RECIPES
Here are some of Tonya’s recipes. Enjoy…
Ajo Blanco – Spanish white gazpacho soup
Serves 4 This is one of my favourite chilled soups and is a delight for lovers of garlic. A traditional and popular Spanish cold soup, Ajo Blanco is typical from Granada and Málaga, Andalusia. It [...]
Buttermilk
We use buttermilk from time to time in cooking classes and often people do not really know what it is, how to use it or how to make it. You may find this interesting. Some [...]
Panforte – Siena cake – Panforte di Siena
Panforte, also called Siena cake, is a delicious Italian Christmas fruit, nut, chocolate, dense, chewy, candy-like cake, which hails from Siena, Tuscany. It is very much a favourite of mine and I make it every [...]
Dukkah – an old Egyptian speciality
Dukkah is an old Egyptian specialty condiment. It is a loose blend of nuts and spices in a dry, crushed but not to a powdered, form. The name “Dukkah” is derived from the Arabic word [...]
Pain d’épices – French honey spiced bread
Makes 2 loaves There are many versions of this recipe. Anne Willan, of La Varenne Cooking School in Burgundy, included her pain d’épices in a couple of her many books on French Cuisine, ‘The country cooking [...]
Crab stock with blue swimmer crabs
After our visit to the red craw crayfish farm in Wolvi, and cooking those delicious red craws I wrote about in a previous post, I used the red craw shells to make my fabulous, flavoursome [...]