Peach Salad Dressing
Half a ripe peach, olive oil, lemon juice, honey, salt. Into the blender, done in two minutes. This is the dressing I make all summer when peaches are good. The peach doesn't need to be peeled — the skin blends completely smooth and adds color to the finished dressing. What…
Easy Fat-Free Tea Loaf
This is the recipe for when you want something baked that has almost nothing in it. Four ingredients: tea, self-raising flour, dried fruit, one egg. No butter, no oil, no added sugar. The fruit soaks overnight in strong tea, absorbs it, and that liquid is what makes the loaf moist…
Glazed Lemon Bread
I keep a loaf of this in the house for about half the year. It's simple enough to make on a weeknight — one bowl, one loaf pan — but it's the kind of thing that looks like you made an effort. Somewhere between a quick bread and a pound…
Vegan Lemon Cookies with Lemon Icing
The trick to making these cookies genuinely lemony — not just lemon-scented — is rubbing the zest into the sugar before anything else. Spend two minutes pressing the zest between your fingers against the sugar crystals and you'll see the mixture go fragrant and slightly damp. That's the essential oil…
Thai Red Prawn Curry
Most home versions of Thai red curry taste flat because they skip the most important step: cooking the curry paste in coconut milk until the oil separates. It looks like a small thing — two or three minutes of stirring — but it's what develops the aromatics in the paste…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispy Cups
Four ingredients. No oven. Melt chocolate, stir in peanut butter and Rice Krispies, spoon into mini muffin moulds, top with candy, refrigerate two hours. That's the whole thing. These are the kind of treat you make when you want something to look like you made an effort without actually making…
Mini Meat Pies
These are Australian party pies made properly — shortcrust pastry bases filled with a thick, well-seasoned beef mince filling and topped with rounds of puff pastry that puff up golden in the oven. The filling is the part that matters. It needs to be genuinely thick and dry enough to…
One-Pot Rice Cooker Chicken Rice with Vegetables
Most rice cooker recipes tell you to cook the rice and the protein separately. This one doesn't. The chicken goes directly on top of the uncooked rice before the lid closes — and as the rice absorbs the cooking water, the chicken drippings and any marinade liquid soak down into…
