All these recipes are on the table in 15 minutes, made from scratch. The great thing is that there are so many common ingredients, once you get a few Asian pantry essentials, all of which you can get from supermarkets, you’ll have the base for all of these recipes. Note: The assumption I’ve made by classifying these all as “15 minute meals” are that: a) All your ingredients are on the counter, washed and ready to cut/prepare....

It’s so fast, you could even make the Béarnaise while your cooked steak is resting! Béarnaise Sauce Béarnaise Sauce is a stunning French sauce usually served with steak at fine dining restaurants and high-end steakhouses. Traditionally it’s made by hand. Yolks are combined with a herb-infused vinegar reduction over a double boiler, then melted butter is carefully and slowly drizzled in while whisking. Too fast and the sauce will split....

“Freeze! Cut! Don’t move!” “Faster, faster, faster!” “Dozer, move! MOVE!” “Chop chop chop, come on, let’s get this scene done!” “Dozer. I said MOVE!” One day, I need to use the sound that’s recorded on the footage that I shoot for the recipe videos. When I watch the clips, I’m always in hysterics when I listen to the ridiculous conversation: me batting Dozer away, listening to my mother getting all stressed out when I crack the whip to chop faster, her mocking my Baby Hands and throwing her weight around as the “talent” in my videos....

There’s a whole giant head of broccoli in this. And you don’t even need to steam it separately, it gets cooked right in the same pot with the mac and cheese. 🙂 Plus chicken + pasta + cheese = complete meal. At least, in my books! I adore Mac and Cheese. If I see it on a menu, especially at posh restaurants, I have to have it on the side....

Carne Asada When we talk South American grilled meat, Carne Asada is the first thing that pops into most people’s minds – I think. Maybe I’m wrong. Well, it’s the first thing that pops into my mind. 🙂 “Carne Asada” means “grilled beef” in Spanish, but the dish we know as Carne Asada is so much more than just a plain grilled beef. Marinated in a wicked citrusy, garlicky, coriander/cilantro mixture, it infuses beef with flavour and tenderises it too, making it perfect to use for secondary beef cuts like skirt and flank....

I know it’s Monday so I should be sharing a sensible quick ‘n easy meal, but it’s Monday Meatball Mania* today and the party season is upon us so cocktail meatballs it is!! Plump, juicy and soft – as all meatballs should be – these Cocktail Meatballs are served with a Sweet & Sour Dipping Sauce. Individually, you’ll find both tasty. Combine them together – and woah. It’s kind of like Chimichurri Sauce....

THESE CRISPY ROASTED PARMESAN POTATOES ARE EPIC! Just a fleeting glance at these Crispy Roasted Parmesan Potatoes is all you need to KNOW that these are utterly addictive and that you’ll be fighting to make sure you get your fair share. Just look at them! Soft on the inside….. Golden crispy parmesan crusted on the outside, loaded with ridiculous flavour not just from the parmesan, but from a touch of seasoning too…....

The beauty of homemade cured salmon is that you can control the salt so it’s not too salty and it’s got a fresh herb flavour that you’ll never get in a packet! Also, don’t miss the stunning Beetroot Cured Salmon! Gravlax recipe I’ve made cured salmon gravlax a bunch of times over the years and my results were varied. Never any epic disasters, they were always edible. But sometimes they were over cured, under cured, and the biggest problem I’ve had is over salted salmon....

Like everybody’s favourite Easy Flatbreads recipe, the Gozleme pastry requires no yeast, just 3 ingredients (no yogurt) and is very easy to work with. You’re going to fall in love with this recipe! Gozleme recipe Weekend markets wouldn’t be the same without Turkish Gozleme stands. Sturdy Turkish Mamas with powerful arms rolling out the dough, and pretty young ladies front of house, smiling charmingly at customers. Total stereotype there. But it’s a very effective marketing strategy!...

It takes time to make, but if you truly want the best, it’s worth it! More stocks: chicken stock | vegetable stock Let me say from the outset: homemade beef stock requires effort. It takes time – I’m talking minimum 4 hours, up to 10 hours is best – there’s a pile of hot bones to discard, and big cooking vessels that’ll need cleaning. So one might ask: Why make beef stock at home?...

This sweet gem is brilliant as a pudding-like dessert to finish off a cosy dinner, or served for afternoon tea with friends. Honey Cake I had a load of home-harvested honey gifted to me by people in my life who keep their own bees. Thinking how best I could flatter such a lovely ingredient, I developed a slightly mad obsession with creating a cake that used honey and no sugar whatsoever....

Even if you’re a first timer, you can have confidence in this turkey breast recipe – it’s been viewed over 3 million times and has hundreds of glowing reviews!❤️ Slow cooker turkey breast Turkey breast is notoriously lean so the only way to guarantee it comes out juicy if you roast it in the oven is to brine it – dry or wet brine. If you don’t brine it, then even if you use a meat thermometer, it is extremely difficult to roast the turkey breast perfectly....

It’s way better than your everyday bakery and will rival some of the best meat pie makers in town – Bourke Street Bakery included! Bonus: old school beef mince meat pie recipe included. For a Family Size Meat Pie – see here! Australian meat pie recipe!! From midnight post-pub feasting to footy games, quick lunches on the run to essential road trip pit stops, Aussies never need an excuse to get stuck into meat pies!...

This recipe is part of a series where I show you How to Make 5 AWESOME Mexican Freezer Friendly meals (for 4 people) in 1 hour for $50 using one batch of Pork Carnitas. Great things happen when you do a mash up of two of my favourite cuisines! Basically it’s an enchilada layered up like a lasagna, then baked until bubbly and golden. Because it’s made with leftover Pork Carnitas (Mexican Pulled Pork) which is already seasoned, all that’s required is to mix it up with enchilada sauce, capsicum, corn and beans, then just layer it with tortillas....

Mmmmm….pizza……Mmmmm….Mexican food…. Good things can happen when you do mash-ups. Just like with music. 🙂 When you merge two of my favourite food groups (pizza is a food group, isn’t it?), you pretty much get heaven on a plate. Pizza tray. Cutting board. Whatever. I don’t care – I just want some! I have never snapped photos as fast as I did for this. Not because it’s a freezing cold day here in Sydney and I wanted to snap pictures before the cheese hardened and look completely unappetising, but because THIS IS MY LUNCH!...

How to assemble fourteen Mini Pavs in 5 minutes flat I love a traditional Pav, in all it’s rustic summer beauty. But let’s face it – they are not the easiest to transport. And they are not the best of friends with hot, humid Aussie weather (think – sweaty surface, excessively chewy, weeping sugar, cracking 😭). And when it comes to messy desserts to serve, pretty sure they take the top spot....

Decadent? Yes. Have salad tomorrow! Orecchiette Sausage Pasta Don’t you hate it when you twirl an enormous mound of spaghetti on your fork, only to find that you’ve just got pasta and no toppings?? Even more annoying is when you bring it up to your mouth and loose strands slap around your mouth, causing pasta sauce to splatter all over your face – and your white top. Such are the challenges of our pasta lovin’ life....

Try this with homemade pesto. It’s amazing! How to make a JUICY pesto pasta with pesto sauce If you’ve ever made pesto pasta and found that it a bit on the dry side, then tried to salvage it by adding more and more olive oil only to end up with an excessively greasy pasta, you’ll love the technique I’m sharing today: Add pasta cooking water It will thin out the pesto so it coats everything nicely and creates a glossy pesto sauce that coats every bit of pasta....

Quiche Lorraine I can’t remember when I made my first quiche, but I can tell you for sure that it was a Quiche Lorraine. Because just as Pork Carnitas are the King of Taco Carts, Quiche Lorraine is surely the Queen of all savoury tarts. Bacon. Surely it’s the bacon. I mean, how could a Zucchini Quiche possibly ever compete? 😉 This is not a REAL Quiche Lorraine. This is Quiche Lorraine as it is known outside of France....

A few weeks ago I shared my Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Enchilada Soup (that’s a mouthful, isn’t it!!). It’s great because it literally takes 10 minutes to prep then you set and forget. I didn’t expect to be sharing another Mexican Soup again so soon, but I can’t resist. This Quick Taco Soup with Pulled Pork is an express version made using leftover Pulled Pork (but of course you can make it using any leftover meat)....