
Warning: this book contains dangerous ideas that might lead to enjoying your own damn dinner!

Warning: this book contains dangerous ideas that might lead to enjoying your own damn dinner!
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Fast Weeknights BBQ Chicken and Egg Ramen
So tell your partner to grab a BBQ chook from the supermarket or corner shop (and resist the urge to add hot chips!) because we’re doing a dinner that sounds fresh and fancy, but in reality means a few minutes hands-on and a single saucepan.
Even faster pasta: Instant Tangy Smoked Salmon Pasta
The creamy lemon smoked salmon pasta is definitely this week’s family meal winner. Not just because it’s tasty and virtually instant, but also because the preparation of a hot dish in its own serving bowl cuts out a whole stage of post-dinnertime mess.
One Pot Sausage, Basil, Tomato Pasta – Fast Weeknights
Unbelievably faster pasta If you've never tried this method before, you're in for a treat. Everything cooks at the same time, in the same pot. We use two tricks to make sure it's not just a gluggy mess at the end: Pre-fry the chorizo in the pasta pot, and keep a few...
Creamy Salmon and Corn Fritters – Fast Weeknight Pantry Meal
This recipe uses inexpensive tinned pink salmon and corn kernels with creamy ricotta cheese to make a mild and creamy fritter mix that you could easily double and save for lunchboxes too.
Weekend Cooking
Fresh zucchini roll bake
This is a beautiful way to use up zucchini in warmer weather. Make it meat-free or add some ham to the mix for your carnivorous family. This was part of our Spring 2020 Meal Plan, so make sure you subscribe to receive your monthly Four Fast Weeknights recipes and...
Herb, ham and tomato quiche
If you’ve got time, make two of these quiches and freeze one for another night. This recipe was part of our Spring 2020 Meal Plan, where you will find the complete shopping list for a week of meals. Make sure you subscribe to receive your monthly Four Fast Weeknights...
Easy victoria sponge cake with jam and cream
This delicious but impressive looking sponge cake is honestly so easy. The five year old in the photo below made it with very little help! This isn't the fluffy sort of dry sponge cake that requires separating eggs and excessive beating to get the airy and almost...
Kids in the Kitchen
Two-ingredient pizza base
There are two kinds of pizza-at-home nights, I reckon. The weekend take-your-time kind, and the fast-and-fun weeknight kind. They’re all good at different times and the second two - where you’re making the pizza in some way - are also a fab way of getting kids...
Pear and passionfruit cake
This Pear and Passionfruit Cake is just one of the variations possible when you’ve got your head around the basic 4x4 cake recipe. To recap, the 4x4 is my Australian version of quatre-quarts (four-quarters) cake and it is perfect for non-bakers like me. You just...
The original 4×4 cake
Most baking is an exact science and I confess, that’s why I avoid it. It’s also why the world of home cooks is split between bakers and non-bakers. Us non-bakers tend to feel all that precision measuring and sequential adds to an already stressful life. But bakers...