“Olive oil brings life, dimension and depth to vegetables, meat, fish, fruit and cheese. It is the better parent in vinaigrette, aioli, anchoiade, pesto, tapenade and marinades. Olive oil turned to be one of the most extraordinary achievements of our civilization.” So wrote Jean-François Bizalion, and we could not agree more. Extra-virgin olive oil (or […]

Free to enter your homemade pie; drop-off between 10AM and 2:00 PM Join in the fun of the Hillsdale Pumpkin Festival by baking and bringing your best homemade pumpkin pie to the HGS Home Chef kitchen between 10 AM and 2:00 PM on Oct. 10th. HGS Home Chef is located at 2635 State Rt 23, […]

Join Lou Jones of BritBreads for the essential tutorial on making delicious yeasted and sourdough bread at home. Lou’s impeccable culinary background as well as his informative and entertaining teaching style make his classes the best of all worlds – real learning, great food and a good time. This demonstration-style bread class will inspire you […]

Join accomplished knife-wielder Matthew White, owner of HGS Home Chef, in his HANDS-ON knife skills workshop. Matthew will show how to attack a variety of vegetables and fruits skillfully and safely with a knife - then we’ll practice together. The results of your handiwork will go into a sauté pan along with fresh salmon to […]

Join Tess Kelly, freshly back from teaching a series of cooking classes in her beloved France as she brings her favorite French dishes to our kitchen at HGS Home Chef. In this class Tess will share secrets of The Tart – both savory and sweet. (Spoiler alert, it’s going to be yummy.) Tess will demonstrate […]

  Latke lovers! Join food writer, chef, and cookbook author Miriam Rubin for a demonstration class exploring delicious fried potato pancakes. Are latkes only made with white potatoes? No! We’ll make the classic, of course, but will also learn a fabulous sweet potato version, plus a riff on the standard, adding sautéed spinach and carrots […]

Gnocchi is often a misunderstood Italian dish on this side of the ocean. Some feel it can be heavy, or flavorless, but that’s only because they haven’t had this wonderful Italian food done the proper way. Enter Sylvia Becker to show us how it’s done. Great gnocchi are light, pillowy dumplings consisting of egg, potato, […]

Have you had enough turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie? Join Chef King Phonjanakong in our kitchen on Thanksgiving Saturday as he demonstrates and teaches the basics of classic Thai cooking from the land of his father. On the menu will be: Classic Thai Stir Fry with Chicken, Tofu, Basil and Chilies Veggie Pad Thai Sautéed […]