Food & Cooking Tips, How To's

Stuck in a cooking rut? Here are five ways to reclaim your joy

Have the past few years exhausted your pleasure for cooking? Get your mojo back again with these simple but inspiring tips.

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Karen Martini answers your cooking questions

As she launches her colossal cookbook, Cook, the chef addresses readers' hottest topics and shares her tips and tricks.

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Look for an avo with glossy skin free of cracks and dry spots.

How to buy an avocado and tell when it's ripe

With avocados still hovering around the $1 mark there is no better time to fill your baskets with them. But what should you be looking for?

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Julia Busuttil Nishimura shares Japanese recipes and essentials from her new book

Japanese food features more prominently in Around the Table. Here are four family-friendly recipes and the author's top tips.

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Mayo's thick texture and tangy flavour make it a natural in all sorts of dips and dressings.

Five ways to cook and bake with mayo, for lovers and haters alike

People tend to have strong opinions about mayonnaise, whether they love it or loathe it. After many years as a sceptic, I've come around to its merits.

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Charlotte Ree and friends at her dinner party.

How to host a dinner party like Charlotte Ree

The secret to a great dinner party is so much more than what's on the plate, writes cookbook author Charlotte Ree.

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That's how we roll: RecipeTin shares five fillings for sushi hand rolls.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: How to make your own sushi rolls

Up your street cred by producing these homemade takeaway-style hand rolls for your lunchbox.

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Break the meal prep monotony: Boiled eggs and grilled chicken can be prepped ahead, but it doesn't mean you have to eat ...

Six simple healthy ingredients to prep for the week ahead

Break your bulk-cooking meal prep habits into individual ingredients to mix and match throughout the week instead.

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The best way to clean cooling racks (and why they're not just for baking)

The trays never seem to get quite as clean as we want them thanks to their tight grid and all of the joints where food particles can get stuck.

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The amount of flour that fits into a 1-cup measuring cup can vary by as much as 20 per cent.

Sugar, science and buttermilk that's not so nice: Five common baking myths debunked

These common baking misconceptions tend to be repeated – and treated as irrefutable fact.

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'Everybody loves comte': The French cheese is at home in the kitchen as it is on a cheeseboard.

Everything you need to know about ... comte

This French cheese has a life of its own in the kitchen apart from starring on the cheeseboard.

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Lucy Tweed and daughter Winter creating a cut-price family dinner.

Lower the steaks to save big on grocery bills

Canned tomatoes are a life-saver and Fridays are for bottom-of-the-fridge frittata, plus other thrifty tips from Lucy Tweed, Katrina Meynink and Julia Busuttil Nishimura.