From the Med to Burma, Louisiana to Korea

The next 4 cooking classes have been set. Our style of classes for 2016 is focusing on a theme or region of cuisine for the night. You will cook 3 or 4 courses in either a hands-on or passive role, whichever you feel most comfortable with, eating each course with matching wines. During the course...

Fermentation Bug

Exciting and Exotic Recipes

I know that fermented food is good for you. It is all the rage from kombucha to kimchi, sauerkraut to sourdough, kefir to kashk. People have got the fermentation bug. I absolutely hate sauerkraut, but adore kimchi. Go figure; both are variations on fermented cabbage. I guess I need that chilli hit...

Curry leaf Abundance

Exciting and Exotic Recipes

Having bought a packet of fresh curry leaves from my local Indian supermarket, I was determined not to waste any. You can’t get fresh ones all the time (usually only dried) so I wanted to make the most of them. Fresh Curry Leaves Curry leaves do not taste like curry. They are called curry leaves...

Middle Eastern Medley or Korean- more than just Kimchi

Culinary Adventures

The final two Global Dinner Cooking Classes for 2015 have been set. On Sunday November 29th we have our Middle Eastern Medley featuring dishes from Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia and Lebanon. A feast for the senses. On Sunday December 13th we will be cooking Korean cuisine. A bit of an unknown for man...

Tomato Blush Salt

Exciting and Exotic Recipes

I was given a box of tomatoes by my friendly herb dealer. They were the last of the season (in the middle of winter mind you) and as such were a bit mushy. A friend lent me her tomato press so that I could make passata with them. This machine takes the whole tomato in through a funnel and spits out...

Gokpinar Manti

Culinary Adventures

Whenever we have a good length of time in a foreign country, we hire a rental car and just go where the moment takes us. We're notoriously lax at planning in advance so, using local maps, a Tom-Tom or our phones, we often head out without bookings or a plan and just trust in following our noses (or...

More Burmese Please

The Burmese Cooking class on August 23rd is fully booked, and the inquiries still keep coming. As there have been so many requests for another class; we are repeating it on Sunday September 27th. The class is already half full so book early. The green tea leaves are sitting in my fermentation pot no...

Crab night in Singers

Culinary Adventures

If you read all the food travel sites, then you would could be forgiven for believing that Singapore is all about Hawkers markets or Singapore Chilli Mud crab. And as a tourist there, it is relatively easy to get advice on where to go to get these things. Of course, in doing so, you run the risk of...

Using Whey

Exciting and Exotic Recipes

I make my own cheese, which produces a lot of whey. But rather than tip it out, there is so much that can be done with this “by-product”. When you make cheese, enzymes added to the milk causing it to separate into solids and liquid. The solids, or curds, are strained and become the cheese. The rem...

Portugal, Pepper & Burma

Ground's next set of global dinner cooking classes have been confirmed. Sunday June 28th: 3pm start. The Food of Portugal. The food of Portugal is fresh, tasty and has some unique characteristics. Influenced by the sea, fresh produce, and with introduced spices this old colonial power has some...

Eggs for Easter

Exciting and Exotic Recipes

Are you looking for something a little different, but traditional that you can do with eggs for Easter with the kids I have been cooking Sephardic eggs (sometimes known as Brown Eggs), since finding this recipe in the mid 1980’s, and being fascinated by the colour and flavour of the eggs. The...

Nutritious and Delicious, but a dog's breakfast!

Exciting and Exotic Recipes

I started feeding my Border-Collie/Labrador cross home-made food a year ago. The lab in her wins out too often and she gets too fat on commercial food. I wanted food that wasn’t full of fillers and additives, or suspect ingredients. She is not allergic to any foods that I know of, but I wanted to...

Jenny Garing

Founder of Lyttelton's Ground Culinary Centre and Ground Gourmet Essentials

Jenny Garing

Founder of Lyttelton's Ground Culinary Centre and Ground Gourmet Essentials

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From the Med to Burma, Louisiana to Korea

Fermentation Bug

Curry leaf Abundance

Middle Eastern Medley or Korean- more than just Kimchi

Tomato Blush Salt

Gokpinar Manti

More Burmese Please

Crab night in Singers

Using Whey

Portugal, Pepper & Burma

Eggs for Easter

Nutritious and Delicious, but a dog's breakfast!