For those who love to cook, private cooking classes are
available in the spring and fall with master chef, Hermann
Groicher. Classes offered are for one to eight
people.
Hot & Cold Soup and Dessert - 1
Day
2 people: $450
3-8 people: $165 pp
Itinerary:
Morning- Depending on seasonal fresh produce our
soup will be asparagus, artichoke, squash or a cream of
shitake mushroom. Soup garnish for hot soup is a lemon
shortbread. Will begin preparation for cold soup of fresh
fruits and berries: apple-blueberry, rhubarb-strawberry or
apricot-raspberry. Garnish for cold soup is a baked lime
flavored pastry puff.
Noon- Lunch of freshly prepared hot soup, salad,
bread and cheeses.
Afternoon- Finish cold soup and soup
garnish.
4:00pm- Sit down for dessert and coffee
Hot & Cold Sauces - 2
Days
2 people: $690
3-8 people: $290 pp
First Day Itinerary:
Morning- Basic stock preparation. Start of cold
sauces: Mayonaise, Creme fraiche, Basic white sauce, Sauce
Bechanielle
Noon- Lunch
Afternoon- Continue basic white sauce, Thermidor
Sauce, Mornay sauce, Hollandaise Sauce. Finish
stock.
4:00pm - Snack and glass of wine
Second Day Itinerary:
Morning- Sauce Espagnole. Continue on demi-glace,
Madeira Sauce
Noon- Lunch
Afternoon- Finish white sauce, Caper Beure Blanc
sauce. Cold sauces: Sauce Remoulade, Dill Sauce, Cold
Curry Sauce, Chipolte Pepper Sauce.
4:00pm - Snack and glass of wine
Snowshoeing and Chocolate
Mousse
Snowshoeing and Chocolate Mousse is a winter week of
cooking classes, snowshoeing, fine dining, mountain lodging
and fun.
The Snowshoeing and Chocolate Mousse package includes
lodging, cooking classes, guided snowshoeing in Rocky
Mountain National Park, fine dining, massage and hot tub
relaxation. The week includes a fondue night with 
traditional Gruyere and Emmental cheese and a
moonlight snowshoe outing that is followed up with dessert,
hot-spiced wine and hot chocolate. The grand finale is
having the students prepare a seven-course gourmet meal.
Please check back for our 2009 Snowshoeing and Chocolate
Mousse schedule.
There's a log on the fire.
The snow is falling.
You're not getting any younger.
What are you waiting for?
For reservations
and more information, call (303)
747-2556.
