Cooking Courses in Tuscany

February 20th 2008

Our Wonderful Toscana Spa Resort offers a fantastic selection of Cooking courses

As well as offering amazing spa facilities Toscana Spa Residence has a diverse list of extra activities to enjoy including their renound cookery courses. The residence overlooks the hills of the Maremma region in Tuscany, with a riding centre, fields, woods, silvery olive groves and Morellino di Scansano vineyards, which offers visitors an opportunity to discover the secrets of typical Maremma cuisine. During your week stay you can include three days of cooking practice and tastings, alternating with other activities offered by the residence on alternate days, according to individual choice. Both beginners taking their first culinary steps, and experts in other types of cooking, will learn the subtle expertise behind the simple yet sophisticated recipes used by Maremma’s country cooks to make the best of the fruits of their generous land.The first day in the kitchen will be dedicated to Italy’s pièce de résistance: homemade pasta - tagliatelle, tagliolini, gnocchi, tortelli with a seasonal filling, brigoli and pappardelle. You will prepare these dishes with your own hands under the supervision of an expert, and taste them after the lesson.

After a day of leisure the course will continue with wonderful country soups, flavoured with simple local olive oil. You may prepare mushroom, Mediterranean vegetable, chick pea or bean soups as well as tasty traditional acqua cotta. And the Casale kitchen will reveal the secret of its own Zuppa del Casale.

And then sauces - wild boar, spring vegetable, ragù – to enhance the different types of pasta.

The starters are always fun to prepare, like Tuscan crostini, or simple bruschetta with olive oil, tomatoes, etc.

To crown it all, on the last day of the cookery course, you will learn how to make traditional desserts like panna cotta with wild berries, tozzetti to serve with vin santo and other little delights, whose secrets will be revealed to you during the course….

The cooking –course includes 3 lessons ( Sunday- Tuesday- Wednesday ) from 9.30 to 12.30 and a quick lunch in which you can test the courses you cooked

Price per person: Euro 240,00

On request there is the possibility to have just one cooking-class at the price of euro 80,00 per person

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