The Home Cook classes at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts can offer a dynamic collection of hands-on, technique-focused cooking classes for enthusiast cooks. Topics cover everything from French regional favorites to creative courses in cooking, baking, cake decorating, and more.
Each of the cooking classes at our Boulder, Colorado campus is led by our very own professional Chef Instructor. Whether you’re new to the kitchen or an accomplished home cook, we have a class for you!
Upcoming Home Cook Classes
Home Cook Series: All About Bread Part 3 and 4, Croissants/puff pastry
In this class, we explore the art of laminated dough as well as rich dough. Discover the keys to creating a flaky croissant or puff pastry.
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Holiday Desserts
In this baking class we will focus our attention on making different crusts, fillings, pie, tarts, and coffee cake!
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Plant-Based Holiday Feast
Dive into this plant-based menu with dishes perfect for the holiday season!
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Holiday Sides and the Art of Roasting
Join us at Escoffier for an informative class aimed at roasting and a wide array of side dishes to help your holidays shine bright!
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Technique by Escoffier: Winter Soups
Join Chef Dallas as he demonstrates how to make his favorite heartwarming soups great for the chilly months of the year.
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Italian Cuisine: Gnocchi and Agnolotti Pasta (vegetarian menu)
Join an Escoffier Chef in making these delicious fresh pastas!
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Vegan Sushi
Join Chef Dallas to explore sushi making without the fish! There is no reason that vegans can't also prepare and enjoy these tasty rolls!
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Techniques at Escoffier: Braising
The technique of braising is capable of transforming tough cuts of meat into soft and succulent dishes full of flavor!
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Plant-Based Cuisine: Continental
Join Chef Dallas Houle for this Meat-free class! In this class learn how to prepare comforting plant-based meals for cold weather.
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Holiday Desserts
In this baking class we will focus our attention on making different crusts, fillings, pie, tarts, and coffee cake!
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Knife skills at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
In this cooking class, we will focus our attention on one of the most basic and essential of kitchen skills.
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Techniques at Escoffier: pressure cooking
Join us for a hands-on cooking class exploring an array of recipes that can be quickly made in your pressure cooker!
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Holiday Cookies
Join an Escoffier Chef and make batches of homemade holiday cookies! Recipes include gingerbread, sugar cookies, and more!
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Technique by Escoffier: Winter Soups
Join Chef Dallas as he demonstrates how to make his favorite heartwarming soups great for the chilly months of the year.
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Sushi and Miso Soup
Explore how to prepare and roll sushi and review many other fundamentals of a Japanese-themed meal!
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Techniques at Escoffier: pressure cooking
Join us for a hands-on cooking class exploring an array of recipes that can be quickly made in your pressure cooker!
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Knife skills at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
In this cooking class, we will focus our attention on one of the most basic and essential of kitchen skills.
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Regional American Cuisine: Pacific Northwest
Explore the flavors and techniques used in the Pacific Northwest with Escoffiers Home Cook Chef Instructor Dallas Houle!
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Cuisine of the Philippines
In this cooking class we will delve into the flavors of the philippines!
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Home Cook Series: All About Bread Part 1 and 2
Join Chef Dallas Houle, and explore how to make and bake an abundance of different types of bread in a two-day series.
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Easy Weeknight Dinners
Chef Dallas takes you through a series of delicious dishes to cook you through the week!
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Taste of Thailand
Join Chef Dallas to explore how to make essential Thai cuisine, including tom kha gai, mango sticky rice, pad thai and more!
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Fresh Pasta: Fettuccini in Puttanesca
Work with Chef Dallas to form pasta from scratch! Served in a deliciously simple sauce.
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Meet Your Chef Instructor
Chef Dallas Houle
Chef Dallas Houle joins Escoffier as the Boulder Campus Home Cook Chef Instructor. Chef Dallas has over 20 years of experience in the culinary industry as a chef instructor, sous chef, executive chef, and culinary director. His education at Florida Culinary Institute helped ready him for positions around the country, but focusing around his home in Boulder, CO. His past experience spans roles in food truck fair to fine dining restaurants, farm-to-table experiences, and upscale vegetarian cuisine. At Escoffier, Chef Dallas leads the enthusiast cooking classes at our Boulder campus.