I’m a big fan of peanut sauces, so there’s a few to choose from here! If you’re after a Peanut Sauce for dipping, use the sauce in this Thai Chicken Satay recipe. For a peanut salad dressing, use this Asian Peanut Salad Dressing. If you want a creamy Sesame Peanut Sauce, use the sauce in this Sesame Peanut Noodles recipe. Peanut Sauce for Stir Fries This Peanut Sauce for stir fries is one of those gems that belies the short list of simple ingredients....

Bonus super quick version made with balsamic glaze also included! Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing This is a very classic side salad that you’ll find on the menu of fine dining restaurants and local bistros. It goes with virtually any Western dish, and is extremely quick to make: Balsamic Dressing made with just extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper; Rocket lettuce – called arugula in the US & Canada, it’s got a great peppery fresh flavour; and Shaved parmesan – just use a potato peeler!...

Mushrooms were made for stuffing for all sorts of purposes – bite size to pass around at gatherings like this recipe, and large ones are ideal for using to bake eggs! “These little babies look fiddly, but they aren’t at all. They take just 10 minutes to pop a whole tray of them into the oven.” It dawned on me recently that the homepage of my blog was very “yellow” and “red”....

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!

Well, this is a first! The first non-recipe post I have ever done! I was going to incorporate this into a recipe. But then I thought about the hundreds and hundreds (probably thousands) of hours I spent on the book and decided it deserved a post of its own. 🙂 CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK And wait…there’s more! To celebrate the launch of The Food Photography Book, I’m giving away TWO Personal Food Photography Coaching Packages worth over $500 each!...

As with every year, it’s not until the last minute that I realise that I don’t have a single merry photo of Dozer and I to send out to wish everyone Happy Holidays. And so the annual Christmas-selfie-ritual takes place: I gasp with dismay, and in amongst the whirlwind of last minute Christmas baking, present wrapping and deliveries, I hustle Dozer outside for a “quick” selfie before scurrying off to another Christmas gathering....

Annual Christmas Selfies of years gone by: 2017, 2018, 2019 Every year, I vow to be more organised next year to get a nice Christmas photo of Dozer and I to send out to you to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! And here we have landed again, with no such card-worthy Christmas photo, but instead, the usual impromptu Christmas selfie. This year, even better than most years, being taken in the boot of the car (don’t ask, it will take another paragraph to explain!...

The warm sweetness from the golden syrup combined with the wholesome goodness of oats and coconut is a flavour that is unique to this crunchy Australian biscuit! Anzac Biscuits Australia’s favourite biscuit! We love them for their buttery caramel flavour, how crunchy they are, that it’s a forgiving recipe and the history – this is a biscuit that Aussies make to commemorate ANZAC Day. “ANZAC” stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps....

Make this with any fruit you want – fresh, frozen or even dried! Blueberry Bread Loaf This is a quick bread recipe, and is aptly named as such because it is so quick to prepare. Once you pull out your tub of flour, sugar and other ingredients onto the counter, it will honestly take you less than 10 minutes to prepare. In fact, you will probably have to start preheating your oven before you start preparing the batter....

Carne Asada When we talk South American grilled meat, Carne Asada is the first thing that pops into most people’s minds – I think. Maybe I’m wrong. Well, it’s the first thing that pops into my mind. 🙂 “Carne Asada” means “grilled beef” in Spanish, but the dish we know as Carne Asada is so much more than just a plain grilled beef. Marinated in a wicked citrusy, garlicky, coriander/cilantro mixture, it infuses beef with flavour and tenderises it too, making it perfect to use for secondary beef cuts like skirt and flank....

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....

A blank canvas for Chinese Stir Fry Noodles I rarely use a recipe for stir fry noodles I make on a day to day basis, because after making it hundreds (and hundreds!) of times, the “formula” is embedded deep in me which means I can throw one together using virtually any ingredients. And I swear, I’ve never had a disaster failure. Some are better than others, and I’ve experimented with stir frying some strange ingredients (umm…parsnip in stir fries is weird), but overall it’s always tasty and I happily scoff down a large bowl and go back for seconds....

Serve it as is, or use it as a base for your own add-ins. Try tossing through some shredded leftover Roast Chicken or Poached Chicken, or adding a handful of spinach. Creamy tomato sauce for pasta Is it pink? Or orange? It doesn’t sound nearly as fun to chat to you about an orange pasta sauce. I’m sticking with pink. Pink tomato cream sauce! “This pasta with tomato cream sauce is a less guilty way to get your creamy pasta fix!...

Egg Foo Young – terrific quick dinner idea! I know most of us think of omelettes as a breakfast thing and no matter how often I endorse it for dinner, I feel like it will never stick. But trust the Chinese to come up with a way to plant omelettes firmly in the dinner rotation!! What is Egg Foo Young? Egg Foo Young is a Chinese omelette – egg mixed with vegetables and usually some type of protein (prawns / shrimp or pork are common) then smothered in a Chinese stir fry sauce....

This salad is satisfying enough to be a complete meal because I like to pile on alot of flatbread ribbons – it’s my favourite part! So I used 2 whole flatbreads which makes this quite a satisfying meal for 2, or a side salad or appetizer for 4. The flatbread I use is called Lebanese Bread here in Australia and it is like pita bread in that it is a “pocket” (i....

These mini pizzas were an invention out of necessity. I had friends with kids around and had planned to make mini pizzas. For the kids, that is. (OK that’s a lie. For us grown ups too). In typical form, I thought I was super duper organised, whirling around the kitchen with the music pumping, preparing the food for lunch. Only to realise at the last minute that I had forgotten to buy frozen pastry for the mini pizzas....

What goes in German Cucumber Salad Here’s what you need to make this: Tastes like: Juicy, creamy, and a little tangy. Refreshing and cooling, with a clean and neutral flavour. Perfect as: Summer side salad, or a base to build a stand-alone, light salad meal (eg. top with hot-smoked trout or eel, ham, fried bacon, or white anchovies)Serve alongside: Hearty, rich mains. Think: German Pork Knuckle, Schnitzel etcEffort level: Low, especially if you have a mandoline!...

This tastes just like store bought Nutella – but better. This is a MUST TRY!! I know this isn’t an every day type recipe. It’s a treat in my books. And with all the testing I did, I had no shortage of volunteers to take samples, that’s for sure. I had to get it out of the house immediately. It was seriously dangerous for me to have this in the house....

Italian Sausage Quiche I love to take classic dishes and put my own spin on them. It’s not that I think I can do it better. Anyone who thinks they can improve on a classic Quiche Lorraine is kidding themselves. There’s a reason it has stood the test of time!! I just like to change things up sometimes. This is a typical example – making a quiche but filling it with Italian-esque fillings and flavours....

You didn’t really think I’d share a rather dull (but life essential) post for how to cook brown rice without following it up with an extremely delicious way to use it, did you?? Brown Rice Salad This is a Brown Rice Salad that aspires to be everything you expect a rice salad to be (healthy, filling, fresh) and everything you don’t expect it to be (can’t-stop-eating-it-good). It’s also a rice salad that will surprise those of you who grew up not realising such a thing existed....