Students learned how to make a variety of types of Austrian strudel on Wednesday, April 12, at the Sitka Kitch community rental commercial kitchen. This was the fourth of five classes in the Cooking Around The World class series offered this spring.
The class was taught by Suat Tuzlak, the former owner of the Alpine Bakery in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and co-author of “Little Cookbook For The Great Outdoors.” Suat is in Sitka teaching several yoga classes at Yoga Union and two Cooking Around The World classes for the Sitka Kitch.
In this class, students learned how to prepare the strudel dough, including a rolling trick using a bedsheet. They also tried four different types of fillings — three savory (spinach and feta cheese; kale, mushroom and onions; and cabbage, onion and caraway seeds) and one dessert filling (apple, raisin, nuts and cinnamon).
The final Cooking Around The World series class is:
- Turkey — 5-7:30 p.m., Monday, April 17, taught by Suat Tuzlak. For this class, Suat, who is Turkish, will teach students how to make a Turkish dinner that is vegan and gluten-free without using sophisticated ingredients. You will learn to make red lentil soup, green beans with olive oil, festive rice pilaf with currants and pine nuts, and a fusion dessert, chia-coconut pudding. The registration deadline is 9 p.m. on Friday, April 14.
When registering, students should prepay for the class through the Sitka Kitch online registration site, http://sitkakitch.eventsmart.com, using PayPal or credit/debit card. If you need other payment arrangements, contact Chandler or Clarice of Sitka Conservation Society at 747-7509 to arrange a time when you can pay with cash or check. To qualify for a partial refund, please notify us at least three days in advance if you need to cancel. The registration deadline is three days before each class so our instructors have time to purchase materials. Please email sitkakitch@sitkawild.org with any questions.
Watch the Sitka Kitch page on Facebook or our online registration page to see when these and any future classes are scheduled (there will be a Preserving The Harvest class series this summer).
A slideshow of scenes from the Austrian strudel class follows below.
Sitka Local Foods Network 
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