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

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

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

Aperitif with boiled boar served in the hollowed out and toasted homemade loaf of bread.Appetizer with cooked cold cuts (cotechino, cotechino mantovano, zampone, boccia, tricorno, liver mortadella).Boiled meat trolley: beef, beef biancostato, veal, pigtail, head, ganascino, stuffed hen, tongue.Side dish: onion, celery, carrots boiled in broth.Green sauce, red sauce, mustard, rubra sauce.Yellow risotto with fat broth with eyes.Bread cake

Mixed boiled meats and risotto

I will be happy to welcome you to my home, decorated for the Christmas holidays.After a welcome drink if you wish, you can actively participate in the preparation of the dishes that we will eat for lunch or dinner. I will teach you how to prepare typical holiday dishes with the secrets that grandmothers, aunts and my mother taught me.We will pleasantly spend a few hours together and I will make you feel at home. If we have time we will also play a few games of tombola, a typical holiday game in Italian homes.

Christmas dinner: an evening in Como

For this special experience, where we will walk through fields together and visit magical places in the area near Como, I'll be waiting you at my house in the morning, around 09:00.After breakfast with homemade cake and cappuccino or coffee, we will set off in search of wild herbs to use in our preparations.On the way home, we will stop by a convent to buy fresh eggs and seasonal vegetables.The cooking class will begin by preparing a lunch based on what nature has given us.I will include you in all the preparations, from appetizer to dessert, and the menu will be decided together and we will use all the herbs we have gathered: the true protagonists of our experience.

Walking tour and cooking class with wild herbs near Como

Do you want to surprise those you love? Book this experience at my home, I will prepare for you the best traditional dishes from Lombardy and beyond. Some examples? Fresh tagliolini with lobster or the very famous Rossini-style filet with pate and truffle. The evening will begin with a welcome drink, followed by a sampling of appetizers, the main course and a dessert all accompanied by wine, water and to finish coffee and bitters. I will make your evening special with sparkling candles, romantic music and the tranquility of an evening just for you.

Romantic dinner

Take a seat at the cozy tables of the Cesarine to savor forgotten recipes that have been treasured and handed down for generations.During this cooking class you will learn how to prepare 3 recipes: an appetizer typical of my area, a fresh pasta dish and a dessert.Under my guidance you will learn how to make the dough, roll out the pastry and prepare a fresh pasta following my family's recipes.We will also prepare together a great dessert from my family recipe book.At the end of the course you can relax at the table, enjoying a 3-course menu, whether lunch or dinner, including appetizer, main course and dessert that we will have prepared together with drinks included (local wine, water and coffee).

Cooking class with three Como recipes

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.

Como's traditional recipes

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

Cernobbio is a quaint village nestled between the splendor of Lake Como and the nearby mountains. An area in which nature, history and art are inseparably connected. A place that manages to evoke innumerable emotions, images, literary and culinary memories...In my kitchen you will be the protagonists of a fun and educational cooking class. We will learn how to prepare three local recipes related to my family, using fresh vegetables from the garden and products from the mountains.

Cooking class on the lake

The stroll is a way to taste a mix of high quality gastronomic products. You will be guided by a Cesarina who will explain to you every detail of the selected restaurants and you will have the opportunity to taste some delicacies of our beautiful city. It will be an exceptional and unique dining experience!What is it all about:High quality cold cuts platter and a glass of local wine served in a historic wine shopThe delicious gourmet pizza in a historic bakery or you will have a taste of fresh lake fish and typical local food such as “Sciatt” (delicious and crunchy pancake type balls stuffed with melted cheese) in one of the most famous delis in Como.“Torta Nuvola” (Cloud Cake) the typical dessert of Como. Alternatively, you can enjoy an excellent artisan ice cream.