Cooking class with
FrancescaCookingCountry
Enjoy the typical culinary Italian experience!
Ciao I'm Francesca,
Welcome to all the foodies and life lovers!
Cooking is my passion since I was a child, my dream have become my activity!
What I offer you is not just a cooking class, but it’s a “magic experience” made of flavors, colors, culture and art.
Enter the past with me, in renaissance Florence in an old Olive oil Mill of the 14th century in the top of the green hill of Bagno a Ripoli, surrounded of olive trees and flowers (in the Florentin Chianti, just 15 minutes from Florence) where we will prepare the original Italian recipes.
I love combining food with seasonal flowers and wild herbs that nature offer us.
That's why my menu change according to the season; I use only organic and local ingredients, respecting the traditions of old Tuscan recipes, as my fresh pasta that is completely hand made and done in an amazing and fun way!
For TRUFFLE lovers I offer the “Truffle journey”: a culinary adventure designed to learn how to preserve and master the use of truffles in the kitchen. You will learn to enjoy this diamond of the kitchen’ at its absolute best through original signature recipes created by me.
- Fresh handmade pasta cooking class
We will prepare the fresh pasta completely hand made using the rolling pin, the guitar, gnocchi board.. And than tomatoes sauce, my Genovese Pesto, and Lemon filling for the ravioli.
(appetizers, 2 types of handmade pasta, typical dessert, Prosecco, and wine)
- Mediterranean cooking
In this recipes you will find all the flavour of south of Italy, the fresh pasta trofie with the Trapanese pesto, island style fish or vegetable cooked in the south style.
And finally the typical dessert of the Italian islands as Seadas or Sicilian Cannoli
(appetizers, fresh pasta, second cours, typical dessert, Prosecco, and wine)
- Tuscan cooking class
In this recipes you will find all the flavour of Tuscan, as the Panzanella or a particular Bruschetta, the fresh hand made pasta Gnudi balls, Chicken or pork Cacciatora with rosemary, olives, pine nuts and raisin in tomatoes sauce and for dessert the typical Tiramisù
- Cooking class with wild erbs and walk in the countryside
This experience can starts with a walk in the countryside (from april to november) looking for the wild plant we will use for cooking; asparagus, garlic, nepitella, borage, wild nettle, trawberry tree ....
(appetizers, first cours, typical dessert, Prosecco, and wine)
- Cooking class with products from my kitchen garden
(appetizers, first cours, typical dessert, Prosecco, and wine)
- Truffle cooking class*
We will prepare 2 fresh pasta with truffle directly on the dough! Truffle tagliatelle and truffle ravioli in broth. We will start with sophisticated appetizers like my Pecorino nests with vegetables and truffle fondue, my truffle butter, and a delicious Pistachio mousse combined with truffle.
(truffle appetizers, 2 types of home made truffle pasta, truffle dessert, Prosecco and wine)
* The “truffle cooking class” can be combined with The Truffle hunting with the pioneer of truffle experiences and his 3 dogs.
DURATION OF THE COOKING CLASS: 4 hours
Morning (Lunch): around from 10.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. (the hours can be variable)
Afternoon (dinner): around from 5.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. (the hours can be variable)