Modern Australian
When you have friends coming at 7pm and you finish work at 5ish – these lamb cutlets are the answer
Easy enough as a midweek meal but also special enough to serve if you’re entertaining.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Danielle Alvarez
Soup of the carbonara variety
Traditionalists, look away. This lovely, hearty soup is pasta you can slurp with a spoon.
- < 30 mins
- Katrina Meynink
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
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
Is it risotto, is it fried rice? Adam Liaw’s simple midweek saviour is the best of both
This recipe is a bit like fried rice, but is really a risotto.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Almond shortbread jam (or marmalade) drops
You can use any kind of jam, but I recommend a particular kumquat marmalade for these thumbprint biscuits.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Helen Goh
Eat these eggs with chorizo, capsicum and oven-baked polenta for breakfast or dinner
Try this different take on the classic baked eggs, with the easy, fuss-free polenta base oven-baked instead.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Danielle Alvarez
Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce
Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to, such as this simple tomato sauce.
- 1-2 hrs
- Katrina Meynink
Caramelised fennel, lemon and chilli pasta
This decadent, silky sauce comes together in a blender.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Katrina Meynink
Eat the rainbow with this chard and orzo salad with crispy feta
The combination of wholesome green leaves, crisp, salty feta and the nutty, spicy Middle Eastern condiment dukkah make this robust pasta salad irresistible.
- < 30 mins
- Jessica Brook