Cooking Classes

Here is your information about the classes

Why should you choose a private cooking class:

A private class a allows you to reserve a time that suits your own schedule.
All private classes are "hands on." You will receive personalized directions- when you want help. You will be in your own kitchen, using your own tools.
Since, you are in your own home it will be a familiar atmosphere and comfortable for you.

Your beginning consultation with Lynda will determine:

Your personal level of cooking skills.
When you would like to cook.
What you would like to cook.
What skills you would like to learn.
Is your kitchen ready for a cook.
What's in your pantry.

Private classes are approximately three hours per class in your kitchen.

For each private cooking lesson, you will receive a customized cooking lesson plan that includes the copies of the recipes you will learn.

You will be given a shopping list for each class.

If you are unsure about getting the right things (the foods used will not be complicated ingredients or hard to find or even costly). Lynda will go with you if you would like for an additional shopping fee of $10 per hour. This fee will be added to your private class bill.

You will save money by cooking at home, but you will have to do the dishes.

You can be sure to have a fun and educational cooking experience – whether you are a skilled cook or just beginning your life of cooking. If you want to learn cooking basics, or simply want to expand your culinary repertoire – these classes will be informative and fun.

The cost per private class is $65 per class and approximately 3 hours. This is paid in full when your sign up and have your consultation.

Private class discount packages are also available:

Two private classes $120 a savings of $10
Three private classes $180 a savings of $15
Four private classes $240 a savings of $20
Six private classes $360 a savings of $30
Eight private classes $420 a savings of $40
Ten private classes $585 with one private class for FREE a savings of $65

Tell Your Friends - Sharing your cooking class experience can be rewarding. Tell your friends about your private classes and when they sign up for two or more private classes I will give you a $25 discount off of your next private cooking class.

Sign up for a cooking class today!

Call to book your consultation. 480-988-2629

A cooking class makes a great gift for most anyone - Gift Certificates are available.

Why I love sharing my cooking secrets

I have always had a flair for cooking, actually I love learning better ways to cook. During my high school years I love my cooking class and my teacher Mrs. Tuckett. After 47 years I still have my class cookbook. Yes, the pages are torn, worn, loose, and some are lost but it is a great cookbook and has served me well. It is a good basic cooking guide and I use it often.

I married at 18 years of age had my first child at 19, and by the time I was 28 had five children. This was in the middle 60's and early 70's and we did not have much money for fast food. We had gardens, most years, so I had to learn how to prepare all our garden produce so it would not spoil. Since I did not have a freezer I taught myself to can the extra fruits and veggies. I did not know anything about processing foods, but I had to learn to feed my five children.

In the town where I grew up, my Grandma Beck had a reputation for being one of the best cooks in our little town. My sister Joy and I were raised by grandma, I was the oldest and I think we went to live with Grandma when I was 6 or 7 and Joy, being four years younger that me, must have been about two or three years old. I remember watching grandma do things in the kitchen, making cinnamon rolls, pies and rice pudding she also decorated wedding cakes for almost every bride in the town. I watched her pick veggies in the garden, and watched her make her own soap. My Grandma was talented she could do a lot of things like cook, sew and do needle work on dish towels and pillow cases, and she made quilts and aprons and clothes. She even took time to play cards with me.

Grandma died when I was a Senior in high school and I didn't marry until the next year, so unfortunately, she wasn't around when I really wanted to learn how to cook.

I was not totally unaware of how cook I think sometimes I got tired of the things I knew how to make. I had to feed my family and learn to can my garden harvest so I learned all about that first. My two aunts who were grandma's daughter-in-laws one of them lived with grandma and the other just next door. They were my mentors and I ask them thousands of questions on how to make this and how to do that. I diligently plugged away at cooking and before I knew it my food was worthy of compliments and once in a while it was really good.

All these years I have kept on cooking, learning more about cooking, trying new recipes and mastering a few recipes of grandma's and I believe I am much better at cooking now than I ever was. Tell me, who would have ever though that I would create menus, make homemade foods, and win awards for my very own restaurant?

I basically cook the style of foods that fits my taste, and that I feel I am) good at, like

the good ole' comfort foods that I raised my kids on. But cooking is much different these days, there are so many things about cooking that you can learn, and even so much more you can do with the skill of cooking and now more than ever before we as adults have to worry about foods being safe to eat, and what kinds of foods our kids are being feed at school and why so many of the worlds people are over weight and unhealthy. Learning to cook and feed your family good foods will give you more control of how healthy your kids really are and as they grow up you can teach them ways to eat foods that are more healthy and good for them. You will have a new sense of accomplishment by becoming a better cook.

"I know cooking is not really hard, it's achievable by anyone who puts in the effort to learn it."

Yes, you can probably teach yourself and, yes, you can buy books and read about cooking or you can have someone teach you by watching them do their own cooking.

Yes, you can learn the basics of how to cook, and how to cook healthy. Yes you can learn how to make delicious great foods and do it well, and yes, I would like to help you have some fun while learning more about cooking.