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
Some lovely comments from happy cooking class participants
‘Kate and I enjoyed Saturday so much I wanted to let you know and also to say thank you. The food we prepared was delicious, the ambiance extremely pleasant and the skills and techniques [...]
Tartiflette and Matthieu Megard’s Mountain Man cheese
Tartiflette is my current favourite winter potato dish. It is made with potato, onion, bacon and cheese gratin, perfect for wintry Sunday lunches. According to Julia Child there are hundreds of French potato recipes and [...]
Peppers and Pimiento de Padron grower Richard Mohans
The peppers we used in our recent Mediterranean - Touch of Spice cooking class were fantastic and very well received. They make a great tapas dish and are fun to cook around the barbecue and [...]
Sippets anyone?
They’re not croutons they’re sippets. Olden days sippets are your winter soup's best friend. Winter is great soup time and, as always, I am into pea and ham soups of varying styles. The old fashioned [...]
Seasonal Produce Guide
My food philosophy is to eat local food in season. The beginning of a new season is always exciting for those cooks who cook with seasonal produce; it allows enjoying a fresh new range of [...]
A French Odyssey – Journey through France
We enjoyed wonderful French classes last week - a perfect time for French cooking with the exciting Tour de France travelling around the beautiful French countryside and Bastille Day, the French national day on the [...]