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Summer Youth: Seasonal Cooking in BARN’s Garden (Ages 12-18)

Explore the bounties of the garden and learn the practice of cooking for the season.

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Summer Youth: Seasonal Cooking in BARN’s Garden (Ages 12-18)

Summer Youth: Seasonal Cooking in BARN’s Garden (Ages 12-18)

Explore the bounties of the garden and learn the practice of cooking for the season.

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What is seasonality? How does it relate to cooking? To sustainability?

Explore those questions as you get hands-on in BARN's food garden, processing the local summer harvest in the Kitchen Studio. Get ready to dig into simple and delicious ways to enjoy the shining stars of what grows in late July on Bainbridge Island. If you're lucky, blackberries will be ripe enough to pick, too! 
 
The week will leave you with a list of seasonal produce and accompanying recipes. By the end of the week, everyone will know what it is to be inventive in the kitchen with the bounty at hand, and you'll use your personal tastes as a guide. Additionally, you'll hone your basic and intermediate culinary skills from cleaning freshly picked vegies to using a knife with confidence. Explore how to preserve a harvest easily so you can enjoy the gift of summer a little longer. 
 
Each day, you'll feature what you harvest in either a few small recipes or one larger cohesive meal. The end goal is to come away having experimented several times with an ingredient and knowing how to pair it with herbs and spices in order to serve it fresh or cooked. 

For Example: 
Herbs (seasoning a pasta salad or made into pesto). 
Tomatoes (caprese, pico de gallo, marinara).
Corn (chowder, grilled, bread). 
Blackberries and rhubarb (cobbler).
Zucchini (shaved summer salad). 
Much more! 

Details

  • Ages 12-18.
  • The menu is subject to change.
  • You must wear closed-toe shoes to class.
  • You must be registered for the class (no drop-ins).
  • Registration closes Monday, July 22.

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A $30 materials fee, included in the price of this series covers everything you will need for this class.

Instructor
Nadja Peschke

Nadja comes from the Boston area and holds a bachelor's degree in studio art from Principia College in Elsah, Ill. She works as a professional baker and does art commissions on the side. In her day-to-day life and on her travels abroad, she enjoys creating meals and baking her signature sourdough bread for friends. She first began baking sourdough in 2020 and has proudly shared her starter “Lilac” with culinary arts classes at BARN. In her classes, Nadja loves to incorporate the importance of seasonality and supporting our local food systems. She teaches both youth and adult classes. You can find her current food and art work on nadjapeschke.com or on Instagram @thewinterlilac.

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