- Cake Decorating 101
- Cooking and Baking 101
- Culinary Recipes
- Desserts Delicious Desserts
- International Cooking and Recipes
- International Culinary Recipes
- Italian Cooking 101
- Pie Baking 101
- Spanish Cooking 101
- Tex Mex Cooking 101
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Have you ever had a greasy puddle of icing on your cake plate? By the end of Cake Decorating 101, you'll be assured this will never happen to one of your cakes. Cake decorating is not just buttercream anymore. It is the final packaging everyone sees first and should entice people to imagine the texture and flavor of what lies beneath the icing. Why do you want to learn to make great cakes? An upcoming wedding ( you've seen what a purchased wedding cake can cost ) Did you agree to be a classroom mother and want to make special cakes for the holidays or specific units? Is there a baker in the family you're dying to out-do? Are you looking for the appeal offered by more traditional domestic skills? Are you hoping to enter a local or regional baking competition? Are you thinking of baking to earn some extra dough? Is your organization looking for new fundraising opportunities like an upper scale cake walk, perhaps? These are only a few of the reasons that may have attracted you to this course. However, whatever your motives may be, here are the skills you can look forward to gaining in the following lessons: Equipment, utensils, tools and preparations The basics of cake-baking: decorating techniques, planning and designing your cake, lining your tines, and more Working with Marzipan, Icing, Glaze and Filling Choices Decorating your cake with butter cream icing Decorating your cake with royal icing How to make and use a piping bag Decorating with Sugar Flowers (and Other Gum Paste Creations) Making and Decorating Wedding Cakes Creating decorative children's cakes Holiday and celebration cakes Theme Cakes Beloved Cupcakes And More Cake and frosting recipes to express your creativity With practice and patience, cake decorating can be learned. This exclusive course starts you out with the basics from designing your work space, cake baking, decorating tools, prepping a cake for decorating and many tips of the trade to help you create delectable cakes, icings and fillings. You'll learn the importance of texture and the temperament of icings, how to avoid cake catastrophes, ways to fix them and still keep your cake looking perfect. Whether you're looking to start a cake decorating business or just make cakes for family and friends, Cake Decorating 101 will teach you all you need to know to turn out professionally decorated cakes. You'll develop techniques practiced by professional cake decorators such as applying buttercream icing, how to make a rose, level a cake, pour ganache and master a piping bag. From breath taking designs to whimsy, all the latest cake decorating trends are disclosed, with instructions and ideas about how to bake and decorate the darlings of the cake world, finger licking cupcakes.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Cooking and baking are the kinds of activities that most people assume are second nature. After all, we're humans, and our most basic need is to supply ourselves with nutrition. Logically, we should just be able to get in the kitchen and make something to eat. Many people grow up watching their mothers or fathers cook; they may see them read recipes, combine ingredients, and use sauté pans. These same people often take for granted the ability to get into the kitchen and know what to do. Having an inborn ability to cook isn't guaranteed. Studies show that having a good role model in the kitchen is one of the best ways to learn how to cook and bake. However, maybe you never had the opportunity to watch someone cook. Perhaps you never had enough time to really apply yourself to the task. Maybe you're just scared of not knowing what to do. The good news is, it's never too late to start, no matter what your background may be. The most important thing to take with you into the kitchen is a basic understanding of what to do and how to do it. This course is designed to give you just that. You will learn everything from what supplies you need for getting started to reading recipes and planning meals. You will be provided with a basic understanding of what it means to be in the kitchen and sources for additional information to foster a lifetime of culinary growth!
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
This course is designed to provide you with the necessary and intermediate tools for the culinary arts and helpful information and recipes for cooking several different types of foods such as appetizers, side dishes, lunch, soup, salads, meals, and crock-pot recipes. The background information, the lessons, files, links, assignments, and quizzes are set up to provide the basics for stocking your kitchen with the right utensils, equipment, and ingredients, tips and short cuts to save time in the kitchen, healthier cooking information, and intermediate level cooking recipes from my great-grandmother's restaurant.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Have you ever wanted to be able to make those delicious desserts you have eaten at a restaurant, but do not know where to begin to even create the dessert? You will! This course is designed for people that love eating desserts and want to learn how to cook them. Simple to complex recipes are covered for the following: Brownies and Fudge; Cakes and Cheesecakes; Cobblers and Crisps; Cookies; Fruits; Ice Cream, Parfait, and Tarts Pies; Custards, Fondue, Mousse, and Puddings; and Frosting, Icing, and Toppings. Each lesson in this course is designed to provide you with the basics and intermediate tools and necessary procedures for making delicious desserts of your own. The background information, the lessons, files, links, assignments, and quizzes are set up to provide the basics for stocking your kitchen with the right utensils, equipment, ingredients, recipes, tips, and short cuts to save time in making your desserts. Most of the recipes are from my grandmother's bakery with American, French, Germany , and other International Culinary Dessert recipes included.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Learn to cook tasty dishes from around the world, according to old fashioned wisdom combined with modern nutrition knowledge. There is no need to sacrifice taste for the sake of your health anymore. When you give your body what it needs, you know what you really want. In this course you'll learn a variety of fabulously tasty dishes, and the ingredients may surprise you. You'll understand why your Grandmother's food tastes so good and satisfying, and how she had the energy and stamina to work and raise a family on a schedule that seems unbelievable today. Lose weight without starving, gain more energy and stamina, and get sick less, all without depriving yourself at all. Learn the joy of cooking real food for real life.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
This course is designed to provide you with the necessary skills for intermediate and advanced culinary arts and helpful information, and recipes for cooking several different types of foods such as appetizers, side dishes, lunch, soup, salads, and international recipes such as Asian, Cajun, Chinese, French, German, Greek, India, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mediterranean, Mexican, Native American, and Thai . The background information, the lessons, files, links, assignments, and quizzes are set up to provide you with tips and short cuts to save time in the kitchen, and intermediate and advanced level cooking recipes from my great-grandmother's restaurant.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
How often have you eaten out at an Italian restaurant and wished you could re-create those same fantastic meals at home? Most people have had this experience. This course will teach you just that--how to cook great Italian appetizers, entrées and desserts in your own kitchen. With Cooking Italian 101 you will learn the basic techniques, but you will also learn how to prepare some of the most popular and delicious recipes you enjoy when eating out. Dishes like mozzarella sticks, pasta fagioli, clams oreganata, chicken marsala, shrimp scampi, panna cotta, and ricotta cheesecake are easy to make at home, once you know how. In addition to teaching you how to properly prepare some of your favorite Italian recipes, we will also unveil those Italian cooking mysteries that baffle most people, like what al dente means, why there are so many different pasta shapes, why Italians eat their salad with their meal and exactly what Grappa is. Since this is a 101 course, the recipes are intentionally uncomplicated. The simplest preparation method has been presented for the benefit of the novice home chef. As you become more adept, you can try more difficult approaches to these recipes. Don't be fooled by the simplicity however, while it is a beginner's course, it has a lot to recommend it to a more accomplished cook as well. The goal of Italian Cooking 101 is to teach you how to prepare delicious, economical Italian meals at home, with confidence. To get the most out of the course you should cook along with the recipes as often as you can. It is much easier to learn by doing. Don't fret if the meal you've prepared along with the lesson isn't perfect the first time around. As you learn new techniques and experiment with ingredients, your cooking will get better and even more delicious with time. You will soon discover that your Italian food tastes just as good as your favorite restaurant's, minus the extra expense of eating out! There are eleven comprehensive lessons written in an easy to follow manner. The end of each lesson will provide you with summary review questions so that you may effectively test your new found knowledge. We encourage you to use these self-test questions to determine whether you are ready to move on to the next lesson or if you should review portions of the preceding lesson before taking the next step. Don't rush yourself. Take the time to read all portions of the lessons and complete the exercises and self-tests. Making full use of this course, in its entirety, is the first step in becoming a top notch Italian chef. So, get your apron on and get ready to mangia! (That's Italian for EAT!)
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Treat family and friends to a precious childhood memory by serving a mouth watering just-out-of-the-oven baked homemade pie. The step-by-step instructions presented in this course are easy to follow and understand. Beginning with a brief history of the pie world, methods to prepare the pie crust- the base of the pie- are illustrated. The Pie crust recipe is followed by easy and delicious pie recipes that are categorized under Main dish pie, Sweet pie, Fruit pie, Holiday pie, Nut pie, Ice-cream pie, and Custard pie. This course will also include website resources that provide additional and exceptional varieties of pie recipe. Topics covered include: Making meat and fish pies with recipes for Shepherds pie, Turkey Pot Pie, Beef Cottage Cheese Pie, and Salmon Pie. Making delicious vegetarian main dish pies such as Pizza Quiche, Vegetarian Pot Pie, Italian Sausage Pie, and Spinach Pie. Making Chocolate Mousse Pie, Cheesecake Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, Coconut Cream Pie, Coffee Cream Pie, and other sweet pies. Making Boston Cream Pie, Mud Pie, Wine Pie, Snicker Pie, and Yogurt Pie. Making fruit pie recipes that are perfect treat with light sugar and fat. Making Apple Pie, Strawberry Pie, Lemon Meringue Pie, Watermelon Pie, and Banana Pie. Making pies with mixed fruits such as Apple Cranberry Pie, Dense Berries Pie, etc. Making holiday pie that increases the fun of holiday celebration- such as Holiday Honey Pie, Holiday Pumpkin Cream Pie, Holiday Eggnog Pie, etc. Making nut pies Making ice-cream pies Making custard pies such as Chocolate Coconut Custard Pie, Butter Squash Custard Pie, Rhubarb custard Pie, Egg Custard Pie. By the end of this course, you will be able to prepare delightful pies with your own favorite items fruits, meat, or ice creams--and you will no longer present tasteless store-bought pie imitations to family and friends.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Spanish cookery reflects the Spanish lifestyle; laid back, relaxed cooking that uses fresh beautiful ingredients that are available seasonally and prepared by cooks that are intuitive and resourceful. This course comprises 12 lessons that take you through the wide spectrum of Spanish cuisine, sampling the delights of the Mediterranean and bringing some of the Spanish atmosphere to your dinner table. Perfect for the amateur or the experienced cook, each lesson takes you through a number of recipes step by step with pictures of each stage. The course begins with a brief introduction to the history and geography of Spanish cuisine and finishes with a lesson in how to recognize the wines of the country and match them with meal types. In between, there is a little of everything, from vegetarian dishes and salads to steaks and seafood... If you have ever enjoyed tapas or whipped up an omelet for lunch then you will have some idea of how versatile and delicious Spanish style food can be, if not, then you have lots of fun recipes to try! No prior knowledge is assumed, if you can chop up a few vegetables then you have the know-how you need to get started and enjoy an adventure into all things Spanish and delicious. The key to success in this course is throwing yourself into the cooking process and really letting yourself get creative with the recipes. The pride you will feel when you serve up these dishes will make the whole process of preparing and cooking them so worthwhile that they will become firm favorites for family dinners or serving to guests.
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Course Description:
1.0 Continuing Education Units are available at course completion.
Tex Mex Cuisine 101 is a course for those who want to learn more about the Tex Mex phenomenon. Often when we consider Mexican food, it is actually Tex Mex we are thinking of. Tex Mex is a blend of cuisine from Mexico and the Southern States, especially Texas. It is inspired by the melting pot fuelled by increasing immigration from Mexico into the Southern States of America; Mexican ingredients found their way into Texan dishes while Texan cooks left their own stamp on Mexican recipes, culminating in a culinary revolution of sorts that has taken the world by storm. Tex Mex restaurants have sprung up all over the world and if you want to know why, then this course is perfect for you. The course begins with a look at the history of Tex Mex cuisine, where it came from and how it is influenced by cultural and geographical factors. From Lesson 2, the real fun begins with a range of recipes that will in turn challenge and surprise you with their unique combinations of ingredients. While many of the recipes make great use of chillies and spices, many of them can be made milder to suit every taste so there really is something for everyone here, from those who love things hot, hot, hot... to children and those who can't quite handle the heat! Each lesson has around 3 recipes to try, ranging from side dishes and snacks to more involving recipes for whole meals. Throughout the course, suggestions are made for those who want to be adventurous and alter the recipes to suit the preferences of their family or dinner guests; allowing you to have the freedom to be original and continue the Tex Mex legacy by perhaps introducing some of your own locality into the recipes.
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