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Recipes

Use it up! Tasty ways with bread past its best before date

It’s no use crying over spilled milk – or stale bread, for that matter! Here are two tasty ways to make great use of baked goodness that’s past its best before date and stop it from going to waste.

What can I bring? Food made for sharing

For fresh ideas on what to bring to a potluck, try these recipes that are simply made for sharing. Sweet or savoury, we’ve got you covered. Images and text from What Can...

Love potions: A Valentine’s Day toast to love

Ahead of Valentine’s Day on Wednesday 14 February, we’ve curated some mocktail and cocktail recipes, perfect to celebrate this international day of love.

Enter the dragon: Lunar New Year recipes to celebrate at home

Lunar New Year festivities start this Saturday, 10 February. To welcome the Year of the Dragon with prosperity, here are some eggs-cellent Asian-inspired recipes to help you celebrate. Wok on! Best Golden Fried...

Lamb with a Thai twist

Thai-Australian cook and food entrepreneur Marion Grasby, who won the hearts of Australia in Season 2 of MasterChef, has teamed up with Australian Lamb to create two vibrant recipes inspired by...

Simple summer share platter

If you’re after a simple summer meal to share with family and friends, it’s hard to beat a share platter.

Fruity popsicles

What’s even more refreshing than juicy fresh summer fruit? A frozen fruity popsicle! Here are some simple recipes to help you keep cool this summer. Do try these at home.

Perfect pairing: Prawn & mango

Prawns and mangoes are a food match made in paradise, perfect for summer entertaining. Here are some no-cook recipes for those times you don’t feel like turning up the heat yet still want to make a statement, without sacrificing flavour.

Pimp up a tin of tuna

With summer just around the corner, Chef Mel Alafaci’s new Eat Yourself Sexy cookbook shows us how to prepare healthy, nourishing meals that are as delectable as they are visually stunning.

Aburi salmon stack

With summer just around the corner, Chef Mel Alafaci’s new Eat Yourself Sexy cookbook shows us how to prepare healthy, nourishing meals that are as delectable as they are visually stunning.

A is for asparagus: tasty recipes to try

Spring is peak Australian asparagus season, so now’s the perfect time to enjoy this versatile vegetable for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Recipes and photos courtesy of Australian Eggs.

Lemony fresh recipes

When life gives you lemons, you could make lemonade – or serve up a zesty fish dinner and a fresh bulgur salad that zing with lemony goodness.

Battered Fish Tacos with pickled onion & chipotle yogurt

Elevate taco night with this three-in-one recipe that easily translates into a gluten-free feast!

Trick or Treat: Halloween recipes

Halloween haunts us on a weekday this year, but fear not! Treat the little ghouls to a spooktacular breakfast, and for the grown-ups, indulge in a scary-movie snack so good, it’s love at first bite.

Overripe strawberries? Try this simple recipe

This is a great pudding to remember if you have overripe strawberries that are slightly past their best. All of the elements can be made three days in advance – keep them separate in the fridge and assemble when ready to dish up as a light summer dessert, or with shortbread biscuits.

Cracking recipes to celebrate World Egg Day

It's World Egg Day today! If you are looking to better your diet with additional veg and protein, look no further than these cracking recipes.

Recipes for the Seoul

With the announcement that K-pop idols Twice will become the first female group to headline a stadium in Australia, coming to Melbourne on 4 November, we are all feeling the Korea-boom.

Simple, scrumptious seafood recipes

If you’re looking for new ideas of what to bring to the potluck, seafood pairs perfectly with spring's vibrant vegetables to make colourful culinary delights.

Springtime recipes

I recently enjoyed my very first blood orange of the season - floral and tart and promising warmer days ahead. In honour of the first week of spring, a fudgy sweet recipe for a blood orange treacle tart, as well as a 15-minute salad that makes a lovely dish for picnics or packed lunches.

Father’s Day brunch recipe

This vegetarian recipe maybe titled ‘In Hell’ – yet devouring it is anything but. Based on shakshuka, meaning ‘all mixed up’, it’s a perfect way to kick off any haphazard day. No matter what you have planned for Dad, a long sleep-in followed by a hearty brunch is a great way to start.

Gluten-free Mediterranean recipes

Love Anatolia and want to whip up some Mediterranean at home? Try these gluten-free recipes.

Recipes for tea party treats

Does all the talk of Barbies have anyone else tempted to crack out their old tea set? You can host a grown-up tea party for your loved ones with these delightfully nostalgic recipes.

Midweek meals from Asia

Lara Lee’s latest cookbook of “everyday food from Asia” has you covered for under-30-minute recipes to add some oomph to your midweek meals.

Pakistani recipes: Spice up your winter

Straight from the food memoir of Pakistani storyteller, Sumayya Usmani, here are two recipes to try for curry for the soul, and the perfect chai companion.

National Donut Day

Tomorrow, Friday 2 June, is National Donut Day – or is it ‘Doughnut’ Day? The first National Donut Day was celebrated by The Salvation Army in Chicago, 1938, to honour their members, 'The Donut Lassie'. In 1917, eleven female officers served donuts to soldiers during WWI, bringing sweetness and smiles to the battlefield.

Winter warmer recipes

Winter is officially here! Apple pie is good for the soul at any time of year, but especially now, when it’s hard to resist hauling into hibernation. Add some extra indulgence (as a reward for staying warm) with a dark choc crumble.

Tasty, healthy, cheap recipes

With school back and the cost of groceries on the rise, who couldn’t use some quick, easy and, most importantly, tasty recipes in their back pocket?

Easy quiche recipe for Coronation Day

King Charles has crowned his coronation dish, and it reportedly costs around $38 to make. The King’s quiche comes packed with “delicate flavours of spinach, broad beans and fresh tarragon”. However, if you’re celebrating Coronation Day (6 May) there are countless quiche fillings to choose from.

Chocolate recipes to make Mother’s day

This year, why not kick the Mother’s Day classics up a notch? Instead of chocolates or any old breakfast in bed, start Mum’s day of right with fluffy chocolate pancakes, then really knock her socks off with homemade ice cream sandwiches.

Flavourful salad recipes for Earth Day

Today, 22 April is Earth Day 2023. Given that 7,000 litres of water is needed to produce a single pound of beef, compared to only 147 litres per pound of vegetables, one person going meat-free for one day a week can save 500 litres of water per meal! Look no further for some unique salads to spice up your veggie intake, straight from the horn of Africa.
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