Online Cooking with Chris Toy

Join best-selling cookbook author and cooking instructor Chris Toy, as he shows you step by step the secrets to some of his favorite recipes: Five Seasons Wok Roasted Whole Chicken, Wonton Soup, Stir-Fried Hoisin Pork, Egg Rolls and more! Start and finish in your own time! Students will have access to all the videos and Chris’s new cookbook. Get started by viewing all the recipes and online videos. Decide what you’d like to try first, then make a shopping list. Practice, eat, repeat as often as you like.

Upon registration, students will be sent links to access instructional videos as well as Chris’s phone and email information for personalized support.

Registration: $24.99 Includes a copy of Chris’s new cookbook, a $16.95 value!

Class access available until July 31, 2021

Food and nutrition have a profound impact on our health and well-being, yet many of us are not aware of what foods to eat, which diets are healthy, and where our food originates. We eat toxic, irradiated, or genetically altered foods and we eat more than we need. How can we change our eating habits and become more conscious of what we eat, why we eat it, how it is prepared, and what consequences our food choices have on our health as well as the health of our planet?

This certificate provides an overview of the role of food and nutrition choices on our bodies, our immune systems, our overall well-being, and the health of all sentient beings on an increasingly populated planet. The outcome of this certificate is for the learner to describe a holistic overview of current food and nutrition issues and their impact on physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and planetary health. (16 contact hours)

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Your favorite take-out food, made at home! You provide the kitchen, a wok or heavy skillet, a knife or cleaver, and other regular kitchen utensils. Learn about Chinese cooking techniques, ingredients, and seasonings as you go. Segments include: five season whole chicken, carving roast chicken, wonton soup, and stir-fried spicy hoisin pork with steamed rice. Serves 4 for dinner, but you’ll make these recipes again and again, or build upon! We provide a shopping list for you to purchase food. Flexible private access YouTube channel series allows you to preplan and decide when to access class segments and cook alongside Chris.  Students are given access to his channel for one year and support is provided via direct instructor email. Course fee includes cookbook with 85 recipes. 

Instructor: Chris Toy

Start: Access anytime on or after 1/26

Cost: $35 includes cookbook

This class is designed to "flip" from onsite to remote, should we need to close our buildings.

Interested in making your own breads?  This class will give you a solid basis for starting your bread-making journey.  We will share several easy bread recipes and show you how to make them.  All recipes are intended to be made within two hours.

Shana&Marcia

Asian inspired dishes of peanut pad Thai, crab rangoons, and spring rolls will make you think you just bought take-out! Whether you are gluten-free, know someone who is, or need to learn how to use all those alternative flours that were left on the cleared out shelves, join Sarah as she shares many delicious ways to make gluten-free easy and fun! Cost of class does not include food, materials list provided upon registration. Register to get the link for the livestream session. Sarah Hignetts kitchen is gluten-free, but very much flavor-FULL!

Instructor: Sarah Hignett
Wednesday, 1/27, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Online
Fee: $19

This class is designed to "flip" from onsite to remote, should we need to close our buildings.

Conquer seasonal maladies with delicious, immunity-boosting teas.  Learn about herbs as medicine, and how to make elderberry syrup (a true herbalists' cure-all) from scratch.  Take home three herbal tea blends you will make in class!  Materails fee of $5 (cash please) payable to the instructor in class.

SimonW21

Born in England, JoAnne loves sharing her beloved recipes and suggestions on how to host and enjoy classic afternoon tea. We will make the most tender fruit and cream scones, homemade lemon curd, and the perfect pot of tea in this live, online class.

A list of ingredients will be sent to you via email once you register so that you can prepare tea along with JoAnne if you wish.

Please note that this is an online class. The instructor will send out a Zoom link closer to the start date so you can access the class. If you are new to Zoom and need assistance, please contact Martie Crone at martie.crone@mdirss.org or call 288-4703 at least a day or so before the class begins.

JoAnne Wood was born in England, grew up in San Francisco, and comes from a long line of fine British bakers. After graduation from the California Culinary Academy, she worked as a pastry chef in the San Francisco Bay area.  Since moving to Maine in 2000, she has worked as a professional pastry chef, owned a dessert catering company and, for more than 15 years, taught cooking classes.  She has a passion for cooking and baking, and for teaching people of all ages.

Want to learn how to choose healthy foods on a limited budget? Join this free 4-class virtual series on shopping, cooking and eating healthy foods while staying within your budget. Links to recorded videos plus handouts and recipes will be sent out each Wednesday to those who register. Live Question & Answer sessions will be determined as a group. Participants will receive a free cookbook with healthy, low-cost recipes, too! Questions? Contact Jada Wensman at Healthy Acadia 667-7171 (ext. 211) or email at Jada@healthyacadia.org. Participants will receive a free cookbook with lealthy, low-cost recipes.