Cooking Classes

Shopping on a budget never tasted so good! Learn how to prep and prepare flavorful and fun meals on a tight budget. Looking to cook healthy meals at home, while reducing your grocery bills? Well, then this class is for you. We’ll start with a healthy appetizer and salad while our Education Coordinator shares healthy food preparation tips for a tight budget. Sit back and relax while our Outreach Assistant prepares a money saving entree and helpful meal planning tips. Come hungry!

In celebration of Mother’s Day, Tiazza will be hosting a Moroccan dinner to share the best recipes she learned from her mom in Morocco. These recipes have been handed down through her family for generations. This is a continuation of oral traditions and culture from the Berber village where Tiazza spent her childhood before she moved to Casablanca. These are also the recipes Tiazza cooks in the US when she is homesick. She will be sharing these recipes in a full course meal.

Macarons, those delectably light, meringue based cookies from France, involve a series of sophisticated techniques that can take time and practice to perfect. You often see them only at the best bakeries; they’re particularly fussy, even for the most seasoned of pastry chefs. But learning to make macarons will be simplified with Allison’s tried and true recipes, tips, and step-by-step instructions. This class is designed to help you succeed in mastering the macaron.

Join Medford Food Co-op’s board member and plant-based cuisine expert, Fran Batzer, as she demonstrates the JOY of layering flavors, textures, and colors with seasonal whole food plant-based recipes. Fran will share why a plant-based lifestyle is better for our tummies and planet. The Green, Plant-Based menu will feature a Green Goodness Smoothie, Green Creamy Asparagus Soup, Green Rainbow Chard Tempeh Probiotic Wrap, and a Green Matcha Mint Chia Seed Pudding. The entire menu is vegan, gluten-free, and delicious!

Shopping on a budget never tasted so good! Learn how to prep and prepare flavorful and fun meals on a tight budget. Looking to cook healthy meals at home, while reducing your grocery bills? Well, then this class is for you. We’ll start with a healthy appetizer and salad while our Education Coordinator shares healthy food preparation tips for a tight budget. Sit back and relax while our Outreach Assistant prepares a money saving entree and helpful meal planning tips. Come hungry!

No Indian meal is really complete without a pickle or a chutney. Jam packed with flavor and tang, a small amount will take a meal to a completely new level. Chutneys also make great bread spreads and can transform an ordinary lunch sandwich into something lip-smackingly special. Learn to create tantalizing flavors using natural ingredients such as turmeric root, fresh cilantro, green mango, chillies, molasses, ginger, lemon peel, peanuts, split mustard, tamarind - to name a few. This pickling process uses no artificial preservatives.

***This camp has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We’ve teamed up with Rogue Valley Farm to School to offer three different camps this summer. Each week campers will dive into food production, preparation and exploration, with a mix of farm and kitchen experiences that delight the senses and inspire the soul. Join Rogue Valley Farm to School staff as they cultivate the ability to grow and cook delicious, healthy, seasonal meals. Monday - Wednesday at the Co-op Community Classroom, Thursday & Friday at the Farm at SOU.

We’ve teamed up with Rogue Valley Farm to School to offer three different camps this summer. Each week campers will dive into food production, preparation and exploration, with a mix of farm and kitchen experiences that delight the senses and inspire the soul. Join Rogue Valley Farm to School staff as they cultivate the ability to grow and cook delicious, healthy, seasonal meals.

Save money, reduce packaging, and help conserve the Earth’s limited natural resources in your kitchen and beyond. Improve your conservation practices with tips and tricks for a zero waste kitchen while enjoying recipes designed to reduce your food waste! The class is free, but requires a $10 deposit at sign up which is returned to you on the day of the class in the form of a Co-op Gift Card.