Making a Balsamic Vinegar Dressing is as simple as remembering this: 1 part vinegar to 3 parts olive oil. That’s all you need to know. My job is done. Signing off! Just kidding!!! 😉 I have one more little thing to share. The better the quality of the balsamic vinegar and olive oil, the better the dressing. There is nothing wrong with making this using your run-of-the-mill balsamic vinegar and olive oil....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Chicken Fricassée Pronounced “fri-ka-say”, this is a terrific recipe to get a cosy stew fix any night of the week without hours of slow cooking. This dish is a traditional French chicken stew made with a creamy white sauce with mushrooms, instead of the more common rich, dark brown sauce like you ordinarily see with stews, such as with Coq au Vin and this baked Chicken Stew....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Chilli Con Carne recipe Texans have claimed Chili as their own, even going as far to legally make it the official dish of Texas (!!?). Though apparently, there’s evidence that traces the origins of Chili to Spain. Imagine that! 🙂 Die-hard Texan Chili fanatics will tell you it’s illegal to add beans into Chili. They’ll also tell you there’s no canned tomato in it, it’s made with cubes of beef not mince/ground beef, and that it MUST be made using whole dried chilis, rehydrated then pureed....

Baked beans are a breakfast staple in Australia and the UK. Actually, baked beans are a meal staple full stop – breakfast, lunch and dinner! I lived my university days surviving on more baked beans than I care to remember. Open the can, pour onto toast, and microwave. It’s almost like a right of passage being a uni student. Canned baked beans and tuna on rice. Spend as little as possible on food so you have as much as possible for beer....

Creamy Broccoli Casserole I’m about as much of a carnivore as a girl can be. And yet, even I would happily have this Broccoli Casserole for dinner any night of the week. Not even just as a side. As the main. It’s that good. I mean, this isn’t just another boring broccoli dish. THIS is broccoli baked with thick, creamy sauce that’s loaded with cheesy parmesan and garlic flavours – made from scratch without canned soup (the thought never crossed my mind, but apparently there are many recipes that do this!...

OR browse the Thanksgiving Recipe Index to build your own! I first shared an Easy Thanksgiving Menu back in 2015, and each year I update the menu suggestions for recipes I’ve published in the past year. I’ve also added some new tips for how to make cooking for Thanksgiving a breeze. Because there’s nothing worse than being stuck in the kitchen while everyone else is at the table, having fun (nibbling on the appetisers you made), and being a stressed out wreck to prepare a holiday feast is no fun at all!...

Let’s face it – life is busy, especially if you’re a working parent with kids. Or if you’re a 20-something year old with a hectic social schedule or a 30-something year old with a jet setting corporate lifestyle. And no matter how great your intentions are, you still find yourself scrambling every night to get organised to make a nutritious meal. Forget trying to make meals interesting – that’s way too hard!...

Hello, hello! How are you? I’ve missed you! I’ve missed being here, writing to you! What have I been doing for this past month, while I put posting new recipes hold? Just one thing: Working on the cookbook! The Cookbook Vortex This cookbook writing business is all-consuming. At least, it is for me. I am living and breathing it, 24-7. It’s the first thing on my mind when I wake up, it’s the last thing I am thinking of when I go to bed....

This is a cookbook exclusive recipe! This recipe is exclusive to my debut cookbook Dinner which includes a how-to video for every recipe. Just scan the QR code! Just to explain…. I know, it’s confusing! You’re so used to getting recipes on my website – there’s over 1,200 of them, after all. And here you are looking at a tasty recipe video and I haven’t provided the recipe. 🙀 I’m not just doing this to torture you, I promise....

Mushroom Gravy If there’s one thing that cooking full-time for a living has taught me, it’s that an arsenal of great sauces is one of the most useful things you arm yourself with in the kitchen. It can turn the mundane into extraordinary. Take Poached Chicken (meh!) … paired with Ginger Shallot Sauce (now you’re talking! SO GOOD!). It’s also an easy way to replicate a real fine dining experience at home....

This is a cookbook exclusive recipe! This recipe is exclusive to my debut cookbook Dinner which includes a how-to video for every recipe. Just scan the QR code! Just to explain…. I know, it’s confusing! You’re so used to getting recipes on my website – there’s over 1,200 of them, after all. And here you are looking at a tasty recipe video and I haven’t provided the recipe. 🙀 I’m not just doing this to torture you, I promise....

Make this using whatever veggies you have, switch up the chicken with prawns/shrimp, pork, beef or even fish. This is a winner! I know my local supermarkets pretty well. I know exactly where to go for most items (except cling wrap, which, for some reason, I always forget which aisle it’s in and Woolies people tell me it’s the single most asked question) and I know the aisles pretty well....

Shibuya is famous for being the playground for the young and hip in Tokyo, but caters to people from all walks of life when it comes to entertainment! It has it all: Great night life, trendy places to dine, as well as seemingly endless shopping options. Shibuya is a great place to stay if you want to experience the Tokyo night life. And we have loads of recommendations for places to eat here – it’s one of our favourite areas!...

Here’s why this recipe makes Truly Crunchy Roast Potatoes: 1) par boiling the potatoes and roughing up the potatoes creates more “suction” for the surface to absorb fat which is how you make potatoes crunchy and creates the extra thick crust; 2) the potatoes are lightly coated with semolina which creates extra crunch; 3) the potatoes are poured into a pan preheated with hot oil; and 4) the oil used is a high smoke point oil (peanut, safflower, rice bran, sunflower oil)- the hotter the oil when the potatoes go in, the better the crust....

Vegetable Beef Soup So many beef soups are watery and dull. Not this one!!! The thing that sets this beef soup recipe apart from the rest is the broth. It’s slightly thickened so it’s more like a thinnish gravy. It’s infused with herb flavour and also gets an extra depth of flavour from the secret ingredient: red wine. Or beer or stout. (They’re all good) It’s not about boozing up our soup!...

Quick baked chicken recipes are mid week life savers and this balsamic chicken is a back-pocket gem along with simple Honey Mustard Chicken, Juicy Baked Breasts and country-style Baked Thighs. Sticky Balsamic Chicken This is a baked chicken recipe for busy weeknights, lazy Sundays, and every other day in between. When it’s this effortless to make something so lip smackingly good with ingredients that are basic pantry essentials, frozen meals and home delivery aren’t even a passing thought....

Eat some now, freeze some for later – you can even reheat from frozen! Chicken Burritos One of my biggest gripes about Burritos (other than how ridiculously gigantic they can be, far wider than any normal human mouth) is that by the time you get halfway through, you’ve got burrito explosion on your hands. Rolling technique comes into play – the firmer it’s rolled, the better it holds together. The filling you choose also has an effect – Shredded Beef and Shredded Chicken holds together pretty well....

Another creamy pasta to add to your arsenal, another to-die-for mushroom recipe!!😇 Creamy Mushroom Pasta How do you make a steaming bowl of pasta smothered in a creamy Alfredo sauce even better? Load it up with garlicky buttery mushrooms!!!🍄🍄🍄 There’s few things in this world that can rival the feeling of satisfying a craving for a big bowl of creamy pasta. And this one not only hits the spot, it’s so good it’s going to have you doing the happy dance around the kitchen (because there’s every possibility that half of it never makes your plate!...

Another great thing about this recipe is that you can use whatever vegetables you have on hand – and really load it up. Also, here are a few tips for making this recipe: These are the noodles I used – rice stick noodles. But this recipe is just as delicious made with egg or flour noodles, dried or fresh, except I wouldn’t recommend using vermicelli noodles as they are too thin for the punchy flavours of this soup....

Excellent large format food for gatherings – make ahead and economical! Also see Chicken Doner Kebabs. How many times have you walked past a Doner kebab shop and glanced at those giant punching bag-sized kebab meats rotating round and round, and wondered how long has that meat been out for?? I wonder if it’s really meat, or 90% fillers?? Well wonder no more!! Shops might use fillers, but WE don’t need to!...