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The best part is the crispy garlic crostini hidden under the fish that soaks up all that delicious sauce … Pesce all’ Acqua Pazza: Italian poached fish The literal translation of this Italian dish is “fish in crazy water”. Maybe because who would ever think that fish poached in a water-based sauce could be so delicious??! That’s crazy! 😉 While some have used the name as a licence to add all sorts of things to it, it’s actually supposed to be a simple dish based on three core ingredients: wine, tomato and herbs....

Browned butter and sweet soy sauce. It is a combination made in heaven, one that you may not have thought of but I hope you try it at least once because it is magical! Sweet soy sauce – otherwise known as Kecap Manis – is an Indonesian sweet soy sauce which is available at major supermarkets (Woolworths and Coles in Australia) OR you can easily make with just soy sauce and sugar....

Cooked long and slow in a rich red wine sauce, these beef ribs are easy enough for midweek, and most definitely impressive enough for company. (And after you’d tried these, try the BBQ Beef Ribs next!) Braised Beef Short Ribs – easy and luscious! It looks like a lump of coal. Or, as one RecipeTin Family member said, hot chocolate fudge cake. 😩 Photograph challenges aside, this is one of the most luscious slow cooked recipes that I know....

Café de Paris butter – sauce for steak Despite its name, Café de Paris butter was actually born in Switzerland, at Restaurant Café de Paris in Geneva back in 1941. It is traditionally an emulsified butter sauce that’s poured over steak, and the original secret recipe is still served today at restaurants such the L’Entrecote group’s steakhouses in France, Switzerland and elsewhere. These days you’ll find versions of Café de Paris sauce more often served instead as convenient, flavoured butter rounds, like this recipe....

Frost generously with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting for a terrific birthday cake or chocolate ganache for a luxurious rich option. For a richer, fudgier chocolate cake, try this Chocolate Fudge Cake. The ultimate glaze to impress, however, is without a doubt Chocolate Mirror Glaze….. This is the Chocolate Cake If you’ve been reading for a while, you know that sometimes I get real stubborn about doing certain things the “right way”....

14 family friendly reader favourite recipes, feeds 4 to 5, efficient grocery list with long shelf life ingredients, economical, everyday ingredients. Just because we’re in lockdown, we shouldn’t have to suffer sub standard food!! Coronavirus Meal Plan 2 – Quick & Easy Meals Family Favourites Here’s my second Menu Plan with a combined grocery list suited to a family of 4 for 14 days! This is what you’ll get:...

Made with a classic Scottish shortbread base and a fresh lemon curd topping that is a lovely balance of sweet and zing. I think you’ll be surprised how straightforward Lemon Bars are to make! Lemon Bars As I started writing this, I remembered that I shared Parmesan Shortbread Biscuits just 2 weeks ago. And that I shared a Honey Lemon Chicken last week. And here I am today sharing these easy Lemon Bars with a shortbread base....

One bite and you’ll know this is a keeper! Carrot Salad If you’re like me, you always have carrots in the fridge. Also, if you’re like me, you’re “always” scratching around for quick vegetable side dishes to serve with dinner. So – ever thought about making Carrot Salad?? It’s quick, it’s unbelievably tasty, and you’ve probably got everything you need to make it right now. And you can feel very tres chic because grated carrot salad is actually a French dish!...

I am yet to find a form of potatoes I don’t like. Mashed, fried, roasted, pureed, smashed, soup, salad, gnocchi, rosti, hasselbacks, gratin, stuffed, croquette, chips….the list goes on and on. And hash browns are right at the top of the list. I can’t think of a better way to start a day than with a salty, crispy, greasy, moist, freshly made hash brown. Plus, it’s the ultimate hangover cure....

Inspired by a Spiced Sweet Potato Salad from Community by Sydney local Hetty McKinnon, this is a big pile of vegetable goodness made seriously tasty. After a (very!) extended water break, the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon has resumed! Today – lentils made fabulous: Spiced Pumpkin Lentil Salad I had someone in my team make this to see if she liked it because the flavour profile is out of character for me – something I tried one day as a “let’s give this a go!...

Mediterranean Baked Chicken Dinner This is a chicken sheet pan dinner that ticks a lot of boxes for midweek cooking: complete meal – no need to bother with side salads low effort prep – no finely chopping anything, no fiddly assemble, just throw it all in a pan no need to watch over it – pop it in the oven, set the timer and walk away; no gourmet or hard to find ingredients – plus plenty of substitutions IT’S TOTALLY DELICIOUS!...

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....

I grew up being taught that instant meals were bad bad bad. The same applied to take out, frozen meals and canned meals. It wasn’t until I moved out of home and instant ramen became a regular in my midweek meal rotation that it dawned on me that my mum used to dish up ramen all the time – using instant ramen. “That’s against her rules!”, I thought. “What a hypocrite!...

Mexicans take their Carnitas tacos seriously because it is so mouth wateringly delicious. Succulent, slow cooked seasoned pork, shredded and stuffed into tacos. I am so obsessed, these are what I made for the cooking demo I did at the 2016 Sydney Good Food & Wine Show on the weekend!!! It’s been 2 years since I posted my Pork Carnitas recipe which, to this day, remains as one of my all time most popular recipes....

Particularly great served alongside Middle Eastern dishes, such as Chicken or Lamb Shawarma! Roasted Broccolini This broccolini recipe comes to your courtesy of Yotam Ottolenghi – except I found I needed to adjust the salt way down and adjust the sauce quantities to make it drizzle-able (is that a word??). As I’ve said before – in fact, very recently, when I shared how I roast carrots to make them golden – roasting is the best way to add flavour to vegetables....

While this recipe calls for a lengthy list of spices, you won’t need to take a trip to an Indian store to get them – they’re even sold at my local grocery store! Lamb Rogan Josh Rogan Josh is one of the heavy hitters at Indian restaurants, a firm favourite alongside Butter Chicken, Tikka Masala and Tandoori. I’d say Daal is up there too, but let’s be honest – if you can only order one curry, it probably won’t be daal (unless you’re with a vegetarian)....

Sesame Noodles There actually aren’t that many noodle dishes that I know that are truly better served at room temperature rather than warm. But this is one of them. Which makes this terrific for taking to gatherings or for work lunches. OR as a side dish that can be made well in advance of serving – one less thing to heat up when you’re ready to serve a crowd, yay!...

I’ll let you in on a trade secret – usually, the photos you see of so called baked eggs aren’t really baked at all. Shakshuka When eggs are baked, the thin film of egg whites covering the yolks becomes opaque, fogging up the beautiful bright yellow yolks. “This is a catastrophe!” said some food magazine editor, somewhere. “We cannot have foggy yolks! They must be bright yellow. This must be fixed!...

“Take 10 minutes out of your weekend to prepare ahead so you can get this dinner on the table in a snap during the week.” You don’t ordinarily think of fresh stir fries as make ahead, freezer friendly meals. But that’s exactly what this Sticky Chicken With Vegetable Fried Rice is. To be honest, I’ve never seen a recipe like this anywhere before. Marinating the meat and popping it into the freezer is nothing new....

Excellent use of portobello and BBQ Flat Mushrooms. Can’t find giant mushrooms? These are amazing made with small mushrooms too! Swiss Mushroom Burgers I love a good burger – and I don’t discriminate between meat and vegetarian as long as they tick all my Burger Boxes: juicy; meaty; satisfying; and you get burger pattie in every bite and not just bread. It’s so disappointing when you get a giant hamburger bun with a tiny burger pattie inside....