I love a good recipe for the slow cooker. Especially when the weather is starting to get cool and you’re looking for something comforting to warm you up. This chicken recipe is so easy to make, tastes delicious and can be served with rice, salad, mashed potato or steamed vege. It’s so versatile, a must […]
Everyone should know how to make a killer omelette. Once you get the basics right, you can add absolutely anything you want, think bacon, feta, capsicum, parmesan cheese, chilli flakes, asparagus, smoked salmon or spinach. An omelette will take you from breakfast to brunch to lunch to dinner and can be made to feed an […]
When my sister Elles lived in Sydney, she used to always have Chinese containers full of leftover risotto in her freezer. Whenever I’d head to the big smoke to go out for a night on the town, Jez and Elle would kindly let me crash at theirs. Oh how good was a steaming hot serve […]
Am I even allowed to call this Caesar salad a salad? With the deliciously salty prosciutto, toasted to perfection crunchy sourdough crumbs, freshly shaved parmesan and the delightfully anchovey-ie dressing – it seems too good to be called a salad. It’s a complete meal in itself, perfect for a weekend lunch or for a midweek […]
The iconic Anzac biscuit. Named after the ANZAC’s in World War I, they’re a deliciously sweet biscuit, going perfectly with a hot cup of tea. Made from flour, rolled oats and golden syrup, there are many different versions of Anzac biscuits, although the ingredients generally remain the same. I prefer the thin Anzac biccies that […]
What seems like decades ago – my good friend Kateo Mac, a fabulous cook, served up a risoni salad with chicken, peas and mint. I can still remember how much I enjoyed this dish and have been using risoni in salads ever since. Often mistaken for rice, risoni is a form of pasta. It is […]
Who doesn’t love a good blt? This version should be renamed a plt as I prefer prosciutto instead of bacon. It’s a simple sandwich to make but is only as good as the ingredients you use. Make sure the bread is fresh and the tomatoes are really well ripened. Nothing ruins a blt like a poor […]
If you haven’t heard of Yotam Ottolenghi before – go and check out one of his cookbooks. He’s an Israeli-British chef and cooks some amazing food drawing heavily from middle eastern flavours. He writes cookbooks, has a tv show and owns a heap of deli’s and restaurants across London. This apple and olive oil cake […]
There’s something that little bit romantic about eating a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs that you don’t get with spaghetti bol. It reminds me of Lady and the Tramp sitting at the red and white checkered table out the back of Tony’s Italian. Oh how I loved that movie growing up and thought the […]
I used to be addicted to the Mediterranean pasta they sold at Sydney Uni in the students food court. A little Chinese container full of pasta, loaded up with olives and feta really used to do it for me between tutes (if I ever stayed around for the afternoon classes that is). I then went […]
Saturday mornings are for throwing some muffins in the oven. They’re so simple to whip up and make the house smell lovely. I cooked these very muffins at the end of last year when we sold our place in Wagga. A real estate agents oldest trick in the book; their advice to sellers is to […]
My sister Case recently ate her way through Austria on a grand schnitzel tour. Well, that’s how she refers to her uni exchange trip anyway. She sent me pics of many a gorgeously thin Wiener schnitzel the size of a large dinner plate. So jel! I recall doing the same thing when Cork Daddy and […]
Back in the uni days my sister Elle used to buy a container of satay sauce from the Thai place down the road from Sydney Uni for just $2. She would eat it for days with some boiled rice. The perfect uni student meal which allowed all of her spare pennies to be put behind […]
Anyone up for some ‘purple ice-cream?’ AKA a banana and mixed berry smoothie. Makes for the perfect breakfast or easy snack for you and the kids and if you’re like me – when 3 o’clock rolls round – you’re looking for something to get you through to dinner time. I’ve trialled so many smoothie recipes […]
My grandma, Mim makes the most delicious salmon rissoles and has taught me the tricks of the trade. Growing up, we’d often have them for dinner at the farm served with mashed potato and would eat the cold leftovers for lunch the next day, on an Arnott’s sesame wheat biscuit. I’m going to share some […]
Do you absolutely love rice paper rolls but don’t have the time or energy to make them for dinner during the week? Then this is the dish for you. By all means, add the ingredients in to the rice paper and roll them up properly, but for a speedy and fuss free meal that tastes […]
In the recent remake of Beatrix Potter’s masterpiece, Peter Rabbit, Peter’s rather plump sidekick, Benjamin Bunny is told to lose weight by taking his salad with the dressing on the side. Benjamin is a bit like me as he doesn’t quite get it. “I don’t understand how I am to lose weight when I drink […]
This post is dedicated to my good friend, Lizard who helped me stuff around making my first ever cooking video today. We had so much fun doing it and although getting the Timelapse video for Insta took about 500 goes, this video below was our first and only take! Since uni days I’ve mucked around […]
Nachos are brilliant to dish up when friends come round for a few drinks on the weekend. How many times have you sat around a cheese board staring down the usual suspects – a wheel of Camembert, some stuffed olives, a bit of French onion dip, broken up with a box of Jatz dumped in […]
Who wants in on THE best cake recipe ever invented? A very good family friend of ours, Annabelle passed this recipe on to my mother in law who in turn passed it on to me. Annabelle is such a gorgeous girl that we even named our daughter Annabelle after her and I’ve lost count of the […]
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