Egg Over Easy

    ·         Properly Cook a Steak

    ·         Mash Potatoes

    ·         Clean and Debone A Fish

    ·         Whip Cream

    ·         Make Homemade Caramel

    ·         Make A Crepe

     

    Benefits and Services included in your event:

     

    • Grande Cru uses local, seasonal produce at every event.

    •  
      No prior cooking skills needed. Trust me, you’ll be okay!
    • Commemorative copies of the recipes.
    • Professional cooking tutorial
    • Meet new friends.
    • Rediscover the joy of cooking with your partner.
    • WE DO THE DISHES!


    Lifesytle TV Hosting Class

     Call for spring class schedule & tuition fees (612)281-1846
     
     

    Are you smarter than Martha, sassier than Rachel, more talented than Ted, better homemade than Sandra Dee?

      

    DO YOU DREAM OF BEING ON? 

     

                    

     

    We are committed to providing the highest level of training currently available for anyone seeking a successful career as a presenter in the exciting world of lifestyle television. 

     

    Our classes are held at our custom designed studio, located conveniently in Wayzata, Minnesota.

     

    We proud to offer you the most exclusive and highly specialized training.

    Our staff have exclusive connections in the industry and we provide our students with first hand work experience. 

    We passionately support our students with in depth engaged practice, building your confidence, and preparing you for success.