About

Join Chef JJ Johnson to learn simple techniques for making easy yet elegant holiday appetizers in this fun, interactive, hands-on class.

In this class you will be learning to make:

• Dungeness Crab-Cucumber Rolls
  
• Smoked Paprika-Parmesan Cheese Straws
  
• Perfect Grilled Cheese Bites with Tomato Bisque
  
• Mini Caprese Salad in Endive Leaves
  
  
  

About the Instructor:
"Locally-born & free range" Chef JJ Johnson spent his formative years cooking in top Seattle-area restaurants such as Campagne, Place Pigalle, Matt's in the Market, Tilth, &I1 Bistro. He continued his professional cooking career in private homes & yachts, then ran a popular cooking school at Whole Foods Market in Bellevue. After a 3-year "working vacation" on Maui, as the head Chef at O'o Farm on the slopes of Haleakala, he moved back to the slightly colder isle of Bainbridge.

Chef JJ has spent the last few years creating local farm-to-table cuisine, first signing on as Chef de Cuisine of the flagship Hitchcock Restaurant in Winslow, then opening Cafe Hitchcock in downtown Seattle as Executive Chef. He now runs Wanderlust NW Catering Co., offering private in-home and yacht chef services, taco pop-ups, and catering for wineries, private dinner parties and other special events.