What a fun week I have had. I trekked off to North Stradbroke Island with my mate Kylie (shes a photographer) to do a cooking class over on Straddy to be filmed for Channel 7s Weekender. We had shot this footage before but in the nasty storms last year the roof flew off at channel 7 and many of their stories were ruined in the floods.
So off we trotted back to elandra (these houses are great, 3 houses and each sleeps 8) - as i had the same lot of eager volunteers I put together another dinner party menu based loosely around greek food. The weather was absolute crap - raining and really windy - so those shots of us all relaxing at the beach were not happening. It was interesting trying to connect all these little situations to make a story that can be told in a few minutes on tv.
We started with ouzo of course and a few snacks.....we cooked up greek lamb cigars, made some herby labna and cooked up some gorgeous blue swimmer crabs that one of the fellas had caught that day. Then we made greek lamb, smashed potatoes, fennel and baby tomato salad - followed by a chocolate and hazlenut torte - which I served half cooked as it was taking way too long to cook. I don't think they noticed I just said it was a saucy pudding and wacked a few berries over it!
The enthusiastic volunteers all then went and got their musical instruments and we ended up with a bit of a jam session going on - we even had a flute player! Sat up much of the night discussing if it is a little wierd to take nude photos of your sister while she is pregnant!!!! I thought yes.
The next morning we did a breakfast shoot out by the BBQ - same volunteers. We did baked eggs on the BBQ with yoghurt bread , apple pancake and watermelon granitas - delish!
A quick trip to the beach as the water was magnificent finished off a great couple of days - I tell you some people really do live the life we only dream about!
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