Savory & Sweet Winter Squash with Miriam Rubin

Explore the beauty and versatility of winter squash in this demo class. Chef Miriam will discuss several different types of squash and the best uses for each. From the common acorn squash, best halved and baked, to the versatile butternut squash, which is great mashed or in soups, to the more exotic types, including Red Kuri and Green Kabocha. Recipes will incorporate squash in wonderful and inventive ways and you’ll get a new appreciation for this gorgeous and delicious fall vegetable.

Menu to include:

• Savory Butternut Squash Galette with Red Onions
• Simple Baked Squash with Spices and Honey
• Roasted Delicata Squash and Pear Salad with Fall Greens
• Squash and Apple Muffins

This demonstration class (plus lunch) is limited to ten people.

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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.

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.