Vietnamese Chicken Salad
Granted it’s not quite the weather for such a summery dish, but sometimes you just can’t take any more soups, stews, pies (gasp) or roasts. I can’t remember where this came from, I think it’s a Donna...
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I would almost say that this dish is the family’s favourite. You’d think I’d make it every week in that case but for some reason it only makes it into circulation about once a month, maybe two. Stupid....
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Saigon chicken and cabbage salad
OH DUDES, I saw this in the latest Australian Gourmet Traveller and had to break my magazine embargo and buy it, just to make it. Well, this and the coconut cake on the front cover which looks divine*....
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in the gravy
I love a roast. I am not convinced of the whole ‘a roast is so easy! Just pop it in the oven and off you go!’ – maybe because of the number of mouths I’m feeding, maybe because of all the Big Pan...
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Lemon chicken
Oh dudes, I totally found my cooking mojo this last week. There has been masses of baking and this weekend featured an explosion of new dishes which were all blindingly successful. What is not to love....
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Sushi at home – make your own sushi
Chopping showcase Sushi The boys ADORE sushi. Going to sushi train for us is ex.pen.sive. Up there with yum cha in that they have NO off switch. Still – I reconcile their addiction with the fact...
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One pan roasted chicken and potatoes
Thursday’s radio spot saw me veer away from the sweets (quelle horror!) to show a steady course to one of my go-to one pan roasts. The big tip here is to have a rare moment of organisation when you buy...
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Hot January nights
Sydney summers are a trigger event for me which I attribute to being born in December 1972. It held the dubious honour of being the hottest month on record as well as host to the hottest Australian day...
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Chicken Noodle Soup
My favourite season, winter, is finally here. It couldn’t arrive fast enough after an unseasonally warm autumn and the hideous February/March Months of Humidity show. My silence here is the antithesis...
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The Chef and I – Jamie Oliver’s spiced chicken with bacon & spinach lentils
Welcome to the first of a new weekly series! The Chef and I will see me cook a recipe from my cookbook library. It could be a dinner, maybe a breakfast or something sweet, the idea being to a) use my...
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Chicken and bacon pasta bake
If you’re not already, follow me at Instagram, search the hashtag #everyfuckingnight and you will see a feed of the dinners I am cooking my boys. This dinner is solely thanks to my dear friend S who...
View ArticleVietnamese Chicken Salad
Granted it’s not quite the weather for such a summery dish, but sometimes you just can’t take any more soups, stews, pies (gasp) or roasts. I can’t remember where this came from, I think it’s a Donna...
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Spring Rolls
So I made these a year ago and then promptly forgot I had ever done such a thing. Bizarrely last week Felix said, remember when you made spring rolls, and I was all, NEVER! Then, serendipitously I fell...
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Chicken and prawn stir fry
You know the chicken and cashew you get from your local chinese? In that thick comforting sauce of non-description? This is as close to it as I’ve been able to make. It is based on Adam Liaw’s recipe...
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Popcorn chicken
This is a firm family favourite, of course it is, it involves deep frying, but the chicken is so so tasty I can see past the painfulness of cleaning up post fry. Although, I read it somewhere that the...
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#everyfuckingnight Butter Chicken
What I’m going to give you here are the bones of the recipe – you need to add some stock if you’re cooking it on the stove-top and maybe if you’re slow-cooking it. I don’t add any more chilli than is...
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