Cooking lesson with Chef

Home cooking lessons offer a unique and convenient way to learn to cook..

If you love italian and tuscan cuisine and you want to learn to make them at home, our lessons are perfect for you.

Enjoy a four to five hours cooking class that will teach you all the basics that are required for preparing the traditional  tuscan recipes.

We will personally do the shopping , we will come to you and we will cook together in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere,

Every cooking lesson includes the dinner served at your home

Dinners at home

Are you renting a villa or an apartment in Tuscany?

Would you like to relax and not to have to cook for you and your guest?

We are the perfect solution:

we will choose the best ingredients and the menu in accordance with you , we will personally do the shopping, we will come to you , we will prepare delicious Tuscan dishes and we will serve the dinner. Naturally we will clean and order before leaving.

You can choose a dish for each course
On request we can prepare special dishes for vegetarians, children and allergy sufferers

• Luana’s life has always been around the kitchen, as her parents ran a Restaurant and she has first-hand experience in that field. She has been working in very fancy restaurants around Siena and now she would love to show you her great recipes and methods.
• Alessandra has worked in many restaurants and villas in Tuscany and Turin. From several years is also involved in artistic activities – theater and painting – developing a focus on the presentation of the dishes, the decoration of the table and the various equipment. She will serve you and translate the lessons into English.

Please do not hesitate to contact us, should you require more details.

The wine is not included.

Cooking lessons.

Menu of the Tuscan countryside

• “Pappa al pomodoro” – Tuscan Tomate soup
• Hand made “tagliatelle” pasta with wild boar sauce
• “Cinta Senese” pork loin with wild fennel and seasonal vegetables
• Cantucci and vinsanto – tuscan biscuits and sweet wine

Grandmother menu

• Mixed “bruschetta” entrance
• Hand made ravioli stuffed with ricotta and spinaches
• Roastbeef in Florentine style with seasonal greenery or mixed salad
• Chocolate cake 

Chef’s menu

• Chicken Liver terrine with plums and beacon of “Colonnata”
• Risotto with pecorino“ di fossa” cheese and a red wine reduction
• Guinea fowl stuffed with spinaches and pecorino cheese with vinsanto sauce and caramelized shallots
• Chocolate mousse with pears cooked with red wine

Medieval Meal menu

• Medieval cake with wild herbs and fresh ricotta cheese
• Cream of pumpkin or seasonal vegetables
• Limonia di pollo – Chicken, lemon, herbs and spices
• Torta “Balconata”- balcony cake with spices and almond’s milk

Sunday menu

• Parmesan flan with pear and honey
• Gnocchi with fresh tomato cream and basil
• Fillet of pork in a crust of black pepper and seasonal vegetables
• Panna cotta with lavender and peach or strawberry sauce

Dinners at home

First Dishes

• Little tomatoes and basil Aspic with buffalo’s milk mozzarella
• Fagottino of crisp pastry with pear and pecorino cheese and pepper
• Flan of Parmesan cheese on a bed of pears and honey
• Chicken Livers “patè” with Figs and Vin Santo sweet wine
• Spelt “farro” salad with a dried tomatoes pesto
• Selection of cheeses with fruit compotes and honey
• Anchovies with pesto served with toasted bread, butter and mascarpone cheese
• Tasting of various types of bruschetta
• Cheese cakes with ricotta and salmon
• Crunchy little cakes with goat cheese, zucchini and zucchini flowers
• Calamary stuffed with fresh tomatoes and pine nuts

Menu of pasta and soup dishes

• Pici  pasta with a fresh tomato sauce and pecorino cheese.
• Gnocchi with small vegetables flavoured with truffles.
• Lasagne pasta with porcini mushrooms and zucchini flowers
• Lasagne with vegetables and cheese scamorza
• Pappardelle pasta with wild boar sauce
• Pumpkin soup with chestnuts and crunchy cabbage
• Cream of “ceci” peas with crustaceans and molluscs

• Trofie pasta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes “Pesto
• Ravioli-handmade pasta-stuffed with ricotta cheese with butter,sage and parmigiano
• Tagliatelle with white ragout of Cinta Senese pork
• Cream of zucchini with basil with steamed prawns
• Tagliolini with fresh basil pesto
• Roll of fresh pasta filled with ricotta cheese with lemon flavor and saffron cream
• Black venere rice with zucchini and parmesan cream
• Crepes stuffed with ricotta and spinach with fresh tomato sauce
• Risotto with pecorino di fossa and reduction of Chianti wine 

Menu of main courses

• Pork tenderloin with rosemary and chianti wine sauce and rosted potatoes
• Fillet of pork in a crust of black pepper and seasonal vegetables
• Wild boar in the Tuscan style with seasonal vegetables
• Rabbit stuffed with carrots ,zucchini and sweet chillies

• Duck breast with pears cooked in the red wine and steamed potatoes

• Carré of lamb with a crust of  nuts served with  mixed seasonal  vegetables
• Braised beef in Chianti wine with a potatoes flan
• “Melanzane alla parmigiana” – eggplant with fresh tomato sauce, parmesan cheese and fresh basil
• “Cartoccio” of fish fillet with ginger and mixed julienne vegetables

•  Guinea fowl stuffed with spinaches and fresh pecorino cheese with vinsanto sauce and caramelized shallots

• Roastbeef in Florentine style with seasonal greenery or mixed salad
• Cuttlefish in “zimino” with sweetcharge

Menu of dessert  

• Cantucci al vinsanto – tuscan biscuits and sweet wine
• “Semifreddo” with hazelnuts and acacia honey
• Chocolate “lava” cake

• Sweet roll of phyllo pasta with apple and cream
• Panna cotta with lavender and peach or strawberry sauce
• Chocolate mousse with pears cooked with red wine
• Mascarpone cheese mousse with strawberry

Prices and contacts

Cooking lessons

• 2 or 4 people         100 € pp
• from 5 to 8 people    90 € pp
• from 9 and more 80 € pp

Dinners

• 4 or 5 people               75 € pp
• from 6 to 8 people          65 € pp
• from 9 people and more 55 € pp
• Wine is not included but we can provide for this.

The cost is to be calculated separately

• Some side dishes or vegetables can change according to the seasons.

We will let you know  the alternatives

• We can make customized proposals if you have different needs or if you want  a special menù. On request we can prepare special dishes for vegetarians, children and allergy sufferers

For details please contact: info@vecchiomulinotoscana.com