Once you’ve taken our beginner’s pasta making class, or if you already know your way around a pasta machine, you’re ready to explore the world of cooking with fresh pasta. Join Chef Royal Dahlstrom for this hands-on class that will inspire you to create a fresh pasta dish every night of the week. You’ll learn how to use your pasta machine, and other equipment, to make a variety of pasta shapes, as well as how to fill pastas like tortellini or manicotti. You’ll get techniques for working with fresh pasta so that it doesn’t dry out. You’ll also discover great pasta and sauce combinations as you cook your way through four delicious pasta courses. On the menu: GOAT CHEESE RAVIOLI WITH HEIRLOOM TOMATOES & WHOLE LEAF BASIL; TORTELLINI WITH LEMON RICOTTA, ROASTED CORN AND SMOKED CHICKEN; FETTUCCINI WITH ROASTED PEPPERS, GARLIC & SAUSAGE; and light, delicious GNOCCHI WITH TALLEGIO, CHERRY TOMATOES & ASPARAGUS. With the skills and recipes from this class, you’ll never need to open a box of spaghetti noodles again.

Royal Dahlstrom | Participation | $65
#3182 – Wednesday, August 4 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

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Happy hours, picnics and barbecues – summer is the perfect time to catch up with friends with an evening good food and good beer. Join us with Chef Royal Dahlstrom for a great menu of small plates that will rival any gastro-pub. You’ll get recipes, hands-on experience and expert food and beer pairing tips from special guest Brad “the Beer Guy” Magerkurth. On the menu: HAND-TOSSED PIZZA WITH GRILLED CHICKEN & ROASTED PEPPERS, paired with DAVE'S BREW FARM SPECIALTY BEER served in a growler; KOREAN BEEF SKEWERS WITH GRILLED GREEN ONION PESTO, paired with BREW FARM SELECT LAGER; PICO ROASTED SHRIMP WITH CILANTRO CREAM, paired with DELIRIUM TREMENS; ROASTED GARLIC CROSTINI WITH FRESH MOZZARELLA, HEIRLOOM TOMATOES & BASIL, paired with BREW FARM "MATACABRAS" CURIOUS DARK ALE; and for dessert: PORTER FLOATS WITH VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM & OATMEAL COOKIES using EEL RIVER 100% ORGANIC PORTER.

Beer flights will be available for purchase. $20

Royal Dahlstrom & Brad Magerkurth | Participation | $70
#3201 – Thursday, August 26 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

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Join Chef Royal Dahlstrom to learn the secret of good cooks everywhere – how to make a sauce. Essential to all the world’s cuisines, a good sauce can transform an ordinary meal into an extraordinary one. In this class, you’ll get hands-on experience in preparing a classic sauce, as well as Royal’s tips and techniques to keep a sauce from breaking or burning. You’ll learn how to choose and use the right equipment for sauce making and how and when to use each sauce to add that special finish to your cooking. On the agenda for the evening: you’ll learn how to make a ROUX – a blend of cooked flour and fat that’s the base for many sauces; BECHAMEL – a white sauce of milk, butter and flour; VELOUTE – a stock-based white sauce, made with milk, butter, flour and a light stock; ESPAGNOLE – a brown sauce made from a rich meat stock, browned vegetables and a browned roux; VINAIGRETTE – a mixture of oil, vinegar and various seasonings; BEURRE BLANC – a rich, warm sauce of butter, shallots and a reduction of wine or vinegar; and MAYONNAISE – an emulsion of egg yolks and fat used alone or as a base for aïoli, hollandaise or remoulade. With these sauces under your belt, you’ll be ready to open your own five-star restaurant – or at least to serve five-star meals to your friends and family.

Royal Dahlstrom | Participation | $65
#3206 – Thursday, September 9 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

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For dinner, breakfast or a midnight snack – pizza is the perfect food. And while many of us rely on the convenience of take-out or delivery, there’s nothing quite like an artisan-style pizza made by hand. And you’d be surprised at how easy pizza is to make. Join Chef Royal Dahlstrom for a hands-on class that will teach you the fundamentals of delicious home-baked pizza. You’ll begin with the foundation for every good pizza – the crust. Royal will walk you through the techniques for a successful dough, how to fashion that dough into three types of crust, and how to finish each crust for a perfect pizza every time. On the menu: CRISPY FLATBREAD PIZZA, cooked in a Kalamazoo Old World Pizza Oven for an authentic Neapolitan-style crust; HAND-TOSSED PIZZA with a tender, chewy crust, topped with FRESH MOZZARELLA, WHOLE LEAF BASIL & PROSCIUTTO DI PARMA; and CHICAGO DEEP-DISH PIZZA which you will customize with your favorite toppings.

Royal Dahlstrom | Participation | $65
#3217 – Friday, September 17 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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Join us for a tour of the Alexander Valley – or at least the wines of the Alexander Valley. With 15,000 acres of land planted to premium wine grapes, growers in the Alexander Valley cultivate many wine grape varieties, including a world-famous Cabernet Sauvignon. You’ll sample some of the best wines from this Sonoma County region as you enjoy a lovely dinner prepared by Chef Royal Dahlstrom. You’ll be treated to four courses that highlight the earthy and robust colors and flavors of early autumn. On the menu: CHILI-SMOKED SHRIMP WITH ENDIVE AND CITRUS JAM; a beautiful PASTRAMI-SPICED SEARED TUNA LOIN WITH HEIRLOOM TOMATOES AND MICRO GREENS drizzled in olive oil; HERB-SEARED NEW YORK STRIP served with SWEET POTATO PUREE, SMOKED WILD MUSHROOMS, LOCAL ONIONS AND A RED WINE SAUCE; and for dessert – TARTE TATIN, an upside-down apple cake made with local apples and served with VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM & ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY.

Wine flights will be available for purchase. $25

Royal Dahlstrom | Demonstration | $70
#3225 – Friday, September 24 | 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

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This North Minneapolis warehouse is a mecca for chefs throughout the Twin Cities and around the country. Great Ciao is a favorite because of its selection of the highest quality, most unique foods around. The warehouse is typically open only to professionals, but as a guest of Kitchen Window, you get insider access to this exclusive market. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes tour with a chef as your guide to offer tips on how to use some of the ingredients you’ll find. You’ll be treated to tastings of artisanal olive oils, vinegars, cheeses and chocolates. And through special arrangement with Kitchen Window, you’ll be able to purchase the foods you fall in love with. Once you get the lay of the land from Jeff Pierce of Great Ciao, you’ll get to shop to your heart’s content. We’ll meet at Kitchen Window Cooking School before heading to the market, and after the tour, return here for a light lunch of salad and dessert prepared by Chef Royal Dahlstrom with some of his favorite Great Ciao finds.

Royal Dahlstrom | Tour | $75
#3226 – Saturday, September 25 | 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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