There’s an air of mystique around baking, but it’s easy to master with a little guidance. Cakes, bread, pies, tarts, slices, biscuits, crumbles and flans – here are my favourite baking recipes
Pumpkin Scones Like pumpkin scones? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! Pumpkin scones are perhaps the most Australian scone of all, made famous by the late Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen, wife of a Queensland Premier. Use leftover roast pumpkin if you have some (you’ll need about 1 cup mashed), in which […]
Spungata (Ligurian Apricot Tart) Join one of my food & wine tours to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! This delicious fruit tart, called spungata in Liguria and spongata in neighbouring Emilia-Romagna, is similar to what other Italian regions call crostata. In Liguria spungata are often given as a gift when visiting friends and […]
Pinolate (Ligurian Pine Nut Cookies) Join one of my food & wine tours to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Pinolate are simple Ligurian pine nut cookies with a wonderfully chewy soft centre, a crisp outer and delicious nutty flavour. Also called pignoli or amaretti con pignoli, they’re traditionally made with a mix of […]
Benne Wafers (Sesame Cookies) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! Benne (pronounced benny) is the heirloom ancestor to modern day sesame seeds. Morgan McGlone, who worked with renowned Southern chef Sean Brock at Husk in Charleston (South Carolina), tells me that even raw they have […]
Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! I love authentic focaccia made with a generous amount of olive oil and had such fun working on focaccia recipes inspired by Lucio Galletto for my Ligurian online cooking class. Lucio uses more water and oil in his recipe than […]
Bacon from Heaven Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Portuguese cooking class! There seem to be as many recipes for toucinho de céu as there are cooks; my simple version is inspired by the one Edite Vieira gives in her wonderful book The Taste of Portugal. She says that it originated in the Middle […]
Shortcrust Cookies Like this recipe?Discover more simple pastry recipes here! I hate wasting pastry offcuts, so when I make a tart or pie I use the remaining pastry to make these tasty little shortcrust cookies. Unlike puff pastry, shortcrust pastry can be rerolled without ill effect, so all of it can be used. If you’re […]
Japanese Cheesecake Pancake Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Japanese cooking class Inspired by Hideo Dekura! The Japanese are masters at taking something from another culture and making it their own – their super-light and springy cheesecake is a great example. It’s sometimes called cotton cake, jiggly cake or soufflé cake because it’s so […]
Miso Sesame Cookies Like these miso sesame cookies? You’ll love my online Japanese cooking class Inspired by Hideo Dekura! Japanese sweets often have an intriguing blend of sweet and savoury, like these miso sesame cookies. I like mild white miso in these simple biscuits that are also known as miso butter cookies. But you can […]
Date & Almond Ladies Fingers Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Middle Eastern cooking class inspired by Michael Rantissi! The inspiration for these delicious date & almond ladies fingers comes from my friend Janni Kyritsis, who uses the same technique to make simple savoury snacks filled with anchovy, feta or olives. I don’t have […]
