Lara Dunston 
The best Australian food and drink festivals being held in 2024-2025 include everything from A Taste of the Kakadu, a celebration of Indigenous bush foods, and the Good Food and Wine Show, Australia’s longest-running food and wine event, to quirkier niche festivals, such as the Truffle Kerfuffle in Western Australia and the Darwin International Laksa … Read more
Our chicken shawarma recipe will make you richly spiced succulent chicken thigh pieces pan-fried in minutes to replicate the flavour of traditional chicken shawarma. A shawarma is a sandwich in the Middle East, made to order and prepared by the shawarma guy who slices the chicken or beef off vertical spits. Typically rolled in flat … Read more
Our farmers salad recipe for salata falahiyeh makes a salad of tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicums, shallots, and fresh herbs with a simple dressing of extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice. Eaten throughout the Middle East, with provenance in Palestine, it’s also called a Palestinian salad, Arabic salad, village salad, or chopped salad, salata na’ameh. It’s … Read more
This quick and easy recipe for pan fried asparagus on pesto hummus with dill oil and dukkah makes a delicious vegetable side dish or a light vegetarian main. If you have hummus and basil pesto on hand this healthy asparagus dish comes together in as little as ten minutes and while we use homemade hummus … Read more
Our spicy roasted red pepper feta dip recipe makes htipiti, a Greek meze made with roasted red capsicums and Greek feta cheese that’s enjoyed as one of an array of Greek mezedes, snacks traditionally washed down with ouzo. Scoop it up with warm pita bread and serve with other meze dips such as tzaziki and … Read more