• 3 Hour Cooking Class Experience Hosted at Local Winery
• A Tasting Flight Featuring Four Locally Made Wines
• Private Access to Winehaven Winery’s Event Space
• Engaging and Interactive Pasta Making Cooking Class
• Welcome Charcuterie Appetizer
• Make and Enjoy a 3-Course Dinner (Menu Below)
• All Ingredients Needed for your Cooking Class Experience
• Access to all Needed Equipment and Materials
• Take-home Recipe Cards
• Local GetKnit Gurus to Guide You

Get whisked away this summer on our brand-new culinary experience, ‘Cooking at the Winery: A Taste of Tuscany’ at Winehaven Winery and Vineyard.  During this outing, you’ll learn the art of creating handmade pasta, how to create a flavorful red sauce with a pan-seared chicken breast in an engaging cooking class designed for pasta enthusiasts of all skill levels.  And better yet, it all takes place in the beautiful and unique setting of a local winery!

To begin this event, our GetKnit Gurus will be ready to welcome you at Winehaven Winery and Vineyard in Chisago City – Minnesota’s very own slice of wine country.  After getting checked in, you’ll be invited to take a seat in Winehaven’s tasting room in our private event space for the evening and enjoy a wine tasting flight featuring four 3 ounce locally made wines (which is the equivalent of two glasses of wine).  Perfectly paired with our wine tastings, we will be invited to enjoy a beautifully curated charcuterie appetizer to help kick off the culinary experience for our evening together.

Once we’ve all arrived, we will meet our partners from Way Cool Cooking School, who’ve been bringing people together in the kitchen through food experiences since 2004.  Under the guidance of their qualified, personable and professional chefs, we will learn the techniques to craft fresh pasta from scratch and then have a chance to create our very own pasta dough using traditional rustic techniques!  While our dough rests, we will learn how to make ‘Way Cool’s’ signature Caesar dressing in an engaging and informative chef-demonstrated lesson.

Once our dough is ready, we will then learn how to transform it into delicate noodles.  Under the guidance of our chef team and working in small groups, we will use the provided tools and pasta makers to roll, cut, and shape our handmade dough into beautiful, fresh Fettuccine noodles.

From there, we turn our attention to how to create a fresh and flavorful red sauce.  With our tabletop burners and using a mix of fresh ingredients we will first learn how to create a perfectly pan-seared chicken breast and then a red sauce made with blistered tomatoes, WineHaven’s red wine, spinach, and cream.

As our sauce simmers and its intoxicating aromas fill the air – we’ll be invited to begin eating the fruits of our labor and enjoy our first course, our Caesar salad with crunchy chef-made garlic croutons.  After we’ve enjoyed our salad course, the culinary team will serve up bowls of our Fettuccine, cooked to perfection by the ‘Way Cool’ team and be invited to serve up our handmade sauce and chicken from our tabletop burners.  To round out our dinner, we will enjoy chef-made Honey Mead Cakes made with WineHaven’s award winning Stinger Mead.    A full overview of our “Taste of Tuscany” menu is as follows:

• Course 1: Chef Demonstrated Caesar Salad:  ‘Way Cool’s’ Signature Caesar dressing made from scratch and tossed with fresh salad, parmesan, and finished with crunchy homemade garlic croutons.
• Course 2: Hands-On Fresh Homemade Pasta and Tuscan Chicken:  Handmade fettuccine with Pan-seared chicken breasts simmered in a flavorful red sauce made with blistered tomatoes, WineHaven’s red wine, spinach, and cream. This comforting dish is perfectly balanced and offers a taste of the Italian countryside with every forkful.
• Course 3: Chef-Prepared Honey Mead Cakes: Individual cakes infused with sweet honey and WineHaven’s own Stinger Mead, then topped with a light citrus glaze. Baked in advance by our chefs and served to close the evening on a sweet, elegant note.

With bellies as full as our hearts, new skills learned and new friends made – we will head home with recipe cards featuring all of the items on our menu, so we can recreate this meal in the comfort of our own homes and revisit “Tuscany” anytime we please.