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If you’re feeling inspired, indulge in a Thai banquet at home with Chicken Satay Skewers, Thai Fish Cakes, Thai Green Curry or Red Curry, and Thai Fried Rice! Thai Basil Chicken Wowser. I LOVE Thai Basil Chicken. Just looking at these photos and writing up this post has me peeved that I’ll shortly be reheating leftovers instead of firing up the wok. (That’s a nice insight into the immaturity that is me....

An excellent starch + veg side dish, or light meal for warm days. Plus it’s alot more interesting than the run-of-the-mill bean salads around! White Bean Tabbouleh Salad I don’t know if you have people in your life like me who don’t exactly jump up and down at the mention of a bean salad. But throw the word “Tabbouleh” in there, and suddenly, it sounds a whole lot more interesting....

Asian Chilli Chicken Calling a dish “Asian”-something always feels a little generic, a lazy label that people seem to use loosely if a recipe happens to contain a dash of soy sauce. I can assure you that there’s more than just soy sauce in this! Ginger, garlic, chilli, sesame, sriracha and lime juice all make the roll call of ingredients. While it may not be strictly traditional to any particular cuisine, the flavours still plant this quick chicken recipe firmly in the “Asian” genre in my book....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! After sharing Greek Moussaka with you on Monday which requires no less than FIVE pots, pans and trays to make (worth the effort, but not an everyday meal!), I thought I’d better to a 180º and share a much faster recipe today. 😉 My friend John from He Needs Food, a stunning Sydney food and travel blog, shared a homemade Sweet Chili Sauce the other day and it prompted me to make some....

Biryani recipe One of the most requested recipes is finally here! Another RecipeTin Family effort, it took us seven attempts to get this biryani right. Seven attempts means seven heated arguments about who would take the leftover biryani because somebody in the RecipeTin family, at any point in time, usually declares themselves to be on a diet to address blog-related weight gain concerns. And it was worth it. (Belly and all....

Like the Brown Sugar Broiled Salmon with Vegetables, this is a terrific one tray salmon recipe that’s quick to prepare! Chilli Lime Baked Salmon In my humble opinion, salmon is best cooked in a smoking skillet to get the skin shatteringly crisp. Serve it on mashed potatoes with a lemon herb cream sauce and a side of perfectly roasted baby carrots = restaurant quality dinner. I swear, you’d pay $30 for that at a fancy restaurant....

I love to host parties because I love spending quality time with my family and friends plus (this will surprise you…..) I love to cook. But no matter how good my intentions are to plan ahead, I always end up changing my mind at the last minute and scrambling to get organised. People think I’m an organised person – I have lists and lists of lists. But I always end up changing those lists at the last moment!...

Bonus: you get to lick the bowl clean. I’ll take that over cake batter any day! Chocolate Truffles 5 years ago when I embarked on a chocolate truffle mission, I was rather surprised that it wasn’t as easy as I thought to find a “normal” chocolate truffle recipe. All I wanted was a basic truffle recipe that I could make without having to use $40/kg ($20/lb) Lindt 85% cacao dark chocolate, without liquor in it, without a salted caramel centre, without using a candy thermometer, without a double coating of chocolate....

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....

A Bali food favourite, it’s healthy and endlessly versatile. Use ANY vegetables – raw or cooked! Gado Gado – Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce This is a dish for the veg hating child within all of us. Clever Indonesians figured out a way to make plain vegetables completely irresistible to everyone – by drizzling with a sweet savoury Indonesian peanut sauce! Because seriously – if you plonk a giant plate of boiled vegetables in front of me and call it dinner, I would look at you like you’d lost your mind....

*** This recipe is part of a Christmas Special where I show you how to make 3 mains and 4 side dishes that take 1.5 hrs to prepare and can be largely made ahead. So this Christmas, you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family! 🙂 *** This mightn’t be the sexiest sounding salad around but it sure packs a punch in the flavour department and takes the humble cabbage to a whole new level!...

Use for Eggs Benedict and steamed asparagus, and it’s also particularly spectacular with crustaceans such as lobster, crab, prawns/shrimp and scallops. Hollandaise Sauce This classic sauce is regarded as one of the most technically challenging in the French cooking repertoire. Traditionally made with just a whisk and bowl set over a double boiler, it takes a good 10 to 15 minutes of vigorous whisking. If the heat is too high you end up with scrambled eggs....

Homemade French Onion Dip Confession time: I’ve made shortcut French Onion Dip using a packet of French Onion Soup mix many, many times…. and in fact, here’s the recipe! BUT a REAL Homemade French Onion Dip, made from scratch by making your own caramelised onion trumps the shortcut soup mix version 10 times over. Thank you Ina Garten! I will never give up the packet soup mix French Onion Dip....

An essential for hot summer nights, quick mid week meals, make ahead lunches and gatherings! Italian Pasta Salad recipe I was inspired to make this because I went on a Salami Bender* after the Salami Cream Cheese Roll I shared a couple of weeks ago. I could never be a food magazine editor or similar. Because a proper editor would ensure that a variety of recipes and ingredients are used....

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....

How smug do you feel? (Answer: VERY!) Mexican Meatballs I probably shouldn’t admit this, given I run a recipe website and I feel like I’m expected to have a positive attitude to all things food. The truth is I don’t really have the patience for meatball rolling. I’ve previously whined that someone really needs to invent a meatball rolling device. I picture some tube-like thing into which meat is stuffed, then perfectly shaped meatballs come plopping out the other end....

Nachos is one of those universal foods that everyone loves, whether health conscious or not! But let’s face it – the calories in a pile of nachos goodness isn’t the best for our health. Does it stop us? Never! BUT it means we can’t eat nachos as often as we like. So I present to you….midweek Nachos Pie! All the flavour, much of the crunch, with far less calories to satisfy your Nachos craving any day of the week!...

Ottolenghi’s Green Bean Salad I’m a self-confessed Ottolenghi tragic (who isn’t??). His gift and passion for imagining original vegetable dishes with eclectic influences that are vibrant, nourishing, exciting and beautiful to the eye all at once, is inspired. This is a recipe adapted from a green bean salad in his popular cookbook Jerusalem. In classic Ottolenghi style, it’s a salad that brings together an unlikely combination of ingredients that nevertheless just works so well together:...