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2 Hour Pasta Making Class With Local Chef in Sacramento

Ready to upgrade your pasta skills and unleash your inner Italian nonna? Join Chef Maggie for a fun, technique-packed cooking class focused on two timeless pasta favorites: pappardelle and ravioli. You’ll learn how to make your own pasta dough by hand, mastering essential techniques like kneading, rolling, and shaping. Chef Maggie will guide you through crafting perfect pappardelle noodles and expertly stuffed ravioli filled with a vibrant, herb-infused ricotta and tofu blend. You’ll also whip up a flavorful aglio e olio sauce using olive oil, garlic, and Italian herbs, topped off with plant-based Parmesan and fresh parsley. It’s a celebration of traditional Italian cooking with a modern, plant-based twist. What to Expect: - Step-by-step guidance from a talented chef who makes it make sense. - A fun, beginner-friendly class where no one judges your knife skills. - Tasting, laughing and leveling up your kitchen game. - Ideal for: a solo outing, date night, girls’ night or group fun.

2 Hour Pasta Making Class With Local Chef in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

Downtown Sacramento Historical Food Tour

Learn about California’s capital city’s history as you pop into local eateries for tastings of local-favorite food during this Downtown Sacramento tour. Sample various products from local venues as well as menu items from restaurants that use locally sourced ingredients. Your guide tells you stories about the city that dates back to the 1800s, as well as gets you acquainted with the Sac foodie culture.

Downtown Sacramento Historical Food Tour

3 hoursFree Cancellation

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Fun Wonton Cooking Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

This hands-on cooking class with Chef Lina transforms simple ingredients into a restaurant-worthy bowl of wonton noodle soup. You’ll begin by preparing a savory pork filling, blending Chinese seasonings for depth and balance. Then, learn the proper folding technique to seal delicate wontons into neat, flavorful parcels. As your dumplings rest, you’ll build a fragrant broth and prepare fresh components including egg noodles, bok choy and julienned carrots. Chef Lina walks you step-by-step through timing and assembly, showing you how to layer textures for a vibrant, nourishing finish. Finally, simmer your wontons to tender perfection and ladle everything together into a steaming bowl. Hosted at a trendy Sacramento venue, this beginner-friendly experience includes all ingredients, professional tools and a complete meal you’ll prepare and enjoy yourself.

Fun Wonton Cooking Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

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Fun Dumpling Cooking Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

There’s something deeply satisfying about sealing a dumpling correctly on the first try. In this fun, hands-on cooking class with Chef Lina, you’ll learn how to make flavorful homemade dumplings in a relaxed social setting at a stylish local venue in Sacramento. This experience is perfect for beginners who want practical cooking skills without feeling like they accidentally signed up for culinary school. Chef Lina will walk you through prepping a savory filling with carrots, cabbage, scallions, garlic, ginger and soy, with an optional beef and pork filling available for meat lovers. Using premade wrappers keeps the class approachable and lets you focus on folding techniques, shaping and cooking methods like steaming and pan-frying. You’ll also prepare a quick citrus soy dipping sauce that adds the perfect bright, salty finish to every bite. By the end of class you’ll leave with new kitchen confidence and a strong urge to make dumplings for everyone you know.

Fun Dumpling Cooking Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

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Chicken Curry Cooking Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

Discover how to balance sweet, savory and spice in a comforting Thai classic. In this interactive class, Chef Lina breaks down the essential techniques behind restaurant-quality Thai chicken yellow curry. Start by learning how to properly bloom curry paste and build layers of flavor before adding chicken, potatoes, carrots and onion. Then, stir in creamy coconut milk and adjust the seasoning with palm sugar and fish sauce for perfect harmony. As your curry develops depth, prepare jasmine rice to complement the bold sauce. Chef Lina offers personalized guidance throughout, ensuring you leave confident recreating this vibrant dish at home. With hands-on instruction, premium ingredients and a full meal included, this Sacramento cooking experience delivers both technique and unforgettable flavor in every bite.

Chicken Curry Cooking Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

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Fun Gnocchi Making Class With Local Chef in Sacramento

Think gnocchi is too complicated to make at home? Think again. In this interactive class with Chef Maggie, you’ll master the Roman-born pasta that’s low-cost, filling and endlessly satisfying. Start with potatoes, flour and a pinch of seasoning to form a soft dough, then roll and cut it into delicate dumplings. As they cook, whip up one of two classic sauces: a nutty basil pesto with Parmesan or a rustic marinara with tomato, onions and peppers. Chef Maggie makes the process approachable and fun, so you’ll leave with the confidence to add homemade gnocchi to your weekly dinner rotation — no restaurant required. What to Expect: - Step-by-step guidance from a talented chef who makes it make sense. - A fun, beginner-friendly class where no one judges your knife skills. - Tasting, laughing and leveling up your kitchen game. - Ideal for: a solo outing, date night, girls’ night or group fun.

Fun Gnocchi Making Class With Local Chef in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

Half Day Sardinian Pasta Classes with Dining and Latin Dance

Half Day Sardinian Pasta Classes with Dining and Latin Dance

4 hoursFree Cancellation

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Midtown Sacramento Arts and Food Tour

3 hoursFree Cancellation

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Fun Cupcake Decorating Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

Step into a world of color, creativity and buttercream bliss in Sacramento. This hands-on cake decorating class with Chef Birdie transforms a simple mini cake into your own frosted showpiece. You’ll begin with a behind-the-scenes look at how to make rich, fluffy buttercream frosting using heavy cream, powdered sugar, vanilla and just the right pinch of salt. Chef Birdie shares practical tips for achieving smooth texture and stable structure — secrets that elevate your cakes at home. Next, it’s time to decorate. Using pre-baked mini cakes, you’ll practice crumb coating, piping and layering techniques before finishing with bright sprinkles, playful candies and eye-catching designs. Throughout the session, you’ll receive personal guidance in a relaxed, social setting at a trendy local venue in Sacramento. All ingredients, tools and your completed cake are included, making this creative experience both delicious and confidence-boosting.

Fun Cupcake Decorating Class With a Local Chef in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

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Rainbow Pasta Making Class in Sacramento

This is not your average pasta night. In this playful cooking class with Chef Maggie, you’ll make fresh rainbow pasta from scratch at a stylish local venue in Sacramento. It’s colorful, hands-on and much more exciting than opening another box of noodles. Start by mixing pasta dough with flour and olive oil before creating natural colors with turmeric for orange, spinach for green and beets for magenta pink. Chef Maggie will teach you how to knead, roll and cut the dough into ribbons before cooking it to tender perfection. While the pasta boils, you’ll make a bright farm-fresh tomato sauce with garlic, basil, olive oil and Parmesan. By the end, you’ll sit down to enjoy a homemade rainbow pasta feast that tastes as good as it looks.

Rainbow Pasta Making Class in Sacramento

2 hoursFree Cancellation

Sacramento Sutter District History and Food Walking Tour

Skip the guidebooks and explore Sacramento’s Sutter District instead on this guided walking tour in a small group limited to 14 people. Stroll the tree-lined streets with a guide, and pop into around five or six eateries to sample dishes popular in Sac, including organic coffee, pork spring rolls, and chocolate cookies. Your guide knows the district well and also gives you a rundown of the area’s interesting history as you go.

Sacramento Sutter District History and Food Walking Tour

3 hoursFree Cancellation

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