Bindi relished kitchen capers with dad
December 11, 2006
BINDI Irwin says watching her wildlife warrior father Steve Irwin cook was the best part of making her new fitness DVD.

Eight-year-old Bindi said she and her father used to laugh at themselves when they filmed the cooking segments.

"We said `we forgot to put the blueberries in the blueberry muffins'," a smiling and confident Bindi said to the Nine Network today.

Footage of the cooking segment showed Steve Irwin putting his hands in dough and then wiping them on his trademark khaki shirt while smoke poured from burning food in a wall oven.

Bindi, who also dances in the fitness DVD, said even though she never ate what they cooked, the cooking spots with her father encouraged children to eat more healthily, to "get off the couch" and to go outside and play.

Steve Irwin died when stabbed in the chest by a stingray's barb off the far north Queensland coast on September 4.

But Bindi's mother Terri has given her dead husband a little more credibility as a cook.

"Steve was a really good cook – if the truth be known he cooked some fantastic things.

"He was a master at the barbie, of course, like every good Aussie bloke," Mrs Irwin said.

"But he also cooked a lot of wonderful curries and I miss that – I'm probably going to lose a lot of weight."

She said she missed her husband more and more each day and had taken Bindi and her three-year-old son Bob to see a psychologist after concerns were raised her children were not coping with their father's death.

"I've been working very hard at honouring my grief, at grabbing little glimpses of joy, appreciating my kids, and I think to myself if things had been the other way around and I were gone and Steve was here with the kids, I'd really want him to carry on as if I were still here and to find joy in life," Mrs Irwin said.

As for Bindi, she still wants to carry on her father's work as a wildlife warrior, raising awareness of endangered animals and giving shows at the family's Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

She is also doing well in her school work, having just finished year three with a 96 per cent and 100 pass marks in her tests.

"I'm pretty good at school, don't you think?" Bindi asked her mother.



Bindi and mum to carry on Irwin work
Friday, December 8, 2006

Bindi and her mum, Terri will continue her dad's workSteve Irwin's wife and eight-year-old daughter are to take to the stage in America to carry on the late Crocodile Hunter's work.

Bindi Irwin will perform a conservationist song-and-dance routine she developed with her father at shows in Los Angeles and New York in January.