Another ‘Of Corks & Cookery’ Virtual Event

Fatayer Jibneh  | Akkawi Cheese Turnovers [8/16/2020, Sunday at 3.00pm PST]

This is a great treat to impress your friends: boat-shaped turnovers with golden seams and a burst of flavor from the Akkawi cheese and nigella seeds inside. Bread-based dishes like this one, and the spreads that accompany them, like hummus, are served up at any time of the day, from breakfast, to picnics, right through to dinner. I always thought of fatayer as a baking affair prepared by women — as I’d seen my mom and her friends do - - to be enjoyed at a big azoumeh, or house party, so I was shocked the first time I saw burly men making them en-masse in bakeries in Lebanon, where men hold more of the large-scale production-type jobs. Fatayer uses a vegan pastry dough. The filling here is vegetarian with Akkawi cheese and nigella seeds, common items found in Arab and Middle Eastern markets. The Akkawi cheese can be substituted for another crumbling melting cheese like Oaxacan cheese or mozzarella.

In this class you will learn the following:

• How to use traditional Arab flavors and local ingredients, all prepared with California love

• Perfect dough making

• Baking skills

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There are two featured Hoopes wines options for this class. Choose either to:

• Taste through a vertical of three vintages of Genny’s Vineyard Chardonnay including 2014, 2015 and 2016 to see how a hand-crafted, barrel fermented Chardonnay ages in the bottle and how the resultant flavors bring forth nuances of the dish.

• See how the butteriness of our 2015 Genny’s Vineyard Chardonnay complements the decadent richness of these savory cheese hand pies.

Participation Options

Purchase access to the live virtual cooking class with your choice of option A or B for the wines.

Once your purchase is made for a class, you will be emailed a confirmation. Your email confirmation will contain a download link for Virtual Cooking Class PDF Kit . The Virtual Cooking Class PDF Kit contains the following documents:

• Shopping List

• Equipment List

• Cooking Procedure

• Unique Zoom Link for the class, as well as a password
  - Expires three days after the scheduled class giving you the option to watch and take notes on your own terms.