These brownies get their fudgy texture from a quick ice bath just after baking. The shock causes the batter to contract and concentrate, intensifying its character.
Julia Moskin
For this take on the classic, prawn replaces traditional crayfish and creates an excellent dish all its own. The technique for roux here employs a clever shortcut to get dinner to the table especially fast.
Vallery Lomas
This no-fuss recipe pairs that fan-favorite sauce and melty mozzarella with earthy portobello mushrooms for a meal that comes together easily and delivers so much satisfaction.
Hetty McKinnon
A fruit-filled take on an Amish recipe, this homey baked oats is crunchy from chopped almonds but still soft and comforting from the buttery egg custard that suffuses the oats.
Melissa Clark
A buttery sauce run through with vibrant citrus and mint brings an easy elegance to this salmon. Don’t let the short ingredient list fool you: there’s lots of flavour here.
Colu Henry
Roasting chicken thighs in a hot oven is a hands-off way to achieve two of life’s greatest pleasures: crispy skin and golden schmaltz. And you want that chicken fat to crisp hand-torn bread into croutons.
Eric Kim
Instead of letting the early sunsets slowly drain my serotonin, I am finding joy in wintering: not leaving the house once on a Saturday, wearing your best apres-ski look and eating a ridiculous amount of pasta.
Alison Roman
Chocolate queen Kirsten Tibballs has shared a delicious six-layer chocolate ganache cake recipe that you can make yourself from the comfort of your own home.
Caleb Taylor
In this hearty, colourful salad, cauliflower florets, slivers of red onion and briny capers are coated with spices and roasted until the florets turn soft and sweet, and the onions and capers get crisp.
I’ll make soup out of almost anything, but this potato-cheddar variation is an entirely different thing. It’s a silky-smooth puree that’s hearty but not heavy, with chilli powder and garlic to liven things up.
It’s 7pm, and dinner is on the table: a large, one-dish centerpiece for everyone to dig into. We call it a ‘one-pot wonder’ for a good reason, and that is its ability to connect ingredients and humans alike.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Poaching eggs in a tomato sauce is a classic path to a quick, meat-less meal. Be it an onion-y shakshuka or chilli-flecked eggs in purgatory, tangy sweet tomatoes swirled with runny egg yolk is a crowd-pleaser.
This recipe may have cracked the code to fast chicken noodle soups. Other shortcut versions rely on rotisserie chicken, which doesn’t absorb flavours in the same way as the chicken mince used here.
Alexa Weibel
A version of the street-side flavour bomb, best served with pita and tahini, chopped cucumbers and tomatoes, olives, chopped parsley, feta, fried eggplant, hummus swirled with harissa, rice or rice pilaf.
Sam Sifton
If you have some slightly sweet vegetables at your disposal — not just carrots, but onions, parsnips, beets or pumpkin — this is the recipe for you.
Sue Li
Like little black dresses, you can never have too many roast chicken recipes. So when a reader sent this recipe from her French mother, for roast chicken with tarragon, butter and cognac, I gave it a try.
Pancakes taste like comfort — especially if they’re made well. There are many different styles of breakfast pancake, but the one thing they should always be is tender. The simplest way to ensure that? Ricotta.
Genevieve Ko
Bar Amelie head chef and owner Kat Dehavilland shares a delightful veggie recipe - mushroom risotto with salsa verde and truffle pecorino.
Kat Dehavilland
To accompany West Australian Opera’s production of Dido and Aeneas, Comestibles’ Duncan Jones has curated a decadent operatic-inspired tasting plate that’s worth singing about.
Duncan Jones
There’s a reason this dish was one of the top recipes of 2022. Built on a foundation of red curry paste and coconut milk that infuse tender blocks of tofu, it’s everything you want a simple soup to be.
Yewande Komolafe
A fantastic meal that can be ready in 20 minutes, the key to this recipe is how you cook the store-bought gnocchi: no need to boil.
Ali Slagle
RAC Arena consultant chef Stephen Clarke shares his spiced Amelia Park lamb rump, smoked eggplant, labneh and pomegranate recipe.
Stephen Clarke
One-pan pesto chicken pasta, from The Simple Dinner Edit by Nicole Maguire, is a meal for those days when you want a home-cooked meal on the table in as little time as possible.
Nicole Maguire
When I imagined chocolate banana blondie bars, I could see exactly what I wanted. Usually when I dream up something so specific, the recipe almost makes itself. It took me six batches to get it right.