Want to know more about Chef Dominique Rizzo? This is an excerpt from an interview with Dominique by “Gastronomy Gal” at http://www.gastronomygal.com/ for their blog “Healthy Eating Month”. Q: Having an Italian background, I guess cooking is in your blood. Did you start cooking when you were really young? My mother tells me that I […]
Dominique Rizzo went to Sicilia for the first time at the age of three. With her Italian father and Australian mother, her older and younger brother, they stayed on the farm of her uncle. It was here that she first remembers seeing the process of the pigs being butchered and meat prepared. It was the […]
Here is a quick tip to help you create a beautiful Easy Pavlova with a little help from IGA! Filmed by my friends at Wild Bunch media.
In this YouTube video I show you how to cook Italian penne with zucchini, mushroom and garlic in ten minutes. This dish is perfect for an easy weekday meal.
No sooner had I packed up my chef’s gear at the Food and Wine stage at The Ekka than requests started pouring in from many of the visitors on how to cook the recipes that I demonstrated on stage. There are lots of them too! So happy eating, cooking and entertaining. How to cook! 1. Anchovy Pesto […]
Having just got back from overseas and a gluttony of all things food I have come back not only with renewed vigour, ideas and recipes but also an acute consciousness to again get onto the buy local eat seasonal with a focus on healthy winter vegetarian food with flair.
At the CEO CookOff, OZHarvest provided the entrée and dessert of mini meringues with whipped cream, while each of the ten chefs designed their own main dish. Middle Eastern was my cuisine, featuring spicy grilled chicken on a homemade flatbread with pumpkin hummus, fresh vegetable slaw drizzled with a yoghurt and herb dressing. It was a hit.
Here are a few tips and easy ideas to get the gourmet going in your kitchen.
To me a healthy, organised and clean fridge means a healthy body and an organised kitchen! These simple tips will have you on the way to cooking with ease, eating a wider variety of healthy foods and give you all the pleasure that you will need from your chilled kitchen companion.
So now what? We have re-worked the leftovers with the handy tips from foodie magazines and chefs alike, put away the decorations and are back to work, back to school and back to life as it was before the holidays. A new year has always been a fresh start for me. I take the whole New Year’s resolution very seriously, although not so much a resolution but some thoughts on what can I do this year to de stress, de-frazzle and delight my life and I think I have found it. Get rid of the kitchen clutter with these seven tips.
