Home & Garden

EXPERIENCES · COOK WITH LUMI

Step into the kitchen with Lumi

At Home & Garden, you do more than taste the food of Oltenia. For a few hours, you step into the kitchen with Lumi and cook together.

Cabbage rolls being arranged in a pot beside the ingredients
The cabbage rolls are arranged in the pot beside the ingredients.
1.5–2 hoursDuration
€50 / personPrice
Minimum 4 peopleParticipation
Advance bookingRequired

Cook with Lumi

What will we cook?

Home-style recipes that Lumi prepares for family and guests.

The dishes change with the season and with what is being cooked at the time. This is not a fixed menu, and the experience does not automatically include all five dishes.

A worktable with cabbage leaves, filling and ingredients for sarmale
Ingredients prepared for sarmale.
  1. 01Sarmale oltenești — Oltenian cabbage rolls
  2. 02Ardei umpluți — Romanian stuffed peppers
  3. 03Fasole la cuptor — slow-baked beans
  4. 04Mămăliguță — Romanian polenta
  5. 05Turte la ceaun — pan-baked Romanian flatbreads

HOME & GARDEN

We cook together

There is no curriculum. Lumi cooks as she does at home, and participants prepare the food alongside her.

Guests and hosts preparing sarmale together around the table
Guests and hosts cook together.
  1. We step into the kitchen and see what will be prepared that day.
  2. We prepare the ingredients and begin the dish together.
  3. Lumi shows the gestures and pace she uses in her own kitchen.
  4. We finish the dishes without rushing or turning the moment into a formal demonstration.
  5. We sit down together to eat the meal we have just prepared.
Hands preparing cabbage leaves for sarmale
Preparing the cabbage leaves for sarmale.

YOUR HOST

Lumi cooks for family and guests.

Lumi is a Home & Garden host and the heart of this experience. You are not entering a professional cookery school, but a family kitchen where recipes are prepared patiently and shared around the table.

“At Home & Garden, there is no menu. We serve what Lumi has cooked that day.”

Cook with Lumi

We cook. Then we sit down to eat.

The food prepared together becomes the participants’ meal and is included in the experience. House wine and Flori’s homemade țuică accompany the meal as part of Home & Garden hospitality.

The meal is included in the €50 / person price
Hands preparing dough for turte
Dough for turte is prepared by hand.

Languages

  • Romanian — directly with Lumi
  • Spanish — directly with Lumi
  • English — with translation assistance from the family/hosts

Who can join?

The experience is open both to Home & Garden guests and to outside visitors. You do not need to stay overnight to take part.

Breakfast or dinner: Lumi cooks for the guests.
Cook with Lumi: participants prepare the food with her and then share the meal.

BOOK DIRECTLY

Advance booking is required.

Message us on WhatsApp with your preferred date and group details. Participation starts with a minimum of 4 people; the hosts will confirm the request directly.

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For a few hours, we cook together, talk and finish the experience around the same table.

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