The Dinner Bell
Professional In-Home Cooking Classes
Sessions
The following are specific classes The Dinner Bell offers. Each class is individual to the client. You have the opportunity to choose items you would like to create. We have created a menu that could guide you in your choice of items.
Shopping Extravaganza
During this class, you will go grocery shopping with an expert. Learn how to choose ripe produce, the perfect cuts of meat, and visit local farmer’s markets in season. You will have the opportunity to ask the expert any questions you may have regarding grocery shopping.
Bountiful Baking
Sessions offered in Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Baking. Learn how to bake homemade breads, pies, desserts, and much more!
Beginner Bountiful Baking
- Quick breads: Learn to make these wonderful quick breads that will impress all of your family and friends.
- Banana bread: Moist, sweet banana bread that no one can keep their hands off.
- Blueberry muffin: Muffins filled with blueberries that provide the heath benefits of antioxidants.
- Garlic cheddar biscuit: Cheddar biscuit just like that seafood place that we all know.
- Pie crust: Grandma’s flaky delicate pie crust that melts in your mouth and will make any pie taste magnificent.
Intermediate Bountiful Baking
- Assemble Pie
- Batter Cake
- Yeast Raised Products
- Puff Pastries
Italian Cooking Session
Learn how to prepare the perfect Italian meal that will amaze anyone! The client will learn the basics of preparing an Italian type meal. In addition, the client will learn basic food preparation techniques, ingredients, and have the opportunity to ask any desired questions to the chef.
Items Prepared
- Homemade pasta
- Spaghetti noodles
- Alfredo noodles
- Lasagna
- Homemade pizza
- Homemade Italian sauces
- Marinara
- Alfredo sauce
- Homemade French bread
The client will learn the perfect Italian seasonings to give the meal the final touch!
Make It Healthy!
Learn tips, ideas and substitutions to turn your favorite dishes into healthy dishes. You will have the opportunity to spend one on one time with the chef to learn how create dishes that not only taste good, but are also good for your body.
Healthy Cooking Class
- Healthy Cooking: Learn to prepare tasteful, healthy meals that will provide a full balance of nutrients that will benefit the entire family.
- Whole grain breads: These breads are the best source of fiber that is not only yummy, but is good for the tummy.
- Salad preparation: Use garden fresh vegetables to assemble a masterpiece of art that will not only be beautiful to your eyes but will provide your body with the essential nutrients it needs to survive.
- Homemade Energy bar: Choose from an assortment of nuts, granola, dried fruit, honey, oats, and barley to assemble your very own nutritious bar to share with your family and friends. Get creative and give it your own name!
28 Minute Meals
Great for people on the run! Learn how to prepare quick, fast recipes for you and your family.
Create Your Own Sessions
Not seeing anything that fits your fancy? Create your own session. Have a personal chef at your beck and call to teach you anything you want to know about cooking.
Parties
Dinner Parties
Learn how to host an outstanding dinner party for all of your friends. Learn the different courses and recipes and serving techniques.
Sports Parties
Entertain all of the sports lovers in your life. Learn great recipes and appetizers to throw a party that will impress anyone.
Wine Tasting
Learn about the different kinds of wine and how to host your own wine tasting party with great hors d’oeuvres to accompany each wine.
Cooking Parties
Host a party where you and all of your friends can learn to cook together!
Food Safety and Sanitation Class
Chef Bell is a certified instructor through the Illinois Department of Public Health. If you need to be certified in safety and sanitation for your job or business, we can do it. We will provide the course material and exam to become certified in the state of Illinois for food safety and sanitation.
Family Meals
Get ready to spend a wonderful evening cooking, learning, and laughing. The Dinner Bell provides instruction from a professional chef on how to prepare and serve a succulent, surprising, and most of all delicious meal for you and your family. During this session we will focus on learning preparation of a family style meal that everyone will enjoy. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine during the learning and preparation. After learning the preparation, you will sit down with the other families to enjoy the dishes you created from scratch. Bring your creativity, any cooking questions you may have, and most of all your taste buds to enjoy a spectacular evening with The Dinner Bell.
Meats
- Chicken Fabrication
- Chicken Parmesan
- Rosemary Roasted Chicken Breasts
- Ground Beef Recipes
- Salisbury Steak
- Meatloaf
Sides
- Homemade Dinner Rolls
- Potato Extravaganza
Dessert
- Apple Pie
- Key Lime Pie
Kids Cooking
Get ready to participate in an exciting experience with your kids, cooking, learning, and laughing. The Dinner Bell will provides a kid friendly learning environment where they can learn to participate in meal preparation and the preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables and learn the importance of these items in each meal. During this session we will engage the kids in every aspect of preparing a meal. After learning the preparation, you will sit down with your family and the other families to enjoy the dishes you created from scratch. Bring your creativity, any cooking questions you may have, and most of all your taste buds to enjoy a spectacular evening with you children and The Dinner Bell.
Main Dishes
- Homemade pasta noodles
- Homemade pasta sauces
- Individual Pizzas
- Homemade pizza dough
- Homemade sausage
Sides
- Homemade breadsticks
- Fresh peas in the pod
- Fresh fruit salad
Dessert
- Individual fruit pizzas
Romantic Meal
Get ready to spend a wonderful evening cooking, learning, and laughing. The Dinner Bell provides instruction from a professional chef on how to prepare and serve a succulent, surprising, and most of all delicious meal for you and your family. During this session we will focus on preparing a romantic three course dinner for your significant other. We will be using a variety of aphrodisiac ingredients to prepare exotic dishes. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine during preparation. After learning the preparation, you will sit down with other couples to enjoy the dishes you created from scratch. Bring your creativity, any cooking questions you may have, and most of all your taste buds to enjoy a spectacular evening with The Dinner Bell.
For Starters
- Oysters Rockefeller
- Chocolate Fondue
- Spinach Raspberry Salad
- Homemade Dinner Rolls
Main Entree
- Filet Mignon
- Saffron Rice
- Fresh Asparagus Spears
Dessert
- Chocolate Cream Pie
- Key Lime Pie