Saturday, March 13, 2010
11:00am -
7:00pm
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Studio closed for group event.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Focus on Baking and Whole Grains (Gluten Free):
This class is focused on gluten free baking. The menu is large and varied to give you experience with a number of gluten free recipe favourites. We will explore the gluten free grains and flours so you know how to incorporate them into a balanced diet. Arrive hungry as there will be lots to eat throughout the class! Please let me know if you have other special dietary requirements. I think we have more pressing issues. Poverty, unemployment etc. Please arrive hungry as we will eat throughout the class as items are ready!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
10:45am -
11:45am
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Supermarket Nutrition Tour :
Join me for an informative and entertaining nutrition and shopping tour focusing on healthy eating for diabetes, heart health and weight loss. Learn to shop wisely, read labels and have your questions answered by a registered dietitian. Your fee also includes unlimited access to online "Food Prodigy" software where you enter your food and exercise journal and get customized reports and a healthy eating plan. Click on the title above for more details.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $25.00
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Meal Planning and Slow Cooker (Gluten Free):
Learn how to plan a nutritious, gluten free diet and menus. I will teach you how to understand food labels, avoid hidden culprits in foods and substitute for the usual gluten ingredients in recipes. We will make gluten free soup, casseroles and lasagna - recipes for the slow cooker and people on the go! Explore nourishing whole grains such as a variety of rices, corn, flax, Montina™ (Indiana ricegrass), millet, oats (pure, uncontaminated), sorghum, teff, and wild rice––as well as the pseudo-grains of amaranth, buckwheat, chia and quinoa. Arrive hungry as you will eat heartily throughout the class! This class will also appeal to people that don't necessarily need a gluten free diet but want to add delicious variety to their diet with more legumes and whole grains.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, April 03, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Thai Cuisine :
Almost authentic Thai for food lovers! The recipes are made a bit lighter and use ingredients available to us in our part of the world. The menu is gluten free as most Thai cuisine is! A Thai meal traditionally consists of several dishes with a combinations of flavours: sweet, hot, sour and salty. Learn about Thai herbs, spices, rice, noodles, wraps, curry, sauces and condiments. I will also share a lay-out for a simple Thai herb garden that you can create at home. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Meal from Oaxaca (Mexican):
Oaxaca is a southern Mexican mountain city,rich in history and culture with an inspiring cuisine. Jack Black in Nacho Libre filmed here! This authentic Mexican cuisine is healthy and full of fresh bold flavours. In this class you will help prepare a classic Oaxacanian meal. Mexican attire welcome! The menu is an adaptation of the one my mother and I helped make at "Season's of My Heart" cooking school near Oaxaca. It is vegetarian friendly. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Tikka and Tandoori (Gluten Free):
I have been making Indian food for more than thirty years and was taught by many of my skilled Hindu friends when I live in Toronto. It is still my most popular class. I have adapted recipes to use ingredients available in northern Ontario to make the ever popular grilled chicken tikka, chicken tandoori, simmered vegetable and lentil curries and rice dishes. The combination of spices not only creates enticing flavours but helps: digestion, reduce inflammation, regulate blood sugars and promotes overall good health. The class menu is large and varied and suitable to lacto-vegetarians. The Indian recipes are gluten free, high in fibre and lower in fat and sodium. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful Indian feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
11:00am -
0:30pm
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Supermarket Nutrition Tour :
Join me for an informative and entertaining nutrition and shopping tour focusing on healthy eating for diabetes, heart health and weight loss. Learn to shop wisely, read labels and have your questions answered by a registered dietitian. Your fee also includes unlimited access to online "Food Prodigy" software where you enter your food and exercise journal and get customized reports and a healthy eating plan. Click on the title above for more details.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Growing A Cook's Garden (Vegetarian):
This fun class will inspire you to expand your summer garden and collecting of wild edibles. I will share tips on how to grow and use favourite vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. We will use favourite herbs but also the lesser known such as Borage, Lovage, Sweet Cicely and Valerian. Review the guidelines on safe foraging and collect and taste some of the "free" and nutritious foods growing around the farm such as cedar, dandelion buds and greens, high bush cranberry, spruce, stag sumac, woodland violets and wild leeks. Class includes techniques for baking herb foccacia, making natural fruit and tea punches, preserving herbs and using the food dehydrator. We will snack and sample along the way and finish with a delicious garden & wild supper!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Indian Vegetarian (Gluten Free):
Indian cooking is deliciously rich and vibrant. We will use spices to create the flavours and aromas so typical of Indian vegetarian cuisine. This course is a good place to start if you want to explore vegetarianism or add more meatless meals to your menus. The recipes are gluten free, lower in fat and sodium and higher in fibre. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful Indian feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, May 07, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Growing A Cook's Garden (Vegetarian):
This fun class will inspire you to expand your summer garden and collecting of wild edibles. I will share tips on how to grow and use favourite vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. We will use favourite herbs but also the lesser known such as Borage, Lovage, Sweet Cicely and Valerian. Review the guidelines on safe foraging and collect and taste some of the "free" and nutritious foods growing around the farm such as cedar, dandelion buds and greens, high bush cranberry, spruce, stag sumac, woodland violets and wild leeks. Class includes techniques for baking herb foccacia, making natural fruit and tea punches, preserving herbs and using the food dehydrator. We will snack and sample along the way and finish with a delicious garden & wild supper!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Meal from Morroco:
The cuisine of Morocco, a north African country, is rated among the best in the world. The flavours and scents are coriander, cumin, saffron, marjoram, and onion mingled with olive oil and the sweetness of mint. I will use local lamb raised in the Christian Valley, organic chicken and almost all organic or my own homegrown food. Click on the title to see the full menu.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Monday, May 10, 2010
0:00pm -
12:00am
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Studio Closed:
Sadly I must report I am in Jamaica for three weeks returning home early June. I will be learning more delicious Caribbean cooking, attending the Calabash book and music festival and swimming in the ocean many times a day!!
I have been a registered dietitian for 25 years and enjoy teaching people how to create a healthy diet taking into account their preferences and lifestyle. The sessions are based on healthy eating and suit those on diabetic and cardiac diets. Many are lacto vegetarian and gluten free. Individual counseling sessions are available as follow-up.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $1.00
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Peruvian Dinner Party (The Land of the Inca):
Peruvian cuisine has emerged as a hot food trend. This class is gluten free. Peru is the largest country in South America and the esteemed home of the potato, maize (35 corn varieties), tomatoes and aji peppers. Sample new recipes for beverages, salads and the barbecue (grill) in this fun cooking class.
The main influences on Peruvian cuisine were the native Inca and Spanish. What I enjoy most about cooking Peruvian style dishes is that they rely on ingredients so common to our diet in northern Ontario: beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chile peppers, sweet peppers, eggs and chicken. I will use mostly organic foods including chicken and shrimp as well as local foods and those preserved from my garden. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast! Click on the course title to see the menu in detail.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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100 Mile Diet:
For Canada this is the 160 km. diet but it is hard to avoid using this catchy slogan! My 100 mile diet class has been very popular for the past three years and is designed to help you review and share ideas to build a healthy diet around SLOW foods - seasonal, local, organic and wild! Please use more foods which support local agriculture and farmers! I will lead you on a walk around our fields and bush area where I have documented over 100 edible plants. Learn local history and safe foraging for wild edibles.
Most of the ingredients are homegrown, organic and wild things. Recipes are lower in fat and salt and higher in fibre. If you don't see the menu for the event click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
2:00pm -
7:00pm
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Bhutanese Cooking and Momo Making:
Dinner and a movie? Bhutan is also known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon. We will start with beverages and momos and then watch "Travellers and Magicians" - the first movie filmed in Bhutan (2002). "Two men, one chasing love ends up in a dream. The other, chasing a dream, leaves love behind."
The Himalayan food of Bhutan is unique and also has similarities to north Indian, Tibetan and Chinese cuisines. Recipes are moderately spicy but modified for our Western palate and ingredients. Click on the course title to see the menu in detail.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Meal from Oaxaca (Mexican):
Oaxaca is a southern Mexican mountain city,rich in history and culture with an inspiring cuisine. Jack Black in Nacho Libre filmed here! This authentic Mexican cuisine is healthy and full of fresh bold flavours. In this class you will help prepare a classic Oaxacanian meal. Mexican attire welcome! The menu is an adaptation of the one my mother and I helped make at "Season's of My Heart" cooking school near Oaxaca. It is vegetarian friendly. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Fun with Vinegar, Oil, Dressings and Marinades! (Vegetarian):
Learn to make vinegars, condiments, dressings and sauces you can make at home using vegetables and herbs abundant in the garden. The herb vinegars, flavoured oils, marinades and vinaigrettes are lower in fat and sodium, additive-free and made with food safety in mind. Take home three beautifully bottled sauces you helped make and label. The class ends with a delicious vegetarian supper.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, July 09, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Tikka and Tandoori (Gluten Free):
I have been making Indian food for more than thirty years and was taught by many of my skilled Hindu friends when I live in Toronto. It is still my most popular class. I have adapted recipes to use ingredients available in northern Ontario to make the ever popular grilled chicken tikka, chicken tandoori, simmered vegetable and lentil curries and rice dishes. The combination of spices not only creates enticing flavours but helps: digestion, reduce inflammation, regulate blood sugars and promotes overall good health. The class menu is large and varied and suitable to lacto-vegetarians. The Indian recipes are gluten free, high in fibre and lower in fat and sodium. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful Indian feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Bhutanese Cooking and Momo Making:
Dinner and a movie? Bhutan is also known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon. We will start with beverages and momos and then watch "Travellers and Magicians" - the first movie filmed in Bhutan (2002). "Two men, one chasing love ends up in a dream. The other, chasing a dream, leaves love behind."
The Himalayan food of Bhutan is unique and also has similarities to north Indian, Tibetan and Chinese cuisines. Recipes are moderately spicy but modified for our Western palate and ingredients. Click on the course title to see the menu in detail.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, July 16, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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The Mediterranean Diet :
This culinary spice and herb tour is inspired by my love of ethnic cooking and growing herbs. I will also teach the main components of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid and discuss its success in diabetes, heart disease and weight loss. We will use my garden vegetables, herbs and berries growing around the farm as well as local in-season foods, foods from the wild and organics.
Learn the rules the rules” for savory, sweet and hot spices and herbs. This will help you season food with winning flavour and food combinations from various cultures. Learn how much to add, when to add, how to store and preserve and store spices and herbs. We will practice using edible garnishes to enhance the appearance of our creations. We sample along the way and end with a sit-down Mediterranean style dinner. If you don't see the full menu click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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The Jamaican Kitchen:
We will prepare cuisine from my favourite island! Find out what Nancy learned in Jamaica... Treasure Beach, Black River and Negril. We will cook and eat out of doors "Jamaican style" down at my dock on the South River. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast! If you don't see the full menu click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, July 23, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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The Jamaican Kitchen:
We will prepare cuisine from my favourite island! Find out what Nancy learned in Jamaica... Treasure Beach, Black River and Negril. We will cook and eat out of doors "Jamaican style" down at my dock on the South River. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast! If you don't see the full menu click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Nigerian - West African Cuisine:
This is a new course I am offering with guest chef Beth Peart of Toronto. Definitely delicious and something new for our seasoned foodies! We will be working with local and organic foods and some store Nigerian foods. Click on the title to see the menu.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Meal from Morroco:
The cuisine of Morocco, a north African country, is rated among the best in the world. The flavours and scents are coriander, cumin, saffron, marjoram, and onion mingled with olive oil and the sweetness of mint. I will use local lamb raised in the Christian Valley, organic chicken and almost all organic or my own homegrown food. Click on the title to see the full menu.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, August 13, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Tikka and Tandoori (Gluten Free):
I have been making Indian food for more than thirty years and was taught by many of my skilled Hindu friends when I live in Toronto. It is still my most popular class. I have adapted recipes to use ingredients available in northern Ontario to make the ever popular grilled chicken tikka, chicken tandoori, simmered vegetable and lentil curries and rice dishes. The combination of spices not only creates enticing flavours but helps: digestion, reduce inflammation, regulate blood sugars and promotes overall good health. The class menu is large and varied and suitable to lacto-vegetarians. The Indian recipes are gluten free, high in fibre and lower in fat and sodium. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful Indian feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
6:00am -
10:00pm
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Culinary tour to the Foire Gourmand, Quebec:
This is a day tour to the "Foire Gourmand" agri-food festival of Ontario and Quebec. It attracted 35,000 foodies last year! Our trip will be north through the Tri-towns and the Little Clay Belt. We will visit the Thornloe Cheese Factory and Boreal Cuisine north of New Liskeard on the way. Admission to the event is free and you buy food tickets for what you want to try from the various vendors.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $49.00
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Friday, August 20, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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The Mediterranean Diet :
This culinary spice and herb tour is inspired by my love of ethnic cooking and growing herbs. I will also teach the main components of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid and discuss its success in diabetes, heart disease and weight loss. We will use my garden vegetables, herbs and berries growing around the farm as well as local in-season foods, foods from the wild and organics.
Learn the rules the rules” for savory, sweet and hot spices and herbs. This will help you season food with winning flavour and food combinations from various cultures. Learn how much to add, when to add, how to store and preserve and store spices and herbs. We will practice using edible garnishes to enhance the appearance of our creations. We sample along the way and end with a sit-down Mediterranean style dinner. If you don't see the full menu click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Peruvian Dinner Party (The Land of the Inca):
Peruvian cuisine has emerged as a hot food trend. This class is gluten free. Peru is the largest country in South America and the esteemed home of the potato, maize (35 corn varieties), tomatoes and aji peppers. Sample new recipes for beverages, salads and the barbecue (grill) in this fun cooking class.
The main influences on Peruvian cuisine were the native Inca and Spanish. What I enjoy most about cooking Peruvian style dishes is that they rely on ingredients so common to our diet in northern Ontario: beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chile peppers, sweet peppers, eggs and chicken. I will use mostly organic foods including chicken and shrimp as well as local foods and those preserved from my garden. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful feast! Click on the course title to see the menu in detail.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Monday, August 23, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Tikka and Tandoori (Gluten Free):
I have been making Indian food for more than thirty years and was taught by many of my skilled Hindu friends when I live in Toronto. It is still my most popular class. I have adapted recipes to use ingredients available in northern Ontario to make the ever popular grilled chicken tikka, chicken tandoori, simmered vegetable and lentil curries and rice dishes. The combination of spices not only creates enticing flavours but helps: digestion, reduce inflammation, regulate blood sugars and promotes overall good health. The class menu is large and varied and suitable to lacto-vegetarians. The Indian recipes are gluten free, high in fibre and lower in fat and sodium. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful Indian feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Tikka and Tandoori (Gluten Free):
I have been making Indian food for more than thirty years and was taught by many of my skilled Hindu friends when I live in Toronto. It is still my most popular class. I have adapted recipes to use ingredients available in northern Ontario to make the ever popular grilled chicken tikka, chicken tandoori, simmered vegetable and lentil curries and rice dishes. The combination of spices not only creates enticing flavours but helps: digestion, reduce inflammation, regulate blood sugars and promotes overall good health. The class menu is large and varied and suitable to lacto-vegetarians. The Indian recipes are gluten free, high in fibre and lower in fat and sodium. Please arrive hungry as we will sample throughout the class and end with a delightful Indian feast!
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, September 17, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Salsas, Relishes and Chutneys:
Preserve the summer harvest with healthy recipes that add variety and interest to your winter meals long after summer memories have faded! Learn modern techniques for food preservation to ensure food safety of the products you make. Great ideas for gourmet edible gifts! Class ends with a sit down lunch made from the summer harvest. If you don't see the menu click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Salsas, Relishes and Chutneys:
Preserve the summer harvest with healthy recipes that add variety and interest to your winter meals long after summer memories have faded! Learn modern techniques for food preservation to ensure food safety of the products you make. Great ideas for gourmet edible gifts! Class ends with a sit down lunch made from the summer harvest. If you don't see the menu click on the course title.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Friday, September 24, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Fun with Vinegar, Oil, Dressings and Marinades! (Vegetarian):
Learn to make vinegars, condiments, dressings and sauces you can make at home using vegetables and herbs abundant in the garden. The herb vinegars, flavoured oils, marinades and vinaigrettes are lower in fat and sodium, additive-free and made with food safety in mind. Take home three beautifully bottled sauces you helped make and label. The class ends with a delicious vegetarian supper.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Meal from Morroco:
The cuisine of Morocco, a north African country, is rated among the best in the world. The flavours and scents are coriander, cumin, saffron, marjoram, and onion mingled with olive oil and the sweetness of mint. I will use local lamb raised in the Christian Valley, organic chicken and almost all organic or my own homegrown food. Click on the title to see the full menu.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Easy and Delicious Vegetarian (Gluten Free):
Explore the essentials of vegetarian nutrition and a vegetarian food guide. Learn how to make easy, delicious and satisfying meals using tofu, pulses (beans, peas and lentils), millet, quinoa and other gluten free grains. Organic and local foods will be used throughout. We will use the slow cooker for beans and grains. I can adjust the menu according to various special dietary needs.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Art of Making Soup (Gluten Free):
Learn to use whole grains and pulses with vegetables and herbs to make fresh tasting, healthy soup. I will demonstrate classic techniques to make savory vegetable and meat stocks that form the basis of exceptional soup. You will also learn to make good bread in the bread maker, croutons and garlic herb toasts. Recipes are gluten free, higher in fibre and lower in fat and salt. We eat throughout the class so arrive hungry! This class will also appeal to those who want to learn to make soup but don't necessarily need a gluten free diet. Click on the title to see the full class menu.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
2:00pm -
6:00pm
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Holiday Dips & Appetizers:
Tasty tricks and ideas for the fall and winter party season. We will focus on "glamourizing" your creations by attractively plating and garnishing. Recipes are deliciously lower in fat and salt and higher in fibre - but no one will notice! We will sample along the way and end with a sit down supper.
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Nancy Guppy, RD, MHSc
Biography
Price: $79.00
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