Skip to content
  • Recipes
    • Round-Ups
  • Grilling
  • Pies, Tarts, Crisps
  • Classes
    • Portuguese Custard Tarts Class
  • Meet David
    • My Publications & Published Works
    • Why You Can Trust our Recipes
    • Press, TV & Radio Appearances for David Leite
    • About Us
    • Masthead
    • Contact Us
  • Giveaways
    • Sweepstakes Rules
    • Giveaway FAQs
    • Winners
  • Login

Home | Lydia Brimage

Lydia Brimage

Lydia first learned to cook when she went to university. After buying a wok from a Chinese supermarket, she learned to make stir-fries and then tomato sauces. She has collected many cookery books over the years and now tries to be very selective in which books she buys.

Lydia trained as a biochemist originally and eventually became so interested in food that she undertook formal qualifications in Professional Cookery, taking both chef qualifications in Kitchen and Larder and in Patisserie and Confectionery. She worked professionally as a chef for approximately ten years.

Recently she has taken a sit-down job and now enjoys using her cooking skills for herself and for friends. She has been a Leite’s Culinaria Recipe Tester since 2013 and has kept the recipes she has tested during that time with all her comments. Over the years it has required her to keep seeking out and trying new recipes, which she may not have found on her own. The process also forces her to find other new dishes to use up any leftover ingredients. She finds the process quite meditative and often loses herself in a single recipe for an hour or two. She wonders if sometime she will hand her curated recipes to someone and say there you go, that was my life in food.

Lydia Brimage
A bowl of whipped feta dip topped with oil and lemon zest on a platter of raw vegetables.

Whipped Feta Dip

10 mins

A portion of gnocchi with gorgonzola cream sauce sprinkled with chopped hazelnuts on a black plate.

Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Cream Sauce

25 mins

Cranberry pistachio cookies in a cookie tin lined with green tissue paper.

Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

3 hrs 35 mins

A savory Parmesan cheese biscuit with butter on a plate and a bowl of biscuits in the background.

Savory Parmesan Cheese Biscuits

1 hr 10 mins

A metal skillet filled with sausage pappardelle with grated Parmesan on top.

Jamie Oliver’s Sausage Pappardelle

25 mins

A pot of spaghetti and meat sauce with tongs in it and two bowls of spaghetti and meat sauce with forks.

One-Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

30 mins

Two bowls of gnocchi soup, garnished with bacon and rosemary, with crusty bread on the side.

Gnocchi Soup with Bacon and Cheese

1 hr 15 mins

Three pieces of white cake topped with frosting and toasted coconut on individual blue glass plates with forks resting on the side.

Coconut Tres Leches Cake

1 hr 30 mins

A white gratin dish filled with a creamy zucchini gratin, topped with goat cheese, on a plate with a fork on the side.

Zucchini Gratin with Fresh Herbs and Goat Cheese

1 hr 15 mins

Four pieces of pan seared salmon in a sweet tahini sauce, topped with pomegranate and pine nuts.

Pan Seared Salmon with Sweet Tahini Sauce

50 mins

Ten salted brown butter chocolate chunk cookies on a wire cooling rack.

Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

4 hrs

A square baking dish filled with traditional Italian tiramisu with a spoon resting inside and a portion missing.

Traditional Italian Tiramisu

2 hrs 40 mins

Two glasses filled with peanut butter ice cream with Nutella fudge swirled through and poured on top and two spoons on the side.

Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Nutella Fudge

1 d

A stack of homemade oatmeal cream pies on a sheet of parchment with a few more scattered around

Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies

1 hr 15 mins

Several plates with slices of pistachio-lime polenta cake topped with confectioners' sugar and chopped pistachios

Pistachio-Lime Polenta Cake

1 hr 30 mins

A stack of fluffy buttermilk pancakes on a white plate with syrup and butter on top.

Best Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

45 mins

A pineapple upside-down cake on a white plate with a slice taken out

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

1 hr 15 mins

A chocolate pavlova with raspberries on parchment paper

Chocolate Pavlova with Raspberries

3 hrs 30 mins

A white plate with prosciutto-wrapped chicken with asparagus on the site

Prosciutto-Wrapped Chicken with Asparagus

40 mins

A baking pan filled with baklava granola

Baklava Granola

1 hr

Posts navigation

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 5

As Seen In

New York Times Logo.
The Today Show logo.
NBC logo.
The Splendid Table logo.
Martha Stewart logo.
Bon Appetit logo.
NPR logo.
Saveur logo.
ABC logo.
Back to top
Leite's Culinariafooter logo
  • Recipes
  • Articles
  • David Blahg
  • Podcast
  • My Books
  • Meet David
  • Contact

© 1999-2025 Leite's Culinaria, Inc. Terms • Privacy Policy • Accessibility • Powered by CultivateWP.