The colourful world of fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses and funghi provides a wealth of possibilities for delicious dishes. While some dishes listed here are vegetarian containing animal products, they’re easily adapted to a vegan diet by omitting or replacing eggs or dairy with a vegan-friendly alternative. Likewise dishes containing anchovies or non-vegan seasoning can be adapted.
Apom Berkuah with Pengat Pisang Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! Apom berkuah with pengat pisang is a popular Singaporean dessert. Apom comes from the word ‘appam’, a southern Indian fermented rice pancake popular in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and berkuah (also written bokwa or bengkua) means to accompany a thick […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Rice with Fried Garlic & Shallot Like Rice with Fried Garlic & Shallot? You’ll love my online Malaysian cooking class! This simple side dish of rice with fried garlic & shallot is a vegetarian take on the rice served with classic Hainanese chicken rice. The fried shallot and garlic add plenty of flavour without using […]
Tofu Ria Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Malaysian cooking class! Everyone loves tofu ria – delicious silken bean curd in spicy sauce – even the carnivores! In fact it is one of the most viewed videos on my YouTube channel and has been known to convert tofu haters! Best of all, it’s super […]
Orangettes Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class featuring the food of Provence! I started making chocolate covered candied orange peel for dinner parties in the 1980s without realizing they had a connection to France where they’re called orangettes. Candied citrus rind isn’t a new thing and I’m sure many people have […]
Mushroom Duxelles Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! https://youtu.be/eqjjtczUezc Duxelles is a classic French preparation of finely chopped mushroom and onion cooked down in butter with herbs (usually thyme or parsley), black pepper and salt, sometimes with a dash of cream, Sherry or Madeira. It’s used in a range of English […]
Potato Focaccia Join one of my food & wine tours to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties I love authentic focaccia made with a generous amount of olive oil (see video below). My recipe is inspired by Ligurian-born restaurateur, Lucio Galletto, who uses more water and oil in his recipe than many I’ve seen, […]
