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Enjoy a Lesson, a Meal and a Memory in the comfort of your home or rental cottage.
Outer Banks Epicurean brings everything needed for your personalized
culinary adventure.
Cookin’ Outer Banks Style Cooking Lesson
SAMPLE
Learn all about local shrimp as your personal chef teaches everyone how to roll a summertime spring roll and prepare fresh local catch. You can even whip up an easy to make chocolate torte to enjoy after your personally crafted meal.
Lesson Plan: Shrimp, Fresh Fish and Chocolate Torte
Guests: 7 adults
Location: Duck, NC
Contact: John and Jane Sunshine
Date: Summer 2013
Time: Chef arrives at your location with ingredients at 4:00 pm; Lesson begins between 4:15 pm and 4:30 pm; Lesson ends at 6:30 pm; Clean-up; Chef Exit: 7 pm.
Proposed Lesson:
Menu Options – All menu items may be modified before approval. All menu items subject to change based on availability and quality of product at time of purchase.
Shrimp Spring Rolls with Orange Mint Dipping Sauce – Learn how to roll fresh, yummy spring rolls using locally harvested shrimp (seasonal) – rice paper demystified!
Pan Seared Local Tuna with Tomato, Basil, Garlic Jus and a Cheesy Baked Zucchini with an Oregano Butter Sauce – Learn all about Tuna as we prepare the freshest available with cheese filled seasonal veggies and locally grown, organic herbs.
Flourless Chocolate Torte with Vanilla Mint Whipped Cream
When desserts are this easy to make, you can have them on hand all the time! Learn the secrets to this dense, yummy treat.
Restrictions and/or Dietary Requirements – please advise
Other Services
Wine Pairing, Rentals, Decor, Music, Lighting, Photography and Planning services available upon request. We only work with the best vendors on the Outer Banks.
Fees
Service: One Chef @ $250. attendant always required if more than 6 guests. Attendant @ $125
Clean up of kitchen is included. Menu Costs: proposed $49 per adult (7) = $343. Total: $668. Gratuity is never included. An additional travel fee will apply for ventures beyond the Outer Banks, including Ocracoke and Carova.
Remember – you get to create your own menu – this is just a sample!
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Outer Banks Epicurean Now Offers Corporate Beach Retreats
Our new 3 day retreats are intended for groups of 8 or more who wish to focus on specific challenges. We offer everything from instructors and facilitators to ocean and sound-front accommodations to freshly cooked meals. All packages are customized.
Cookin’ Up Teamwork – a three day Retreat presented by Outer Banks Epicurean and Essential Human Resource Development. This retreat is intended for corporate teams, from executives to coworkers, who wish to develop a deeper understanding of workplace dynamics and personalities. Knowledge and skills will be occasionally tested in the kitchen and the fruits of labor will be consumed by the water. The sessions are interactive and highlight individual personality traits that influence teamwork. After learning each person’s characteristics using individual assessments provided by Essential HRD, the team will accomplish a number of culinary challenges designed to test how different (and same!) personality types can best work together.
Features: Customized Training and Objectives, Waterfront Learning and Living Environment, Culinary Adventures, Healthy Living Meals
Take Home: The Outer Banks Cook Book, Outer Banks SeaSalt, Team Personality Analysis
Participants: Minimum 8 Maximum 16
Starting at $299 per person, per day. Includes accommodations, meals and instructors.
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Cookin’ Outer Banks Style – a three day Retreat presented by OBE, Essential Human Resource Development and skilled mind/body/energy workers. This retreat is intended for groups, clubs and coworkers who wish to develop a deeper understanding of self. Morning yoga, healthy eating lessons, outdoor activities, fitness challenges and massage can be included as well as in-depth assessments of personality traits by Laurie Harris and Essential HRD
Features: fitness challenges, yoga, waterfront learning and living environment, cooking lessons, healthy living meals
Participants: Minimum 8 Maximum 16
Starting at $299 per person, per day. Includes accommodations, meals and instructors.
All prices based on availability, accommodations, season, participants, challenges, menu and level of service. Concierge services also available.