A Chinese Dim Sum dish fresh from the kitchen of Chris (yep, I let him loose in the kitchen, and I even filmed him too!! - check out the video below), we have these AMAZING prawn toast (or shrimp toast if you’re in the US) triangles. Stuffed with a juicy prawn filling and fried until moreishly crisp (then dipped in sweet chilli sauce, or my homemade sweet chilli jam!). I love these things....

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....

My kids still think retro is a little bit cool, as is ‘old-school’ and ‘vintage’. I love how using a certain word can evoke a certain feeling that would be completely different if another word with the same meaning was used. If I show my daughter a jacket or shoes from 20 years ago and call them vintage, she wants them. But if I told her they were from ‘back in the day’ they’re considered musty, old and unfashionable....

And while not identical to the real thing, it’s close enough, so there’s no need to feel deprived. Much like cauliflower, I find that spaghetti squash is a lifesaver when you crave certain comfort foods. So while cauliflower is the perfect substitute for rice, spaghetti squash is a wonderful replacement for noodles. This dish is so rich and comforting, I truly don’t miss the real thing when I make it....

I don’t really remember cakes featuring heavily. There was the annual homemade Christmas cake of course, and some special occasions called for a trifle with a Cadbury flake sprinkled on top, but for the most part we were quite a savoury family. I think my mum still scratches her head and wonders how that led to my sister becoming an awesome cake maker, and me spending a little too much of my time creating and writing about chocolatey, sticky, cakey things....

This is actually one of Chris’s recipes. Have I mentioned before he’s a cook too? I’m a lucky girl. 🥰 His Chilli Con Carne is always on recipe rotation, we must have it at least once every 2 weeks and I LOVE the Sesame Prawn Toast he makes too. So onto his delicious apple crumble recipe. The cooking apples will break down more during the cooking process and the eating apples will retain a bit more texture giving the perfect apple sauce center to the crumble....

What defines the perfect baked potato? For me it’s: Crispy, crunchy skin, that stays crisp (and doesn’t turn chewy after 5 minutes out of the oven).Tasty skin - the skin is JUST as important as the interior. It’s not something to be left behind on the plate.Fluffy, tender interior - goes without saying. I want the perfect texture to mash my salted butter into.Timing also has a small part to play....

You know when you go to a restaurant for a sunday dinner, how disappointing is it when the roasties aren’t crispy! They’re just a bit browned and chewy at the edges, instead of having that satisfying crunch. So disappointing!! Nope, give me homemade roasties any time. I want that crunchy exterior you can only get from fluffing up those edges and letting them bubble away in hot fat, with a fluffy, light interior....

What is it about pomegranates that just make a meal look so enticing? I think it’s because pomegranates = sophistication. They’re the culinary fruit equivalent of diamonds. I’ve been a bit obsessed with them recently - even adding them to my hot smoothies. My bottle of pomegranate molasses however, has - until now - sat in the cupboard, unopened, for about 2 years. I always meant to use it, along with the ras el hanout, the dusty jar of artichokes and that packet of strawberry Angel Delight (every adult in the UK ate this mousse-made-from-milk-and-powder throughout their childhood)....

This recipe is ready in less than 30 minutes, it’s very simple to make, and the sauce is wonderfully flavorful! This delicious stir-fry is one of my most requested leftover turkey recipes. All my family members love it! And I love the way leftover turkey forces me to be creative. Back when I didn’t mind bread, it was easy! Turkey salad, quesadillas, paninis, enchiladas, and even turkey pizza were the obvious solution....

Beware, these Vegetable Matchstick Fries are dangerous! Long past the point you feel full, you’ll still be tipping your head back to add another handful into your mouth. I went with a mixture of regular potato, sweet potato and beetroot for these fries, but you can use carrot, parsnip, celeriac - basically any hard veggies that won’t fall apart when being fried. Slice them up really thinly using a mandoline (or by hand if you really want to - although it takes ages…....

These fritters are ideal to make with fresh corn cut off the cob, but can be made with canned or frozen corn. Serve for breakfast, lunch, dinner! Crispy Corn Fritters Regular readers know I hate recipes that make false promises. And I’d say that the greatest offender in this online world is exaggerated declarations of crispiness. So let me just get this out of the way first – you can’t do THIS ↓↓↓ with soggy corn fritters!...

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Vietnamese stir fry – Pork Mince recipe Ground pork – which we call “mince” here in Australia – is extremely good value. It’s also just about the least sexy protein I know. Don’t you think? A dry aged piece of New York strip is sexy. Quail is gourmet. Oysters are….well, we’ve all heard that oysters are an aphrodisiac, right?...

Last Friday it was 40C/104F here in Sydney (which the newspapers labelled as “Fry-day” – ha ha). Then on Saturday it was 22C/72F and I was wearing a jumper to the beach. The weather here at the moment is nuts. So I’m swinging between no-cook meals and winter comfort foods. This soup clearly falls in the comfort food bucket! On Sunday I had friends over for an early Thanksgiving Dinner where a 5kg/10lb roast turkey took centre stage....

I finally decided to condense them into one easy “quick reference” image. I hope you find this easy reference handy too! This is a photo of chicken I made using the Sticky & Hot marinade – I call it Sticky Pantry Chicken with Rice and Broccolini, and because I used the marinade as a glaze instead of marinade, it’s on the table in 15 minutes!

A round up of the very best Party Food recipes that I’ve shared over the years that are worthy of your New Years’ Eve Party!! Or browse the full Party Foods recipe collection at your leisure! I love this time of the year! Quality time with family and friends, and every gathering I attend inevitably involves food. A get together without food is….just a meeting, isn’t it? 😂 So I find myself regularly digging through my stash of party food recipes to find fast, easy, make ahead recipes to take to get togethers....

Be warned – this is a loooong post! I started this year probably like most people - a little heavier after the Christmas season. My husband and I are so terrible at sticking to diets though. Most years we’ll try our best to diet for the month of November. The end of November is our anniversary and we usually go away for a night or two to a nice hotel – so it’s nice to have an occasion to keep us motivated, whilst also having a bit of leeway for Christmas....

Air fryer pork steak recipe There is no doubt that pork steak makes a quick and easy dinner option and here in the dinner bite household, we sure know how to make the best. If you love pork then you are in for a treat from the best-baked pork steak recipe to this easy pork marinade and oven-baked pork chops, the options are endless. However, if you want to make a quick dinner, this air fryer pork steak is the way to go!...

“These are great food-on-the-go!” These little morsels came about when I was having a bunch of friends over for brunch. I am insanely obsessed with french toast (as regular readers will know from the number of french toast creations I’ve posted!). But you can’t really make it for more than 4 people at a time because you need to stand at the stove making batch after batch. A great option to make french toast for a crowd is french toast casserole, where you layer pieces of bread and egg mixture in a casserole dish and bake it up, then spoon it out like a casserole....

Simply apply a simple rub of olive oil and spices to the chicken pieces, then bake them for 30 minutes in the oven. It’s as easy as can be and so delicious. Chicken is easy and affordable, but it can get boring, especially when you make it often, as I do. That’s why I’m always trying to come up with new ways to make it more interesting for my family and for myself....