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….
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TONYA’S LATEST MUSINGS
Achieiving the perfect paella and socarrat
It was terrific cooking Spanish Cuisine last weekend, June 20th, 2026, and what an exceptional class it was with 2 Spaniards attending, thereby creating such an authentic mood in our cooking discussions, and the cooks [...]
Murray River Salt Flakes – how I love them!
You know how much I love natural Murray River Salt flakes!I always carry some with me in a tiny bottle in my handbag. I never use the refined commercial table salts, so often found on [...]
Autumn is Chestnut time!
Autumn and winter are the peak chestnut seasons in France and Europe. I was there last September with my travelling friend Rosemarie and one of our day trips was to Fontainebleau, the home of Empress [...]
Waldorf Chicken Salad GalleryWaldorf Chicken Salad
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Waldorf Chicken Salad
This wonderfully flavourful, crunchy, and colourful salad can be easily adapted to suit your purpose, whether it be as a salad or as a main summertime dish. The salad is said to date back [...]
Dominique’s vegetable cake from Burgunday GalleryDominique’s vegetable cake from Burgunday
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Dominique’s vegetable cake from Burgunday
Dominique’s savoury vegetable cake, from her Domaine de l'Oiseau in Burgundy This is an unusual and delicious appetiser to enjoy, still warm from the oven, with pre-dinner drinks, or served with butter and a [...]
Galette des Rois – Epiphany Tart, the Tart of Kings
The French tradition of serving this round, flat, almond, frangipane-filled puff pastry tart on the Twelfth Day of Christmas or Epiphany Day, 6th January, has biblical origins and is when the ‘magi’, or ‘three [...]