Cooking Classes

Due to the recent government restrictions surrounding social distancing for the COVID-19 pandemic, this class has been scheduled for 4 attendees only. This class will only go ahead pending the phase and restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 virus.

Join me as I share two of my favourite spring vegetables; carciofi (artichokes) & fave (broad beans). If it wasn’t for these two, spring just wouldn’t be the same for me!

There will be Southern Italian (Calabrese) home-style cooking, where I will share a few of my (childhood) favourite ways to enjoy artichokes & broad beans. We will then sit outdoors  (alfresco style) together to enjoy our wondrous pranzo; sampling the joys that is artichokes & broad beans with a glass (or two) of vino.

There will also be lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. So come join me! I’d love to share this day with you.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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10am till 4pm

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This is combined garden and lunch Workshop! I will share with you my very basic knowledge of how to setup a kitchen garden and how to maintain it. We will focus on the spring/summer garden, and lightly touch on a plan for the autumn/winter garden. We will then harvest a few veggies from the kitchen garden to cook pranzo (lunch) together.

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This will be a hands-on class with some demonstration where you will learn to make pasta dough and shape two popular and traditional Italian filled pasta: Tortellini & Agnolotti del Plin. We will also learn about stocks & broths; we will make a hearty chicken brodo (broth) to serve with our handmade tortellini, and then a vegetable stock for a soup that we will bath our meatless Agnolotti del Plin. A perfect winter comforting workshop.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Please note: due to new Government restrictions regarding Covid-19, you must be fully vaccinated to attend this class!

This will be a hands-on class with some demonstration where you will learn to make pasta dough and shape two popular and traditional Italian filled pasta: Tortellini & Agnolotti del Plin. We will also learn about stocks & broths; we will make a hearty chicken brodo (broth) to serve with our handmade tortellini, and then a vegetable stock for a soup that we will bath our meatless Agnolotti del Plin. A perfect winter comforting workshop.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Join me for a great day making authentic Ravioli & Tortellini.

You will learn how to make pasta dough and learn the technique of shaping two very popular and traditional Italian pastas: Ravioli & Tortellini. Our pasta fillings will be inspired by seasonal ingredients and my Italian heritage. In addition, we will prepare delicious sughi (pasta sauces) to compliment our filled pasta. We will end the day by sitting alfresco style to enjoy the fruits of our labour (our ravioli & tortellini) with a class (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This is an Italian Spring Pranzo (Lunch) Workshop! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using spring produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; peas, artichokes, fava (broad beans), beetroot, parsley, cumquats, blood oranges, green beans, spring onions, leeks and on and on the list goes. Spring is one of my favourite seasons for all the bounty it has to offer.

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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10am till 2pm

$175

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We are going to go out on a bang!! The last cooking & baking workshop for 2021 (and what a year that has been!!!) at The Village Cooks will be an ITALIAN CHRISTMAS LUNCH.

It’s going to be a surprise this year – you are just going to have to trust me. It will be different to last year’s Christmas lunch, but just as fantastic. So I hope you will be able to join me!

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Angela is very excited to be bringing back a series of Italian Regional cooking and baking workshops for 2022 to celebrate her Italian heritage!

Join me for a 3 course Calabrese inspired lunch. We will cook and bake 3 meals typical of the southern Italian region – Calabria.

“I am extremely excited to be exploring the cooking and baking of all the regions of Italy. Our first destination for 2021 was Puglia! Then we visited Sicily, and then Sardinia! Next we travel to my parents home town: Calabria! This is a very special class for me as we will be cooking and baking the regional cuisine from my families roots! I can not wait to share this class with you! We may not be able to fly there right now, however, we can dream and escape to Calabria through the art of food at The Village Cooks”.

This is class is demonstration & hands-on.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This is an Italian Summer Pranzo (Lunch) Workshop! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using summer produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; apricots, berries, cherries, melons, peaches, plums, beans, zucchini & zucchini flowers, tomatoes, eggplants and on and on the list goes. Summer is all about stone fruits and light crisp fare! Can’t wait to share this all with you.

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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10am – 2pm

$170

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It’s the season for preserving TOMATOES! In this workshop, you will learn how to preserve tomatoes in traditional Italian ways: Salsa di Pomodori (Tomato Passata), Pomodori Pelati (Bottled Peeled Tomatoes), and other tomato preserving products . You will no longer need to purchase tinned tomatoes or bottled tomato passata. You will be thrilled at how easy & simple it is to preserve and produce these wonderful tomato products.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required. 

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THIS IS A PRIVATELY BOOKED COOKING CLASS.

This is an Italian Autumn Pranzo (Lunch) Workshop! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using autumn produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; persimmons, figs, mandarins, plums, rhubarb, quince, beetroot, leek, brussels sprouts, chestnuts, fennel, wild mushrooms and on and on the list goes. Autumn is a favourite season of mine to cook and bake with and I am looking forward to sharing this with you!

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This will be a hands-on class with some demonstration where you will learn to make pasta dough and shape two popular and traditional Italian filled pasta: Tortellini & Agnolotti del Plin. We will also learn about stocks & broths; we will make a hearty chicken brodo (broth) to serve with our handmade tortellini, and then a vegetable stock for a soup that we will bath our meatless Agnolotti del Plin. A perfect winter comforting workshop.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Join me for a great day making authentic Gnocchi.

You will learn how to make two authentic gnocchi doughs; the traditional and ever popular potato gnocchi, along with ricotta gnocchi. In addition, we will prepare sughi (sauces) to compliment our gnocchi dishes. We will end the day by sitting alfresco style to enjoy the fruits of our labour (our gnocchi) with a class of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Please note: you must be fully vaccinated to attend this class!

In this class you will learn the art of making Choux pastry in order to bake wonderful pastries such as Porfiteroles and Eclairs.  In addition, you will learn how to prepare authentic Italian fillings to create the most delectable pastries and desserts that will impress family and guests.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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10am till 2pm

$170

In this class, Angela with share her love of baking traditional Italian Easter dolci – just in time for Easter! You will learn to bake the following 3 authentic Italian Easter sweets – ‘Pastiera Napoletana’ from Naples (a traditional wheat-berry & ricotta pie), ‘Cannoli’ from Sicily, and ‘Uncinetti’ from Campania. We will all so enjoy a light Italian lunch to balance our sweet palate.

You will learn both demonstration and hands-on experience.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

10am till 2pm

Please join me as I stand with our Ukraine brothers and sisters, to cook for them, their country, they’re freedom! The senseless war by Russia on Ukraine has left many Ukrainians homeless – mothers with their young children fleeing Ukraine to find safety in boarding countries. These children’s fathers left behind to fight for their country, their home! I can’t even imagine the trauma these people are facing on a daily basis is irrefutable!

Therefore, I will hold a ‘Cook for Ukraine’ fundraising workshop at The Village Cooks to raise much needed funds for Unicef Australia who is providing life saving supplies to the children and mothers displaced in Ukraine!

This is an Italian Autumn Pranzo (Lunch) Workshop! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using autumn produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; persimmons, figs, mandarins, plums, rhubarb, quince, beetroot, leek, brussels sprouts, chestnuts, fennel, wild mushrooms and on and on the list goes. Autumn is a favourite season of mine to cook and bake with and I am looking forward to sharing this with you!

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Join me for a great day of making fresh pasta (two different types of pasta – one with egg, and one without). We will do this all by hand.

You will learn how to shape both pastas in two very authentic Italian shapes – again all done by hand. In addition, we will prepare sughi (sauces) to compliment our pasta dishes. We will end the day by sitting alfresco style to enjoy the fruits of our labour (our pasta) with a class (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This is combined garden and lunch Workshop! I will share with you my basic knowledge of how to setup a kitchen garden and how to maintain it. We will focus on the autumn/winter garden, and lightly touch on a plan for the spring/summer garden. We will then harvest a few veggies from the kitchen garden to cook pranzo (lunch) together.

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This is an Italian Winter Pranzo (Lunch) Workshop! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using Winter produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; jerusalem artichokes, fennel, cavolo nero, pumpkins, rhubarb, clementines, apples, pears, lemons, broccoli and on and on the list goes. Winter is a wonderful hearty season to cook and bake and I am looking forward to sharing this with you!

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style – but warm with blankets and heater) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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THIS IS A PRIVATELY BOOKED COOKING CLASS.

This is an Italian Winter Pranzo (Lunch) Workshop! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using Winter produce.

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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This will be a hands-on class with some demonstration where you will learn to make pasta dough and shape two popular and traditional Italian filled pasta: Tortellini & Agnolotti del Plin. We will also learn about stocks & broths; we will make a hearty chicken brodo (broth) to serve with our handmade tortellini, and then a vegetable stock for a soup that we will bath our meatless Agnolotti del Plin. A perfect winter comforting workshop. We will then sit to enjoy our hearty bowls of filled pasta in brodo & zuppa.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Angela is very excited to be continuing her series of Italian Regional cooking and baking workshops for 2022 to celebrate her Italian heritage!

Join me for a 3 course Abruzzese inspired lunch. We will cook and bake 3 meals typical of the southern Italian region – Abruzzi.

“I am extremely excited to be exploring the cooking and baking of all the regions of Italy. Our first destination for 2021 was Puglia! Then we visited Sicily, Sardinia and then my parents home town; Calabria! This was a very special class for me as we cooked and baked from the regional cuisine of my families roots. Now we are making our way across the south of Italy and landing in ABRUZZI; mountainous terrain through the middle and ocean along the east coast! I can not wait to share this class with you! We may not be flying there just yet, however, we can dream and escape to Abruzzi through the art of food at The Village Cooks.”

This is class is demonstration & hands-on.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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