Learn about Bees and Cooking with Honey

Bees and Honey – Sharing Cooking with Honey ideas with Helen Shield on Your Afternoon, 936 ABC Hobart (and ABC Northern Tasmania), and many other beautiful things on a fine afternoon on 26 October 2015 Unfortunately the link to this program has now finished.  In this afternoon segment there was valuable information about backyard bee keeping, cooking with honey, CSIRO bee population […]

Pan-fried Salmon, Crushed Potatoes, Spring Vegetables & Herbs

Salmon Potatoes Spring Herbs
This delicious easy salmon recipe was intuitively created early one evening in our water view cabin whilst on a short break in Strahan. Travelling through Tassie’s southwest region we stopped to purchase fresh produce at road side stalls. I thought to simply put the wonderful ingredients together in a type of mash with a little butter, extra virgin olive oil and a variety [...]

Hot Chocolate – The Italian Way!

I’d like to share with you this deliciously luxurious Hot Chocolate recipe. Drinking this always brings back memories of our times in Trieste in North-East Italy with my family. Whilst my uncle, who has a family estate and farm near Naples, prepared a five course feast in their city apartment, we would go for wintry [...]

Breakfast Juice – Carrot Orange Apple and Ginger

Try my Brilliant Breakfast Juice recipe with carrot, apple, orange and ginger. I have been searching for the perfect juicer for years and after some considerable research I finally decided on sourcing a juicer attachment for my Magimix 4200! I was very keen to test it out on our favourite and healthy combination of flavours [...]

Sylvia’s Balsamic Syrup Glaze

How do you make your own Balsamic Syrup Glaze? With this recipe. It's easy! I adore aged artisan Aceto Balsamico that has a silky viscosity and has been aged in wooden barrels for up to 12 years. I have several favourite brands that can cost more than a superb Single Malt Whisky, which is also [...]

How to Sharpen a Knife – The Cutting Edge of Cookery

Sylvia's treasured knives from 1980s to present day on wood-end grain chopping board
How to sharpen a knife effectively is important. My knives are my treasured tools of the trade and most of these you see here I have owned since the early 1980s together with my beautiful end grain chopping board of the same era. Good care, maintenance and knife sharpening allows me to enjoy using them for years making [...]