Creative & Healthy Seasonal Cooking

A DHARMAKAYA CENTER RETREAT

As summer begins, join us in celebration of fresh flavors with an immersive, educational weekend of cooking. Learn creative ways to use seasonal produce to craft delectable and healthy meals, for yourself, your family or for a crowd. Create intensely flavorful plant-based versions of some of your favorite dishes, quickly and easily, and learn how to make healthy food delicious and delicious food healthy.

You will be in the kitchen with Chef Eytan Kurland, getting hands-on training and education. Perfect your chopping, sauteing and roasting, and pick up new skills as you learn some of the simple secrets behind your favorite Dharmakaya dishes. Most importantly, learn how to incorporate these techniques and recipes into your daily life. Come on your own or bring a friend. This program is for everyone who wishes they could prepare meals that are as healthy and delicious as those they enjoy at the Center. Class size is strictly limited to 10 people.

“I loved the creative vegetarian cuisine. It was colorful, nutritious, amazing.”

“The food was fresh, delicious, and felt made with intention and love. It will inspire a new relationship with my meals at home.” 

BRING A FRIEND DISCOUNT: Do you know someone who would like this program, but hasn’t been to the Center? Bring them, and you both get a 10% discount on your entire program package. For the discount to apply, there must be two reservations, at least one of whom has not taken a Dharmakaya Center class previously.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: We are pleased to be able to offer partial scholarships for this program. Please apply here.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

You love vegetarian food—or maybe you just know it can protect against lifestyle-related disease—and you want to up your game. Now you can learn how to prepare vegetarian and vegan dishes that dazzle your tastebuds and improve your health. We’ll work together to make these dishes, paying special attention to techniques that ensure they are packed with flavor.

• Learn how to prepare some classic items with alternative ingredients to account for different diets
• Practice using various tools and techniques that make cooking more enjoyable or efficient
• Understand how to easily insert parts of these dishes into other recipes
• BONUS: Make simple spice blends that add quick pizzazz to your dishes, and take home samples

You’ll go home with new knowledge, new techniques, new recipes—and a newfound skill to think creatively about ingredients and flavor pairings.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Intimate setting
• All recipes provided included in course materials
• Interactive sessions with hands-on training
• Shamatha and guided meditations
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients—prepared by you!
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat

OPEN TO ALL

No cooking skills required–just a desire to learn more!

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Friday, June 27

Saturday, June 28

Sunday, June 29