Small group hands-on cooking class with 2 pasta recipes, Tiramisù and aperitivo.Meals in Lake Como are a relaxed and leisurely time to spend with your beloved ones. Live a dining experience like the Italians do and enjoy the typical food of the area.Immerse yourself in the regional traditions of everyday Italy.Cesarina Bea welcomes us to her cozy home in the historical town center of Como, located within walking distance of the lake. Try her three-course dining experience, showcasing their favourite traditional family recipes.You will take part in an experience which is so much more than just a lunch or dinner. Dining with a Cesarina gives you the chance to be welcomed in like one of the family and live like the Italians do.Carefully selected local wines, beverages and coffee is i

Small group hands-on cooking class, pasta and tiramisù

Discover the secrets of Milanese cuisine in this immersive cooking class. Under my guidance, you'll learn how to prepare three authentic dishes: a typical Milanese appetizer, handmade pasta, and the classic tiramisù dessert. Each participant will have their own station and all the necessary tools, including an apron and recipe booklet. After the cooking session, you'll sit down to enjoy a delicious three-course meal, including your handmade dishes and local wine, water, and coffee. Book now to experience the best of Milan's culinary traditions!

Milan: Appetizers, Pasta, and Tiramisù Cooking Class

After this funny cooking class you will be an expert of many italian traditional recipes. We will teach you the tricks and the secrets of the most iconic dishes of Lombard cuisine. We will start hand made ravioli with pumpkin and gorgonzola, two key ingredients of the regional culinary tradition.This is followed by strozzapreti with sausage, mushrooms and pecorino cheese. We will teach you step by step how to make a fantastic, super creamy and enveloping hand-made pasta!The menu will then end with the ticonic iramisu presented with a little surprise that will be revealed during the cooking class.During and after the course we will give you two small gadgets that you can take with you and use for the next recipes!

Funny hands-on traditional pasta and tiramisù cooking class 

I look forward to welcoming you with open arms in my beautiful and cozy home to teach you the recipes of Italian cuisine with the fun of cooking and then enjoying the food you have prepared, accompanied by excellent Italian wine.You will learn how to "create" with your own hands not only the egg pasta and the sauce we are going to dress it with but also the dough for a delicious pizza. To conclude we will make a mouth-watering dessert: tiramisu prepared with eggs, sugar, mascarpone, ladyfingers, coffee, and cocoa.

Cooking class in Milan: egg pasta, pizza and tiramisu

This cooking class will take place at a beautiful location, overlooking the breathtaking scenery of Lake Como. My home with large windows offering spectacular views of the Lombardy scenery, is the perfect place to spend a day learning how to cook delicious dishes with local products.We will put our hands to pasta, making tagliatelle and ravioli together. I will introduce you to and taste artisanal cheeses and cured meats, made by young farmers in the mountains of Lake Como. We will also cook risottos and lake fish; and then taste them together while admiring the wonderful view of the lake and the city of Como.

Cooking class with enchanting lake view

The aperitivo ritual is a classic in Milan: with this course we learn how to make some recipes to replicate it at home and invite friends over, surprising them with many creative but easy-to-make ideas. More informal than a dinner party but as substantial as a lunch, aperitivo is not just olives, pizzettas and chips!During the course you can sip a "sbagliato," the famous cocktail invented in Milan in an equally famous bar, which you can glimpse out the window!What we will prepare (ingredients vary depending on the season)polenta sandwich with kale pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and caramelized onionbruschetta with herbs, walnuts, capers, olives and chili pepperschickpea, pumpkin and thyme pieborlotti croquettes, apples and hazelnuts

Learn how to serve the real Milanese aperitivo and cocktail

If you would like to have an authentic taste of Milan, you can't miss out on Ossobuco and saffron risotto.The origins of Risotto are lost in legend. Some claim that it was invented by the cook of a noble Sicilian family that moved to Milan; the cook could not find the ingredients to make rice arancini and she decided to prepare rice flavoured with saffron. Others say that this dish comes from the kosher medieval tradition, brought to Milan by Jewish Sicilian merchants.What we can be sure of is that risotto is always accompanied with the traditional Ossobuco, cross-cut veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine and broth. It's a winning combination that is one of the city's emblems.

Saffron Risotto and Ossobuco Masterclass

We will make the dough together with the best flour and yeast on the market.We will use only real and fresh smoked buffalo mozzarella (never in the refrigerator) for the pizza.Creating the pizza dough and eating it is as much fun as choosing the ingredients to fill it: I suggest classic flavors such as Margherita, Margherita with Bolognese sauce, with a base composed of mortadella and pistachio or with sausage and baked potatoes, but you can create a space pizza with three simple ingredients.Ready to unleash your creativity?

Pizza Napoletana DOC and baking in a wood-fired oven in Como

With this recipes you will discover three simple, but very classical recipes which belong to my family since generations.You will be able to prepare and taste the nervetti (veal nerves) made with onion and beans and a typical risotto with lake fish. To finish a simple, but very tasty, cake which I used to eat when I was a child at my grandmother's house.I wait for you!

A culinary journey through family recipes

"Lombardy and its Flours" is a unique Italian cooking class. I will open my home to you, a beautiful attic with breathtaking views of the Swiss Alps, Como and Monte Rosa. You will taste the mouth-watering dishes you prepare, accompanied by excellent red or white wine and limoncello prepared by the hostess with organic lemons.I will teach you how to knead with typical Lombard flours: polenta flour, buckwheat flour and yellow "fioretto" flour. We will prepare together a typical appetizer, a fresh pasta dish and a dessert.When you return, you will amaze your diners with these delicious authentic Italian recipes!

Lombardy and its flours

In this special cooking class, I will reveal all the secrets to cleaning, preparing, filleting and enjoying recipes with the excellent lake fish caught in Lake Como.We will start the day with a Welcome Aperitif: appetizers and a glass of wine will welcome you to my home.Afterwards I will reveal the secrets of 4 recipes handed down from my family:a lake fish appetizerthe classic ravioli stuffed with trout and perch, with the recipe that my grandmother handed down to my mom and she to mea traditional fish second course, which could be baked fish or fried fisha typically Italian dessert: "tiramisu ".Depending on the season we may have lunch or dinner in the garden concluding with a good coffee and homemade liqueurs.

Cooking class: preparing fish from Lake Como

Happy to welcome you to my home, I will have the pleasure of making this experience unique with good traditional food.Together we will prepare tasty traditional Como dishes but with a vegetarian twist, and if the weather permits, we will also be able to take advantage of the outdoor space to enjoy the experience to the fullest.There will of course be no shortage of good wine, coffee and bitters as well as lots of merriment.