Recipe-Free Cooking Workshop

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Free Workshop: How to Cook from the Hip, Without Recipes Anytime. Anywhere.

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Love this workshop and ready to make a perspective altering shift to recipe-free cooking?

Join Home Cooking Artistry!

A recipe-free, seasonal, jovial, AND virtual approach to home cooking to elevate your capacity from home cook to home chef in 12 weeks.

Join in!

Recipes are marvelous AND learning to cook masterfully without them? An utter joy

We get it. We're cookbook collectors, but now? We treat them as source material, rather than the Holy Gospel According to Ina, Alton, and Julia.

WHY? Because taste is deeply personal. And learning to know what YOU love, TRULY love makes you a better, more creative human. Both in the kitchen, and yes...in life too.

AND WE WANT YOU to know how to do this. Artfully and masterfully.

And THAT is what we do during Home Cooking Artistry. We work you through a progressive experience through the spring season to cook in new, exciting, and delicious ways.

We won't promise you that after 12 weeks you'll be the next TV star on Food Network.

What we CAN promise? Is that by the end of the 12 weeks? You'll be a significantly more creative, joyful, and capacitated cook.

In this 12 week deep dive course you will learn to dominate...

Flour-free Sauces, and why we think espagnole sauce should be banned (unless it's gravy) forever.
The joy (and ease) of handmade pasta
Batching the 'hard stuff' for simplicity, and on-hand availability
Fast and flavorful ways to eat abundant, seasonal veggies
The world's most perfect scallop (and we promise you'll never order it from a restaurant again)
Stocks of ALL shapes and sizes that blow your socks off so efficiently you'll never buy broth (or boullion) again.
A step-by-step, repeatable method that will help you craft ANY dish or menu from scratch, using ingredients you have on hand.
The importance of sourcing incredible spices, in a way that will shift how you cook for good.

Sign me up! We begin March 7th!

Logistics!

Price? $600, or three monthly payments of $205.
There are 9 live classes. Three 'break weeks'. Class dates? March 7, 14, 21 :: April 11, 18, 25 :: May 2, 16, 23
We will send you some MAGIC in the form of spices to your door. Think of this as a mini upgrade to your spice cabinet.
Sessions occur on Sundays from 1pm to 3pm Eastern time. And are streamed LIVE via Zoom Shopping lists are posted on the previous Tuesday.
BONUS! Includes access to a dozen pre-recorded videos on knife-skills, and basic cooking techniques for the duration of the 8 week course. Including access to every. single. previous. live. class. we've. ever. filmed.
A community! We're not just a school, we're also a community. From the moment you join, you'll be whisked into our distraction-free, off-Facebook space, where you'll find ready-to-watch content on recipe-free cooking, and humans from around the world who love food as much as you do!

Your Syllabus for Early Spring!

(Please note: We have vegetarian/pescatarian options for every week, but we cannot accommodate vegan diets. Our apologies!)

Week One

Shatteringly-Crispy, Spatchcock Chicken
Rough Puff and Sablé Pastry
Seasonal Pot Pie with Herbacious Mustardy Bechamel
Charred Radish Salad with Fried Sardines

Skills Covered this week: Vinaigrette, Pastry Dough, Roast Chicken, and Bechamel

Week Two:

Roasted Bone Marrow with Crisp Mushrooms & Chimichuri
Homemade Pasta by Hand or Machine
Speedy Sauces for Pasta: Caccio e pepe & Carbonara

Skills Covered this week: Homemade pasta, speedy sauces, roasting bones for stock, fast marmalades

Week Three

Surprising Stocks :: Beef, Poultry, Veggie, and Parmesan
Preserving Lemons
Milk Kefir
Caramelized Leek & Potato Galette

Skills Covered this week: Stocks, salt preserving, fermenting milk, and rustic galettes

Week Four:

NO LIVE CLASS...Passover
Pre-recorded videos on Souflées & Knife Skills release for you to work on.

Week Five

NO LIVE CLASS...EASTER
Pre-Recorded videos released on building menus, and masterfully using spices.

Week Six

Carrot, Parsnip, & Ginger Soup
Kefir Drop Biscuits
Gin Marinated Scallops or King Oyster Mushrooms
Grilled Chicory & Pear Salad

Skills Covered this week: unilateral cooking, biscuits, balanced soups, and perfecting the bitter green salad.

Week Seven

Caramelized Onion Perfection
- Onion Bacon Jam
- Onion Soup
Charred Citrus Galette
No-Knead Bread & Variations

Skills Covered this week: Bread, fast desserts, caramelizing onions

Week Eight:

Braised Pork Shank or Cabbage
Vegetarian Bowls, Many Ways
Quick Pickles and Kefir Sauce Variations

Skills Covered this week: braising, the perfect 'meat free' and hearty veggie bowl, easy pickles, batch cooking

Week Nine

Spring herb Ravioli
Parmesan Soup with Dumplings & Burnt Bread Dust
Focaccia
Tiramisu with a Truffle Twist

Skills Covered this week: simple (but delicious) garnishes, focaccia (genovian style)

Week Ten:

NO LIVE. Pre-recorded videos and support for your FINAL PROJECT! For Week 12. :)

Week Eleven

Preserved Lemon, Greens, and Green Chili Shakshuka with Strained Kefir Cheese
Breakfast Veggie Hash
Clam or Veggie Fritters

Skills Covered this week: breakfast, how to fritter literally anything

Week Twelve

GRADUATION WEEK! Present your 'project'. A recipe-free dish you created using the Okay, Perfect Method! (Optional! Not required, but an opportunity to play and flex your skills!)

I am IN! Click here to sign up!

Do you REALLY need another Zoom class in the middle of a pandemic?

The short answer.... PROBABLY!

AND we get it. Zoom fatigue is a real thing. BUT! We're different in numerous ways because....

We're fun! No, seriously. We are. We laugh a lot during our sessions, and everyone has a grand time.
You're 100% sick of pantry staples, and you're ready to eat REALLY FREAKING GOOD FOOD without having to go to a restaurant, and without scrambling to find ingredients to complete a recipe. We see you. We've got you.
If you're a curious creature interested in fostering a connection between cooking and personal capacity (it's a thing), you'll especially like us.
Maybe you hate to cook, maybe you love it. Hell, maybe you went to culinary school? NO MATTER WHAT you'll learn something. Our students run a wide range of capacities, and all of them learn something each and every week. (HECK! Even WE sometimes learn things from our students!)

Remember!

Cooking, like any other skill, is one that requires patience and practice.

At Okay Perfect! we have developed a recipe-free mindset AND method to help you not only become a better cook, but a more mindful human being. We get that sounds a bit witchy woo-ey (it is), but it’s the truth.

Let’s be honest, we all enjoy excelling at something, and as a southern fast food chain used to say, “You gotta eat”. So you might as well be damn good at feeding yourself and others.

OK! I'm in! SIGN ME UP!

Who the heck is teaching this? And what the bleep do we know?

Kendall Lane

Kendall has been working in kitchens since she was a teenager. Before that, she used to outrun alligators on her bicycle en route to school on Sanibel Island. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu. She worked with farmers to breed pigs to make specific types of sausage and charcuterie. Suffice to say, her butchery skills are on point. Before joining forces with Makenna at Okay, Perfect!, she spent two years a sous chef in a Michelin-starred restaurant set up in an old church in rural France. Her knowledge and passion for good home (and restaurant) cooking is infectious. And she's pretty much everyone's favorite human, ever.

Makenna Held

Makenna’s first favorite food was escargot. She became interested in cooking when she was in France as an exchange student in her teens where she watched her host mother cook every meal. daily. from. scratch. While at Smith College, she bought a food share from a local CSA and cooked big meals for her house and theater productions (before recipes existed online and cookbooks were hard to find). She's the definition of a Jill of All Trades, but cooking is where her joy lies. In 2015, she jumped on purchasing La Pitchoune, Julia Child's former summer home, and opened the Courageous Cooking School which teaches humans in-person and online about the benefits of recipe-free cooking capacity for deliciousness AND leadership reasons. (It's a thing, ask her about it sometime).

Join us! Click here to sign up! We start March 7th!

Nice things others have said about us and our classes....

I want to thank you all, at Okay Perfect, for having such great classes via Zoom. I am a home cook , lover of good food and drink, and enjoy entertaining my friends and family. Makenna and the team have a completely unique approach to cooking. It’s fun, relaxed, and delicious! Every class is filled with great tricks and tips for the novice to the experienced cook. All those cooking along with Makenna and Dom, were treated with great respect and no question was too trivial.

The end results of each class was awesome! I urge any foodie out there to join in the fun!

Susie Buckner

Okay, Perfect's online classes have become an absolute blessing during lockdown, but it's the lifetime of mastering the art of recipe-free cooking I am most excited about. With the Cordon Bleu-trained Chefs' focus on the principles of foods and flavors such as mains/compliments/contrasts and the chemistry of fat/acid/salt/aromatics, I know my home cooking will be elevated to levels I haven't even imagined yet. One day I'm sure to step food in the famous Provençal summer home and kitchen of Julia Child where the physical school resides, but for now, I hope to learn as much as possible through their online programs. LOVING IT!

Alison Kent

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12 Week Course

Each week builds on the previous week. No standalone lessons here! We run a lean-mean, zero waste machine. And you'll be using bones from one week to make a stock the next, which you'll turn into soup two weeks later. (It's really a magical process!). While there are only 8 sessions, we run for 12 weeks. Between sessions you'll get an opportunity to integrate, and practice your new found skills!

Pre-Recorded Deep Dives

Over a dozen pre-recorded deep dives into knife skills & butchery. Ready for you to binge watch to your hearts content. (You'll probably learn you've been mincing onions incorrectly for years!)

Community!

We're not just a school. We're a community. You'll be joining in with dozens of other humans who LOVE food as much as you do.

Payment Plans

The first step to succeeding with interactive content is identifying the right formats for your strategy. The key here is to try as many different content types as possible before permanently settling on any specific formats. You might be surprised at how your audience is attracted to one unconventional content type, and you don’t want to miss out by hesitating to try out that format.

A Mini-Spice Cabinet upgrade

We'll be sending you five of our favorites from Diaspora Co. and/or Burlap & Barrel. Around here, we ONLY do single origin spices. And we want you to understand WHY.

Click here to join us for $600 or Three Payments of $205

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30
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09
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