Hands on Tuscan Cooking at Chef Simonetta's Home Kitchen in Cortona
What Guests Love
- Cozy home kitchen setting
- Expert, friendly host instruction
- Hands‑on cooking with fresh ingredients
- Authentic Tuscan dishes and skills
Guests say the intimate home kitchen feels like a welcoming friend’s house in a historic town, adding charm to the experience. The host’s expertise and friendly, patient teaching style makes the class both informative and enjoyable for all skill levels. Participants appreciate the hands‑on approach, leaving with practical skills and recipes they can recreate at home. Fresh, high‑quality ingredients highlight authentic Tuscan flavors, creating a memorable culinary highlight of their travel.
What to Expect
Simonetta introduces you to her kitchen, full of books, spices, jars full of dried fruit and naturally with her pots and pans hanging from the wall, because there is no room left.
Cooking courses are a full immersion in her lifestyle, a mix of food and culture, but also of practicality. Learn to make dishes which you can easily reproduce at your home, and you will amaze yourselves creating ravioli, fresh pasta, gnocchi, pizza...
Simonetta will teach you the simple but important tricks of everyday cooking, such as how to substitute an ingredient at the last moment, but what really counts is to have a passion for food.... and some fresh herbs at hand.
Participants can be from one to a maximum of eight people, all working with the ingredients to create the final dish, all following the various steps and being allowed to taste but above all we aim to have fun.
After the cooking course comes the best time - to eat the food, and so “tutti a tavola”,
Menu
Apetizer could be Zucchini Flowers with ricotta, Different types of Salad, Zucchini or Eggplan Flan
Primi could be Tagliatelle, Ravioli, Gnocchi with different sauces
Main Course : Quiches, Parmigiana, Caponata, Vegetable Meat balls, Strudel with Scarola
Dessert : Choccolate Cake, Lemon Cake, Cantucci, Ricotta Cakeagliatelle
The duration of the classes is around 4 hours, preparing at least 4 dishes. The dinner that follows the class is based on the dishes prepared.
ON REQUEST IS POSSIBLE TO PREPARE VEGAN DISHES
Schedule
Thursday at 11.00 am
- 11:00 AM: Introduction
- 11:10 AM: Start to prepare the dishes
- 2:00 PM: Time to enjoy your dishes
- 4:00 PM: End of the cooking class
VEGETARIAN AND/OR VEGAN MEAL
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Free Cancellation
Full refund will be issued for cancellation made at least 48 hours prior to the activity.
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