After 10 successful and popular years teaching in Melbourne, Angela’s Kitchen Cooking School is bringing people to Guildford to experience the pleasures of Mediterranean-style cooking.
Angela Nicolettou draws on her Greek Cypriot background (and her love of cooking and career as an educator) to guide people though the know-how of preparing what to some is a complete mystery – homemade filo pastry for example.
Classes are lively, informative and friendly, with everything provided and at the end of the day’s cooking, with new skills and recipes in hand, the class sits down to a delicious spread they have cooked and if they like, a glass or two of wine.
Angela says students love finding new foods to prepare at home. In fact, many of the recipes people have been taught by Angela, she has been told, have been intertwined into regular family weekday menus.
While students are taking to finding out about the intricacies of the food Angela knows so well, Angela is enjoying another facet of her cooking school – sourcing local ingredients. One such favourite is Barfold Olive Oil. And then there are the farmers markets, which are a fabulous source of ingredients.
“I love going to farmers markets and getting to know producers,” Angela says.
She uses ‘local’ as much as she can, adding that such ingredients are far more accessible than when she was in the city.
“What I used in Melbourne probably came from around this area anyway,” she says.
It’s just one of the ‘pluses’ she is enjoying since moving to Vaughan, a place she fell in love with and moved to not long ago.
The cooking school is just down the road at the Guildford Public Hall. Classes are held monthly. See www.angelaskitchen.com.au for details.
