Cooking Class: Preparing Homemade French Favorites
Prepare a classic French meal in this hands-on cooking class. Chef Jordi will equip you with legendary French techniques and flavors for a memorable meal.
Begin by crafting an elegant beef tartare with finely chopped vegetables and herbs. For your entrée, fry up a chicken breast and add savory ham and Swiss cheese for traditional cordon bleu. Shower your meal with creamy tarragon béchamel sauce for unforgettable flavor. Enjoy fondant potatoes that will melt in your mouth as a side dish. End your French adventure by mastering the art of caramelizing sugar for crème brûlée.
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Beef Tartare
With mushroom duxelles, shallots, Dijon and confit garlic
Chicken Cordon Bleu and Tarragon Béchamel
With ham, Swiss cheese, and green bean almondine
Fondant Potatoes
With beef stock
Crème Brûlée
With eggs, cream, sugar and vanilla
- Minimum Guests 2
- Maximum Guests 6
- Event Duration 3 hours
- Activity Level
Activity Level
- LabelsGroup, Gourmet, Beginner, Date Night, French
- This is a BYOB venue and alcoholic beverages are not available for sale. You are welcome to bring beer and wine to enjoy during class.
Guest reviews for Chef Jordi
Nicole W.
21 Nov 2022
Chef Jordi showed me his tips and tricks on how to cut an onion. This is always a great skill to learn how to minimize the amount of eye tearing. He is no stranger to teaching as that is what he does full time. He is a great chef to learn from for skills simple and complicated.
Event location: Calgary
Chef travels to your location
Exact location is provided after booking.
Working as a sous chef in some of the best restaurants throughout Canada, Chef Jordi has learned his way around the kitchen. His career has led him to test and develop new recipes and teach aspiring chefs at the high school level. Chef Jordi has an eclectic career hosting as a radio DJ, so all culinary experiences led by him will be as engaging as they are informative, mixing passion with culinary excellence.
