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Potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream

Potato skins are often treated as leftovers, but in my house they are the main event.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Emelia Jackson’s perfect black forest cake.

This retro celebration cake will never go out of fashion. Here’s the secret to whipping up a great one

Bring out a black forest cake – a high-rise stack of airy chocolate sponges, sweet-sour cherries and clouds of cream – then stand back and soak up the accolades.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Sweet chilli Philly gets an update.
EASY

Baked feta with crunchy chilli oil and honey

An updated sweet chilli Philly with a little more crunch and interplay of sweet, sour and funk, this is snack perfection in four ingredients.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s honey and walnut semifreddo.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s honey and walnut semifreddo

Semifreddo does the same job as ice-cream but not special equipment required.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Spicy seafood and potato stew with fennel, tomatoes and saffron.
EASY

Spicy seafood and potato stew with fennel, tomatoes and saffron

This hearty stew is a one-pot wonder for all seasons.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Kale and ricotta rolls.
EASY

Kale and ricotta rolls

This simple vegetarian snack uses ready-prepared leaves and shop-bought pastry sheets.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Chocolate and cinnamon pavlova.

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
Duck breast with orange and red wine sauce.
EASY

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
Serve with mashed potatoes and fennel to make an elegant but simple meal.
EASY

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
Serve these lamb cutlets with tzatziki (pictured).

Chop chop: Five juicy lamb cutlet recipes to cook this weekend

They’re like lollipops for meatlovers. And one is never enough.