Hudson Valley Harvest: a Lunchtime Cooking Class with Miriam Rubin

Celebrate the abundance of fruits and vegetables grown in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley in this mid-summer class. Chef Miriam will share how to get the most out of the glories of the season, from tomatoes to apples and a whole array of vegetables and herbs. We will start by making our own apple tarts, kissed with Hudson Valley honey. Then she’ll demonstrate a super-flavorful tomato-basil soup, moist roasted salmon with an herby-lemony green sauce to be accompanied by a bouquet of just-picked garden vegetables. We’ll whip up some honey-lavender cream to top our individual tarts. Then, lunch is served!

Menu to include:

• Chunky Tomato-Basil Soup
• Roast Salmon with Lemon-Herb Sauce
• Peach Summer Salad
• Yellow & Green Beans + Yellow & Green Summer Squash
• Apple Tarts with Lavender-Honey Cream

This part hands-on, part-demonstration class (plus lunch) is limited to ten people

About Miriam Rubin:

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Miriam was the first woman in the kitchens of NYC's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. She's a former food editor of Weight Watchers Magazine. Her first cookbook, Grains, was published in 1995. For nine years, she wrote a food and garden column "Miriam's Garden" for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has contributed features to their food pages for about two decades.

Her work has appeared in Prevention, Organic Gardening, Redbook, Working Woman, Working Mother and Woman's Day. She was line-editor for Gil Marks' Encyclopedia of Jewish Food and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Appalachia and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink Vol. 2. She’s Americanized several cookbooks and reworked and Americanized British recipes for websites.

Her book, Tomatoes, grew out of a love of planting and devouring a favorite vegetable (fruit). She presented on the book at the Harvest Festival at Monticello and at Beard on Books at the Beard House. Miriam and her husband have recently relocated to the Hudson Valley from Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce an annual festival of creative workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY - at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.

HGS Home Chef – 2635 NY-23, Hillsdale NY – 518-325-7000. Plentiful parking behind the shop.