I recently had the pleasure of enjoying the a cooking class focusing on the ever divine truffle at The Golden Pig Food & Wine School in Brisbane. While there a number of fabulous dishes with the magic ingredient… I could help but be particularly enraptured with this dish… purely because of the truffle butter and [...]
I'm not sure about you, but I LOVE the colour yellow! I always have! As a little girl I shunned pink, and turned to yellow. I LOVED being surrounded by it. It made me feel good. It made me feel happy. SO much so that I painted my ENTIRE room yellow (thanks mum and dad!) [...]
This is another fabulous recipe shared by Katrina Ryan from The Golden Pig Food & Wine School. A Thai dish, this was featured as part of the Vietnamese cooking class I attended, the beautiful tangy chicken complementing the other dishes wonderfully. [divider] Ingredients: 4 chicken marylands 8 cloves garlic 3 stalks lemongrass white part only, [...]
I love the concept of ‘nose to tail’ cooking and Freestyle Escape Cooking School has hosted a number of these classes, one of which I attended where ‘noes to tail’ specialist Peter Wolfe cooked up this fabulous, and insanely simple Vietnamese sausage, and… has been kind enough to share the recipe… [divider] Ingredients 700gms lean [...]
I was recently treated to a fabulous lunch at Donovan’s in St. Kilda. Gail was kind enough to ask chef’s Adam Draper and Emma D'Alessandro to share this fabulous recipe. Now be warned… this recipe is slightly on the complicated side, but so insanely worth the effort, and it adds a little drama to the [...]
I have a little favourite place I go… while it is in actual fact a restaurant, for the purpose of this review, I am going to classify it as more of a café as it is in the context of a café that I find myself here so often… I am talking about Via Italia. [...]
As long as I can think back, I can remember seeing images of the iconic Brighton Bathing Boxes, all lined up colourfully along the beach edge of Brighton. I always wondered about the story behind these bathing boxes and who, were amongst the fortunate few, to own one. I didn’t think that I actually knew anyone [...]
This is a fabulous dip that I had the pleasure of enjoying while visiting Tonya Jennings, of Cooking on the Bay Cooking School at her wonderful Brighton Bathing Box in Melbourne, and Tonya has been kind enough to share it with us. Bessara Fava Bean Dip is a Moroccan recipe, traditionally made with fava beans; [...]
This is a lovely light dessert that Tonya Jennings made when I recently visited and spent a glorious morning at the beach at her own Bathing Box in Brighton, where students of her Cooking on the Bay Cooking School are sometimes lucky enough to enjoy a picnic. Serves 8 [divider] Ingredients 480ml Greek yoghurt or [...]
Flowerdale Sprout Farm is a farm based in Victoria which grows the most gorgeous edible flowers and micro herbs… which are inspiring chefs such as Alvin Leung who is infamously known as Hong Kong’s maverick chef, creator of X-treme Chinese Cuisine in his Hong Based restaurant, Bo Innovation. In this video he is inspired by [...]
