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Online: Focaccia, Stromboli, and Calzones - Oh My!

Adult Enrichment / Cooking & Nutrition -
Adult W-SP 25

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel one of Tess's classes and you have already been sent a recipe or ingredient list for the class, you will not receive a refund. All of her recipes are originals and are her creative property and will be published in her cookbook. Therefore, we will not be issuing refunds. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant.

What makes these unique and scrumptious dishes what they are? How are they similar or different? Discover the answers as you dive into the world of unique rolled and stuffed pizzas and a marvelous focaccia bread. Learn how to make your own homemade focaccia bread, a rolled pizza called stromboli, and stuffed pizzas known as calzones. Experience the rave reviews from previous participants as you learn how to make your own pizzas with Tess's step-by-step instructions. Take out pizza may just become a thing of the past. On the menu: stromboli (rolled/filled pizza), calzones (stuffed pizza), focaccia bread, and an out-of-this-world pizza sauce. Two different types of homemade dough are used. One will be for your pizza options, the other for the focaccia. Tess will provide guidance and instruction to ensure the process is a simple as can be. Participants can personalize their pizzas with and focaccia bread with toppings and fillings of their choosing. All recipes have been created by Tess and tested over the years to ensure maximum flavor. Choose which ones you would like to make and watch a demonstration of the others or make them all. Tess’s recipes are copyrighted and are only shared with those who enroll. You'll receive a list of ingredients in advance with enough time for shopping and prep. A professionally made PDF packet of Tess's personal recipes will also be shared. As an added bonus, Tess created a private and public group on Facebook for participants. Everyone will receive an invite; joining is optional. A 9x13 non-stick baking pan or a larger sheet pan is needed for the focaccia bread. Additional sheet pans needed for the stromboli and the calzones. A stand mixer is highly recommended in order to be able to make the dough for both options during the class. One registration fee can include immediate family members living full-time in the same home only. If children are participating, adult supervision is required. If friends, adult children, or extended family members are gathering for a fun night together, each household must register separately even if participating together. 

Tess Georgakopoulos

Instructor

Tess Georgakopoulos, also known as “Chef Tess—Culinary Artist”, has been cooking and baking for well over 45 years since she was roughly 6 years old. Born into a Greek family, the art of cooking traditional meals using ones senses rather than recipes and measurements was passed on from one generation to the next. Her father was also a trained chef who brought the magic of food to life in another form on the weekends as they cooked elaborate family meals together. Food prepared from the heart, with ones own hands and creativity was, and continues to be an expression of love in her home. As an accomplished cook and baker, Tess enjoys creating original recipes for her family and friends. Sweet, savory, or doughy, she enjoys experimenting and creating in the kitchen daily. Tess is proficient and experienced in creating classes and curriculum for conventional cooking, baking, pressure cooking, air frying, pizza making, Mediterranean Cooking, and meal preparation as well. More recently, she is expanding her creativity and experience in the creation of Cooking Master Classes! A Culinary Artist indeed! She has been teaching both in-person and online cooking classes through community education for a number of years, and is currently working with almost 60 public school districts in and around the Twin Cities, in many corners of Minnesota, in addition to school districts in Wisconsin, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma! Through her teaching, Tess has helped people of all skill levels increase their confidence and expand their skills in the kitchen reaching heights of their own personal creativity that they never knew existed! Always working towards expanding her culinary repertoire, Tess enjoys spending much of her free time in her test kitchen creating new recipes and reinventing traditional ones as she combines traditional and new cooking methods, equipment, appliances, and technology in the creation of her recipes that help make “dishing” delicious and simple. Tess has recently started writing her first cookbook, and her food blog is also in the works! Some of her creations can be seen on her Facebook page, “Dish it up Good”, https://www.facebook.com/dishitupgood/ or on her Instagram Feed.
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  Tess Georgakopoulos

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Saturday, Apr 12
4:00 - 6:30 PM
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Min Age   18 yr.
$ 45.00
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