Cooking Classes at Home

The ChefsLine Cooking School offers you 30-minute high-impact private cooking classes with top chefs.
Meet with your chef instructor by phone or webcam so you can learn in your own kitchen!

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Cook More Class

ChefsLine cheers you on to cooking fabulous meals for yourself, family, and friends - but let's start with the basics. Sign-Up for your class now and login to meet with Chef Erika this week. Get expert guidance to organize your pantry, shopping lists, and explore your cooking goals. After your initial consultation, receive a customized "Cook More Program" of essential pantry ingredients, recommended starter dishes, and ChefsLine cooking services schedule.

What you'll learn:

Set cooking goals for yourself.

Save dollars and time menu planning.

Find your "inner chef" through cooking simple, exciting new meals.

Learn important kitchen organizing tips.


Customized Service:

Menu Plan

Includes Four Weeknight and One Special Occasion Meal

plus Shopping List

Private Thirty Minute Class Video Chat Available Price: $10.00 Back to Top >

Be Your Own Personal Chef, Lesson One

Exhausted from a long day of work? If you have always wanted to come home to the luxury of a personal chef with dinner already made, then allow Chef JoAnna to teach you how to become your own personal chef in each 30 minute lesson. By learning the simple basics such as storage, freezing, and reheating, you can make yourself a week’s worth of delicious food using simple cooking methods. In this inspirational class you will learn how to make cooking fun with amazing food that your family will love.

What you'll learn:
Lesson One:

How to shop like a chef.

Recipe review.

How to properly store and reheat dishes.

How to keep cooking a fun part of your life.


Menu:
Click Here for A Featured RecipeChicken with sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, and couscous

Chicken Korma Style

Chicken with Coconut

French roasted chicken with egg noodles
What you'll learn:
Lesson Two:

Menu planning to suite your style and budget.

Tips for cooking larger quantities.

Chef tips for saving time when cooking.

Live cooking demonstration of great chicken recipes for freezing.

Private class Video chat available and recommended. Shopping before class is suggested. Two-part series Price: $45.00 Back to Top >

Homemade Oils, Rubs, and Marinades

Marinades make your dishes better! Creating your own rubs and marinades is fun, easy, and allow you to truly express your style. Let Chef Jackie introduce you to chef techniques for pairing your spices and herbs with your favorite ingredients so they’re tenderized and ready to go. Step by step, you will learn how to prepare your spices, mix your seasonings, and use homemade marinades, oils, and rubs to bring out the maximum flavor for all of your meals.

What you'll learn:

How to select dry rubs versus wet marinades.

How to prepare great marinades.

Selecting ingredients and flavor profiles for your favorite meats and vegetables.

How to create and test your own recipes.

Working with spices.

How to prepare and store spices and herbs.

Menu:

Chive Garlic Oil

Rosemary, Pine nut, and garlic oil

Beef:
Click Here for A Featured RecipeMexican Flank Steak

Coarse Mustard and Thyme

Fresh Herbs and Garlic

Sesame Ginger Marinade

Private thirty minute class Shopping before class is recommended.   Cook during class, optional. Price: $15.95 Back to Top >

Indian Biryani

Biryani are perfect do ahead dishes that will keep your family satisfied all week long. Biryani is a family of Middle Eastern, Southern Asian dishes made from a mixture of spices, rice (usually basmati), meat/vegetables and yogurt. Shoba Havalad, an Indian cuisine expert, will teach you the most important, authentic cooking techniques for vegetarian and meat biryanis. This exotic cuisine is sure to delight anyone!


What you'll learn:

How to select and prepare Indian spices.

Perfecting your rice.

Biryani technique and fundamentals.

Create your own recipes.


Menu:

Chicken Biryani
Lamb Biryani
Click Here for A Featured RecipeVegetable Biryani
Garlic and Ginger Paste
Cucumber Raita

Private thirty minute class Shopping list included. Shopping ahead is recommended. Cook during class, recommended. Interational Cuisine: Indian Price: $15.95 Back to Top >

Savory and Saucy Sephardic Shabbat:
Main Courses to Wow Your Guests!

Spice up your kitchen tonight! These three easy and flavorful Middle Eastern dishes will give you a new spin on the same old roasted turkey for Shabbat dinner. Join Jennifer Abadi, author of "A Fistful of Lentils: Syrian-Jewish Recipes From Grandma Fritzie’s Kitchen”, as she helps you recreate the traditional meal from beginning to end, making it the most popular dinner on the block!

What you'll learn:

Incorporate new and exciting dishes into your meal.

Review of easy and impressive Syrian-Jewish recipes.

Save time and prep ahead.

Shop for new ingredients .


Menu:

"Ceremonial" Foods for Kiddush:
Challah or Pita Bread, Wine, Split Red Lentil Soup

Main Dishes:
Bean and Meat Stew
Meatballs and Sour Cherries
Click Here for A Featured Recipe Sweet-and-Tart Chicken with Dried Apricots and Tamarind

Side Dish:
Syrian Rice with Fried Onions & Pine Nuts
Green Peas with Allspice & Mushrooms

Dessert:
Mid-Eastern Fruit Salad
Pistachio Cake with Cardamom Syrup

Private thirty minute class Shop Ahead if you like. Shopping List included.   International Flavor: Syrian and Middle Eastern Price: $15.95 Back to Top >

Skinny Meals: Get Your Kitchen Ready for the Healthy You

The Gourmet Nutritionist, Tina Ruggiero, will inspire while teaching you about her mouth-watering, slimming meals. In this 30 minute session, you'll review healthy pantry essentials and learn how to add nutrition and not calories to your favorite dishes. Discuss step by step with Tina how to make one of her favorite entrees while learning how to spare calories but not taste!


What you'll learn:

Select healthy pantry ingredients.

Add nutritional content to your favorite meals.

Reduce fats and sugar.

Work with seasonal ingredients.


Menu:

Chilled Watercress Soup
Click Here for A Featured Recipe Island - Style Salmon
Herbed Couscous

Grilled Mango with Vanilla Frozen Yogurt


Private thirty minute class Video Chat Available Price: $15.95 Back to Top >

Mastering the 30 Minute Meal

Learn to prep like the pros and have more fun cooking. Personalized how-to's that will make cooking and baking fun again! Each class is customized to your unique cooking challenges and includes the ChefsLine Essentials Kitchen and Pantry Guide. Maximize your workspace, review essential kitchen tools; and "mise en place" for real home cooks.

What you'll learn:

Step by step, personalized kitchen organizing.

Practical mise en place for everyday cooking.

Improving your menu planning skills.

How to stock your pantry for the ultimate flexibility.


Customized Service:

"ChefsLine Essentials"

Kitchen and Pantry Guide

Customized For You

See the Kitchen Tools for Everyone list of essential kitchen items for new cooks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Private thirty minute class Video Chat Available Price: $15.95 Back to Top >

Low Country Cooking with Sara

Cold enough for you? Transport yourself down to one of the most beautfiul regions in the South.  Chef Sara Gibbs will introduce you first hand to her favorite Low Country recipes with an enticing dose of regional food history and an introduction to authentic preparation of these southern dishes.

What you'll learn:

The best techniques for frying seafood.

Working with breading and batters for deep fried and pan-fried foods.

How to clean and prepare collard greens.

Pulling off a Low Country party - the perfect touches.

History of Low Country cooking and dishes.

Calabash Seafood Dinner

Creamy Baked Crab Dip

Calabash-style Fried Shrimp with Caper Lemon Tartar Sauce

Braised Collard Greens

Squash Casserole with Pecan Topping

Hushpuppies and Honey butter
Coca Cola Cake
Private thirty minute class Shop Ahead if you like. Shopping List included. Cook during class, optional. Price: $15.95 Back to Top >