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
Mussels – Cleaning, Preparation and Cooking
Some mussels you buy are cultivated in protected areas of the sea bed, or grown on poles, fixed in clean saltwater. Others, because of their habitat, are often sandy and need to be scrubbed; mussels [...]
Welcome to my ‘new look’ Autumn newsletter
A heartfelt thank you for the lovely emails and good wishes you have been sending. They are much appreciated. I also miss seeing you all here, doing what I love and cooking with you in [...]
Luscious, creamy mayonnaise
This beautiful home-made mayonnaise enhances everything it touches, with its custardy richness and delicate tang that gives a clean and clear flavour that commercial mayonnaise does not have. When making this sauce, do remember to [...]
Mushroom Soup
Serves 4 Ingredients 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp olive oil1 large onion, peeled, chopped 1kg mushrooms, wiped clean, quartered with stems left on, but dry end bits cut off; reserve 1/4 cup to sauté [...]
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 [...]