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Chickpea, brown rice and greens salad with creamy harissa dressing.
EASY

Chickpea, brown rice and greens salad with creamy harissa dressing

This salad improves with a good sit in the fridge. The key to its longevity is to coat the chickpeas and grains very lightly.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pavlova stack with passionfruit and mango.

Patience and grunt work: Emelia Jackson’s secrets to making the perfect pavlova

So many things can go wrong with Australia’s best-known dessert. Follow these simple tricks, and you’ll have the crisp, snowy meringue of your dreams.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Emelia Jackson
Ham.

How long your leg of ham will last and other crucial food safety questions, answered

How long can you leave food out for? How long will a leg of ham last in the fridge? And other big questions for Boxing Day and beyond.

  • Richard Cornish
Make you brine your turkey for moist, juicy meat.

Christmas day SOS: How to fix dry turkey, rubbery crackling, soggy spuds and more common cooking fails

Rest your turkey before serving, par-boil your potatoes, blast your pork with a hair dryer if you have to - just don’t panic, Christmas dinner help is at hand.

  • Caroline Velik
Ham and cheese toasties are best reserved for the odd indulgence.

A week’s worth of dinners and desserts using luscious Christmas leftovers

The ham, chicken, cheese and pud are the Christmas food gifts that keep on giving – if you know what to do with them.

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Maple Christmas glazed chicken for Good Food by RecipeTin Eats.

20 last-minute budget-friendly Christmas recipes to save the day

It’s not too late to serve up something special - yet affordable - this Christmas. Get savvy with these super ideas.

Melbourne customers are bringing the glam to Beverly rooftop in South Yarra.

20 group-friendly spots for last-minute Christmas catch-ups in Melbourne

From new-look rooftop bars to tipsy trifle by the riverside, here’s where to eat, drink and be merry with friends this weekend.

The 21st of December has become ‘Gravy day’.

Adam Liaw definitively answers the biggest question of the day: How to make gravy

It’s the 21st of December. And that means just one thing: it’s (Paul Kelly) gravy day! Adam Liaw shares how to make a great one.

  • Adam Liaw
Illustration: Simon Letch

Forgot to organise Christmas? How to pull off a legendary last-minute festive feast

Oops, you’re having people over and nothing’s prepared. Here are some clever tips and tricks to help save the day, no matter what Santa has in store.

  • Jill Dupleix
Strawberry and cream bombe Alaska.

Looking for the ultimate party pud? Emelia Jackson’s retro ice-cream cake is the bombe

This showstopping summer celebration cake delivers plenty of bang but is much easier to make than it looks.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson