- Cakes ·
Scorched Peanut Cake
There is only one thing that rivals my husband's love for me, and that is his love of scorched peanuts, which is why I created this cake in celebration of his birthday!
Christmas Cooking Class
PERFECT CHRISTMAS BREAK UP for small teams of 6!
Join me in my custom-built warehouse kitchen in Richmond and cook up a feast with your friends.
My selected Christmas Menu for this year is:
– Tomato, Olive and Feta Puffs
– Slow Roasted Salmon with Salad Verde and Smoky Aioli
– Spice Rubbed Duck Legs with Roast Nectarines and Cherries
– Kipfler Potato, Radish and Pea Salad
– Chocolate, Prune and Pecan Torte
This unique 4 hour experience includes hands on cooking class, shared meal, matched wine and signed copy of my Tasteful cookbook!
$240pp
Email me to BOOK a time that suits your group!
FOOD INSPIRATION & CLASSES
Get Inspired in the Kitchen
Welcome to my Foodcentric world, where everything is delicious. Learn to cook, try a new recipe, join a class or just dive into my food stories and let’s enjoy the journey together.
Boutique Cooking Classes
A unique experience for private groups of 6 cooking with me in my custom built warehouse kitchen featuring selected menus from my cookbook, Tasteful!
Delicious Recipes
This is my working recipe database. Drop in to see the latest from my kitchen. Don’t forget to tag @food.centric!
Team Cooking Workshops
Learn, laugh and cook with your team or group of friends at a team building session you will never forget!
Exciting News!
My brand new hardcover cookbook featuring 100+ Mediterranean-style recipes with my signature twist, is here!
Tasteful – Flavoursome food to share with style at your table – is now available.
Order direct from the author, and be among the few to get a signed copy.
Allow 2 weeks for delivery within Australia, to allow for Australia Post delivery times and handling.
Cooking Tastefully...
To accompany my book, I have put together the Tasteful Pantry Checklist that is available as a FREE download when you Subscribe to Foodcentric. Just click here.
Use it to make sure your pantry is well stocked, so you can always cook tastefully!
Tasteful is Best in the World
I am so delighted to announce that Tasteful has been awarded Best in the World for Food Styling at the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
The awards, based in Paris, are in their 29th year and award the best food books, drink books and food television of the year.
The official ceremony is held in a different country each year.
This year there were entrants from 205 countries and the award ceremony took place in Riyadh as part of the Saudi Feast Food Festival.
It is an honour for my book, that is all about good-looking and great-tasting food, to be awarded in the Food Styling category.
Recipes for every Taste
Sharing my recipe collection to fellow foodies has always been a pure pleasure and it is even more of a buzz when I hear those magic words…’I made your recipe!’.
So here I invite you to browse through and get inspired by my recipes that I have tried and tested over many years. This is my working recipe database and so new recipes are added all the time – be sure to drop by regularly to see the latest.
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Seasonal & Sensational Recipes
- Main Courses ·
Summer Seafood Paella
A suite of Summer seafood and vegetables create a fresh and colourful paella.
- Main Courses ·
Christmas Porchetta
Crispy pork belly rolled with an aromatic seasoning is beautiful served ‘a familigia’ style.
- Pies and Tarts ·
Christmassy Currant and Craisin Mince Pies
Lovely little pies to really set off the Christmas table!
- Cakes ·
Coconut Banana Cake
A quick mix coconutty, banana-ey dream of a cake!
- Salads ·
Lentil, Fennel and Green Olive Salad
Nutty lentils go so well with the anise flavour of fennel and salty savouriness of green olives, all tossed with a lemony dressing and sprinkle of hazelnuts to finish.
Hey, I'm Naomi Crisante, food stylist, educator and writer
Welcome to my foodcentric world where everything is delicious! A place where I share a lifetime love of food, entertaining and inspiration through my recipes, food images, cooking tips and experiences. The art of cooking offers creation, exploration and connection. Join me on this journey.
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Food Experiences & Travelogue
Fire Up the Barbie…
Summer is here…and it’s time to fire up the barbie! While ‘Great Australian Sausage Sizzles’ will no doubt be taking off at your local mega-hardware store at this time of year, when it comes to throwing something on the barbeque, you really can’t go past a good steak. My recipe for BBQ Beef Steaks with…
Get the Party Started!
December is well and truly party season, and that ice breaking time of chatting over drinks, when you gather guests for any special occasion can really set the mood. That’s why having tasty passarounds that are appetising and, most importantly, easy to eat with one hand, while simultaneously balancing a glass in the other, are…
Retro Recipes Revisited
When it comes to retro recipes, there are some classics we love to revisit…and some we never want to see again! As I reflected over 40 years of cooking, I remember the Prawn Cocktails, Beef Wellington, Chicken Kiev, Steak Diane and Coq au Vin that graced the ‘dinner party’ table. I also recall the many…
Cooking Tastefully
In Australia, we are in a unique position when it comes to food. We have a huge variety of bountiful, quality produce, a love of the new and a deep food curiosity that has been fuelled by immigration. It gives us no boundaries and the freedom to explore and experiment. When you combine this with…
Daylight Dinners
When daylight savings sneaks up on us, although we might seem to be losing an hour initially, we gain so much more when it comes to the benefits of daylight stretching into dinnertime. All of a sudden, the collective mood lifts and our cravings change towards lighter meals, fresh salads, more seafood and, of course,…
Raise your Risotto Game
When you master dish like risotto, you can turn a few ingredients that you have on hand into a restaurant-worthy meal in minutes. Purists will always abide by the rules to making an authentic Italian risotto, and although I’m usually in the ‘learn the rules, so you can break ’em’ camp, here are some tips…
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