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This salad is made with soft cooked green beans, tomato and avocado with a sprinkling of chopped capsicum/bell peppers and red onion, then tossed with a creamy avocado dressing. Love the avocado on avocado in this. 🙂 Green Bean Avocado Salad – copycat recipe Chargrill Charlie’s is a charcoal chicken chain here in Sydney. I don’t really go for their chicken. But they are known for their salads! This Green Bean Avocado Salad is a copycat of one of their more popular ones which I’m sharing pursuant to a reader request....

I have a theory that everything tastes better in mini form. Which is why I share so many “mini” versions of things. Though my friends will have you believe that I prefer small food because I have such small hands. “Baby Hands”, they call me. I regularly remind them that it’s not size that matters, it’s what you can do with them!! “I like these mini cheese balls because there’s a higher ratio of coating to cheese than with giant cheese balls....

Quick Chicken Breast recipe that’s good enough for company! This is a recipe I shared on Good Food Australia last month which I saw made their list for the 20 Most Popular Recipes for September. Actually, it topped the class! Thus I’ve deemed it a recipe I must also have on my own website! The Creamy Mushroom Sauce is the real hero in this dish. It’s an excellent sauce option for lean chicken breast meat, adding richness and wow factor!...

After you’ve made this, try Vegetable Tagine. Meat-free deliciousness! Chicken tagine Tagine is a classic North African stew made with meats and vegetables braised in a gently spiced sauce. It is traditionally made in a conical-lidded earthenware pot called a tagine (from where the dish obviously gets its name!) A tagine’s lid is shaped so all the steam trapped in the dome drips back into the dish as condensation, keeping the dish moist as it slowly stews....

This recipe also shares two little known Chinese restaurant secrets so you can make a stir fry that genuinely is as good as your favourite take out! Chop Suey – Chicken Stir Fry Chop Suey is just a slightly westernised version of a classic, basic Chinese stir fry. Because of this, there really aren’t hard and fast rules about what goes in it, but the general characteristic is that the sauce is a fairly light brown colour, there is plenty of it (and you know I love my sauce!...

Terrific easy, make-ahead economical alternative to expensive cheese platters – and bursting with the holiday cheer!!! A FESTIVE CHRISTMAS APPETIZER IDEA! Bringing on some Christmas cheer with this festive Italian Cheese Log!! It’s a far cry from your usual cheeseball with a handful of token flavourings. This one is jam packed with flavour…. loaded with Italian flavours!! The secret ingredients in this are finely chopped salami and sun dried tomato....

Perfect portable food, this is certainly not your average sandwich. Crispy and buttery on the outside, mine is stuffed with Christmas leftover ham, turkey, spinach, antipasto type things and cheese. But anything goes! Anything goes in this bread bowl sandwich! Christmas Leftovers are precious around these parts. It only rolls around once a year, and everyone in our family really makes an effort with their allocated dishes. So quite often, you’ll find various family members sidling up to the leftover ham or whatever dish took their fancy in particular that year to pack themselves a generous quantity of it before all the remaining leftovers are shared out equally and fairly to everyone....

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....

Aren’t you just dying to know how I made that frosting?? 😜 (Looking for Pupcakes? Here it is!) Dog cake for Dozer’s birthday! “That frosting tastes a bit odd,” grumbled the husband of Dozer’s boarder. Can you just imagine the pleasure she got out of telling him he’d just eaten a DOG cake??😂 “Serves him right for helping himself to anything that looks tasty” she smirked when she told me....

Is it just me who thinks that iceberg lettuce wedges is a great and unique salad for a menu? OK, so truth be told, it’s not just about making something different. It’s because this is a virtually no chop salad. 🙂 Make the ranch dressing ahead. Then it takes 5 seconds to chop and iceberg lettuce up. And voila! Salad is served! I know the civilised way is to eat this with a knife and fork....

Japanese Salmon recipe This is an authentic, simple Japanese marinade that can be used for any fish but is especially great with salmon. In this recipe I’ve cooked this by pan frying but it is really great broiled/grilled too. With pan frying you get a really crispy skin (which I love) and the wonderful caramelisation, and with broiling/grilling, the exterior is less caramelised making it softer and a bit juicier which is also delicious....

Lightly Sweet ‘n Salty Butter Popcorn Anyone who has attempted butter popcorn probably did what we all tried at some point: Douse fresh popcorn with regular melted better. Seems obvious enough, right? Only … you found after 10 minutes your popcorn turned soggy and sad (and totally ruined your movie night). The reason it goes soggy is because butter contains 15% water. Yes, water is what is making your popcorn soggy!...

Sizzle aside, this homemade version is a near perfect replica. Even the velveted texture of the lamb! Mongolian Lamb Mongolian Lamb is a Chinese stir fry that’s made with tenderised, marinated strips of lamb in a dark sweet-savoury sauce perfumed with Chinese Five Spice. It’s not an authentic Chinese dish, and almost certainly has nothing to do with Mongolia. The truth is nobody really knows why it’s called Mongolian Lamb....

Cooking meat on the bone is always the best way to slow cook meats, like with slow cooked Beef Short Ribs and Osso Bucco. The meat is juicier and I’m 100% convinced it’s more flavourful too! Welcome back to PERSIAN WEEK! This week it’s all about the aromatic smells and flavours of Persian food, the bright colours and the chest puffing as you airily tell your family and friends “oh, we’re just having a Persian Feast tonight....

Homemade pesto will last for 3 days in the fridge, or months in the freezer. Make a pesto pasta, use for pasta salad, spread it on toast, use as a dip and dollop on everything! There is no greater purpose for a big bunch of fresh basil than to make a homemade classic Italian pesto, and it’s negligent of me to have not shared my “formula” until now! While basil is the classic version, there’s a wide variety of combinations available and I use the same recipe for all variations:...

16 April Update – 7 days in, $39,106 raised, 5,000 foods delivered to 13 hospitals!! Read more and see photos here, down in the Updates section. ❤️ Over 100 healthcare workers around the world have died from COVID-19, caring for those of us in need. I want to say thank you to our frontliners. On Thursday 2 April 2020, I sent 250 muffins to the Westmead Hospital in Sydney as a small token of my appreciation to healthcare workers in the frontline, battling the COVID-19 war at great personal risk to themselves....

Being an Aussie fortunate enough to have many readers from all around the world – and I really do many from all around the world (!!!!) – one of the things I’m very mindful of is sharing a selection of recipes suited to varying climates. And right now – January and February – are always the toughest months because the seasonal difference is at its most extreme. When I’m sweltering in the height of summer when it’s 40C/104F without a whisper of a breeze (reminder: I live in a house with no air conditioning!...

As with ribs, there’s no way to look elegant when you annihilate a plate of wings. And we wouldn’t have it any other way! Sticky Chinese Chicken Wings These Sticky Chinese Chicken Wings are so moorish, once you start you won’t be able to stop! This is my family recipe for Sticky Chinese Chicken Wings which has been tweaked and perfected over years, with input from everyone (mother, brother, sister and me) and many heated debates!...

It’s simple to make, fun to construct, and tastes even better the next day – and the next! This is a traditional Italian recipe by Vanessa Martin, a well regarded Australian Italian Chef. Tiramisu – proper Italian recipe! There are many, many Tiramisu recipes out there in this big wide world. Some are complicated. Some are very shortcut, made using cream in a can. This is a proper Italian Tiramisu recipe....

Here’s the list! Starters Snack monsters unite! Lots of colourful options here for nibbly things that are easy to transport and no fiddly work on the day-of. Festive Italian Cheese Log Tastes even better than it looks! Just take it ready-made to wherever you’re going and add a big pile of Jatz on the side. I love that this is something a little different, just an idea that popped in my head one day!...