Your Fridge Can Do More: Creative Cooking Night in Hamburg
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For yourself or a team. Also great for corporate events or private groups. Get a non-binding quote.
What to expect
- Cook creatively without recipes
- Turn fridge finds into a meal
- Interactive cooking in small groups
- Relaxed evening with shared dinner
About this class
What you’ll do in the class
Together we'll watch:
- What goes together?
- What brings freshness, spice or texture?
- How do you turn a few individual ingredients into a harmonious dish?
I will guide you with ideas, techniques and small kitchen tricks — for example, how to make dishes creamy without using cream, or how binding works even without eggs.
We cook mostly plant-based dishes without making it feel like sacrificing. The focus is on trying things out together, sharing and enjoying. Perfection is not the goal — but aha moments, new combinations and more safety for your everyday kitchen.
Example of what can (but never has to) arise. Depending on the ingredients brought along, for example, the following have been created in recent evenings:
- Creatively filled wantans with nuts and shiitake
- Summer rolls made from kohlrabi leaves with soy noodles and herbs
- Freestyle caponata made from various oven and pan-fried vegetables
- Fruity vegetable curry
- potato peel chips
- Bread rolls or crispy pretzel dumplings made from stale bread
- Chicory boat with fruit and nuts
- Vegan banana bread muffins made from overripe bananas
- Chocolate mousse made from tofu and melted chocolate
Every evening is different — and that is exactly what makes it so appealing.
Finally, we enjoy everything together in the DOCHOWS kitchen studio as a relaxed sharing buffet and I continue to chat out of the sewing box.
What is included in the class?
- Spices, oils, basics, and kitchen equipment
- Aprons
- Included drinks on site
- Shared buffet meal at the end
What to bring to the class
2 herbal ingredients from home that are “loved or unloved” — expired treasures or what is stubbornly hidden in the back of the refrigerator or pantry.
Who is the class suitable for?
- 12 interested people who enjoy cooking
- More safety when cooking spontaneously without a recipe
- Ideas on how to create delicious dishes from just a few ingredients
- Simple herbal alternatives that are really suitable for everyday use
- Throw away less food, make more of it
- A relaxed, convivial evening instead of standing alone in front of the fridge
Thore Hildebrandt
I am a trained banker, passionate cyclist and vegan chef from Berlin. I gave up my banking career in 2016 to find myself in a Buddhist monastery and while traveling and to rediscover my passion for cooking.
