TONYA’S MUSINGS
Tonya Jennings combines her passion for food and cooking with her beachside location on Port Phillip Bay at St Kilda, into developing and operating Cooking on the Bay Cooking School.
At Cooking on the Bay we encourage you to celebrate the richness and diversity that our food offers us and to enjoy cooking for your family and friends. Food plays an important part in our social process and affects our wellbeing. To cook from the heart and share around the table brings so much pleasure and ‘joie de vivre’.
Tonya’s Musings shares her foodie stories, tips, tricks and culinary travels….
TONYA’S LATEST MUSINGS
Mushroom Stock for our soup
Makes 1.5 – 2 litres stock Ingredients 75g dried shitake mushrooms 1 ½ tbsp olive oil 100g fresh mushrooms 2 medium carrots, peeled, diced 1 medium onion, chopped into 1 cm pieces 2 celery stalks [...]
Tomato sauce – two ways – one roasted and the other slow cooked with apples
Over the years, I have worked on perfecting a reasonably easy, very nice, tasty tomato sauce, made without sugar, and one the children also enjoy with their sausages and chops. These 2 sauces fit the [...]
Prawns curried with ginger, garlic and Vietnamese mint GalleryPrawns curried with ginger, garlic and Vietnamese mint
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Prawns curried with ginger, garlic and Vietnamese mint
This is a quick and easy everyday prawn curry which also makes a lovely entrée for a special lunch or dinner with friends. I hav eincluded the Green Curry Paste recipe at the end of [...]
Duck liver pâté
Duck livers are available from your poultry shop or supermarket; I buy mine from my nearby supplier, Luv-a-Duck; they come fresh in large 2kg bags, so I freeze them in small packages of 200 - [...]
Tapénade – Olive paste with garlic, anchovies and capers GalleryTapénade – Olive paste with garlic, anchovies and capers
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Tapénade – Olive paste with garlic, anchovies and capers
Tapénade is a rich olive paste with a full-flavoured taste that comes with the addition of garlic, anchovies and capers. Originally tapénade was made with a mortar and pestle; you may choose to hand chop [...]
Spaghetti squash with almonds, parsley and feta GallerySpaghetti squash with almonds, parsley and feta
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Spaghetti squash with almonds, parsley and feta
Serves 4 Filling Spaghetti squash 50 gm butter 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil 60 gm natural almonds, coarsely crushed in a mortar and pestle or chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 cup, loosely packed, [...]