This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Pad Thai recipe Pad Thai is one of the world’s most beloved noodle dishes. Along with Thai Green Curry and Red Curry, this is the dish by which every Thai restaurant is measured. In fact, I was trying to find the “best” Thai restaurant in my area just last week and it brought me much amusement that Pad Thai was the baseline of a favourable or unfavourable rating for almost every review!...

It’s as easy as can be: partially bake chicken breasts, add pizza toppings, then finish baking until the chicken is cooked through. Easy and delicious! I always have chicken breasts in the fridge. And if not in the fridge, then I have them in my freezer. Can you relate? It’s definitely not the most exciting food item one can eat. But it’s accessible, affordable, and EASY. Ingredients You’ll only need a few simple ingredients to make this tasty chicken recipe....

The result is tender, juicy, and very flavorful! Leftovers are excellent too, heated up or even cold. Lamb is by far my favorite meat. I love its distinctive flavor, and I especially enjoy its fat - I find it more palatable than beef fat. I have quite a few lamb recipes that I make regularly. But when I want to roast a big piece of meat, for a holiday or for a large gathering, my two most common choices are either roasting a whole leg of lamb or making ribeye roast....

They are wonderful all on their own; even better dipped into a tasty, spicy sour cream dip. These crunchy, flavorful chips are just the thing when everyone around you is eating crunchy but starchy snacks that you really shouldn’t partake in. In fact, much like beef jerky, parmesan crisps, and cheese chips, these salami chips are so good, that when I place them next to other party snacks, everyone reaches for them and they are the first to disappear!...

These scones are made with a food processor which is not only faster, it eliminates the risk of common pitfalls. Soft and fluffy insides, golden tops, serve them with copious amounts of jam and cream for the ultimate classic afternoon experience. Classic plain scone recipe Perhaps the simplest of all baked goods in this entire world, the humble scone surely conjures up fond memories for every Aussie. Gatherings with family and friends, school bake sales, fundraising morning teas at work, a quaint little cafe in the Southern Highlands, or your grandmother’s kitchen....

After a 6 month hiatus to focus on my debut cookbook, I’m back with a brand new recipe! I’m easing in here with something super quick and easy, but something you’ll make over and over again…. Hope you love it as much as I do! ~ Nagi x Supreme Soy Noodles – the Asian noodles for everything! My first new recipe in 6 months!!! Simple and fast, Supreme Soy Noodles are THE Asian noodles to serve with everything and anything Asian....

My favourite things about this recipe: Minimal ingredientsQuick to prepareSimple, straightforward stepsProvides that OMG moment when you taste it Oh yes, THIS is that recipe. Simple ingredients that come together in this super easy, darn tasty dinner. I also think the sauce is rather fancy - like something you’d get in a French restaurant - rich, creamy and full of flavour. Just take a look at the ingredients below, you probably have everything in already....

Whilst not exactly diet food, this Thai Style Peanut Pork is homecooked and extra tasty, the slow-cooked pork is beautifully tender and mouthwatering. 📋 What do we need? I find that pork shoulder works really well in this dish as it has nice fat running through it which renders down as it’s cooking and becomes really tender and juicy. 👩‍🍳PRO TIP I like to use a heavy cast-iron casserole dish for this recipe....

Smashed Potatoes Let me introduce you to your new favourite way with potatoes. SMASHED! CRISPY! BUTTERY!! Buttery CRISPY SMASHED POTATOES! Best ever potato recipe! If you are yet to experience the joys of crispy smashed potatoes, and my first experience was only 3 years ago when I was introduced to them by Claire from Sprinkles and Sprouts, a fellow Australian food blogger, these are going to change your potato game forever....

3 ingredient desserts are handy emergency recipes, like Chocolate Covered Strawberries and Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars. Everybody loves them and they’re so quick to make! Peanut Butter Cookies Having dictated this recipe to 3 people at the dog park in the past week, and having had all 3 approach me afterwards with varying forms of love/hate gestures (“THIS is YOUR FAULT!” one lady wailed, showing me her stomach 😉 ), I decided I had better move this up the posting schedule....

It easily serves 12 people and it can be frozen too! A great make-ahead dessert to impress your friends and family. I’ve got a fair number of no-bake cheesecakes on my site that I LOVE (if you’re after one of those I recommend the pecan caramel cheesecake, strawberry and rhubarb cheesecake bites, or the Oreo crust Snickers cheesecake)! But I’ve recently been obsessing over baked cheesecakes.I had a thing against them for quite a while after my first experiences with baked cheesecakes were a little on the, erm, ’eggy’ side....

Jump to:📋 What do we need for the prawns? For the Bang Bang Sauce 🔪 How to make Bang Bang Shrimp 📺 Watch how to make it 🍲 More fantastic prawn/shrimp recipes Bang Bang Shrimp 💬 Reviews This dish takes me right back to our holiday in Florida a few years ago. A stop off at Bonefish Grill on a day out - we started our meal with Bang Bang Shrimp, and wow!...

Healthy, hearty, economical and a complete dinner made in one pot. Yessss….. New beef mince recipe idea: Beef & Lentil Soup! This is a hearty lentil soup loaded up with lots of vegetables and the convenience of ground beef for the meat! Why don’t we use beef mince in soup more often? It’s so handy and economical, it soaks up flavour and makes this one-pot hearty meal a very low-effort endeavour....

The day has finally arrived! Chris has finished his IT job after 17 years, and is officially coming on board with Kitchen Sanctuary! We’re both a little terrified, but extremely excited! I’m mostly looking forward to: Having someone to share the workload - I’ve worked until close to midnight every night this week - despite this only being my second post of the week (freelance work, cookery class review, and the dreaded tax return taking up most of my time)....

Who doesn’t love a good burger that you almost have to dislocate your jaw for - just to get your mouth around? I had to persuade Chris that meatless Mondays are ‘a real thing’ when I told him we were having these instead of meat for tea. Always one to give me a thoroughly miserable look when I cook him a meat-free meal, he begrudgingly praised them as he tucked into veggie burger number two....

Even the leftovers are great, so I sometimes double this recipe and make two casseroles. I love zucchini! It’s such a fresh-tasting vegetable. I really disliked it as a kid, but I think that was because I mostly ate it boiled, which is certainly not the best way to cook it. While I adore zucchini prepared in pretty much any other way (grilled zucchini is a fave), in this casserole, it’s especially good....

The new way to make risotto that comes out just as creamy and just as delicious is here – and it’s so much easier, less washing up and far less labour intensive than the old way! Risotto is one of my all time favourite foods. I feel like I say that about many recipes I’ve shared, but I really mean it. Really!! I don’t make risotto as often as I want to because it’s carb heavy and I lack self control....

Don’t be fooled by recipes claiming to be “better than take out” that call for nothing more than soy sauce for flavour. It takes more than that for an authentic chicken fried rice – just ask your friendly local Chinese restaurant!! Chicken Fried Rice After Monday’s simple yet-myth-busting How To Cook Rice post, I thought I’d follow up with a quick ‘n easy recipe today. Using rice of course. My “House Special” chicken fried rice!...

The trick to ensuring the melted butter stays firmly sealed inside? Partially freezing the chicken so the chicken is keep firmly in place. Yep, it’s that easy! {Bonus no deep frying option provided} Chicken Kiev Stuffed things are good things. Dumplings. Profiteroles. Samosas. The anticipation of cutting into something that looks so plain and unassuming on the outside to reveal something wickedly good on the inside, is like opening a tantalising birthday present....

Chinese food for breakfast? Definitely! I can tell you for a fact that breakfast in Asian countries are so much more interesting than toast and cereal! And so much more delicious!! Though I was raised in Australia, all my relatives are in Tokyo. Every time I visit them, even though I am on holidays, I find myself bounding out of bed when the sun rises in anticipation of the mini-dinner buffet that is considered breakfast in Japan....