Category: Dinner
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Lamb & pine nut meat pies
An old-fashioned favourite, I remember how I loved eating these savoury pockets when my grandmother served them at family visits. Made with a no-frills yeasted dough, these savourytriangles get their flavours from lamb, allspice and pine nuts. Serve with labneh, hummus, tahini and pita bread salad. For the dough: 3 cups All purpose flour 1…
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Chicken Schnitzel with Mushroom Sauce
If you have some extra time to fuss on the weekend try this dish which can be made with chicken thighs or breast. Add a glug of cream or Madeira for richness to the mushroom sauce. Serve alongside buttered noodles or roast veggies like I did. This is an Australian favourite and is what’s known…
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Lamb skewers with mint-vinegar and tahini-yogurt sauce
This is quickly put together for a mid week meal and quite tasty with the addition of the sauces. I always love the addition of an “extra” sauce – it can be drizzled over meat, rice or be a dip for bread. Serve this easy meal with vermicelli-rice and a green salad. Ingredients: 750g boneless…
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Roast Pork Loin with Balsamic Vinegar
This is an amazing Jamie Oliver recipe which will surely blow you away and serve as another classic Sunday roast for your table. I was very impressed and overjoyed to find a fairly easy, but incredibly satisfying dish that everyone in the family can appreciate. Also: it’s not chicken!! This mom needed a break from…
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Australian Pork Rolls
This may not be a traditional take on these satisfying snacks but what can I say, I’ve still got a bit of Quebec in my blood, and crave tourtiere intermittently. For this reason, feel free to omit the nutmeg. The great thing about these rolls is they are very kid-friendly and can be packed in…
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Stuffed Bell Peppers with Spiced Lamb
This is my go-to recipe when I am out of ideas and I want something comforting for dinner. It’s also packed with vitamins from bell peppers which, did you know have more Vitamin C than citrus fruits! Swap lamb for ground beef if you prefer or even use cooked brown rice or quinoa instead of…
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Pork Belly Tacos with Crackling
This is pretty much the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Pork belly was always something I tiptoed by in the supermarket, not wanting to force myself to experiment for fear I would waste time/money/ingredients on a sub par preparation. But when I came across Jamie Oliver’s recipe for Pork Belly tacos in a recipe book,…
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Lamb leg with lemony garlic potatoes and rosemary
This is such an easy home style preparation which takes very little effort to pull off. You just need to get your hands on some nice lamb. This meal was a bit of an Easter weekend treat for us, as a nice quality 2kg cut of lamb is pricey. But it does go a long…
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Spaghetti and Meatballs
This recipe is an adaptation of Mark Bittman of the NYTimes’ Spaghetti and Drop Meatballs. It’s quite a bit different, since the real conundrum with this recipe is the problem of how to cook the meatballs (baked in oven before dropping into sauce? cooked in the sauce? seared in a pan with the sauce made…
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Orecchiette with sausage and broccoli
This is the recipe that upped my pasta game: cooking dry pasta in the sauce! Game changer. I’ve also got a bit of a thing for this funny shaped pasta that I can’t pronounce. It reminds me of little suction cups or little fairy-sized soup bowls that gather the sauce and dispense it in small…
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Sheet pan chicken shawarma
This is really good and super easy – makes me wonder why I don’t marinate chicken thighs more often. Feel free to throw in some green and red peppers at the end – they would compliment the onion nicely. Serve beside rice, or throw into a pita stuffed with hummus and tzatziki and some sliced…
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Trout parcels with sage butter and garlic
Trout is a lovely fish and a nice alternative to salmon when you’re craving a meatier, pink fish. This turned out nicely in the oven however overcooking fish is my Achilles heel. Just make sure to not overcook it. I have nightmares of Gordon Ramsay yelling at me “Don’t overcook the fish!” – no idea…
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Traybake BiBimBap
You could hardly call this authentic, but there is something about the simplicity of marinated, ginger infused baked veg, thinly sliced beef, and some Kim chi served over a heaping mound of sticky sushi rice. As my first foray into bibimbap, I found the traybake version very easy, and I used the same tray and…
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Breakfast Channa Dal
You should never constrain yourself to eating pulses only for dinner or lunch. Channa dal curry is so easy to make for breakfast it’s really quite sad that the average Aussie child doesn’t get a flush of neuron-building Turmeric in the morning as their “breakfast of champions.” The trick with pulses is to salt them…
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Pork Carnitas
Pork carnitas are a truly economical, tasty and versatile dish that can be made keto if desired. I love the smell in the kitchen when the pork gets simmering in its own juices, melding with spices and seasonings. Serve over rice, salad or in a wrap. Pork loin is one of the cheapest cuts out…
Allspice & Olive 