One Pot Broccoli, Chicken and Rice Casserole
Tonight’s dinner – sorted! Tastes like risotto but totally fuss free to make! Loaded with broccoli and did I mention ONE POT??!
Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls
Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls are packed with bright, fresh flavors and served with an insanely addictive Vietnamese Peanut Dipping Sauce that takes a minute to make. With a couple of cheeky tricks, step-by-step photos and an easy-to-follow video, you’ll be rolling perfect rice paper rolls like a pro in no time!
Asian Chilli Chicken
Asian Chilli Chicken is a quick chicken dinner that’s an explosion of (spicy!) sticky, savoury Asian flavours. 287 calories of tasty goodness in 8 minutes flat!
Mexican Corn Salad
Mexican Corn Salad is a wonderful fresh corn salad made for summer BBQ’s and Mexican feasts! It’s a giant salad form of Esquites, a corn street snack sold in cups on the streets of Mexico. Corn kernels are sautéed in butter and garlic until golden brown, then dressed in a creamy lime dressing and finished fresh coriander/cilantro and a hint of zing from Jalapeño. It’s outrageously and insanely good!
Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies
These Breakfast Cookies are like a bowl of homemade granola in cookie form! They’re healthy oatmeal cookies that taste like your favourite oatmeal raisin cookies!
Crumpet recipe
You asked for it – So here are the PERFECT crumpets!
Sweet and Sour Pork
The best ever Sweet and Sour Pork recipe is loaded with tricks the Chinese have been using for centuries: double dredge and double fry for extra crispy, cornflour instead of flour, economical pork used for juiciness, but tenderised with baking soda so you’d swear they’re pricey chops, and a sauce that’s not sickeningly sweet.
A great Chicken Marinade
This is a great everyday Chicken Marinade, one you make with things you’ve already got with plenty of sub options (see notes). It will make any cut of chicken extra juicy, infuse it with savoury flavour that’s a touch of sweet, with a hint of herby goodness. Especially good for chicken breast, and terrific for …
Gravy recipe
Tastes like KFC – but a million times better!
Really Quick Broccoli Pasta
This is a great emergency meal OR carb + veg side for all those times when your cupboards are bare except for broccoli, pasta, and some kind of cheese. It’s saucy without using tons of oil, and there’s loads of sub options. Quick and utterly scrumptious – loaded with tons of broccoli!
Whole Baked Fish
The easiest and best way to cook a fish is to bake it whole. The flesh is at its juiciest and most tender, and it’s completely effortless. Cooking fish this way is easy enough for midweek meals, but still makes an impressive centrepiece for occasions! I’m using a whole snapper today, but this recipe will work for virtually any fish!
Oven Baked Chicken and Rice
Made entirely in the oven (no stove!), the rice in this recipe is outrageously delicious! It’s buttery and garlicky, tender but not mushy. The secret tip is to briefly bake onion with garlic and butter before adding the rice, liquids and chicken – it adds a great flavour base!
Honey Garlic Chicken Breast
An incredible quick and easy way to serve up chicken breast – seared then simmered in the most amazing honey garlic sauce. Don’t be deceived by the short ingredient list! It’s absolutely worth the extra step of dusting the chicken with flour because it creates a crust for the sauce to cling to.
Honey Garlic Chicken Breast
An incredible quick and easy way to serve up chicken breast – seared then simmered in the most amazing honey garlic sauce. Don’t be deceived by the short ingredient list! It’s absolutely worth the extra step of dusting the chicken with flour because it creates a crust for the sauce to cling to.
Mushroom Pasta
An incredible way to use mushrooms in a meal – in a mushroom pasta! The tastiness of this pasta lies in the mushrooms you use because it’s all about the mushrooms. This pasta is made the proper Italian way so even though it’s only made with 6 ingredients, it’s saucy and juicy and so incredibly tasty!
Mushroom Stuffed Chicken Breast
These juicy chicken breasts are stuffed with garlicky mushrooms, spinach leaves and a blanket of oozing melted cheese. Simple to make with just a few ingredients, this is how to transform chicken breast from ho-hum into “ohhh yum!”
Singapore Chilli Crab
Here’s arguably the most famous crab recipe in the world: Singapore Chilli Crab! For the pinnacle of the experience, make this using fresh, live mud crab that you clean and cut yourself, or ask the fish shop to cut the crab for you.
Be prepared to get messy eating it (half the fun!) – and to be surprised at how quick it is to make!
Lo Mein Noodles
If you want lip smackingly delicious Lo Mein noodles just like takeout, you just need to get the SAUCE right! The noodle part is easy – you can literally use any noodles, even pasta (yep, seriously). Also, switch out the vegetables with 5 cups (packed) of any chopped vegetables of choice.
Roasted Vegetables
Knowing how to make Roasted Vegetables well is a life essential!
Emergency “Dump ‘n Bake” Fried Rice
This recipe was conceived as an emergency, ultra low-effort side dish. Just dump all the ingredients in a pan, and shove it in the oven. End result: seasoned rice that’s amazingly similar to wok-tossed fried rice! Every grain of rice is perfectly cooked and fluffy, and the bacon even goes golden!
Scrambled Eggs
No one should tell you how to take your eggs. But everyone should know how to make scrambled eggs well! 60 seconds, soft, creamy, custardy. Perfection!
Poached Chicken
Forget every other method you’ve used. This recipe GUARANTEES the juiciest chicken breast you’ve ever made in your life. No special equipment, no fancy gadgets. It’s dead easy and foolproof.
Broccoli Chicken Fritters
This combination of juicy chicken pieces and tender broccoli inside a fritter with a crispy golden crust is seriously delicious!
Baked Eggs with Mushrooms
Shirred Eggs are a type of baked eggs, and are a super-simple way to turn the humble egg into an enticing meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Eggs are cracked over a bed of garlicky mushroom and spinach in small dishes, topped with a dash cream and parmesan then baked until just-set.
Smoked Sausage and Rice
The smoked sausage is the trick here to get great flavour into this quick one pot dinner. Tastes like Jambalaya, minus the cajun flavours, and much faster to make. Everybody loves this!
Asian Slaw – crunchy Oriental Cabbage Salad with Asian Dressing
A light, healthy, CRUNCHY Asian salad that is a great side for all types of Asian foods. Dressing is a great salty / sour / spicy lime dressing reminiscent of Thai and Vietnamese food. Add CHICKEN if making this as a meal. Serves 8 – 10 as a side, 4 as a meal with chicken.
Chicken Stroganoff
Super saucy stroganoff – because we like things saucy!!!
Chicken with Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Sauce
Dinner on the table in 20 minutes! The sauce is ridiculously addictive – I’m tempted to double it!
Garlic Butter Salmon
This is a simple-yet-luxurious, cheffy way to cook salmon. By basting continuously with foaming garlic butter, it seeps into every crack and crevice of the salmon and gives it the ultimate buttery crust.
Thai Green Papaya Salad
In Thailand, Green Papaya Salad is traditionally made in giant mortar and pestles large enough to hold the entire salad. The dressing is pounded first, and the rest of the salad is added, pounded a little and finally tossed. For this home version, we use an ordinary size mortar instead. We make the salad in stages, then bring it all together at the end in a bowl.
Simple Bean Soup from El Bulli
This Bean Soup comes to you from El Bulli restaurant, famed in its time for topping the World’s 50 Best Restaurant list, year after year. But fear not! This is not a complex Michelin star dish. It’s a simple bean soup from the El Bulli staff cookbook, “The Family Meal”.
Chicken Fricassée
Recipe video above. A traditional French dish, this is essentially a quick chicken stew with a creamy white mushroom sauce. It’s a bit like a white sauce version of the famous French Coq au Vin – but it’s much faster to make!
This is a wonderful rustic family meal that’s quick enough for midweek, or to elevate to restaurant level by using homemade chicken stock.
Whole Orange Cake
This is a wonderful moist cake that’s bursting with orange flavour in a way that you can only achieve using whole oranges – rind and all! Boiling the oranges removes the bitterness from the pith (white part). You still get the fainest whiff of bitterness in the finshed cake – but it’s actually pleasant and reminds you that you’re eating real oranges!
Fondant Slow-Roasted Sweet Potatoes
The familiar sweetness of sweet potato gets a boost of savoury by cooking them fondant style: Roasting in stock, long and slow, so the inside turns meltingly creamy and the outsides caramelise.
Crispy Pan Fried Fish
Easy ✅ Quick ✅ Tasty ✅
Emergency “Dump ‘n Bake” Fried Rice
This recipe was conceived as an emergency, ultra low-effort side dish. Just dump all the ingredients in a pan, and shove it in the oven. End result: seasoned rice that’s amazingly similar to wok-tossed fried rice! Every grain of rice is perfectly cooked and fluffy, and the bacon even goes golden!