Discover Italian
When you take a cooking class with Wally Maria, you will learn how to prepare traditional Italian dishes, where to shop for the ingredients, how to combine courses for a delicious, well balanced, healthy Italian meal.
Wally Maria has an extensive vegetables-fruit-herb garden and grows many of the ingredients she uses in her cooking.
She grew up in the northern Italian region of Veneto and then Friuli where she learned in her grandmother's restaurant, and from her mother and aunts, how to prepare classic Italian dishes. Over the years, Wally Maria has revised her family's traditional cooking and made it her own, displaying her passion for beautiful presentations and delicious taste
Each one of her classes is a complete meal. Students are invited to help in the preparation and cooking process if they desire. They are given a copy of all the recipes prepared in the class and are welcome to bring wine for all to enjoy with the meal, which will be served at the end.
Classes vary in length; in average last 3 hours.
You can read an article about Wally Maria in the March 29, 2007 issue of the
Cooking Classes
Mezzaluna
Half Moon
Are you familiar with this kind of knife?
Is excellent if you do not have a chef's skill when chopping.
Women in Italy have been using it for generations.
And, is much safer!
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Municipio di Pordenone
Best Italian Dishes Series 2012
Cantucci
Almond biscotti
Class Fees
Individual Class $ 50
Payment in advance required
If you need to cancel, please give at least one week notice
Class Time
10 am - 1 pm
To enroll or for more information
Please call 828.658.8928 or email
Ask Wally Maria about customized, private or group classes at her home or yours .
Plan a Birthday - Holiday - Family Celebration - cooking class
Gift certificates available
Saturday, February 18, 2012
10am-1pm
Minestra di castagne e porcini secchi
Chestnut and dry porcini soup
perfect for those cold February days
Filetto con salsa al pepe rosa
Tenderloins with pink pepper cream
Focaccia con cipolle e pancetta
Onion and pancetta tart
Fiadone alla ricotta e vaniglia
Ricotta and vanilla pudding
Saturday, March 17, 2012
10am-1pm
Risotto con salmone marinato e riccioli di limone
Risotto with marinated salmon and lemon zest
with home cured salmon
Filetti di sogliola alla mugnaia
Soles fillets with lemon and parsley
Torta di pane, verdure e formaggi
Bread, vegetables and cheese cake
Crostata di pere e mascarpone con vin cotto
Pears and mascarpone tart
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 For Mother's day
10am-1pm
Rigatoni con rucola, prosciutto e asparagi
Rigatoni pasta with arugola, prosciutto and asparagus
Filetto di maiale ai pistacchi
Pork tenderloin with pistachios
Sformatini di fave
Little fava bean souffles
hopefully we'll gather the favas from my garden
Tiramisu' di fragole e zabaione
Strawberries and zabaion tiramisu'
with strawberries we'll pick in the garden
Saturday, July 21, 2012
10am-1pm
Tagliatelle alla chitarra con salsa al pepe verde
Tagliatelle noodles with pepper sauce
we'll make the noodles with a "ghitar"
Involtini di pesce spada
Swordfish rollatini with diced tomatoes and peppers
Gratin di asparagi e fiori di zucca
Asparagus and zucchini blossoms gratin
Crostata di crema la limoncello
Tart with limoncello and chocolate
with homemade limoncello
Saturday, September 15, 2012 Vegetarian
10am-1pm
Pansoti alla boragine con salsa di noci
Homemade ravioli filled with borage with walnut sauce
Polpette di melanzane
Eggplant balls
Tronchetti di zucchine gratinati
Zucchini filled and baked
Semifreddo alle amarene
"Semifreddo" with cream and cherries
Saturday, October 20, 2012
10am-1pm
Orzo e funghi alla friulana
Barley and dry porcini soup friulan style
Finocchi con la mortadella
Fennel baked with mortadella
Insalata di peperoni arrosto con riduzione di balsamico
Roasted peppers salad with balsamic vinegar
Mele con grappa e miele e crema al mascarpone
Apple rings saute' with grappa and honey with mascarpone cream
Saturday, December 15, 2012 an Italian alternative to Christmas
10am-1pm
Nidi di tagliolini alla chitarra con gamberi e caviale
Nests of homemade ghitar tagliolini with shrimps and caviar
Baccala' alla vicentina
Baccala' Vicentina style
Caponata alla siciliana
Eggplant, tomato, onion, olives and capers stew
from Sicily
Torta di ricotta e nocciole
Hazelnut and ricotta cake
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