Valentine’s Day Cooking Classes: Your Love of Food Finally Pays Off
Whether you’re looking to cook for your significant other on Valentine’s Day, to find the perfect gift, or spend February 14 doing something special, the following cooking classes definitely have something for you!
Valentine’s Day Special Desserts - Guest Chef Melek Gündoğdu
For this Valentine’s Day, find the perfect recipes for the one you love. At this workshop entitled “Sevgililer Günü Özel Tatlıları,” ICI Guest Chef Melek Gündoğdu will teach you how to make delicious fruit pavlova, double chocolate hazelnut biscotti, heart-warming shortbread heart cookies, and finally espresso panna cotta.
If you decide on attending, sign up on ICI’s website to reserve your place(s).
Where: Istanbul Culinary Institute
When: 6 February, 7:00pm
How much: From the venue: 130 TL.
Language: TR with ENG translation
Romantic Italian Menu - Guest Chef Michelangelo de Lauretis
Talented chef Michelangelo de Lauretis will teach the participants of this special workshop how to make a number of delicious and romantic Italian recipes. Attendees at “Romantik İtalyan Menüsü” will learn how to make carpaccio di branzino (marinated sea bass), strawberry risotto, filetto di pesce al cartoccio (sea bream in parchment paper), and pomegranate panna cotta.
If you decide on attending, sign up on ICI’s website to reserve your place(s).
Where: Istanbul Culinary Institute
When: 9 February, 7:00pm
How much: From the venue: 130 TL.
Language: ENG with TR translation
If you are having trouble finding a gift for Valentine’s Day, this workshop at MSA entitled “Çikolata Aşkına” could be what you’ve been looking for. Make yourself and your sweetheart happy with these delicious treats: heart-shaped raspberry chocolates, chocolate Florentines, orange and marzipan chocolates, and caramelized walnut truffle. Sign up for this workshop, for the love of chocolate!
Where: Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi
When: 11 February, 10:00am
How much: From Biletix: 130 TL.
Language: TR
Valentine’s Day Gifts - Guest Chef Feyza Bayrakçıoğlu
This is ICI’s second workshop with a specific Valentine’s Day theme – so if you miss the first one, or want to learn different recipes, sign up for “Sevgililer Günü Hediyelikleri,” where Guest Chef Feyza Bayrakçıoğlu will teach you how to make romantic cupcakes, red and white éclairs, and orange rum and honey lavender truffle. Wrap them up and give them to your significant other – what better present for Valentine’s Day?
If you decide on attending, sign up on ICI’s website to reserve your place(s).
Where: Istanbul Culinary Institute
When: 11 February, 11:30am
How much: From the venue: 120 TL.
Language: TR with ENG translation
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Making Course
The clock is ticking towards Valentine’s Day and you still don’t have anything planned? Fear not. On the 11th, Mövenpick Hotel Executive Chef Giovanni Terracciano will teach you how to make chocolate truffles, ganache, and several varieties of white and regular chocolate. Participants will learn the secrets of melting, storing, and shaping mouth-watering homemade chocolate. Following the course, each participant will receive a souvenir apron, compliments of Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul.
For reservations please call 0212 319 29 29.
Where: Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul
When: 11 February, 3:00pm
How much: From the venue: 95 TL
If you want to do something original for Valentine’s Day, MSA has brand-new recipes at their popular “Cupcake’ler” workshop, where you’ll learn how to make pumpkin cupcakes, cashew and beet cupcakes, “Ying Yang” cupcakes, and fig and ginger cupcakes.
Where: Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi
When: 14 February, 10:00am
How much: From Biletix: 120 TL.
Language: TR
Prepare a special Valentine’s Day dinner with your date at MSA! At this workshop entitled “Sevgilim Menüm,” you and your partner will learn how to make the following Valentine’s Day-worthy dishes: arugula salad in raspberry dressing with garlic shrimps; sautéed scallops covered with parmesan in lemon dressing with truffle-oil; lemongrass and ginger marinated salmon, accompanied by asparagus with Mumm Cordon Rouge passion fruit sauce; and, to finish off, a strawberry mousse with glass of Mumm Cordon Rouge courtesy of MSA.
Where: Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi
When: 14 February, 7:00pm
How much: From Biletix: 130 TL.
Language: TR
Istanbul Culinary Institute, Meşrutiyet Caddesi No. 59, Tepebaşı; P: (0212) 251 22 14
Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi, Meydan Sokak Beybi Giz Plaza B Blok No. 123-126, Maslak; P: (0212) 290 35 50
Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul, Emniyet Evleri Mahallesi Akarsu Caddesi No.2, 4. Levent; P: (0212) 319 29 29
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