During this one day workshop you will bake:

• Focaccia bread with pesto and olives

• Crown loaf bread

• Farmhouse fruit bread

• Pesto verde

You will need to bring the following items:

• The ingredients (recipes sent out prior to the workshop)

• Fast action yeast

• Tea towels

• Cling film

• Baking parchment

• Containers to bring your cooked food home

To save time during the class, please bring the ingredients already weighed. 

It is always advisable to have some extra ingredients in case it is needed.

Additional Information

Recipes will be sent out from the tutor prior to the workshop.  

Tutor: Valentina Rossi

Valentina started studying cookery in the Italian famous cookery school “Il Gambero Rosso” in 2006. Following completion she joined the professional Chefs school “A Tavola con lo Chef” learning all secrets of food and its preparation specialising in pastries.

She moved in Ireland in 2008 working as pastry chef in well-known Galway restaurants then moved into the capital to work in the most fine and high standards Pastry kitchens. She studied Culinary Art in DIT and set up her own food business in 2014.

Valentina’s cookery skills have been honed from a very young age, starting when she was just a little girl pulling up a chair to stand beside her mother or grandmother as they prepared Sunday lunches for all the family. However she developed and perfected these skills by working hard in the industry and training regularly.