Handmade Empanadas
Join us for our handmade empanadas class where you will learn to make the pastry pocket we all know and love filled with creative and unique ingredients. These flavorful patties made of dough are traditionally sweet and savory, and have a variety of adaptions based on the country you enjoy them in.
In this fun and hands-on class, you will be guided step-by-step in preparing your own Empanadas from scratch. You will learn to make the dough to then stuff the empanadas with the Chef's recipe featuring a delicious ground beef filling, as well as a meat free vegetable and egg creation. Next, the Chef will demonstrate how to fill your empanada disks before folding and sealing the edges off to be baked to a flaky, golden perfection.
The best part of the class will be sitting down to enjoy your delicious made from scratch meal, with new-found skills to remake this special dish and share with friends and family back home! We can't wait to welcome you at the Galería in La Cosecha for an unforgettable night of Latin American cooking.
No experience is required! We provide all the equipment and ingredients, which are easy to find at local markets if you don’t already have them in your home kitchen. Our events are casual and meant to be fun and instructive, not hardcore. This class is designed to be just as fun for the cooking enthusiast who wants to be a part of every step as it is for the first-timer who’s happier observing and assisting.
Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in. Drinks will be available for purchase from the vendors at La Cosecha.
As for my introduction to food and cooking, I will forever thank my mom for introducing me to the world of food. She brought me into the kitchen: unpack, store, and help her with the recipes she had in mind: peeling onions, garlic, prepping the green beans, washing the fresh herbs, blanching some veggies, and so forth and so on, surrounded by all the smells coming from those tasks. That was the only way I could earn pocket money. I landed in Boston in 1981,
and I had to cook to survive. All those memories for time spent in my mom's kitchen
came back, slowly but surely. During my time there in Boston, I deeply got involved
in all cuisines (I worked as a prep for free in the local Thai place restaurant). I was the one who created the Thai menu for the then Cities restaurant/night club in Adams Morgan on 18th St in the late 80’s. Besides French cooking, I also started to discover and really appreciate Latin Cuisine, Central America, Cuban and Puerto Rican, because my mentor. My father's side of the family is Italian from Genoa, I grew up with classic northern Italian cuisine. Cooking is like a Zen place for me: when I cook, I cannot really think of anything else: it is an art that needs and feeds on the whole of you. And I also love to teach and pass on the knowledge and the passion. Feeding people may be the very best job in the world.
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