Tuesday, October 3rd 9 am to 1 pm (lunch included) in the Paddle Hut.

Come spend your day off from school in Oma‘s German kitchen. The Sprout Chefs will spend the day creating their own kid-friendly, traditional German lunch. Schnitzel and Dutch apple pie with ice cream will be among the offerings.

Friday, October 4th 4:00 pm, at the grills on Weed Beach

From the Weed Beach entrance, turn right at the fork and drive to where the woods and the beach meet at the end of the road, past the Paddle Hut.

 

Cook and eat while forest bathing* on the beach. Each family will work together to create a witch’s brew stew, using fresh, locally grown, seasonal ingredients.  Once the stew is finished, a table will be set and dinner served outdoors. Bring your own drinks and dress accordingly. Dessert included.

*Forest bathing is the practice of relaxing in the forest and connecting with nature.

Sunday, October 13th 2:00-3:00 pm at Tilley Pond Park

Come for the annual Halloween Cake Decorating Party in the Stone Hut at Tilley Pond Park. Each Sprout Chef will decorate a 5 1/2” cake to be brought home in a bakery box.

Mondays, October 14, 21, & 28, Nov. 4, 4:00-5:00 pm in the Paddle Hut

Chef Lisa is starting a new series of cooking classes for early or reluctant readers. Lisa is a certified primary school teacher with a master’s degree in reading. She taught Head Start, first grade and has lots of experience inspiring kids to want to read. The plan is to give her young Sprout Chefs simple recipes to make sweet treats. If they do it right, how sweet it is! If they don’t do it right, that’s ok, too. That’s how we learn. They can figure out what went wrong and try again. At the end of the series, the participants will take home their own personal cookbook to keep their favorite recipes in. The class is intended to inspire a lifelong love of cooking, reading, writing, eating good food, and creativity. This reading class (disguised as a cooking class) is geared for children with pre and early reading skills, although advanced readers are also welcome to serve as role models.

Tuesdays, October 15, 22, & 29 4:00-5:00, in the Paddle Hut

Sprout Chefs will follow recipes using fall ingredients (savory and sweet) to celebrate cooler temperatures. This three part series concludes by decorating an All Hallow’s Eve cake.

Tuesday, November 5, 10 am - 2 pm (lunch included), in the Paddle Hut

Come spend Election Day in Abuela’s Mexican kitchen creating a variety of made-from-scratch street tacos. After tacos, the creation of individual Mexican chocolate deserts will make for a grand conclusion for the day.

Mondays, November 18, 25, December 2 and 9th, 4:00-5:00 pm, in the Paddle Hut

This class will focus on hearty, kid-friendly soups to nourish bodies, hearts, and spirits during the short days of winter. Each week the Sprout Chefs will follow a recipe and work together using fresh seasonal ingredients to make a tasty soup. Samples come home, along with the recipes, so that Sprout Chefs can make the soup again for their families. For the grand finale class, the chefs will work together to create their own signature soup from what they learned.

Wednesday, November 27th 2:00 pm, in the Paddle Hut

Grandparents, aunts, cousins, friends and parents are welcome to come prepare old fashioned pumpkin, sweet potato, and/or pecan pies to be baked at home and ready for the Thanksgiving table the next day. The pie dough will be made fresh with real butter, although the pumpkin and sweet potatoes come from a can. The price is per pie not per person. Each family member may make their own pie or families may work together to make one pie.

Tuesdays, December 3, 10, &17, 4:00-5:00 pm, in the Paddle Hut

For the series, the Sprout Cookie Chefs will use a different recipe each week to make a dozen holiday cookies. After each class, the unbaked cookies will come home on an aluminum cookie sheet. The cookies can be baked as soon as they get home, or frozen (for up to 3 months) and baked later. The cookie chefs will make a total of thirty-six cookies and decorate one 5”cake. The recipes will be a mix of modern cookies as well as traditional favorites, made with only the very best, fresh, whole ingredients. The last class will conclude with decorating a holiday cake and making sugar cookies. Sprout Cookie Chefs should come home ready (with adult help) to host an old-fashioned cookie baking and decorating party.

Mondays, January 6, 13, 20, & 27, February 3, 4:00-5:00 pm

Get the taste of Japan, Thailand, India, Mexico, and Italy by learning to prepare foods using traditional recipes.

Wednesday, February 12th, 4:00-5:00 pm in the Paddle Hut

Each Sprout Chef will get an assortment of heart-shaped, homemade sugar cookies to decorate with icing, candy, and sprinkles. 

Winter break camp Feb 17-21, M-F 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, in the Paddle Hut

The first day of camp will be a preplanned day of following recipes. Each day after that the Sprout Chefs will work together to plan their lunch for the next day. Trying new things and being creative is highly encouraged. Lunch must not only be edible but tasty and healthy, followed by ice cream experimentation. Each day the class will create two new ice cream flavors. On the last day, each participant will create a logo and a menu for their own fantasy ice cream parlor, using the ten flavors of ice cream they created together during the week. Older kids help the younger ones.

Friday, March 14th 4:00-5:30 pm

Come celebrate Pi Day by creating your own pie recipe and making two 5” pies from that recipe. One pie will be entered in the Best of Pi Pie Contest and the other pie will go home. An assortment of pie ingredients like cookies for crusts, fruits, puddings, candy, sprinkles and cream fillings will be provided. Contestants may bring some of their own ingredients, if wanted. Everyone who enters a pie votes. Winner takes home a prize.

Thursday, March 20th, 4:00-5:00 pm

Come celebrate the spring equinox by designing and decorating an egg shaped cake that represents nature’s new growth.

All classes meet at 1:30 in the Paddle Hut

Tuesday, October 15 - Trick or Treats

Tuesday, November 12 - Pumpkin Pie

Tuesday, December 10 - Holiday Cookies

Tuesday, January 14 - Snowman Cakes

Tuesday, February 11 - Edible Valentines

Tuesday, March 11 - Leprechaun Cupcakes

Each class involves a seasonal story and the decoration of a sweet-treats  to correspond with the story’s seasonal theme. Participants can sign up for for one or all of the classes.