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Inspired by a Spiced Sweet Potato Salad from Community by Sydney local Hetty McKinnon, this is a big pile of vegetable goodness made seriously tasty. After a (very!) extended water break, the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon has resumed! Today – lentils made fabulous: Spiced Pumpkin Lentil Salad I had someone in my team make this to see if she liked it because the flavour profile is out of character for me – something I tried one day as a “let’s give this a go!...

Ready in about 40 minutes, this is an easy dessert that you can whip up anytime. Even the leftovers are good! Every year, come October, I start making this recipe. Even if I didn’t like to eat it, I would still make it, just for the amazing aroma that fills my kitchen! Apples, pumpkin, vanilla, and cinnamon. These are the scents and flavors of fall. If I had to rate my favorite desserts, this tasty keto apple crisp would be right up there in the top five (just to clarify, chocolate and cheesecake still win!...

These tasty keto muffins freeze well. They’re perfect for breakfast or as a quick and filling snack. Almond flour, when combined with eggs, a sweetener and a leavening agent, bakes beautifully. It produces baked goods that are quite comparable in texture and taste to “the real thing.” These almond flour muffins are incredible. They are easy to make, light and fluffy. They’re perfect for breakfast, and my kids also like having them in their lunchboxes....

Mediterranean Baked Chicken Dinner This is a chicken sheet pan dinner that ticks a lot of boxes for midweek cooking: complete meal – no need to bother with side salads low effort prep – no finely chopping anything, no fiddly assemble, just throw it all in a pan no need to watch over it – pop it in the oven, set the timer and walk away; no gourmet or hard to find ingredients – plus plenty of substitutions IT’S TOTALLY DELICIOUS!...

Made without breadcrumbs and ready in about 40 minutes, it’s keto and gluten-free. This casserole is amazing. It’s so cheesy and flavorful! The wonderful aroma it releases when you cook it will let you know how good it’s going to be. Mushrooms are one of my favorite vegetables (well, technically they’re fungi, not vegetables). And this tasty casserole is one of my favorite ways to cook them. Ingredients You’ll only need a few simple ingredients to make this mushroom casserole....

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....

It’s the perfect weeknight side dish because it’s truly easy to make and it’s ready in just 20 minutes. I really like broccoli. I enjoy it raw, dipped in homemade ranch dressing. And I also like simple microwave broccoli, dressed in melted butter and lemon juice. But oven-roasted broccoli is the best. Roasting vegetables caramelizes them and makes them extra flavorful. It’s the best way of cooking them, in my opinion....

I grew up being taught that instant meals were bad bad bad. The same applied to take out, frozen meals and canned meals. It wasn’t until I moved out of home and instant ramen became a regular in my midweek meal rotation that it dawned on me that my mum used to dish up ramen all the time – using instant ramen. “That’s against her rules!”, I thought. “What a hypocrite!...

If you want them to peel easily, you should use old eggs. The closer they are to their expiration date, the easier it will be to peel them. I really like eggs. They are so delicious and satiating! I like them for breakfast, but I also enjoy them for lunch or for a meatless dinner. I enjoy them poached, fried, or scrambled… and I also love soft-boiled eggs. Truly, I don’t think I ever tried an egg recipe that I didn’t like....

Mexicans take their Carnitas tacos seriously because it is so mouth wateringly delicious. Succulent, slow cooked seasoned pork, shredded and stuffed into tacos. I am so obsessed, these are what I made for the cooking demo I did at the 2016 Sydney Good Food & Wine Show on the weekend!!! It’s been 2 years since I posted my Pork Carnitas recipe which, to this day, remains as one of my all time most popular recipes....

When I think of Red Wine Jus, I imagine being in France in a little bistro with waiters in white aprons flambéing steaks and crêpes. Jus is a French sauce ‘Au Jus’ meaning ‘with juice’ and this sauce makes use of every bit of those pan juices. It’s a tangy, rich sauce that goes so well with steak, and personally, I think it has a bit of a posher feel than regular steak sauces!...

Particularly great served alongside Middle Eastern dishes, such as Chicken or Lamb Shawarma! Roasted Broccolini This broccolini recipe comes to your courtesy of Yotam Ottolenghi – except I found I needed to adjust the salt way down and adjust the sauce quantities to make it drizzle-able (is that a word??). As I’ve said before – in fact, very recently, when I shared how I roast carrots to make them golden – roasting is the best way to add flavour to vegetables....

Baking them downplays their sharpness and brings out a pleasant creaminess. This easy recipe is ready in about 30 minutes! I really like the sharp peppery taste of fresh radishes and enjoy them in salads or even as a snack (try them dipped in guacamole! Really good). I also enjoy them roasted. Roasted radishes become mild-flavored and creamy. They actually (and surprisingly) make a great alternative to roasted potatoes....

Right let me show you how to make this perfect meatless Monday recipe in easy step by step guide using minimal ingredients. I love having some jars of homemade roasted bell peppers in my fridge or cupboard from time to time. It is a versatile condiment to have at hand as its use is endless. It is not a pure coincidence that I also used it as a base for my pasta dishes instead of the regular tomato base....

While this recipe calls for a lengthy list of spices, you won’t need to take a trip to an Indian store to get them – they’re even sold at my local grocery store! Lamb Rogan Josh Rogan Josh is one of the heavy hitters at Indian restaurants, a firm favourite alongside Butter Chicken, Tikka Masala and Tandoori. I’d say Daal is up there too, but let’s be honest – if you can only order one curry, it probably won’t be daal (unless you’re with a vegetarian)....

Classic Italian Peperonata recipe without the tomatoes. It is flavourful and tender. Let me show you how to make sautéed peppers and onions in easy steps. Why This Sauteed Peppers And Onions (Peperonata) Recipe Works It super affordable, well for us in the UK as I heard bell peppers are expensive in the US. That being said, you can stock up on them when they are in season.This recipe is gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian....

Sesame Noodles There actually aren’t that many noodle dishes that I know that are truly better served at room temperature rather than warm. But this is one of them. Which makes this terrific for taking to gatherings or for work lunches. OR as a side dish that can be made well in advance of serving – one less thing to heat up when you’re ready to serve a crowd, yay!...

I’ll let you in on a trade secret – usually, the photos you see of so called baked eggs aren’t really baked at all. Shakshuka When eggs are baked, the thin film of egg whites covering the yolks becomes opaque, fogging up the beautiful bright yellow yolks. “This is a catastrophe!” said some food magazine editor, somewhere. “We cannot have foggy yolks! They must be bright yellow. This must be fixed!...

Ready in about 20 minutes, this truly easy recipe is perfect for a weeknight dinner. I make shrimp often for my family, so I’m always looking for new and interesting shrimp recipes. This rich cream sauce is probably one of my favorite ways to cook them. It’s wonderfully creamy and so very flavorful. It’s one of those dishes that look and taste really sophisticated but is really easy to make....

Whilst I adore putting the slow cooker on the in the morning and having a meal pretty much waiting for me in the evening, one of the things I’m not keen on is when everything tastes the same. It’s all been cooking together for hours, and those flavours have been mingling, which means every mouthful can taste like the last. B-O-R-I-N-G! I don’t want greeny-brown green beans and potatoes that have no texture or bite to them....