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
Ajo Blanco – Spanish white gazpacho soup
Serves 4 This is one of my favourite chilled soups and is a delight for lovers of garlic. A traditional and popular Spanish cold soup, Ajo Blanco is typical from Granada and Málaga, Andalusia. It [...]
Buttermilk
We use buttermilk from time to time in cooking classes and often people do not really know what it is, how to use it or how to make it. You may find this interesting. Some [...]
Salt adds flavour and enjoyment to our food – revised and updated 17th November 2020
Salt has been used since ancient times to preserve food, such as salmon gravlax, and in the koshering of meat; it is still used so today. Unfortunately, it is also a most misunderstood food. Like [...]
‘M.F.K. Fisher among the pots and pans: celebrating her kitchens
‘MFK Fisher among the pots and pans: celebrating her kitchens’, by Joan Reardon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. As a former librarian and an avid collector of books on foodie people and all things [...]
Panforte – Siena cake – Panforte di Siena
Panforte, also called Siena cake, is a delicious Italian Christmas fruit, nut, chocolate, dense, chewy, candy-like cake, which hails from Siena, Tuscany. It is very much a favourite of mine and I make it every [...]
Dukkah – an old Egyptian speciality
Dukkah is an old Egyptian specialty condiment. It is a loose blend of nuts and spices in a dry, crushed but not to a powdered, form. The name “Dukkah” is derived from the Arabic word [...]