9 November 2010

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL COOKING CLASS

Kathy Paterson and I go back a long way. We had fun cooking together back in the hey-day of cooking schools when we ran Austin's Cooking Scho0l in the 80's, when Grey Lynn was hardly the favoured and flavoured suburb of fashionistas and trendies that it is today.

So it was fun to take the stage again together today to do a class at Nosh to promote recipes from our gorgeous new "New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook". We did two sessions and the pic above is from the evening class when 50 keen cooks turned up and enjoyed five seasonal recipes. What a lovely crowd, and so nice to see so many friends, faces and fans from my Austin's and Cuisine days.

My favourite way with asparagus, grilled and served with anchovy and lemon sauce, and kumara fritters topped with smoked salmon and creme fraiche kicked the class off. Then it was three glorious salads including a Spanish tomato and snowpea salad with guindillas. I have posted the recipe on the recipe page in case you haven't got a copy of the book yet. And thanks Christa at Nosh; we hope will be back soon!