Our best shepherds pie recipe makes an authentic traditional shepherd’s pie, which means that it’s made with ground lamb and mashed potatoes. If you want to use beef mince, then you’ll be making cottage pie. They are equally as delicious and comforting, but they are not the same pies. In fact, they’re not really pies, … Read more
My pork Stroganoff recipe makes an umami-rich, melt-in-the-mouth pork Stroganoff. The silky, tender-soft texture of the pork comes courtesy of the Chinese velveting technique, a method that calls for marinating and pre-cooking the pork before stir-frying it. Braised with mushrooms in a richly-spiced sour cream-based sauce, my pork Stroganoff takes inspiration from Shanghai’s East-West Haipai … Read more
This easy chicken cacciatore pasta recipe makes spaghetti cacciatore – although you could use any pasta you have in the pantry. Created to use up leftover chicken cacciatore, the hearty chicken pasta is a 1970s retro-classic from the Italian-Australian diaspora that’s completely inauthentic – Italians don’t eat pasta with main course dishes – but it’s … Read more
This classic chicken cacciatore recipe makes a traditional Italian chicken stew with a luscious tomato sauce. Called pollo alla cacciatora in Italian, which translates to ‘hunter’s chicken’ – ‘pollo’ is ‘chicken’ and ‘cacciatore’ means ‘hunter’ – it’s a rustic old Italian dish typically eaten alone as a main course with crusty bread to mop up … Read more
Our best recipes for stale bread will make you everything from crunchy croutons and crispy pita chips to French toast and a panzanella salad for the delicious Tuscan-style bread and tomato salad. If you’re like us and towards the end of the week have slightly stale bread, in our cases, sourdough ends, then try our … Read more