The best way to learn French is to live in France. So go to the Nancy University L’Ecôle d’Eté and spend July learning French! It was a wonderful three month visit to France. Barging, touring, cooking at La Combe and studying French at L’Ecôle d’Eté, Summer School at Nancy University. The [...]
For us, one of the joys of visiting France is the discovery of special places – Château de Boursault was one of these special experiences - a divine Champagne House just near the Route de Champagne. We arrived in Paris at Charles de Gaulle airport, at 6am [...]
Annie's all in together pavlova 4 egg whites at room temperature, 1½ cups castor sugar (300g), 1 tsp cornflour, 1 tsp white vinegar, ½ tsp vanilla extract, 4 tbsp boiling water, 200ml stiffly whipped cream Pre heat the oven to 170ºC. Place all these ingredients, except the cream, in the mix master bowl and beat [...]
Exciting news!! Tonya is to be joined by photographer Roger at La Combe en Périgord in the Dordogne, SW France - Tuesday 28th August - Tuesday 4th September, 2012 This year at La Combe for my cooking week, it is going to be very special! We are to [...]
Hi Tonya, What a surprise to read your wonderful newsletter and see my name up in lights, along with my dear hens and the dastardly python. Happy to report that there have been no more sightings of the python and the hens have started laying once again. It sounds like your new cooking school at [...]
My mother was very successful making pavlovas...usually with bananas on top of the meringue, under the cream and with a fresh passionfruit drizzled on top. Everyone loved them - they were perfect. Now, they are back in the food magazines again! so i will occasionally cook them in class. traditionally we separate the egg whites, [...]
This recipe is based on one similar by the Troisgros brothers in Roanne, France. Diane Holuigue included this recipe in one of her early Nouvelle Cuisine classes as well as in her book The French Kitchen. Terrine, takes its name from the French terre, for earth, after the earthenware vessel in which it was traditionally [...]
When I was a child, how I used to love going mushrooming with my grandparents at their farm in central Victoria. I still enjoy finding and collecting mushrooms, it is just a little harder these days. Back then it was so easy. We would take a knife and a large basket each and off we would [...]
I am now back home after a wonderful visit toFrance. Barging, touring, cooking at La Combe and studying French at the French L’Ecôle d’Eté, Summer School, at the Nancy University. On the barge we had a fabulous cooking class, in French, with my French class. It was most successful and absolutely fantastic to think we [...]
Escargots – cooking some of our Sunshine Coast Snails from local grower, Glasshouse Gourmet Snails I recently learnt from my friend and colleague, Petra Frieser, the Regional Foodie of our Sunshine Coast, that we have a couple of local growers on the Sunshine Coast, one being Glasshouse Gourmet Snails. A week or so ago, Petra [...]
