Williams-Sonoma Cooking Class and ***A Giveaway!***-CLOSED

Today I thought I'd share a little about a great gift idea. For my mom’s birthday I tried to think outside the box. I wanted to give her an experience we could do together. 

I signed three of us up (Mom, Dad, and me-my husband David was out of town on business) for the Williams-Sonoma Cookbook Club class at our local mall. It was on a Wednesday night, from 6-8:30. 

We cooked out of Ina Garten’s new cookbook, Cook Like a Pro. 
For anyone who hasn’t done a Williams-Sonoma class before you all sit around the cook top and the store’s chef chats with you while they cook a few selections from the book. Sometimes they ask for volunteers to do different tasks, but for the most part you can sit and chat and also ask questions. You are served each course as it’s prepared and I must say it was such a delicious meal. 
                                         
                          
Chef Lauren made for us Ina’s warm roasted butternut squash, beet and apple salad with Marcona almonds to start, chicken thighs in a mustard cream sauce with roasted potatoes for our entree, and Ina’s triple chocolate cake for dessert (we all ate it too fast to snap a pic. Oops.). Each course was better than the first and it is so cool to be able to go home with the recipes and professional tips to recreate the meal.
                                         
                        
The cost is $50/pp which includes a copy of the cookbook to take home. I think this makes an excellent gift (my mom had the best time-we all did!) or could even be a fun date night or girls night out. You could even have the store gift wrap the class card and tie a spatula or small kitchen trinket on the top of it for a beautiful presentation.

I also want to mention that during the cooking class you are encouraged to get out of your seat and shop. They offer 15% off any purchase made during class. We picked up 2 of the dish soaps and a new kitchen brush (this one). 

Williams-Sonoma also offers punch cards, one punch for every cooking class but two punches for Cookbook Club classes, since they’re a bit more pricey. After ten punches you get to take a class for free.

Now for the fun part, a giveaway! I am giving away a signed copy of Ina Garten’s Cook Like a Pro cookbook. To enter, comment down below with a blog post idea you may have for me, any suggestions, questions, or simply say hi! The giveaway is open internationally and the winner will be chosen at random in two week’s time, on Friday, May 10th. 

                         

Good luck and thanks for reading. :)