Want to work on brain health via diet?
Chef Dino Kolitsas is hosting a special cooking class featuring recipes that promote cognitive health on Saturday at 3 p.m. The class promises to include foods that are proven to help cognitive health, without sacrificing flavor.
Each course will celebrate ingredients to support circulation, neuroprotection and neurotransmitter health. The menu includes beetroot carpaccio with goat cheese and pistachios; lion’s mane tagine, featuring lion’s mane mushrooms, kale, chick peas and harissa; trout wrapped in ambellophyllo, or grape leaves, and poached and finished with saffron-infused avgholemono, a Greek egg-lemon soup; cannellini beans with toasted walnuts, sage, extra-virgin olive oil, finished with mint oil; and avocado cacao mousse.
Cost is $139.99 per person.
Details: The Silo Cooking School, 44 Upland Road, New Milford; 860-355-0300; thesilo.org.
Gnocchi not only stumps people on its pronunciation, but on its substance. Is it pasta? Or a dumpling?
A new cooking class will teach participants how to make the traditional northern Italian-style potato gnocchi. The course is offered April 24 and April 25 at Waterbury’s Delavigne’s Gourmet Food & Gifts.
Each class member will make a fresh gnocchi pasta dough, then learn a rolling technique to create the perfect pillowy and chewy gnocchi to take home. Participants will also learn how to make two simple sauces to pair with the fresh pasta, one olive oil based with herbs and savory vegetables, and a classic passata marinara red sauce.
The class will feature sampling and tastings of a variety of items.
The class is offered April 24 at 6 p.m., or April 25 at 3:30 p.m.
Details: Delavigne’s Gourmet Food & Gifts, 197 Huntingdon Ave., Waterbury; 203-437-8286; shopdelavignes.com.
Mark your calendars for a dill-licious event next month.
Sweet Pete’s Pickle Fest will be May 2 and May 3 at March Farm in Bethlehem. The event, which is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, will feature fun and flavor at the Farm’s Hilltop farm.
The offerings include a plethora of pickle-inspired foods, vendors, entertainment, family activities including a bounce house and baby goats.
Details: Sweet Pete’s Pickle Fest, Hilltop at March Farm, 160 Munger Lane, Bethlehem; marchfarm.com
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