TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2025 | 6:30 PM

with Heather Artripe of Ozark Natural Foods

Laissez les bons temps rouler! Or, let the good times roll because it's time for Mardi Gras! Come and celebrate and experience the flavors of Mardi Gras without having to travel to New Orleans. Join Heather Artripe in the HKS Kitchen and let her show you how to make some of the iconic dishes that make this city so special. Start off with a muffuletta dip while Heather explains the origins of the dishes, and helpful techniques and tips to make your food taste like you are sitting in the middle of the French Quarter, listening to jazz music, and eating like a local. Then get working! For the hands-on portion guests will make dirty rice and shrimp creole. Be sure to save room for pecan praline bread pudding topped with salted dark rum caramel sauce. Tickets are priced per person. Recipes will be provided. 

**All class ticket sales are final.  No refunds or credit transfers to other classes are available.**

MEET THE CHEF:

One of Heather Artripe's first memories of being a child is dragging a chair across her Granny's kitchen floor to stand on so she could help her cook. 15 years ago Heather started teaching cooking classes at Ozark Natural Foods and never looked back! She started to become obsessed with cooking and creating, focusing on honest, real, flavorful-all-on-it's-own food and local ingredients when at all possible. When she is not cooking for fun, teaching cooking classes, or shooting Rooted in the Ozarks, you can find her in her growing veggies, fruits, and herbs, canning and pickling, hanging out with her pack of animals, thinking of recipes, talking about recipes, etc. She loves cooking and loves food. And most of all, she loves creating it.

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