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Downtown Grocery introduces:
Cooking Classes!
First Class: Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Topic: Making Breads & Muffins and Milling Wheat Berries with Kris Rasmussen
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Where: Kitchen at Downtown Grocery
Cost: Contact the store, pay in advance, reserve your seat
Baker Kris Rasmussen, see bio below, will talk about how to make breads with fresh-milled wheat berries and talk about the history of wheat, berries and making bread. She'll prepare the following:
1. Fresh-mill wheat berries to make a traditional loaf of Wheat Bread
2. Fresh-mill wheat berries to make Triple-Berry Muffins
*** As a side-note: Kris will mention other uses for wheat berries, such as in the traditional Mediterranean salad called Tabouli or for Wheat Berry Chili.
Kris is a talented baker with experience teaching cooking classes at the Grebe's Cooking Series and she's the Monday Night Baker at Downtown Grocery where she has prepared the following:
Triple Berry Muffins, Fresh-milled Wheat Bread, Baklava
Fudge (such as Cranberry White Chocolate or Milk Chocolate with Cashews)
Date Bars, Boston Brown Bread and Double-chocolate Cookies
Kris Rasmussen...grew up in the grocery business. And a Tornow Family business at that! Born in the Fox River Valley area where her part of the Tornow Clan had a family owned grocery store, deli/meat department, and a 'Homemade Custard Stand'. Kris has been a whole grains proponent for over 25 years. The love of the process began with a contact with Paul Stitt of Natural Ovens of Manitowoc. He and his wife Barbara are pioneers in the whole grain commercial baking industry and Kris and her husband Don, realizing the benefits of eating and cooking with whole grains and 'the whole of the wheat' have been milling and baking ever since. Kris got a recipe from her sister Gail and the adventure of milling and baking the 'natural way' began.Kris has a degree in Interior Design and worked at the Ethan Allen Gallery for almost 12 years. She and her husband decided to 'home school' their three children and along with her baking skills, she is an accomplished seamtress that has a long line of people to sew for. Designing and sewing everything from wedding dresses to the Bosch Food Center and Nutrimill machine covers that are used at Downtown Grocery.
We hope you can attend because it will be an entertaining and informative evening!
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