Lara Dunston 
This compilation of our 24 most popular recipes of 2024 includes our most searched-for and most-read recipes in 2024, everything from my deliciously rich and creamy beef Stroganoff recipe and a gently spiced Burmese chicken curry to comforting Spanish potatoes with capsicums and a spicy pasta from Calabria to two iconic Cambodian recipes, nom banh … Read more
This quick and easy Russian crab salad recipe makes a nostalgic Soviet-era crab stick salad that’s one of the most popular Russian salads over Christmas-New Year. Starting out in life as a salad of fresh crab and mayonnaise, canned crab was later used until imitation crab or kanikama was invented in Japan in 1974. While … Read more
This spinach ricotta gnocchi recipe with creamy pesto, asparagus, broccolini and dukkah makes a delicious pasta with store-bought gnocchi that comes together in no time. Pan frying the gnocchi gives the pillowy pasta a crispy exterior, while the creamy pesto sauce is loaded with flavour and texture thanks to the fresh just-cooked green vegetables, crispy … Read more
My fancy sardines on toast recipe with pickled onions, celery and dill makes toasted sourdough fingers, generously spread with crème fraiche, topped with sardines, with a crunchy, sour, salty, and zingy mix of finely diced pickled onions, celery, capers, and dill in extra virgin olive oil spooned onto the sardines. It’s a fantastic snack, breakfast … Read more
Our banh mi xiu mai recipe makes a Vietnamese meatball banh mi or meatball baguette sandwich filled with xiu mai, moist Vietnamese style meatballs in a rich tomato sauce. ‘Banh mi’ means ‘bread’ in Vietnamese but has come to refer to both the Vietnamese French-style crispy baguette and Vietnam’s famous sandwiches made with those baguettes, … Read more