Asian Spring and Summer Rolls
Everyone loves crispy Chinese Spring Rolls and they are easy to make, using store bought wrappers! We'll also make Vietnamese Summer Rolls which are entirely fat free, cool and refreshing to eat, with almost NO cooking involved!

Chinese Vegetarian Cooking
Chinese cuisine is wonderful for vegetarian cooking with its flavorful combinations and creative use of ingredients. We'll learn all about how to use several types of tofu and cook two delicious Chinese vegetarian dishes using no meat, fish, dairy or eggs.

Quick and Easy Thai
Enjoy Thai restaurants? If you like Thai flavors and want to give a Thai twist to some familiar American favorites this one is for you. We will learn simple, Thai-taste dishes with a short prep time including Thai salmon cakes, Cilantro garlic grilled chicken, and a quick light Thai cole slaw.

Two Jewish Holiday Dishes With Potatoes
Every culture has its own special holiday foods. Potato latkes - potato pancakes - are a hot, crisp, fabulous treat usually served at Chanukah, a Jewish winter festival. Potato kugel, a substantial dish baked in a lasagna pan is also a traditional favorite. It's great for crowds or potlucks. Come learn how to make them your family's favorite too!

Working With Phyllo
Phyllo is paper-thin dough popular in many Middle Eastern treats and useful for all kinds of delicious, light, crunchy dishes. It's found most local groceries and easy to work with - once you know the tricks. We'll make the famous dessert baklava (sweet but not too sweet), and a traditional appetizer, spinach triangles, great for parties or snacks. Overcome your Fear of Phyllo!

Sushi Making Workshop for Couples
Who knew sushi making could be Romantic! In this special Couples Only sushi-making workshop on Valentine's Day we'll learn how to make delicious, healthy sushi and eat plenty too! You'll learn how to prepare and cook sushi rice, create fillings, and make great sushi rolls. You are welcome to bring a romantic dessert to share to class if you wish. So bring your sweetie and learn to make sushi together!

East-West Fusion Cooking
Fusion cooking uses cooking styles and ingredients from different parts of the world to create interesting new tastes. In East -West Fusion Cooking we'll put together Asian and Western ingredients and techniques to make some casual, easy, innovative dishes. Dishes include: Chicken noodle salad with Asian peanut dressing, and soy glazed salmon burgers with ginger lime aioli (mayonnaise).

Introduction to Stir-Frying
Do your stir-fry dishes turn out soggy? Sloppy? Learn basic stir-fry technique to make quick-on-the-table meals. We'll create two Chinese stir-fried dishes and understand how to adapt stir-frying to any cuisine.

Chinese Spring Rolls and Lettuce Wraps
Inexpensive, and easily available in Roanoke, Chinese spring rolls wrappers are wonderfully easy to use. We'll use them to make two dishes: authentic Chinese spring rolls, and a surprising Asian dessert. And as an added bonus, we make ultra-easy, delicious, Chinese lettuce wraps.

Introduction to Chinese Cooking - Soups and Stews
Learn a basic Chinese technique for stewing in soy sauce (it's called red cooking - and it's delicious!) and everyone's favorite Chinese soup, hot and sour soup. We'll talk about using authentic Chinese ingredients easily available in Roanoke to create authentic delicious dishes your family will love.

Introduction to Chinese Cooking - Steaming, and Tea Smoking
In traditional Chinese cooking, steaming over water often takes the place of oven baking. Smoking over tea leaves produces an exquisitely delicate smoky flavor not found in western BBQ-type smoking - yet so easy you can do it over a stovetop at home for dinner - no special equipment required! In this class well make delicious steamed and tea smoked fish and chicken dishes

Thai Workshop
This workshop will focus on two traditional and popular Thai dishes and gives a good in-depth understanding of Thai ingredients and seasonings. You will make authentic pad Thai, a very popular noodle dish, and Thai satay (spiced meat on a stick) with a lovely coconut cream-based peanut dipping sauce.

Sushi Workshop
Our most requested cooking class! Love sushi? It's a lot easier to make than you think. This very popular hands-on workshop is designed to teach you everything you need to know to make delicious, healthy sushi at home. You'll learn how to prepare and cook sushi rice, create fillings, and make great sushi rolls.

Let's Visit an Asian Grocery Store
If you love to cook and eat Asian food, you need to feel comfortable shopping in an Asian grocery. But it can be confusing, with hard to understand labels and unfamiliar produce. We will tour a nearby Asian grocery, shop and return to the Brambleton Center to prepare some fast snacks as an added bonus! We will meet outside J & L Oriental Food Mart, 3901 Brambleton Ave, next to Papa Johns about a mile from the Center going towards the city. Please Be Prompt!

Asian Appetizers
Calling all adventurous cooks eager to learn incredible Asian appetizers, party hors d'ouvres, and finger foods from Southeast Asia, China and India. Give your friends and family something new to nibble all with ingredients easily available right here in Roanoke.

Creative Asian Cooking with Chinese Spring Roll Wrappers
Inexpensive, amazingly versatile, and easily available in Roanoke, Chinese spring rolls wrappers can be used to make many authentic wonderful small dishes. Once you master the technique you can make many appetizers, lunches or even sweet snacks! We'll make three Asian accented dishes using spring roll wrappers: Chinese spring rolls, Indian samosas, and a surprising modern Asian-taste dessert with fruit.

More Asian Wraps
Many cultures love wrapped-up foods - from tortillas to sandwiches. Traditional Asian wraps are different, fun to learn and totally delicious. In this class we will learn Vietnamese summer rolls using rice paper wrappers, Chinese shu mai, an open-faced dumpling, and potstickers, a type of pan-fried Chinese ravioli with a sweet-spicy dipping sauce.

Asian Summer Cooking
Let's keep it cool for summer with Vietnamese summer rolls and refreshing Asian salads. All these recipes require minimal cooking and simple, fresh ingredients - perfect to use up the garden's bounty. This one is for those of you who asked for a class with something Vietnamese.

Two Favorite Asian Soups: Chinese Hot and Sour Soup and Japanese Miso Soup
Learn how to make two wonderful warming Asian soups: Hot and Sour Soup, a great favorite at Chinese restaurants, and Japanese Miso soup - a Japanese tradition. We'll also learn about the different kinds of miso and how to use them.

Private Classes and Special Events
All of the above classes are available as a private event either at my facility or in yours; your home, your church or corporate setting. Perfect for parties, showers, or corporate team building events. Couples classes also available.

We love to create specialized classes devoted to specific topics. Let us work with you to build a class around your specific requirements. Minimum: six people.