Dinner party
Adam Liaw’s chocolate and cinnamon pavlova
This pavlova is a little different. The whole thing is topped with cream and cocoa, a bit like a tiramisu.
- 1-2 hrs
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s duck breast with orange and red wine sauce
This deliciously sweet sauce with the flavours of mulled wine is a perfect accompaniment for duck.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Adam Liaw
Speedy chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta
This Italian-style thinly sliced chicken dish takes a few minutes to cook.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Thai green curry and lemongrass soup
Built around frozen peas, this soup gets a tick for convenience and delivers bags of flavour in very little time.
- < 30 mins
- Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s Greek-style lamb cutlets with oregano and lemon
I think the fat makes for a tastier cutlet, and I prefer them un-frenched for this recipe.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Tartiflette galette (cheese and potato tart)
Two classic French recipes combine to create this open-faced, cheese-and-potato pie.
- 1-2 hrs
- Helen Goh
Dirty martini tomato ‘n’ olive soup
When you’d like nothing more than an ice-cold martini, but midweek life has other plans, this soup gives hits of salty, briny goodness.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s citrus syrup yoghurt loaf
This simple stir-and-bake loaf cake makes excellent use of abundant winter citrus.
- 1-2 hrs
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s roast chicken with parmesan and sourdough sauce
Bread sauce is a classic chicken accompaniment. This version is enhanced with parmesan and goes with just about anything.
- 1-2 hrs
- Adam Liaw
Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu
This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.
- 1-2 hrs
- Danielle Alvarez