Chef Mimi is an experienced culinary instructor with a deep passion for Ethiopian and Eritrean cooking. She has taught in community education programs throughout Minnesota and led hands-on workshops across the Midwest and Southwest. Known for her warm, knowledgeable teaching style, she helps guests explore traditional flavors, techniques and ingredients with confidence. Her culinary background also includes Mediterranean, Asian and Southern cuisines, adding versatility and depth to every class she leads.
Chef Highlights
Graduated from Mankato State University
Award-winning: Award-Winning Instruction: Named the 2026 Silver Winner for "Best Cooking Class" in the Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Readers’ Poll.
Press Mentions: Trusted culinary workshop partner for prestigious institutions including Purdue University, Macalester College, and Oxford College.
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WHAT YOU’LL DO
Create authentic Italian dishes in this culinary session with fresh pasta from scratch.
Bring the craft of Italian pasta making to your kitchen in this hands-on cooking class with Chef Mimi. The focus throughout is on technique – understanding dough, developing feel and building the kind of confidence that makes fresh pasta genuinely achievable at home.
You'll begin by hand-chopping the components for a crisp Italian chop salad dressed in Chef Mimi's house vinaigrette. Then it's hands into the dough – mixing, kneading and resting fresh pasta before rolling and cutting fettuccine by hand and folding and sealing ravioli with your choice of seafood or cheese filling. A creamy Alfredo sauce comes together in the pan while the pasta cooks, and warm garlic bread goes into the oven alongside. The culinary session closes with layering a classic tiramisù. Book your spot in this Italian cooking lesson today.
Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.
Your Menu
Italian Chop Salad
With Romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and house vinaigrette
Handmade Fettuccine and Stuffed Ravioli
Choose your ravioli filling of seafood or cheese With homemade Alfredo sauce
Italian Garlic Bread
With garlic, parsley and butter
Tiramisù
With mascarpone, cocoa powder and chocolate
Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
No prior cooking experience needed
All ingredients and equipment are provided
Dietary accommodations available upon request
Private classes available for groups and special events
Chef Mimi is an experienced culinary instructor with a deep passion for Ethiopian and Eritrean cooking. She has taught in community education programs throughout Minnesota and led hands-on workshops across the Midwest and Southwest. Known for her warm, knowledgeable teaching style, she helps guests explore traditional flavors, techniques and ingredients with confidence. Her culinary background also includes Mediterranean, Asian and Southern cuisines, adding versatility and depth to every class she leads.
Chef Highlights
Graduated from Mankato State University
Award-winning: Award-Winning Instruction: Named the 2026 Silver Winner for "Best Cooking Class" in the Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Readers’ Poll.
Press Mentions: Trusted culinary workshop partner for prestigious institutions including Purdue University, Macalester College, and Oxford College.
We took a pasta cooking class from Mimi for a date night and it was fantastic. Mimi is an excellent host and instructor. She's very friendly and warm. And she brings a clear passion for cooking and helping others experience that. We had a blast learning with her. Also, our food turned out amazing, it had such a careful choice of flavors for a classic alfredo linguini. I would love to take another class with her sometime. I imagine her Ethiopian dishes would be a special treat.
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Jane B.
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My husband and I really enjoyed the cooking session with Mimi! She is so knowledgeable about many styles of cooking, and did a great job of guiding us through all the steps of making pad Thai and the vegetable salad course. (I was disappointed that the salad didn't contain fresh cucumber as the class description had stated, but the green bean alternative was tasty too.) Mimi's teaching style was relaxed and easygoing, and she provided us with plenty of opportunities to do the prep and cooking steps both. One thing that was somewhat disappointing, which we didn't realize until after we had left the class and were driving home, is that the appetizer and dessert courses listed in the class description had been overlooked during our session. We exchanged messages with Mimi about this the next day and she explained that there was an issue with availability of some of the needed ingredients, and had simply forgotten to address that during our class, since we were otherwise so busy with talking and cooking. She had also increased the quantities of the main course to help offset the missing components. She offered a plan to make up for the omission of the appetizer and the dessert, so we were happy with that resolution. We enjoyed cooking with Mimi, and would definitely consider signing up for one of her other offerings!
Neil S.
