Ah the main event – what everyone has been waiting for! Whether you’re looking for something quick and easy to feed the family or a grand banquet to impress friends and family, we’ve got something for all situations.
Got a sure-fire winner of a main course you’d like everyone to try out? Head over to our Submit Your Favourite Recipe page and let us know – if it looks good to us you just might see it feature below!
The Christmas ham is the least stressful thing on the table, because it arrives already cooked. You are not cooking a ham. You are warming it through and putting a glaze on it, and the entire job is about ninety minutes of oven time you can do the day before.
Homemade pizza is usually let down by the base — pale, bready, and more like a scone than a pizza. Three things fix that, and none of them costs anything: the right flour, enough water, and an oven hotter than you think is sensible. Makes four 30 cm bases.
Fried rice is a fifteen-minute dish that exists to use up leftovers, and there is exactly one non-negotiable rule. Get it right and you have separate, slightly chewy, well-coated grains.
Nachos fail in a very specific way: the top layer is perfect, the bottom is a pale soggy raft of chips with nothing on them, and the middle is somewhere between. That’s a construction problem, not a recipe problem. Serves 4 as a main, 6 as a shared plate. Thirty minutes.
A perfect small meal or appetiser!
This recipe was submitted by a Facebook member Rachel Collins – a beautiful recipe to take advantage of when you have that lovely, delicate hoki. If you’ve got some great… [Continue Reading]
This recipe was submitted by a Facebook member Rachel Collins – a yummy-looking beef dish using kiwifruit. Rachel says: “I have the loveliest recipe using what is in season in… [Continue Reading]
Put a new twist on scalloped potatoes with this recipe, which includes kumara as well. It makes a sweeter dish, which is a great alternative.
This quick and easy batter is made with a can of lemonade, which takes care of the fizz you need for a light batter, as well as a bit of… [Continue Reading]
No need to mess around with getting pastry just right – this self-crusting quiche takes all that hassle away, as it creates its own crust as it bakes. This crustless… [Continue Reading]
