Sometimes you need a quick go-to salad dressing that tastes great with a variety of salads – try this one out!

Chef Jodie talks you through different types of onions and how to use them.

Chef Jodie shows you a no-fuss way to deseed a chilli without getting seeds everywhere!

Jodie shows you her game-changing way to chop a capsicum!

def: SPICE – an aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavour foodHello VIVE familyWith less than a week until VIVE Cooking School is open for business (can you believe it?), we’re ready and rearing to don our aprons and head into the kitchen on our mission to cook, learn and eat good food with […]

Cooking becomes a lot less fun when you are constantly tidying up, which causes delays in your cooking, and adds extra stress!

Chef Jodie shows you a quick and easy way to dice an onion, anyone can try this even if you have never been taught to cut an onion before!

A lot of guests who come to a class at VIVE Cooking School ask us how they can tell if their eggs are fresh or not, especially if you are buying from big supermarkets your eggs are often quite old by the time they even get to the shelf.

When making stock you can use a lot of the off-cuts that you would normally throw away such as carrot peels or the stalks of the parsley.

Do you have some spices in the cupboard which have been there for a while and are starting to lose their flavour? This method will help you get the flavour back into your old spices!

We recommend using a combination of plain flour and fine grained semolina, this gives more firmness on the tooth. Use two parts plain flour to one part semolina.

When it comes to cooking, there’s some basic skills which will be useful in a variety of recipes. One of these is poaching chicken! Poached chicken is a super healthy way to have chicken that is great with salads.