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Cooking with BoomerTECH

$42

with BoomerTECH Adventures, Windham/Raymond Adult Education

Calendar Aug 5, 2024

BoomerTECH Adventures guides Chris, Jill, and Ed share their love of cooking and enjoyment for lots of different types of foods. Learn how to prepare several tasty stir fries using traditional Chinese flavorings, make fresh pasta, turn leftover sweet potato into gnocchi, stir up a great fried rice, and give ramen soup a delicious upgrade. In addition, discover an easy way to make your own pita pockets, flat breads, and tortillas. Plus, you will see a way to combine the benefits of cooking on cast iron with your love of grilling. We haven’t forgotten dessert! Who can resist a delectable chocolate brownie torte or apple pie?

Secrets of the Caterer
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Secrets of the Caterer

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with Ed2Go Instructor, MSAD#1 Adult & Community Education

Calendar Jan 27, 2025

Catering is a business that has become very popular, especially for those who love to cook and plan parties. From weddings, to showers, to business parties, catering is a home-based business that gives the caterer an exciting and creative career.

In this introductory course, you will learn how to put your cooking and party planning skills to work. Learn the fundamentals of the catering business, how to cook for large crowds, organize your kitchen, manage your time, and work with clients. The course focuses on cooking skills every caterer needs, with an introduction to the business side of catering. You'll also receive many unique and tested recipes that you can use to jump-start your business. Build your catering skills and begin a new and exciting career today.

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with MSAD#44 Adult & Continuing Education

Calendar Mar 27, 2025

We have an amazing community here in the Bethel area with knowledge and skills that others are eager to hear and learn about. We are always looking for new ideas, topics, and classes to offer to everyone. If you have new, fresh, and innovating topics, hobbies, and skills that you are passionate about and want to share with others, let us know! Maybe you have an idea for a class and we just need to find the instructor~we want to hear from you also!  As our community grows and changes, we want to be able to offer new and exciting opportunities here at Telstar Adult Education. Contact us at adulted@sad44.org or call 824-2136. 

Help us continue to grow our enrichment and workforce courses that local Bethel community members and others as far as Rumford, Gorham, Fryburg, Oxford, and Waterford participate in. We are thankful for you all! 

Coffee: Your Perfect Cup! 6.26.25

$33

with Tom Griffin, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Calendar Jun 26, 2025 at 2 pm

This interactive workshop will focus on understanding all of the things YOU like best about coffee. We will then identify the best beans from regions across the globe and you will get to blend and create your perfect coffee. Participants will give their coffee a name, we will design and print a coffee bag label, professionally bag the coffee and you'll have the perfect coffee to take home. Whatever your taste—deep and bold, light and mild or perhaps even a decaf or half caf—we will help you make the perfect blend.

Full Course

World of Coffee Tasting: The Flavors of South America

$35

with Tom Griffin, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Calendar Jul 13, 2025 at 2 pm

This fun and informative workshop will elevate your understanding of the many characteristics of coffee. You will be instructed in how to use a cupping sheet to record what you are experiencing in each taste of the coffee. You will begin to acquire the skills to identify different flavor profiles in the coffee. Finally you will score the coffee in terms of flavor, profile, body, and other characteristics related to each bean and its roast. This workshop will open a new understanding into the world of coffee.

Full Course

Coffee: Your Perfect Cup! 7.17.25

$33

with Tom Griffin, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Calendar Jul 17, 2025 at 2 pm

This interactive workshop will focus on understanding all of the things YOU like best about coffee. We will then identify the best beans from regions across the globe and you will get to blend and create your perfect coffee. Participants will give their coffee a name, we will design and print a coffee bag label, professionally bag the coffee and you'll have the perfect coffee to take home. Whatever your taste—deep and bold, light and mild or perhaps even a decaf or half caf—we will help you make the perfect blend.

Coffee: Your Perfect Cup! 8.14.25

$33

with Tom Griffin, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Calendar Aug 14, 2025 at 2 pm

This interactive workshop will focus on understanding all of the things YOU like best about coffee. We will then identify the best beans from regions across the globe and you will get to blend and create your perfect coffee. Participants will give their coffee a name, we will design and print a coffee bag label, professionally bag the coffee and you'll have the perfect coffee to take home. Whatever your taste—deep and bold, light and mild or perhaps even a decaf or half caf—we will help you make the perfect blend.

Acadian Arts Asian Fusion Cooking Retreat - Campobello

$595 Originally: $33

with Chris Toy, RSU 24 Adult Education

Calendar Aug 15, 2025
1 additional session on Oct 10, 2025

Your instructor, Chris Toy, is the author of 6 popular cookbooks, a private chef, and has taught Asian-fusion cooking for several Maine community education programs. Cooking students will learn how to prepare a variety of recipes from Asia, Europe, and the Americas incorporating traditional and local ingredients. Each meal will actively engage cooks with the tools, techniques, and stories behind the dishes being created.

Step back to a time when President Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor, and their family escaped to their “beautiful little island” in the Canadian Maritimes, Campobello Island. We will be exclusive guests of the international park, staying in historic Victorian cottages. Workshop participants will explore and paint the same coastal scenery enjoyed by the summer residents at the turn of the 20th century. All meals are included in the workshop fee as well as specially planned optional eveningactivities designed to extend your learning from the day’s workshops. Register forthe retreat then call Sherry Mitchell at 506-752-2922 to make room reservations. Acadian Arts Retreats participants will have exclusive overnight accommodations in the park.

There is a $60 non-refundable fee when you register through RSU 24 Adult Education.





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