👩🏻‍🍳 Sur La Table Virtual Cooking Class with Martha Stewart

Hi there and thanks for stopping by! I wanted to share with you a great experience we had recently doing a “virtual cooking class” with Sur La Table featuring the domestic goddess herself, Martha Stewart.

One of my family’s favorite activities in recent years has been cooking classes and demonstrations, but with COVID, that hasn’t been possible. When my husband saw a virtual class he signed us up and we had so much fun!

There was a grocery list and prep directions sheet sent to the participants a week before, so we could ensure we had everything ready to go.

The class was two hours long and Martha was so engaging. You could ask questions by typing them in to a moderator, and the recipes were delicious. Since the recipes have since been made public, I thought I’d share them here!

We made potato pancakes, cheese gougères, classic shrimp cocktail, and a winter fruit sangria. Everything was absolutely divine and I had so much fun following along and throwing our own little cocktail soirée from the comfort of our home!

I can’t wait for another class, I would definitely recommend it. It would also make for a wonderful date night, girls night, or even a great gift idea.

The classes start at just $29 and there’s a new class offered almost daily. Here’s the calendar. I’m thinking of brushing up on my knife skills or learning how to make hand pies next.

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day. :)

Williams-Sonoma Mr Jiu's Chinatown USA Cooking Class

It's April Fools' Day! Did you pull a good prank on anyone? Hope no one fooled you too badly! :)

Anywho, a few Sunday’s ago my husband David and I attended the Chinatown USA pop up cooking class at our local Williams-Sonoma. 

Mr Jiu’s is a famous San Francisco Chinatown restaurant, opened by Brandon Jew in 2016. What makes it so unique is Jew’s ability to combine California fresh ingredients and a lightness to his cuisine paired by Chinese traditions learned from his grandmother. 

His new collaboration with Williams-Sonoma brings all the freshness and authentic Chinese flavors to an array of finishing sauces. For the class we recreated recipes with 2 of his sauces, the Sweet and Sour Wok Sauce as well as the Ginger Scallion Wok Sauce. Both were incredibly tasty and not too overpowering or sweet and are full of high quality, all natural ingredients. We were also gifted with a wok to take home so we can try the recipes out ourselves!

Chef Lauren made for us the Vegetables with Ginger Scallion sauce over rice, as well as the Sweet and Sour chicken. I love that she added broccoli to the chicken dish so it can truly be a one pan (rather one wok) dish for a quick weeknight meal. 

We always enjoy these classes, I feel like I walk away with great new recipes as well as little tips and tricks from a professional that I can use in my own kitchen. (I was fascinated to learn that the easiest way to clean a cast iron skillet is to use a cut potato, kosher salt, and some olive oil!)

It’s also nice that Williams-Sonoma offers a punch card for their classes (I actually used one of mine to make this class free) as well as a 15% discount for anything you purchase during the class. 

It was a wonderfully cozy way to spend a Sunday afternoon with my hubby and I cannot wait to try another class again soon. 

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day!