FOOD BLOGS

Bastille Day

A quince tart for the soul

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Katrina Meynink   Pastry so light and flaky you expect to find it down your top, in your beard, or on your baby’s head for weeks to come.

Chocolate chocolate chocolate

A chocolate flavourologist is an actual job

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Katrina Meynink   Ummm where do we sign up?

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Donburi

A delightful Teriyaki salmon bowl

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A field guide to a perfectly constructed Donburi bowl.

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Winter food

A coq a vin of sorts

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Katrina Meynink   The art of using what you have on hand to make something seriously tasty.

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Treat yourself

Your sticky dated antidote to winter blues

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Katrina Meynink   Sticky date pudding just got even more delicious/soul bolstering.

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Pure heaven

What cupcake fatigue?

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Katrina Meynink   Just when you thought you were over cupcakes, these came along.

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Sweet + Savoury

Delicious meatballs with cherry jam and yoghurt

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Katrina Meynink   Wonderous spicy, pungent, textural flavour bombs in your mouth.

Huxtabook recipes

A good bit of chargrilled beef with caramelised onion puree and pepper sauce

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Rejoice fine eating friends - finally, Huxtable dishes can be recreated at home!

Bun recipes

Why not enjoy a hot cross bun festival?

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Katrina Meynink   Get amongst it people – hot cross buns in their various forms and incarnations from breakfast through to dessert.

Marvelous Creations mousse cake

Introducing the Marvelous Creations mousse cake

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Katrina Meynink   Yes this is really happening, an unholy creation of perfection.

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Thai food

How to make perfect Pad Thai

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Katrina Meynink   There's not better example of all that's good about Thailand than this dish, except when it's done badly.

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This roulade will be your dessert weapon

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Katrina Meynink   A roulade featuring Turkish delight, meringue, raspberries and pistachios, oh my. Oh my, oh my.

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The joy of old-fashioned cooking techniques

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Katrina Meynink   Here's one good reason: pomegranate and spice maple slow-roasted lamb shoulder. Yeahhhh.

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Homemade ice-cream

Impossibly refreshing basil and mint ice-cream

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Katrina Meynink   A delightfully quick and easy recipe for homemade ice-cream/joy.

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Comfort desserts

The best desserts are the slab kind

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Katrina Meynink   These apple and rhubarb slabs are frills-free comfort food at its best.

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Really fancy waffles

The not-so-humble waffle

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Katrina Meynink   Wasabi, cheese and pancetta waffles. You're going to want to face plant into these on the weekend.

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Summer flavours

A light and lush summer salad

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Katrina Meynink   Fresh fish and watermelon, could you actually get any more summery?

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Valentine's Day recipe ideas

A Valentine's Day dinner that will win over cynics

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Katrina Meynink   Even if you hate Valentine's Day it's still OK to gobble delicious things!

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Nutella meringue

Little bites of heaven (and Nutella)

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Katrina Meynink   The meringue is totally underrated in its excellence.

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Breakfast ideas

The alternative to a dull breakfast

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Katrina Meynink   Perfect brunch food.

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Australian classic

A pavlova that's just like eating clouds

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Katrina Meynink   Salted bourbon caramel with grilled peach clouds to be exact.

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Treat yourself

Chocolate crackles for grownups

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Katrina Meynink   A delicious alternative to a New Year's diet.

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The everything Christmas roulade

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Katrina Meynink   Introducing the fruit mince pie, chocolate and brandy cream Christmas roulade.

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Christmas ideas

Now this is how to glaze a ham

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Katrina Meynink   A sticky Christmas ham that takes inspiration from Southern America. Oh yeeahh.

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Festive treats

Festive (melting) moments

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Katrina Meynink   With added candy cane cream. We repeat, candy cane cream.

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Christmas ideas

A luxuriously slow-cooked pork shoulder

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Katrina Meynink   And since you can't really get it wrong, it's perfect for the Christmas table.

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The Kitchen Coquette

Festive chocolate and butterscotch bites

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Katrina Meynink   These miniature delights are the perfect thing to serve during party season.

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Popcorn prawns

Popcorn prawns are undeniably delicious

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Katrina Meynink   The ultimate summer lunch. Or dinner. Or snack.

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Spring dessert

Heavenly berries with meringue, vanilla yoghurt and musk syrup

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Katrina Meynink   The ultimate food flavour pyramid for spring.

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How to BBQ

This delicious salad is made with a bbq

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Katrina Meynink   The two coolest chefs around are changing how we feel about bbqing.

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Hump day treat

An utterly sinful icecream sandwich

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Katrina Meynink   Go on, do it. Isn't about time you treated yourself?

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Amazing cupcakes

Bake yourself happy

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Katrina Meynink   This is especially possible with turkish delight and dark chocolate cupcakes.

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Fancy icecream bars

A fancy homemade Weiss bar

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Katrina Meynink   With added booze. Hurrah!

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Exotic treat

Middle Eastern rocky road

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Katrina Meynink   Meet us in a happy, happy place.

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The new burger?

We might love lobster rolls even more than burgers

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Katrina Meynink   When they go as well with beer as they do champagne, why wouldn't you?

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Spring Salmon Salad

Summery salad

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Katrina Meynink   It's basically a non-soggy miracle.

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Blueberry blondie

The brilliant blueberry blondie

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Katrina Meynink   Crammed with blueberries, chocolate chips and nuts, this blondie sure is something.

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Pretty sweet treats

Crack caramel

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Katrina Meynink   These pretty caramels are good enough for gifts, and/or gobbling until your teeth ache.

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Parmesan pesto fries

Now these are potato chips

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Katrina Meynink   These pesto parmesan fries will probably change your life.

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Cherry Ripe inspired dessert

Cherry Ripe, redux

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Katrina Meynink   That old favourite, the Cherry Ripe, gets a schmancy makeover.

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Simply delicious

A simply delightful cake

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Katrina Meynink   Not all cakes should be fancy and fiddly, there's much to love about a simple cake.

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Genius ideas

You need to know about bacon jam

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Katrina Meynink   Because it is a frankly genius idea.

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Breakfast ideas

How to fancy up your breakfast

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Katrina Meynink   Why have ordinary porridge when you have buttered pear and espresso honey porridge? Exactly.

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The new cronut?

Forget the cronut, it's all about the canelé

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Katrina Meynink   At least, it is for Katrina Meynink who wants to make it happen.

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Hyper slow cooking

You need to learn how to sous vide

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Katrina Meynink   Katrina has a new gadget in her kitchen and it has pretty much changed her life.

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Chocolate week

An excessive chocolate tart

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Katrina Meynink   It's nearly World Chocolate Day after all, only decadence will do.

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Make a Cronut

Katrina makes a [k]ronut

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Katrina Meynink   How to make the most ridiculous pastry currently taking New York (and beyond) by storm.

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Food blog

Malted milkshake in a pudding

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Katrina Meynink   It's the milkshake of your dreams ... in a pudding.

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Comfort food

Very sophisticated mac & cheese

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Katrina Meynink   This is a French inspired decadent feast. OK, it's a gluttony fest. Hooray!

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Delicious desserts

This banoffee crumble will probably take you over the edge

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Katrina Meynink   This gooey, buttery bannoffee is a dessert point of no return.

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Bread making

The (sour) art of baking bread

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Katrina Meynink   Katrina attends a sourdough bread making class, and it changed the way she thinks about food.

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Winter desserts

Hot apple pie

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Katrina Meynink   Inspired by the best apple pie that Katrina has ever eaten.

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Homemade Snickers

How to get away with being a glutton

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Katrina Meynink   Eating a slab of homemade snickers bar is socially acceptable, right?

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Roast chicken

Miraculous roast chicken

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Katrina Meynink   Yes, we've been here before. No, we will never tire of roast chicken.

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Recipes

The biggest (and best) kind of morning tea

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Katrina Meynink   A good cause, and lots of cake. Excellent combination.

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Indulgence

Oh yes, it's a cake in a jar

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Katrina Meynink   Pushing aside initial suspicions, we've embraced the 'delicious and pretty things in jars' trend.

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Warming recipes

The comfort curry

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Katrina Meynink   Nothing puts things right like a spicy, comforting curry.

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Slabs of decadence

A posh caramel slice

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Katrina Meynink   You might think you shouldn't mess with a classic, but here's why it works.

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Tequila!

A recipe to keep summer going

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Katrina Meynink   This tequila infused steak salad will preserve the memory of cocktails by the beach.

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