Our Cooking Classes

Do you love hanging out in the kitchen preparing a good meal for family or friends? Are you watching cooking shows in hopes of leaning a new recipe or skill?

La Maison offers personalized cooking classes.  Each class is taught by a chef or food enthusiast determined to show you a good time, teach you a new skill or recipe, serve you a good meal, and show you how to choose and drink great local wines.  All classes allow your participation, as much or as little as you like.  Grab an apron and join the chef in the kitchen to help make the meal.  Classes typically include an appetizer, salad, main course, side dishes and dessert and wines paired with each entrée by the chef and featured winery.  When dinner is finished everyone sits down family style to enjoy!

In addition to scheduled cooking classes, La Maison is available for private events.  If you have business clients coming in town and want an unforgettable team building experience; if it’s someone special’s birthday and you want an intimate dinner, or if it is time to schedule your annual Christmas party someplace new and unique ~ La Maison offers private events to include a chef and winery.

Classes are held in our French inspired private home perched on a rocky cliff in Naches Heights with a spectacular view.

Cooking Class List

Summer salads and BBQ with Chef Brad Smith

Price: $75.00

Date: June 8, 2013

Brad will be creating fresh summer salads to compliment your patio party repertoire and BBQ to melt in your mouth.  Grab an apron and get down and dirty with the chef at the grill.  Full menu and winery to be announced soon.  Class starts at 6:00pm and goes until we are done licking our fingers!

Available Spaces: 0

Robin Leventhal from Top Chef, Season 6 will be in the La Maison kitchen!

Price: $150.00

Date: June 22, 2013

Robin Leventhal will be teaching a seasonal menu and regaling stories of her stint on season six of the well known cooking show, Top Chef. This will be a really special evening you won't want to miss! Her fresh, seasonal menu will be paired with local wines. This class will be limited to 14 so register soon!                                                     APPETIZERS:

                                                                           Sweet Pea Bruchetta with Chevre and Pickled Shallots

Cheese plate with Pickled cherries and Dried Cherry Mostarda

Charcuterie with homemade Mustards

 ENTRÉE

Goat Cheese Gnocchi,

Pancetta lardons, Sugar Snap peas

Reggiano & pine nuts in the style of carbonara

Sautéed Pea vines

DESSERT

Cherry Almond Clafoutis

Available Spaces: 11

Lavender & Wine with Chef Brad Smith, Bywater Lavender Farm, & Severino Cellars

Price: $110.00

Date: June 29, 2013

This unique collaborative culinary event starts at the Bywater Lavender Farm in Prosser.  You’ll meet the owner Barb Lauby who will share her knowledge of growing several varieties of lavender, including culinary.  She will explain the harvesting and drying procedure in addition to serving you refreshing lavender lemonade while you view the purple surrounding beauty.  Feel free to make a lavender bundle or wreath to take home.  From there you will travel down the road to meet at Severino Cellars for a private wine tasting and to snack on Brad’s bbq lavender chicken wings.  I’m not done……..from there you then travel to La Maison for your cooking class that starts at 6:00 pm with Chef Brad and Severino Cellars as the featured winery.  The menu will be fabulous and every item includes lavender;   a partial menu includes fresh summer salad with a blueberry and lavender dressing, Lavender stuffed pork loin with lavender roasted potatoes and goat cheese, seasonal vegetables….yes, with lavender, then finally lavender crème brule.  The taste of lavender will be subtle, but the day will be spectacular.  This class starts at 2:00 at Bywater Lavender Farms in Prosser.

Available Spaces: 14

Chef Magana's third annual Paella Party on the Patio paired with wines from ANC

Price: $80.00

Date: July 12, 2013

Chef Magana will be creating Tapas, Tapas and more Tapas along with his signature Paella paired with wines from Alelxandria Nicole Cellars.  Class starts at 6:00 pm.  This class will be more full than normal as we will spill out onto the patio for a fabulous view for this summer event.

Available Spaces: 25

AprèsVin

You can purchase these wonderful oils during class or buy a gift certificate.

AprèsVin’s VARIETAL GRAPE SEED OILS are produced from wine pomace (the leftover residue from winemaking) which is carefully collected from select wineries in Eastern Washington and kept separate by variety. The grape seeds contained in the pomace are separated, dried, and cold-pressed to yield extra special, varietal grape seed oils with unique and distinctive flavors. Learn More»

Sur La Table

Use the link below to shop for some of the items we may use during one of our cooking classes.

Sur La Table has over a 35-year legacy of knowledgeable and passionate service. Our stores and Web site are a celebration of quality tools that set the standard for excellence in the industry. Sur La Table»

Artisan Salts

We love using these salts in our classes. You can purchase the salts we use during your class.

Salt, the oldest spice... and so much more! Experience the multitude of textures, colors and flavors of authentic artisan salts from around the world. Artisan Salt Company® certifies both the origin and quality of all our premium sea salts. If it bears the Artisan Seal of Authenticity, you can be sure that it is the best salt available. Artisan Salts»