Yolanda, my daughter, spent a week with me in January, here at On the Ridge, during which time our friend Cameron Matthews, very kindly invited us to join his cooking classes at his new cooking school. The cooking school was formerly housed at his restaurant, The Long Apron, and now has its new home in [...]
I received this email from a friend and thought I need to share the information with you. The meat glue story has been going for some time and I see this is dated 2011! Interestingly, I was just talking to my cooking class over the weekend about meat glue as we prepared and cooked our [...]
Last Thursday we were treated to a special guest chef event with Cameron Matthews taking the Italianicious – Cooking with Passion class. The day was a huge success with 8 very happy cooks getting an idea of what it is like to cook with a 2 hatted restaurant chef. The kitchen was buzzing. Cameron is [...]
Join guest chef Cameron Matthews here at Cooking on the Bay next Thursday. Our first ever Guest Chef event. There are just two places left for Cameron’s Italian cooking class here next Thursday 26th September Cameron is the Executive Chef at the two-hatted Long Apron Restaurant in Queensland. He has been cooking for more than [...]
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 [...]
