Utah Community Learning
Cooking & Baking

Weeknight Italian Cooking

Meets Wednesdays 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM · Fall 2026 · registration open
This class runs in the Fall 2026 session. Registration is open now; lessons, materials, and the class discussion board are posted before it begins.

This class is for busy people who want real dinners on a weeknight without buying a bunch of gear or learning to be a chef. I'm not a chef. I'm a guy who feeds his family after 6 and figured out a handful of things that actually work.

We'll cook every week, hands-on, from stuff you can grab at any regular store. You'll make a simple pasta, a quick tomato sauce with about five ingredients, and a cheap green salad with a shaken dressing that makes the plate feel like a real meal.

You'll leave with three or four dinners you'll actually make again. That's the whole point. Wednesdays, 6 to 8.

~devin

Lessons

  1. Getting Started Without Buying Anything

    We set up the way we'll cook all six weeks: one pan, one pot, a sharp knife, and no gadgets.

  2. The Five-Ingredient Tomato Sauce

    The sauce that hooked me, made from a can and a few things you already have.

  3. Cooking Pasta That Doesn't Turn to Glue

    Timing, water, and elevation, so your pasta lands when the sauce does.

  4. The Three-Minute Salad

    A cheap green salad with a jar-shaken dressing that makes the whole plate feel like dinner.

  5. Putting a Full Dinner on the Table

    We run the whole thing on the clock, sauce to pasta to salad, like a real Wednesday.

  6. Making It Yours and Making It Again

    Small swaps and shortcuts so these dinners stick around after class ends.

Class discussion

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