We have recently been immersed in Italian cooking with lots of deep red tomatoes, tons of basil and oregano and making some great pasta and yummy desserts. Interestingly many participants are Italian or have Italian extended families, so there is much conversation about the way the older generations have cooked their dishes. One of the [...]
Cooking on the Bay is thrilled to announce we have guest chef, Cameron Matthews, the Executive Chef of the two-hatted Long Apron Restaurant in Queensland,to present a cooking class on Thursday, 26 September 2013. The Long Apron is housed at Spicers Clovelly Estate in the Blackall Range town of Montville Queensland. Talented and [...]
‘Kate and I enjoyed Saturday so much I wanted to let you know and also to say thank you. The food we prepared was delicious, the ambiance extremely pleasant and the skills and techniques learned very much appreciated. I think I can now quite confidently make dough and pasta. As I say to our [...]
Tartiflette is my current favourite winter potato dish. It is made with potato, onion, bacon and cheese gratin, perfect for wintry Sunday lunches. According to Julia Child there are hundreds of French potato recipes and Larousse Gastronomique lists 9 pages of potato dishes! This one is very special. I found this recipe, below, on the [...]
The peppers we used in our recent Mediterranean - Touch of Spice cooking class were fantastic and very well received. They make a great tapas dish and are fun to cook around the barbecue and with your friends in the kitchen. next time we will have the Piementos de Padrone. Our recent ones were these: [...]
They’re not croutons they’re sippets. Olden days sippets are your winter soup's best friend. Winter is great soup time and, as always, I am into pea and ham soups of varying styles. The old fashioned pea and ham has been a long time family favourite; my mother made it for years and I still use [...]
My food philosophy is to eat local food in season. The beginning of a new season is always exciting for those cooks who cook with seasonal produce; it allows enjoying a fresh new range of fruits, vegetables, meats and fish when they are at their best, at their most flavoursome and full of vitamins. Each [...]
We enjoyed wonderful French classes last week - a perfect time for French cooking with the exciting Tour de France travelling around the beautiful French countryside and Bastille Day, the French national day on the 14th August. Here are a few photos showing how we enjoyed the days cooking together .
More photos from the recent Mediterranean classes.
As always, we have had some great classes over the past few weeks with 3 Mediterranean – Touch of Spice and 3 French Odyssey – Journey through France. The Mediterranean – Touch of Spice classes featured a variety of tapas dishes, tagines and braises. And our special peppers. I was delighted to have these fabulous [...]
