Picnic for Tanglewood & Beyond with Miriam Rubin

Picnics are the underused yet perfect way to entertain alfresco here in the Hudson Valley and Berkshires. Join Miriam as she puts together a delightful, elegant picnic to tote to a concert at Tanglewood or enjoy in your own garden with friends and family.

The main event of this summer menu is a Beef Picadillo hand pie (with the yummy vegetarian option of a feta & greens hand pie). The pastry for these individual pies is another of Miriam’s easy-to-handle, super-flaky crusts, this time the secret is Greek yogurt (but don’t tell anyone). We’ll learn to make the crust, then everyone will assemble their own hand pie.

The savory pies will be served with a super summery salad, but you’ll sip a cold and refreshing Tomato-Tomatillo Soup as the starter. For dessert, Miriam will demonstrate a gorgeous Honey and Lavender Shortbread, which is terrific to munch on with summer’s fresh cherries or peaches. This menu is meant to be largely made in advance so all you have to do is pack the hamper! Of course, we’ll lunch on all this together following the class. Let the summer concerts begin!

Menu to include:

• Cold Tomato-Tomatillo Soup
• Beef Picadillo and Feta & Greens hand pies
• Herbed Mango, Cucumber & Radish Salad
• Honey & Lavender Shortbread with fresh fruit

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This part hands-on, part demonstration class (plus lunch) is limited to ten people.

About Miriam Rubin:

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Miriam was the first woman in the kitchens of NYC’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. She’s a former food editor of Weight Watchers Magazine. Her first cookbook, Grains, was published in 1995. For nine years, she wrote a food and garden column “Miriam’s Garden” for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has contributed features to their food pages for about two decades.

Her work has appeared in Prevention, Organic Gardening, Redbook, Working Woman, Working Mother and Woman’s Day. She was line-editor for Gil Marks’ Encyclopedia of Jewish Food and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Appalachia and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink Vol. 2. She’s Americanized several cookbooks and reworked and Americanized British recipes for websites.

Her book, Tomatoes, grew out of a love of planting and devouring a favorite vegetable (fruit). She presented on the book at the Harvest Festival at Monticello and at Beard on Books at the Beard House. Miriam and her husband have recently relocated to the Hudson Valley from Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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.