As the market begins to fill with early summer abundance, this class highlights the sweetness and brightness of the season. We’ll work with ingredients like berries, tender vegetables, and fresh produce, learning how to balance sweet and savory elements across a meal.
Together, we’ll create a dish that feels fresh, colorful, and perfect for warmer days—finishing with a simple dessert that lets peak-season fruit shine. This is about embracing the ease of summer cooking while still feeling elevated and intentional.
In this class, you will:
Learn how to build balanced seasonal dishes using early summer produce
Work with fresh berries, greens, and tender vegetables at their peak
Explore sweet + savory flavor pairings that feel fresh and elevated
Discover nourishing plant-forward ingredients that bring both flavor and wellness benefits to your cooking
Create a vibrant seasonal menu perfect for entertaining or everyday summer meals
Gain confidence cooking intuitively with what’s fresh at the market
INSTRUCTOR: Ciara Morreale Lucas of HER Kitchen
COST: $65
TYPE: Partial Hands-On with Small Plates
Market to Table: Cooking Through the Seasons
Market to Table is a monthly cooking class series rooted in what’s fresh, local, and at its peak. From May through September, each month highlights different ingredients from the farmer’s market, guiding you through the process of turning simple, seasonal produce into a thoughtfully prepared meal.
Each class is hands-on and technique-driven, designed to help you cook with more confidence and connection to the seasons. Together, we’ll prepare dinner and end the evening gathered around the table, enjoying what we’ve made.
ABOUT CIARA…
Ciara Morreale Lucas is a certified sommelier, experiential cook, and co-founder of HER Kitchen.
Raised inside her family’s wellness-driven business, Ciara always understood the power of creating spaces where people feel cared for, connected, and inspired. After studying marketing at Canisius College and fashion merchandising at Fashion Institute of Technology — followed by a role in the fashion department at Teen Vogue — she returned home to Buffalo to help grow the evolving HER Story brand alongside her mother.
Though not classically trained as a chef, Ciara is a lifelong cook whose approach to food is rooted in curiosity, hospitality, and joy. As a certified sommelier and longtime restaurant professional, she brings a deep appreciation for ingredients, flavor, and the experience surrounding a shared table.
At HER Kitchen, Ciara creates immersive culinary and wellness experiences designed to help people reconnect with their kitchens — not as places of pressure or perfection, but as spaces of nourishment, creativity, and community. Her work lives at the intersection of food, gathering, and well-being, grounded in the belief that meaningful cooking is less about mastery and more about how food makes us feel.
Her cooking is shaped not by formal training, but by hospitality, storytelling, and a love of creating experiences that invite people to slow down and reconnect. Through workshops, classes, and shared meals, Ciara helps others rediscover confidence and joy in cooking — proving that the kitchen belongs to everyone.
