A Plant-Based Farmhouse with Cherie Hausler

Join Australian cookbook author Cherie Hausler along with her good friend (and two-time James Beard Award winner) Amy Chaplin in our Hudson Valley/Berkshires kitchen as they celebrate the release of Cherie’s beautiful new cookbook, “A Plant-based Farmhouse.”

Cherie will take you through the tips and tricks of creating a truly indulgent Chocolate, Beetroot & Rye Cake with Chocolate Mousse Crème. She will also share how to make a cold method seasonal fruit shrub, perfect for summer drinks, Amy will contribute to the class by creating a delicious tea blend. This demonstration class will celebrate flavorful whole-food baking and more. We are thrilled to have these two gifted women here at HGS Home Chef. A signed copy of Cherie’s new cookbook comes with each ticket. Amy’s two cookbooks will also available in the shop to be signed on class day.

This demonstration class (plus eating!) is limited to 10 people.

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About Cherie Hausler:

Cherie is a food writer, food stylist, product and recipe developer, tea blender, restaurateur and presenter. Her latest project is her new cookbook, “A Plant-based Farmhouse,” published by Murdoch Books. Wherever she’s lived around the world Cherie Hausler’s instinct has been to host ‘country gatherings’ – bringing people together to share good food and good times. That passion grew when she returned home to the Barossa Valley to settle in an unrenovated 150 year old stone farmhouse on Koonunga Hill.

It’s there that she tends a rambling edible garden, forages for wild olives, turns apples into cider vinegar, makes kombucha, bakes, blends (and drinks!) tea, tends to her animals and nurtures community connection through plant based food. At a local horticultural meeting, Cherie was reminded how easy it can be to find familiar food territory with others: “Oh we all eat plants dear – nothing new in that,” one member quipped.

“A Plant-based Farmhouse” celebrates exactly that timelessness, with more than 80 whole food, dairy and sometimes gluten free recipes based on traditional plant-based country foods and cooking methods, along with veg-centric riffs on familiar homestead favourites. Whether it’s inspiration for hearty salads, roasts and brunches, magnificent cakes and tarts, or go-to staples, there’s so much deliciousness within these pages.

Plant-based or otherwise, no one need miss out.

While Sydney may have been the place Cherie gained experience on-air with 8 years in the TV industry, along with food writing for various magazines, including her own regular vegetarian column in Delicious magazine; the Barossa Valley was the place that she was really put through her paces creating her own range of vegan products for the local Farmer’s Market, pop-up events she devised and ran and her own plant-based retail store in an old fire station.

More recently she created her own start-up, “All The Things”, pioneering artisan, vegan, white mould cheeses, amongst a range of 20 products developed for independent retail channels, food service and national supermarkets. The common thread is always good food. All The Things TV was born from joining all the dots in Cherie’s life thus far; to share the possibilities of sustainability and community based focus resulting in a particularly delicious way of life. Series 1 of All The Things TV is currently on SBS Food and SBS On Demand, and Series 2 aired on 7Plus nationally in Australia.

About Amy Chaplin:

Amy Chaplin is a two-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and vegetarian chef. Amy’s approach to cooking is inspired by nature and the healing benefits of whole food ingredients. Her recipes have been featured in T Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Vogue, among other publications. She lives in Upstate New York with her wife and two sons.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets. Persons who notify us at least seven (7) days in advance that they cannot attend may receive credit and register for another class of equal value held within the subsequent two months if a class is available.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY – at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.