Chris Toy, author of six popular cookbooks and private chef, has taught Asian fusion cooking for many years. Cooking students will learn how to prepare a variety of recipes from Asia, Europe, and the Americas incorporating traditional and local ingredients. Each meal will actively engage cooks with the tools, techniques, and stories behind the dishes being created.

Mary Laury, an accomplished watercolorist and highly esteemed teacher, encourages students to believe they can be successful. Painting is an exciting medium; it flows and moves and does beautiful things. If you have never painted in watercolors, we will start at the beginning. If you have painted before, you will pick up some new tips and tricks as well. We all learn together!

Acadian Arts at Harbor View House, Prospect Harbor, Maine, Sept. 13-15

Escape to a Victorian Inn, the Harbor View House in Prospect Harbor on the coast of Maine, with an intimate group of artists, cooks, and creatives! All meals are included in the workshop fee plus special activities to extend your learning from the day's workshops. These include a private house concert by Grammy-balloted singer-songwriter, storyteller, and author Gordan Ward.

To book your stay at the inn call 207-963-9122 or visit https://link.edgepilot.com/s/467e6b6b/akyDLV8ShkSO4BtoWizaIA?u=https://harborviewhousellc.com//. For more information go to: acadianarts.com

Have you ever wanted to try the potter's wheel? Sign up for our two-hour "Try-It Night". With the help of a teaching artist and some clay, you'll be shown how to center and pull the clay up to make a vessel. Great for families and friends! Bring an apron, trim those fingernails, pull your long hair back, and dress for a mess! This class includes a two-hour session and one or two finished pieces. Depends on how you do! If you make more than two and love all the lumpy children equally and want to keep them, each additional piece is $10.

Finished work will be ready for pickup after 4-6 weeks during regular class times or by appt. Usually, pieces are ready mid-month the month following your class date.

This class requires a 48-hour advance notice for cancellations. Kennebec Clay Works is operated by Ceramic Artist and Educator, Malley Weber. KCW has many great instructors.

For more information please visit www.KennebecClay.com

All large purchases come with an owner's manual, so what about your house? In this class, we'll learn the steps to create an owner's manual for your house, including the mechanical systems, maintenance schedules, interior & exterior surfaces, etc., all organized into a binder with photos. Learn about your home and how to keep it running in top condition!

Colin McCullough is the owner of All-Around Home Performance, working as an independent energy auditor, and provides the service of creating owner's manuals for houses. Colin lives in Farmingdale in a 1915 house where he is working to make a net-zero energy house, and he is a BPI-certified building science trainer/proctor teaching at SMCC and KVCC.

How do you reduce heating costs while making your house more comfortable? Learn tips & tricks from an independent home energy auditor bring your questions about insulation, heat pumps, solar panels, etc. as we learn about common home issues and ways to save on energy bills!

Colin McCullough is the owner of All-Around Home Performance, working as an independent energy auditor, and provides the service of creating owner's manuals for houses. Colin lives in Farmingdale in a 1915 house where he is working to make a net-zero energy house, and he is a BPI-certified building science trainer/proctor teaching at SMCC and KVCC.

How to build your house for less, a healthy, extreme efficiency three bedroom, two bath home that helps provide future and immediate financial security. This seminar helps residential building contractors, owner-builders, or individuals planning to have a home built save on construction and future energy costs by reducing the costs of time and materials through functional integration of necessary building performance requirements and design choices. The goal is to have the highest-performing home at the lowest price. Questions are welcome during the presentation to clarify methods and logic. Overall effects on financial impacts are also discussed. The fee helps to cover administrative costs at AACE.

You will receive Augusta School Department's Substitute Teacher Training. In this course you will learn:

1) Substitute policies and procedures

2) Substitute pay rates and payment procedures

3) Expectations in your role as a sub

4) Classroom management and tips for success

5) Information about each school in the district

Have fun learning to save money, time, and calories while dishing up delicious, healthy, food. Whether skilled culinary artists - or a family member who’s starting to cook - there’s something for everyone in these engaging, live-stream kitchen adventures. Experience heaps of tips and techniques with lots of laughs. . . and come away having our standout meals, and recipes to share and cherish.

I designed this lively series of cooking class events for GF/vegans/vegetarians/and omnivores alike. Without added processed sugar, excessive sodium, gluten, or chemicals. Fearless Foodies® use leftovers, pantry, and everyday ingredients while scattering everything (when possible) with fresh, local, organic, and homegrown ingredients for countless, powerful benefits and superior taste. 

Your receipt will give you a list of needed items for the recipes to be prepared—an anticipated cost of $15.

Pat has been a lifelong healthy gourmet chef, restaurateur, organic gardener, Producer of LifeRecipeMagazine.com, and your host at Fearless-Foodies.com cooking class parties.

Apr. 17 - Rainbow Zen Bowl

Rainbow Zen Bowl w/Homemade Aioli – Serves 4

Peace is here. Look away from the “blogosphere,” with obscenely stuffed any foods into a bowl for the growing “bowl” craze. Buddha bowls originated in Japan in the 7,000’s. A true Buddha Bowl contains 5 major elements; all of them well-planned & carefully arranged, with an emphasis on simplicity, balance, fresh beauty, and wellness