A few pics and the menu from our Tasmanian Cooking Experience workshop last Thursday. At this workshop we cook around 10 recipes from my books from the best of what is in season on the day, and what ever my guest request.

The guests arrived to freshly baked scones made from the recipe from the Real Food for Kids cookbook, raspberry and apricot jams I had made in summer and cream and coffee and tea. Then we made bread, pasta, filleted fish, cleaned octopus, shucked oysters and then the guests enjoyed a lunch of all our delicious cooking.

Herb, garlic cheese Pull a part bread, recipe from The Tasmania pantry 2
Peppered Chicken Liver Pate recipe from Packed Cookbook
Oysters natural and Salt and Sichuan Peppered, recipe from Seafood Everyday
Baked Occy recipe from Tasmania Pantry Cookbook
Scallops Hummus winter veg new recipe will be in the new Seafood Cookbook
Baked Bay Trumpeter, lemon and oregano dressing and skordallia Recipe from Seafood Everyday
Hong Kong steamed Parrot Fish recipe Tasmania Pantry 2
Grilled quail honey and mustard dressing and apple salad recipe Celebrate
Slow cooked lamb and pumpkin canalloni recipe Packed cookbook
Quince and campo de Flori Lavender olive oil cake

Bread Baking Workshop a few weeks back

This is one of my favourite workshops. I enjoy all the workshops it gives me a break from recipe writing and photography and a chance to actually meet some people who use my cookbooks. I love making bread. We made:

foccaccia
grissini
jalepeno and cheese loaf
baguettes
pizza
rolls
scrolls
pizza
fruit loaf
pull apart


Sourdough at all the different stages. Sourdough takes a few days so fed the starter , started a preferment, made a dough from a preferment I had prepared and baked a loaf I had ready from the day before.

And then enjoyed a delicious lunch with our Breads

Bacon and cheese cob, recipe from Celebrate Cookbook
Garlic and Rosemary Pizza, recipe from Tas pantry 2
Herb and Garlic Pull apart recipe, from Tas Pantry 2
Fish Chowder recipe, from Seafood Everyday
Chicken Liver Pate recipe from Packed Cookbook
Quail and Honey mustard recipe from The Tasmania Pantry
Pickled Octopus recipe from Seafood Everyday
Spiced Cauliflower recipe from Tasmania Pantry 2
Lemon tart recipe from Tasmania Pantry

We have a few dates each term listed for workshops, term 4 will be listed soon so please get in contact for any date or workshop requests. We also take private group bookings for groups of 6 -12 perfect for celebrations and we already have a few booked in for Christmas parties. Workshop vouchers are available for gifts they are great Fathers Day gifts and so are my cookbooks.