Our last kids cooking class for the term. We made a beautiful Green Curry with salmon. The recipe is in Packed cookbook, it is worth making a big batch of the paste and freezing it and then if you have a good stock made it is a super quick meal to put together. We even found fresh tumeric for the curry paste this week, a bonus for those of us who like to make sure we are eating a wide variety of plants for our gut health. Thanks to Salmon Tasmania and Tassal for providing the salmon for the class so the kids to learn and cook some seafood. It was our last cooking class for the term, it has been a fun term and I am grateful for the kids and their parents who have come along this term for our VERY first term of classes. When asked how they were going by some food loving friends I described the older group classes as that they are like a stich and bitch session (knitting or sewing in a social setting) . The kids get in and cook and have a good goss while chopping and cooking with me interrupting every now and then for instructions or a hint or tip. What could we call it sook and cook? Sounds a bit negative… Chop and chat? stir and stir??

I will have a rough plan of what we are cooking for Term 2 soon. It will be on a Monday afternoon again, other days will be added if or when there is interest. Slight changes with the times 3.45 -5.10 for the under 12s and 5.20 to 6.45 for the 12 and overs. we prefer term bookings so we can teach a full program over the term of a wide variety of recipes and different cooking techniques but we understand that can not always work. $65 a week for an Hour and 25 minute cooking class with a qualified chef and a delicious meal for 4 people to take home each week. What could you buy with $65 in take aways for 4 people these days?? And hopefully the children will end up with a bunch of meals they can cook independently. Book and Pay for the term through my online store or send me a message to book and pay cash or card weekly.

Recent work I have completed for fussy clients (us!) setting up a new short stay accommodation property Teralina Beach House. Including:
Photography
Styling (although not a lot, I keep it simple and completely uncluttered as that is what you need to relax on holidays)
Website(just a simple one a place for our guests to book direct. If I am going to the effort of promoting my own property on social media then I need to be taking direct bookings, I do not want that commission going to a booking channel)
Booking Channels (like air bnb, Booking .com, stay z etc, there are 400 now!!!)
Social media
organising the stock and operations

Although I am not interested in managing other peoples properties for them ongoing, I do get employed to help people with the photography and set up accommodation. I have done quite a bit of this in the past including at my other business Little Norfolk Bay Events and Chalets. I have helped quite a few home and shack owners to start their short stay so they can manage it themselves. Be warned though during the initial consultations with me, I will be honest and I will share my honest near 30 years of hospitality experience, so I may not tell you what you want to hear. I have suggested in the past to putting the house/unit back on the rental market as it is may probably be a lot easier and better for their bank account. I do not sell the Air bnb dream of easy money, as it is not! I do think though with some good photos, promotion that the average short stay accommodation could do a lot better than they do and the investment in my services is always returned quickly.