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Baked chicken cutlets with olives and fennel seed.

14 Adam Liaw recipes you’ll want to put on high rotation immediately

Quick, easy and budget-friendly – these simple throw-together pastas, salads and stir-fries will make cooking this week a breeze.

Give your pantry an overdue overhaul – and revamp your recipes at the same time

With food prices high, making better use of staple ingredients already in your pantry is a smart way to replenish your recipe repertoire.

  • Silvana Franco
Miso eggplant noodles with crunchy chilli oil.

14 affordable vegie-loaded dinners to make this week

Give your diet a vegetable boost and save money at the same time with a week of meat-free meals.

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Adam Liaw recipe: Beef and bean nachos with jalapeno cheese sauce
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14 heat-and-eat dinners for busy weeknights

From vegie-rich pastas to family-friendly curries, these wholesome dinners will help lighten the load.

EASY

Karen Martini’s one-tray roasted tomato, red capsicum and chilli sauce for pasta

Roasting enhances and deepens the flavour, which you can’t replicate by cooking the ingredients in a pot.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura recipe: Peperonata, tuna and crispy caper pasta fredda.
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14 simple seasonal dinners perfect for the warm evenings ahead

From chilled noodles to a simple ratatouille supper, these easy recipes are loaded with the pick of summer produce.

Ham and cheese toasties are best reserved for the odd indulgence.

A week’s worth of dinners and desserts using luscious Christmas leftovers

The ham, chicken, cheese and pud are the Christmas food gifts that keep on giving – if you know what to do with them.

Katrina Meynink’s spicy tomato slab tart.

14 relaxed, share-friendly dinners to make this week

Special enough to serve to unexpected guests, yet not too finicky for everyday family meals, these crowd-pleasers are fun, fresh, flavourful and festive.

RecipeTin Eats’ Nagi Maehashi and Jean-Baptiste Alexandre with the maple-glazed ham.

How to tackle RecipeTin Eats’ Christmas feast

You can plan your Christmas menu around our classic recipes knowing they have been thoroughly tried and tested.

  • Nagi Maehashi
A combination of pecorino romano and parmigiano reggiano is a great substitute for the typical provolone del monaco cheese.

14 hassle-free meat-free dinners to cook this week

From RecipeTin’s easy ‘meaty’, cheesy stuffed mushrooms to a simple zucchini spaghetti supper, make this week all about no-fuss vegetarian cooking.