Cooking Outdoors with Noah Clickstein

131 Walnut St,Saugus MA 01906

17 April, 2021

Description

Outdoor cooking techniques and skills to last you a lifetime. The practical skills you will take away from this class are useful for the rest of your life, no matter your culinary skill level. While we adapted these to the outdoors, they can be replicated easily in your kitchen at home to impress your family and friends. The skills taught here are life long skills that will make all future food you make taste better. Each cooking class is different based on the season and the chef's inspiration. Here are some sample classes: Camping Out in the Negev: We are going to learn how to prepare a middle eastern inspired meal entirely outdoors. Using only an open fire. Inspired by a trip to Israel where I stayed with a tribe of Bedouins. This is one of the best meals ever and I cannot wait to share it with you all. We will create some inspired mezze spreads with the fire and ingredients we can find in the woods around us. The star of the show is the traditional arbood bread, baked directly over the embers of the fire we will create. Basics of Stewing and bread baking around a campfire: Love beef stew? Ever wanted to know the science and culinary techniques that go into making stew that has big depth of flavor? This is the class for you! This class will be centered around building a fire for culinary use, preparing and making beef stew, and making a rustic style bread. All of the skills you will learn here can easily be brought back to your home meals. We'll go over how to build a fire, adapt it for low and slow cooking as well as bread baking. Basics of cast iron cooking as well as how to maintain your cast iron tools. The science of flavor development in stews. Basic knife skills. Techniques surrounding a cooking a stew. How to make and bake a rustic style bread over open flames. What to expect:Basic knife skills and safetyHow to hold a knifeHow to maintain a fire for cooking andHow to manipulate the fire for culinary usesOutdoor Cooking PreparationRecipes of the day Requirements:No experience required. Just cooking and outdoor enthusiasts. What to Bring:Plates/containersEating utensilsYour favorite cooking knife Instructor: Noah ClicksteinNoah Clickstein grew up in Winchester, MA, 20 minutes outside Boston. He credits his love of food to growing up in the communal and cuisine elements of a“highly cultural and semi-religious Jewish home.” This led him to the Culinary Institute of America and his profession. Outside of cooking for a living, his hobbies surround the exploration of cooking. His other hobby is quality time in the outdoors. As a child he was an active member of his local Boy Scout Troop, making it to the rank of Eagle Scout. He started at Boston landmark, ""L’Espalier" , working his way up to dining room Captain. He spent three years at "Juliet + Company" as sous chef and as an early shaper of dining room service programs. He is now a founding member of the culinary team at "Peregrine" in Cambridge, MA.