ITALIANICIOUS – COOKING WITH PASSION

ravioliCapture the passion of Italy. Discover the basics of Italian gastronomy, freshness, simplicity and lack of pretension, with delicate as well as robust dishes packed with flavour.

Italians enjoy their cooking and eating is a festive, fun affair accompanied by music and laughter. Italian food features good quality extra virgin olive oil, sensational cheeses, home-made pastas and gnocchi, tomatoes, olives, garlic, basil, rosemary, sage and lemons.  In Italianicious we present dishes, requiring various culinary skills; we always include pasta making, such a joy, loads of fun to make, gives tremendous satisfaction, plus is delicious to eat.

Note: Classes available any date of your choice for groups of 6+ – Please contact Tonya for availability

Classes $275 p/p

By the way, there is now a Partners and Friends Class Luncheon available, without the cooking class. This is available for guests of people attending the Cooking on the Bay cooking classes, and who do not want to cook!

Guest arrival time is around 12.30pm; we are usually finished then or nearly finished anyway. Your guest can relax with a glass of wine if we are still finishing off a dish or 2.

The cost for the lunch with wine is $145 per person. Email me to book and pay this Luncheon option.

BOOK CLASSES

To book your classes please select from the dates below

ITALIANICIOUS CLASS TESTIMONIALS

Catherine Braddock – Italian Cooking Class: Cooking with Passion I was so excited and a little anxious going into the class but Tonya was so welcoming. She clearly knows a lot about food and her passion and knowledge transcends in all that she says. I’m very grateful to have had the time with Tonya and will take away so much from her class. Also, the other ladies in the group were friendly and easy to get along with. It was a very enjoyable day. Thanks Tonya and Catherine

Focaccia with fennel and feta

Hi Tonya – Thank you so much for a wonderful day yesterday. Food was delicious and I learnt a lot. Lovely to catch up Can’t wait to read your book X Bev Hase, Sandringham, Vic 17th September 2023.

Anne Manzoni • Reviewed on 23 Jul 2023 • Italian Cooking Class: Cooking with Passion

‘Our cooking class was held in a beautiful space, with the best ingredients and equipment. Tonya our chef/instructor explained everything well, and the food we cooked was delicious. Would definitely recommend this course, as it was a very enjoyable day.’

 

Cooking class review by Anne Manzoni - Melbourne

`Hi Tonya, lovely to see you again. Thank you for the photos. Much appreciated. 🤗 Caz and I had a fantastic time with you yet again.🤗 Food was delicious as always and just such an enjoyable day. We are already planning to do the Spanish class with all the girls. Looking forward to seeing you again soon.’Pam Matheson, Traralgon, Vic.  Italianicious – Cooking with Passion, February 25th , 2023

‘The teacher Tonya was great.  The location was very nice and relaxing. The food in both quantity and quality was perfect. Learnt so much! Great experience would recommend to anybody. Thanks Tonya and Joan for a great day. Simone February 25th , 2023

Hi Tonya, It is Svetlana here. Thank you for a lovely event. I truly enjoyed it.  Please share photos from the class, Thank you, Svetlana, Melbourne.

Sunday 2nd October 2022

‘Hi Tonya, Had a great day yesterday & thank you so much for your teachings & insights into how I can become a better cook! B.rgds’ . Renzo B, Altona, Vic.  Sunday 2nd October, 2022

‘Hi Tonya, I thoroughly enjoyed the class and loved the menu. I look forward to recreating the dishes for family. Thank you so much for supporting the Royal Children’s Hospital by donating the class. I was delighted to win and had a lovely day.  Thank you also for the photos. I look forward to another class in the future. Kind regards, Raelene Trotter. 23rd July 2022

‘Hi Tonya, I came to one of your classes a couple of years ago and learnt how to cook pasta. Tonight the filling is mushrooms ricotta and Parmesan. Thank you for being a great teacher!! From David Clinton, received via email on Sunday 3rd October 2021!  It is so nice to receive these reports from clients cooking the dishes we made in class, and in this case, years later! How good does this pasta look!

Italianicious Cooking with Passion Cooking Class.

‘Hi Tonya…Thanks for all the lovely photos.  I very much enjoyed my day cooking on the bay! My family have loved the beef salad and the napoli sauce and my freezer is full of sauce for quick meals when working late…Again, many thanks for a lovely day with practical recipes for family meals and to impress friends without spending days in the kitchen. Kind regards, Kerry’, Melbourne, 19th October 2015.

‘Hi Tonya, I came to one of your classes a couple of years ago and learnt how to cook pasta. Tonight the filling is mushrooms ricotta and Parmesan. Thank you for being a great teacher!! From David Clinton, received via email on Sunday 3rd October 2021!  It is so nice to receive these reports from clients cooking the dishes we made in class, and in this case, years later! How good does this pasta look!

Italianicious Cooking with Passion Cooking Class.

“Michael and I thank you for an enjoyable day cooking with yourself and other lovely people.  Thank you for the photos’, a nice memento.  Just to let you know, the take away panna cotta set beautifully by the evening.  I guess you know that judging by the photo.  You were a bit concerned at the time. My husband ate them both, we were just too full!” Lili and Michael Chybowski.  Melbourne. April 2019.

‘Tonya, I just wanted to thank you for such a lovely day today. I thoroughly enjoyed the cooking class and all that came with it. You have me very inspired now, and as I write this my daughters are rolling out some pasta dough to have for dinner tonight.  Thanks again, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.  I will definitely see you again at another cooking class. Kind Regards, Jacinta Bradshaw‘, Melbourne, 12th December, 2015

‘Good morning Tonya, Just a note to say thanks for a great day cooking in your kitchen on the 29th. We learnt a great deal and really enjoyed the conversation and banter with our classmates. You mentioned on the day that you sell the pasta making machine directly. Can you please provide me with a price as our sons are looking for a combined Xmas gift for us…Geoff and Robyn Binns’, Melbourne 8th December 2015.

Thanks Tonya, Kerry and I had a great day and I can’t wait to try out all the things we have learned. It was a lot of fun meeting and cooking with everyone else as well! The ravioli is on the menu for tonight’s dinner with the Porterhouse cooked the new way! Maybe the Crostata as well, see how I go! Thanks again – Andrew and Kerry K’…from Brisbane, 14th March 2015.

‘Tonya, thank you so very much for a fabulous day today. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge, expertise, home and your generosity of nature. I had the best day and learnt so much. As you’ll have no doubt picked up, food is a big passion in my life! The donated vouchers have raised much-needed funds for ReadySet (previously known as Wear for Success). Thank you very much.  Best wishes and once again thank you, Sally Chambers, Elwood, Saturday 8th May,  20102. Italianicious Cooking with Passion Cooking Class.

“Hi Tonya, I did a cooking class with you all the way back in 2016. I have moved around a lot since then and have lost your red pasta sauce recipe (the one with capsicums in it). Is it possible for you to email this recipe as it is one of my absolute favourites!  Thank you.”  Tash. Natasha Giordmaina 8th October, 2019

‘Thanks so much for your time and expertise today. Sharon and I had a great time and learned heaps – we both feel very inspired..Kind regards – Jon’. Melbourne 5th July, 2015

Hi Tonya, Thank you for the wonderful day of Italian cooking yesterday. I honestly had the best day and learnt a lot from you, which I will use forever. I hope you will see me again in the future for another one of your classes. I have a very full life, but the one thing I love is cooking or baking to relax, reflect and to treat others. Thank you for the many photos, it’s been great to share them with others. Thanking you, Sam S‘. Ballarat, 3 March, 2015

‘Hello Tonya, just wanted to say thank you and let you know how much I enjoyed my day at ‘Cooking on the Bay’ and now putting into practice my new skills. This being the time of the year for catching up with friends and family I have been busy cooking and impressing them with new recipes. They have been very complimentary of the ricotta and spinach ravioli, home made now, and the Tagliata di Manzo which looks so great when bringing it to the table. Now reading my recipe books for more recipes. The cuttings from the Vietnamese mint have taken very well and the vanilla bean paste has improved the flavour of my shortbread…. Very best wishes, Valerie G.’  20 November 2014

‘Hi Tonya – Thanks so much for the photos and the great day in your kitchen and at your table. A really fun and memorable experience for my birthday present! I’ll definitely recommend your cooking class to people i speak to, thanks again. Daniel’   Daniel Roocke, St Kilda March 7th, 2021.  Italianicious Cooking with Passion Cooking Class.

‘Hi Tonya, I would really like to thank you for today; Fausto and I had a really great time. Sending you all my very best wishes and thank you again. Kindest regards Caroline.’ Mornington, Victoria, 5th July 2015

Relaxing over lunch on the balcony

From the Italianicious – Cooking with Passion at Kureelpa, On the Ridge Cooking School, Kureelpa, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland, held on Saturday 18th June, 2022.

Cooking at Kureelpa is always a little different to being in the Cooking on the Bay Kitchen. There are the same ingredients which make the day special – the lovely people who come to cook, the excellent dishes and the results are always delicious food. at Kureelpa there is the addition of a marvellous back-drop of Sunshine Coast blue sky and sunshine, the lush, green Image Flat valley, the Maroochydore and Mooloolaba skylines, the deep blue Coral Sea with a occasional huge, container ship moored off the coast, waiting to get into the Brisbane dock, and there is the Mt Coolum rock peeping out from behind the mountain. We cooked a great Italian Menu including a focaccia toped with braised fennel, toasted fennel seeds, crumbled feta and drizzled with pomegranate molasses, a true delight for the senses and a delicious flavour combination which we all loved! Basil pesto, tomato and anchovy salsa; luscious mushroom risotto, which was also made into arancini balls; our fresh pasta fettucce puttanesca is always amazing with its anchovy, gremolata topping and the dessert finale was a chocolate pastry crostata with the chocolate frangipane filling and raspberry jam served with lashings of whipped cream so sorry there were so few photos taken as we were busy, cooking, talking and eating!

From Sue Robb, Mt Tamborine, Gold Coast Hinterland. ‘I had a marvellous time thanks’!

From Michael Williams, Sandringham, Victoria. ‘Most enjoyable. Lovely food, wine, and people around the dinner table.  Life doesn’t get much better

Italianicious – Cooking with Passion at Kureelpa, On the Ridge Cooking School, Kureelpa, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland.