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
(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…
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…)
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.
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
Libyan Lamb Soup
As Kate says, it ‘ticks all the boxes’.
Chook a l’Orange
Sensational recipe. The chicken is beautifully moist, tender and full of flavour. Kate & Felix can back me up on this!
Peter’s Pearl Barley Risotto
Deceptively simple to make and altogether yummy.
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!
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.
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 …
Couscous with Chorizo and Green Beans
A one pan, complete meal.
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.
Saturday Night Chicken
Fa Ina’s notoriously simple chicken recipe