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Home Made favourites part 1: 100 easy recipes for everyday cooking

Short, simple and nourishing recipes, as featured on weekdays in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald's Life page. Click here for part 2.

98 recipes
A few freezer and pantry staples become a delicious no-shop meal.
EASY

Canned tuna and frozen pea spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Garlicky sweet potato and chickpea soup served with spiced red onion and feta scones.
EASY

Garlic, sweet potato and chickpea soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard
Delicious seasoned chicken simmered in crisp apple cider. Perfect for a hearty, warming meal.

Chicken and apples cooked in cider

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's cacio e pepe pasta.
EASY

Cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper) pasta recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Sweet potato fries.
EASY

Sweet potato fries

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Dan Lepard's spinach and rosemary macaroni cheese.
EASY

Dan Lepard's spinach rosemary macaroni cheese recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
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Spicy fried shallots make this roast chicken even better.
EASY

Turmeric roasted chicken with spicy fried shallots

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Alison Roman
Feta and grilled onion bruschetta.
EASY

Feta and grilled onion bruschetta

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
A speedy tomatoey stew inspired by Yotam Ottolenghi.
EASY

Tomato risoni with silverbeet, feta, walnuts and honey

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Quick red curry of chicken.
EASY

Quick red chicken curry recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chicken and broccoli linguine.
EASY

Chicken and broccoli linguine recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh's desert island cake.
EASY

Helen Goh's lemon and raspberry loaf cake recipe

  • Helen Goh
Oven-baked risotto topped with buttered mushrooms.
EASY

Oven-baked mushroom risotto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Lamb chops with onion, mustard and garlic vinaigrette.
EASY

Lamb chops with OMG vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
A lighter topping for fish pie.
EASY

Speedy zucchini and smoked fish pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rachel Khoo
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This colourful rocky road is also a great way to use up leftover Easter choccies.
EASY

Rainbow Easter egg rocky road recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Giant potato rosti.
EASY

Potato rosti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's ham omelette.
EASY

Neil Perry's ham omelette recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Quick curried rice with egg, spring onions & peas.
EASY

Quick curried rice with egg, spring onions and peas

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Serve this curry with naan and rice.

Chicken in spinach and green pea curry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's Turkish-style poached eggs.

Turkish-style poached eggs with yoghurt, sage and chilli recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Everyday teriyaki chicken.
EASY

Everyday teriyaki chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Creamy cauliflower cheese soup pictured with pieces of parmesan and thyme monkey bread (see recipe below).
EASY

Cauliflower and cheese soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli.
EASY

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
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Neil Perry's Penne al forno
EASY

Neil Perry's penne al forno

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chanchan salmon.
EASY

Chanchan salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
GF. Hot Food. June 4th. Mac n Cheese.Photo: Edwina Pickles. 28th May 2013.
EASY

Mac and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
This anchovy sauce is great on a variety of vegetables.
EASY

Grilled steak, asparagus and anchovy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Spicy fried cauliflower.
EASY

Spicy fried cauliflower

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Spanish sausage rolls filled with chorizo and egg.
EASY

Chorizo and egg sausage rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Speedy lemon spaghetti with toasted almonds.
EASY

Lemon spaghetti with cream, oregano and almonds

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Garlic oil chicken.
EASY

Garlic oil chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Large field mushrooms remain extra juicy when baked in a parcel.
EASY

Foil-baked field mushrooms with garlic, butter and thyme

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Greek roast lamb.

Slow-cooked Greek lamb

  • 2 hrs +
  • Brigitte Hafner
Adam Liaw's simple vegetarian-friendly spaghetti.

Roasted carrot and tomato spaghetti

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Pork tonkatsu with slaw.

Pork tonkatsu with slaw

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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