New Date! Learn How to Cook a Brasserie-Style French Meal with Bravo Maine’s Chef Jasmine!

At Online via Zoom

Craving to learn how to cook a pure brasserie-style French meal? Join chef Jasmine from Bravo Maine, for a fun, interactive, and delicious evening. In this cooking/baking class, you will learn to prepare a steak à la française with a sauce forestière accompanied by Duchesse potatoes and to finish en beauté, a crème brûlée that you can cook in the oven.

Jasmine will guide you step by step, answer all your questions, and show you some of her cooking/baking tips. Our cultural manager, Clémence will reveal some fun facts and history about the dishes you are making.

To complete the experience, why not invite your friends and family to join you and share a truly French evening?

Don’t want to cook but only watch and take notes? You are more than welcome! Can’t make it that day? Sign up and we will send you the recording of the event.

Online Event in English.

Member

$15

Non-member

$20

Ingredient List

What's better than a scrumptious homemade French meal? Knowing the perfect bottle of wine to go with it! Our favorite sommelière, Chelsea Bell from Gordon’s wine recommends pairing this menu with one of the following wines:
LYONNAT LUSSAC-SAINT-EMILION 2015
SAINT-SULPICE 2019

About Jasmine

She graduated from SMCC Maine where she got the Associate Degree in Culinary Arts in 2020. She is a master at making croissants and she is a chocolatière. Her dream is to open her own chocolaterie.

About Bravo Maine

Bravo Maine opened in March 2020, it was created by a French woman who wanted to transmit the taste of French cuisine and new flavors in Maine and beyond. They are offering onsite and online group classes, private classes, and summer camp.

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