So good, so fast and so good for you! Just make it and your mouth and stomach will thank you. Ingredients Method Slice the pork sausages into roughly 2cm long chunks. Heat the olive oil over a medium heat in a large oven proof fry- or saute- pan. Add the Continue Reading
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Fennel and Sardine Pasta
Another fantastic recipe sent to me by Karin that has become a staple weeknight meal. Tinned fish — it doesn’t get better! Ingredients Method Put a medium sized frypan on to a medium slow heat and brown the pine nuts. Shake regularly and DON’T WALK AWAY. When they smell good Continue Reading
Scribbly Cake
This is Marcella Hazan’s Sbricciolona—crumbly cake. It isn’t glamorous. It isn’t fancy. But damn it is delicious!
kt’s banana bread
Does anyone really want healthy banana bread? I do! If you don’t, just go right ahead and make Banana Chocolate Bread instead. I won’t mind. But for a banana bread that is just a little more like bread, and a lot less like cake (but still delicious) here we go…
(almost) the world’s easiest pasta dish
We all know the easiest pasta dish is just oil, garlic and chilli (hello aglio e olio). The next easiest dish is just to add some bacon to that. But sometimes you need something with just a little more… bangers.
sally’s salmon
First tried at dinner with the Valencic Websters, too good not to try again… and again…
bread to sink your teeth into
Jo has baked this bread for years, so it must be good…
kk’s zooshy baked beans
Not your average baked beans. But not much more trouble to prepare!
cheat’s chorizo risotto for ash
A(nother) recipe nicked from Hello Fresh for those nights when you just want to eat something fast, satisfying and posthaste.
easy (chicken) peasy soup
So easy, so spicy, so perfect for a cold weeknight…
sour chicken
This is an Oppen-Riley staple dinner — a one-dish wonder that also makes for a great topping for pasta should you actually have some left over.
edamame mama
Adapted from the wonderful Hetty McKinnon book Community. The original version is made with roast eggplant and is amazing, but my darlings won’t eat eggplant… This is so fast, so tasty and makes kick-ass leftovers for lunch. Make yourself some now!
Two out of three aint bad
This tastes fantastic, it covers most food groups in one dish, but it cannot be called quick to prepare. But it is definitely worth the finagling, if you like meatloaf, and who doesn’t secretly love meatloaf?
Not-quite-paella-with-artichokes
This is a Yottam Ottalenghi recipe. Straight up, barely tinkered with. But I am terrified it will disappear from the internet and it is really, really good. So I am preserving it here.
BBQ Chicken with a Portuguese accent
Eh, who needs authenticity, when faking it tastes this good? If the answer is ‘I do!’ the original recipe I nicked/improvised this from can be found here on the wonderful SBS recipe site. Be warned: they want you to marinate the chicken overnight. I just want you to marinate it for Continue Reading
Shakshouka our way
We live in Newtown. We have to eat shakshouka. But most of the time we eat it for dinner, not breakfast. We feel no shame.
Nonna Rae’s quick and tasty ravioli
Fast, delicious and covers all the necessary food groups. What more do you want? (Magnums…)
chocolate paaaaarty cake
This cake is delicious. It is easy to make. It keeps well, getting better and moister with time. It is also gluten and dairy free, which is why I made it the first time. It will not be why I make it again…
Allie’s Easy Peasy Dahl
Healthy, tasty and satisfying. What’s not to like?
Beef, Pumpkin Tagine Thing
Slightly tweaked recipe from the 12WBT, so Very Good For You. And tastier than it has any damn right to be.
Jack Irish sirloin with a mustard and caper cream sauce
You don’t need to wait until you’ve had a disappointing day at the track, or indeed until someone has offered you Bollinger and oysters, to enjoy a Jack Irish steak.
Jack Irish ‘pie thing’
Also to be eaten while watching a Jack Irish dvd (or when you are questioning your life choices…)
Jack Irish risotto
To be eaten while watching ‘Bad Debts’…
Slow roast pork
From a recipe mum found — this pork tastes fantastic, is messy but easy to prepare and has never failed to please the masses.
Red Cooked Beef
Oh hot damn this is good. And easy. Because I am lazy.
Lovely Lentil Soup
So much more than the name suggests, this is my go-to soup, the soup that even makes the children happy.
Michelle Bridges’ World Best Muesli
Because I really need to get this scrap of paper off my kitchen notice-board. And it really is a very good light, fresh muesli…
Pumpkin Seed Crack
As the name suggests, dangerously addictive
Polenta Cake with Figs and Rosemary
Stupidly easy, sophisticated flavour, and most importantly very very morish.
Cauliflower Puree
I like to tell myself this is low GI, and therefore healthy. Butter, what butter? Man oh man does it taste good.
Macadamia Crusted Barramundi
This is my go to recipe when I feel like we need to up our fish intake. Delicious, quick, and as its oven cooked it doesn’t stink your home out. Did I mention it’s delicious?
Libyan Lamb – a variation
cos once you’re on a good thing… flog it
Gin and Tonic in a Bowl
Definitely not a kid-friendly jelly.
Chocolate Fondant
Yummy
Ricotta and Spinach Gnocchi with a burnt butter tomato sauce
Yummy
Basic Birthday Cake
A good basic cake you can build with, and on…
Libyan Lamb Soup
As Kate says, it ‘ticks all the boxes’.
Green Cheese Soup
Yummy
Vicky’s Broccoli Pasta
Yummy
Vegetarian Chilli
Yummy
Roast Veggies with Camembert and Poached Egg
Yummy
Chook a l’Orange
Sensational recipe. The chicken is beautifully moist, tender and full of flavour. Kate & Felix can back me up on this!
Mandarin Cake
The only way I like to eat mandarins… and I’m sure it counts as a fruit portion…
Peter’s Pearl Barley Risotto
Deceptively simple to make and altogether yummy.
Rae’s Zingy Zucchinis
Mum made this at Bawley at Easter, and I think it’s delicious! Thanks for the recipe, mum.
Basic Bread Recipe
Because American bread is beyond disgusting.
The Kids’ Tomato Soup
It is simple, it is basic, and it is so much better than the tinned stuff…
Spanakopita for Allie
The spinach pie we ate to farewell Allie. We are missing you already, girl.
Wine Simmered Sausages with Lentils
Easy and yummy … what more can you want? But it does depend on getting the right sausages and the right lentils… good luck at Bawley!
Minestrone alla Marcella
This is really Kate’s recipe, but if she’s not going to post she can bite me. All I know is that it is damn yummy.
Olive and Lemon Pot-Roasted Lamb.
This is one of Matthew Evan’s foolproof recipes. I think it can stand with some tinkering.
Salmon With Coconut-Spinach-Chickpeas
This recipe gets extra points for looking impressive while being dead easy to prepare. Did I mention that its also really tasty?
Chicken Marengo
by Allie’s request, one of the first dishes I ever knew how to cook
Summer Tuna
Light, quick and yummy … and no actual cooking, so perfect for a hot, humid Sydney summer
Grown Up Beans and Franks
Stop making that face Doug, this is good.
Anzac Biscuits
Eli does love these.
Ratatouille Our Way
I think credit for this version goes to Jo, but I am writing it up… and of course you can still eat it while watching “Edge of Darkness” for a complete retro experience.
Tom Ka Gai
The first salvo in my war against recipes torn out of magazines and stuffed into cookbooks. It may be unwinnable.
Not Quite Vichysoisse
A little early nineties in its colour combination, but don’t hold that against it
Pan Fried Veal With Easy Tomato Sauce
I make this quite a bit … it’s quick, light, and very good to eat.
Odorous Chicken with Herbs
This is the dish Sylvie liked, once upon a time …
Classic Guacamole
You never eat the same guacamole twice.
Lemon Tuna Parsley Pasta
We’ve all been cooking this for years, but it is still great!
Denva’s Almond Bean Salad
One of the best I’ve ever eaten, and always in demand at picnics
Dee’s Crab Triangles
Throw on your caftan, pour a long g & t, and put on some Burt Bacharach
Capsicum Salad
Perfect on a picnic because there won’t be any left to carry home
Soda Bread
This is the bread I made for my 30th birthday picnic.
Emergency Chocolate Cake
Perfect for any emergency
Slightly Simpler Pie
This egg and bacon pie is simpler, but still yummy
Goddess Birthday Pie
Don’t think about your cholesterol levels, just eat it!
“The Best” Tortilla Sandwich
Way yummier than a boring old club.
Couscous with Chorizo and Green Beans
A one pan, complete meal.
Banana Chocolate Bread
Allie cooked this first…but we cook it now
Chicken and Chickpea Soup
gosh, but that made me feel good inside
Pedant’s Ragu
The bolognese sauce that dares to speak its name
Simple Creamy Polenta
Basic, but Griffin liked it
Ossobuco alla Marcella
The ossobuco Kate cooks when the family comes to dinner.
Rusty Beef
A slow cooked dish for a cold day working from home.
Yummie Tuna Cakes
Yummmmmm. I’m hungry now.
Felix Rice
A delicious mid-point between Risotto and plain absorbed rice
Saturday Night Chicken
Fa Ina’s notoriously simple chicken recipe
Gourmet Cheesecake
This is the one I made last January at Bawley