Have you ever wished you had a personal chef preparing luscious, low-fat meals for you? This course is the next best thing! You'll learn how to reduce fat in recipes without sacrificing flavor or texture. Explore how to use flavor profiling to expand your culinary horizons. Learn how to prepare casseroles, crock-pot dishes, vegan dishes, oven-fried foods, meat-based meals, and many other entrees that are both nutritious and delicious!

You will discover tips for grocery shopping, menu planning, food preparation, and quicker cooking. You will have the chance to try out over 50 exciting and easy lowered-fat recipes.

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Outdoor Leadership Series: Menu and Food Planning and Outdoor Cooking - August 10
Food is an important aspect of any trip. Taking time to plan ahead and prepare delicious, nutritious, and well balanced meals is imperative to a successful adventure. We will go over how to create a menu, understand the calorie intake needed for different types of trips, review the types of foods and what you should and should not bring out on a trip.

We will go over some favorites backcountry recipes.  In this course, we will go over how to cook with a Dutch Oven, Pie Irons, sticks, over the fire, and camp stove. We will go over some recipes before you go out in the field using a dehydrator or your oven. We will make some delicious food over the fire and stove.

Outdoor Leadership Series
The Outdoor Leadership Series is designed for aspiring outdoor enthusiasts or for professionals that want to gain new information or new perspectives on old skills. Each week, we will have an opportunity to explore a different topic. This course will be very informative and hands-on. Most days we will start in the classroom and then proceed to go outside for various demonstrations and activities.

You can sign up for one course or for all eight courses. 

Have you ever wished you had a personal chef preparing luscious, low-fat meals for you? This course is the next best thing! You'll learn how to reduce fat in recipes without sacrificing flavor or texture. Explore how to use flavor profiling to expand your culinary horizons. Learn how to prepare casseroles, crock-pot dishes, vegan dishes, oven-fried foods, meat-based meals, and many other entrees that are both nutritious and delicious!

You will discover tips for grocery shopping, menu planning, food preparation, and quicker cooking. You will have the chance to try out over 50 exciting and easy lowered-fat recipes.

CLICK HERE to register!

From Gotta Be Frank Gourmet:

You have an Instant Pot collecting dust under the counter, and it’s time to get a crash course in how to change your life! No need to bring your Instant Pot to class, but feel free if you’d like to do so. Margie will show you how to make several dishes, and will also provide tips, tricks, and resources. Dinner included! (Please advise of any dietary restrictions.) Cost of class includes food fee. Class will be held at the Nasson Community Center Kitchen

Foccacia is a wonderful appetizer, side dish or meal. Join Margie as we make delicious semi-homemade foccacia breads. Many ideas, variations and free online resources will be provided. Bring your appetites! Cost of class includes ingredients fee.

Homemade gnocchi and pesto sounds difficult, right? Wrong! Join Margie as we learn how to make simple semi-homemade gnocchi and fresh pesto with ease. Materials fee will include everything required to make and enjoy a meal with the class, and still bring a small container home to share. Recipes and variations will be provided as well.

Why do we love the North End? Cannoli! Join Margie as we make delicious and simple semi-homemade cannoli that will be the crowd-pleaser this holiday season! Recipes, variations and free online resources will be shared. (No garlic warning on this one.) materials fee included

This course is a 10 Lesson series - each lesson is 15-20minutes in length. You can take this class on your own time as it is self-led online learning through interactive videos, print lessons and worksheets. Participants learn about healthy eating (MyPlate), family meal planning, budgeting at the store, and food safety. Individual access to EFENP educators who provide discussion-based learning using Zoom or the telephone.

Graduation certificates and a recipe book are emailed upon completion of the 10 sessions.

*Please provide a current working email address when registering for this course.