Last Monday, the front of house and sommeliers from the Flower Drum cooked dishes, at Cooking on the Bay, designed to match Moët's new release 2006 Grand Vintage champagne. What a great cooking class; full of concentration, good chopping and cooking, followed by considered comments and discussions about the food and how it matched the [...]
On Sunday July 26th Special Guest presenter Minghua Zhang will teach us the Art of Chinese cooking - keeping healthy through food. Hurry and book now - places are limited. Transport yourself to China for the day. Learn to cook truly authentic, healthy, wholesome Chinese dishes. Minghua Zhang will teach you about her Chinese cuisine, [...]
Guest Chef Thomas Ritsios is presenting At my Greek Table – the flavours of Greece on Sunday 12th July Cooking class at 8.45am at Cooking on the Bay. Hurry and book now - places are limited. This is such a unique opportunity to learn some authentic Greek dishes, some of Thomas’ favourites. The menu is [...]
What a wonderful fruit, with their great aroma, wonderful flavours, so many colours, shapes and sizes. Yes, the tomato is botanically a fruit, a berry to be precise, but as they are mostly used as a vegetable they are classed as a vegetable. Tomatoes are probably the most popular of all home grown vegetables. When [...]
We are here at last with Edwina and the House of Fusion, Marrakesh. What are we doing so far? Driving along through the Tizn Test Pass passing earth built hillside villages along the route. A picnic in a little gorge in the Atlas mountains along side a river bubbling quietly over stones... Visiting [...]
Many months ago, the Western District Epicureans, based in Hamilton, invited me, via my long-standing school friend and their committee member Leigh, to cook with them for their April Epicureannes dinner. It was themed ‘A Mediterranean Dinner with Tonya’. The idea was that their committee of 5 would be led by me, as we do [...]
Yolanda, my daughter, spent a week with me in January, here at On the Ridge, during which time our friend Cameron Matthews, very kindly invited us to join his cooking classes at his new cooking school. The cooking school was formerly housed at his restaurant, The Long Apron, and now has its new home in [...]
I received this email from a friend and thought I need to share the information with you. The meat glue story has been going for some time and I see this is dated 2011! Interestingly, I was just talking to my cooking class over the weekend about meat glue as we prepared and cooked our [...]
Last Thursday we were treated to a special guest chef event with Cameron Matthews taking the Italianicious – Cooking with Passion class. The day was a huge success with 8 very happy cooks getting an idea of what it is like to cook with a 2 hatted restaurant chef. The kitchen was buzzing. Cameron is [...]
Join guest chef Cameron Matthews here at Cooking on the Bay next Thursday. Our first ever Guest Chef event. There are just two places left for Cameron’s Italian cooking class here next Thursday 26th September Cameron is the Executive Chef at the two-hatted Long Apron Restaurant in Queensland. He has been cooking for more than [...]
