Date Night, Eros, and Sourdough Pasta!

Name: Date Night, Eros, and Sourdough Pasta!
Start: 2025-02-11T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-11T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Massachusetts Avenue Project

Schedule

Tue Feb 11 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Massachusetts Avenue Project | Buffalo, NY

A Valentine’s-inspired date night cooking class where you’ll learn how to make scratch-made sourdough pasta and a farmhouse-style red sauce.
About this Event

What does Eros have to do with homemade sourdough pasta?
In a word: everything!

Join Ashley Smith, mamma, artist, health enthusiast, homesteader, mentor, and a self taught cook, for a special Valentine’s-inspired date night cooking class where you’ll learn how to make scratch-made sourdough pasta and farmhouse red sauce.

Tap into creativity and connection while preparing a family-style meal to enjoy around the MAP community kitchen table.

Lexington Co-op teams up with MAP and Ashley once again to provide an opportunity to connect Co-op owners to sources of nutrition education and community.

Ashley shares:

"Come explore this idea with me as I teach you how to make your own, from scratch, handmade sourdough pasta and farmhouse red sauce.
While I do desire pasta, I'm here to share that Eros in its truest form is not just about physical desire and romantic love. It's that and so much more. Eros is the life force that propels us towards connection, creativity, and the unabashed celebration of our vitality! And that's just what this cooking class is all about. When everything feels uncertain or precarious Eros reminds us of our aliveness (and let me tell you, there is nothing more alive than my starter. Flora is her name and she is bubbly!).
Eros is a vital force in this world - a true antidote to despair. And If you ask me, so is cooking up a fine pasta meal and celebrating that process with people!"
For this special edition, Valentine-inspired, date night cooking class, we will gather in connection and with our creativity to collaborate on making a family style meal that we will all enjoy together.

Don't let "date night" deter you if you aren't coupled up! All are welcome to celebrate whether its friendships, family, or self-love.

Eros is the life force that sparks connection, inspires creativity, and celebrates our vitality. In times of uncertainty, it reminds us of our aliveness—and what better way to celebrate life than through the joy of cooking and sharing a meal?

Date Night, Eros, and Sourdough Pasta!

In this hands-on class, you’ll:
💕 Learn how to use sourdough discard to create handmade sourdough pasta, served with ragu.
💕 Receive the gift of a developed sourdough starter that Ashley has replicated for you from her own.
💕 Mix a batch of pasta dough to take home with you and practice making pasta at home with your loved ones.
💕 Receive a detailed recipe booklet with process images, recipes from class, and resources that will support and guide you on your journey with handmade sourdough pasta.
💕 Joyfully eat a family style meal served up around the MAP community kitchen table.
💕 Leave the class feeling connected, creative, prepared, and nourished.

💕 Bring your own wine to enjoy if desired

Ashley Smith Bio:

My name is Ashley Smith and I am a woman who wears many hats! I am a mamma, artist, health enthusiast, homesteader, mentor, and a self taught cook who loves to collaborate and share with others what I have learned and practiced. I believe cooking, our relationship to food, and the communities we break bread with are deeply sacred. How I interact with food in my daily life is both practical and magical. When I teach classes, not only do I share techniques, I also teach how to weave magic into the mundane in an effort to improve life. I love gathering with groups and cooking together because as a community we can expand feelings of joy and connection while developing confidence and skills.