The best of an Italian Autumn (demonstration class) Autumn heralds new ingredients to cook with and where better to find inspiration but in the Italian kitchen. The added bonus with ...
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About Victoria
After training at the Cordon Bleu in London she has cooked professionally all over Britain, Italy, America, and back in her native Australia.
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Summer pudding with pesto? (bill’s pesto puddings)
As summer ebbs away,  you may still find that there is still an abundance of courgettes and tomatoes in the garden and if you are lucky basil. Even if you don’t have a vegetable garden, someone is bound to press a few spare courgettes (zuccinis for Aussies & Italians) onto you. These are the flavours that I certainly associate with [...]
A summer of peaches and soft fruit (peches de vigne au vin doux)
This is the best time of year, when the sun is shining and the soft fruits are ripening. For me the perfect summer in England is a garden full of red and black currants which has been preceeded by loganberries and strawberries. My perfect summer in France on the other hand is one where the [...]
Cookery week in Italy (salad of pears and pecorino)
For several years I have been leading a cookery week in northern Umbria, close to Citta di Castello and on the doorstep of the Piero della Francesco trail. Autumn in Italy is always a beautiful time; it is still warm, it is less crowded with tourists and more importantly it is a season with an [...]
Builders make good cooks
It wasn’t long ago that it all became very clear to me why builders make excellent cooks. They are, after all, very precise in their work lives, they can’t afford to get the measurements of a plank wrong, can they ! Their meticulous approach to following instructions easily translates in the kitchen to be the [...]
Cooking in Sydney
I started teaching cooking in Australia, rather nervously in a little country town. I was young and fearless, that’s why one launches into things in such a rather inexperienced way. It was not however until I moved back to Sydney that I really started teaching in earnest, this time with a little more experience under [...]
Japanese noodles (ramen-noodles in hot soup)
Australians have for the last few decades been used to eating Japanese food, after all we consider our close proximity to Asia a greater influence these days than our early European settlement. For less related reasons both my grownup children are immersed in a Japanese world. Felix is studying Japanese in London and Frances is [...]
Too many cookbooks
Can one have too many cookbooks? Perhaps. But who am I to talk, I have far too many and I have added my own to the world’s supply. This week I am off to the 3rd International Cookbook Fair in Paris. It is held in an amazing old building 104 in Paris’ 19th district, a [...]
Fish markets
There is something very attractive about fish markets for the cook. When I see the variety of gleaming fish on offer, I immediately want to head for the kitchen and get cooking. Even when some of the displays are rather quirky, like these fish I saw in Venice I am not put off. The main [...]
Is Winter over? (Rhubarb muffins)
Whilst flipping through my cookbook Seasonal Secrets I realized that there are rhubarb recipes at both the ends of the book. I make no apologies though as I love rhubarb. I started writing the book last Spring and finished it in the Winter. Is rhubarb a Spring or Winter fruit? For that matter, it’s not [...]
Winter fruit ( orange and avocado salad)
At this time of year we cooks are very aware of the arrival of Seville oranges and the ensuing marmalade making sessions in the kitchen. It may be time consuming, but the rewards are year long, if you have filled the pantry with your very own preserves. My goal when I lived in Oxford was [...]
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