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
Quince paste
Our Melbourne quince season seems to be so short that you need to be quick to buy nice, firm, yellow quinces. If you are really lucky, you may have a friend with a tree laden [...]
My Grandmother’s Anzac Biscuits
Traditionally these ‘historic’ biscuits are served as rounded mounds, a modern alternative is to roll the mixture into a log, cut into slices and cook. 125g butter 1 tbsp golden syrup 2 tbsp boiling water [...]
Anzac Biscuit baking time again! Lest we forget….
Anzac Day is a time to remember the sacrifices made for us by our men and women during all of our wars. Tonight we are dining at our very nice local RSL in Nambour where [...]
Brandade De Morue de Nîmes made without potatoes
I use a couple of recipes for this great dish; this one based on Anne Willan’s recipe, from La Varenne Cooking School in Paris and Burgundy, is made without the potato, although other recipes of [...]
Brandade de Morue au Gratin made with the addition of potatoes
Servings: 8 - 10 This Provençal dish known as Brandade De Morue is a whipped salt cod gratin; it is a great example of how to elevate modest ingredients like salt cod and potatoes, by [...]
About salt cod and Brandade De Morue de Nîmes, a purée of salt cod
There are a few variations on this classic salt cod dish from the south of France. Basically, it is a purée of salt cod, olive oil, milk, garlic and sometimes potato and cream. Some cooks [...]