Salmoriglio
Salmoriglio Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! https://youtu.be/LhE0c5Ho3Pk Salmoriglio is a simple southern Italian sauce based on olive oil, lemon, garlic and herbs, traditionally oregano. Parsley is often included and sometimes a little finely chopped rosemary or thyme, some recipes add a little anchovy too. Most […]
Romesco Sauce
Romesco Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Spanish cooking class! Originating in the region of Catalonia, romesco sauce is one of Spain’s most popular sauces with as many variations as there are cooks. It’s very versatile, especially popular with seafood but also delicious with poultry and red meat. The essential ingredients are nuts, […]
Nyonya Curry Paste
Nyonya Curry Paste Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! My Singaporean friend, Audra Morrice, taught me to make this classic Nyonya curry paste. She explained that it can be tricky making curry pastes in a smaller quantity than this, so it’s best to make the full amount then, if you don’t […]
How To Make Crepes
How To Make Crepes Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Whether you’re wrapping them around a savoury filling or making a dessert like crêpes Suzette, the aim with crêpes is to get them as thin as possible. This comes with practice and a good pan. Start with […]
Alabama White Sauce
Alabama White Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! While Alabama white sauce is a classic barbecue sauce, it’s also delicious as a dipping sauce for fried food like chicken or fish. It makes a delicious salad dressing too (try it with coleslaw)! It originated […]
Advieh (Persian Spice Blend)
Advieh (Persian Spice Blend) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Persian cooking class! Advieh, Persian cuisine’s all-purpose spice mix, is a blend of equal quantities of earthy warm spices, with the aromatic lift of dried rose petals. Cooks usually grind up a batch from whole spices and store it in an airtight jar to […]
Coriander & Mint Sauce
Coriander & Mint Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Indian cooking class inspired by Ajoy Joshi! This slightly spicy coriander & mint sauce is a riff on hari chutney, the traditional accompaniment to that colourful crunchy Indian street-side snack, chaat. My recipe is inspired by a sauce Ajoy Joshi serves at Nilgiri’s Indian […]
Laksa Paste
Laksa Paste Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Malaysian cooking class! Laksa paste is the soul of any laksa, get this right and everything else is just assembly. The turmeric, ginger and galangal provide much of the flavour, peel them gently with a small knife rather than a vegetable peeler so you don’t lose […]
Prickly Ash (Chinese Salt & Pepper Seasoning)
Prickly Ash Master More Chinese Recipes & Kitchen Basics with My Online Chinese Cooking Class Sichuan peppercorns, those wonderfully numbing little nuggets that are essential to Sichuanese food, aren’t a true pepper but a similar-shaped dried fruit from the prickly ash tree (Zanthoxylum piperitum). This spice has a great aroma, which is amplified by roasting […]
North Carolina-style BBQ Sauce
North Carolina-style BBQ Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! In the American South, barbecue sauce is as controversial a subject as the barbecue itself, perhaps even more so with regional variations being fiercely defended as the best, the original and the only sauce worth […]