Food & drink

Steph was a Jamaican chef Helen worked with many years ago in Melbourne.

Muhammara is a spicy Levantine dip made from red peppers and walnuts.

This is a combination of two great Spanish potato dishes: patatas a lo pobre (poor man’s potatoes) and huevos rotos (broken eggs).

There are many ways to make cabbage delicious but it’s hard to improve on butter.

Easy to make and versatile, these stir-fried noodles suggest inebriation to the extent that after a night of drinking, many people crave noodles like these-salty garlicky, spicy, and herbaceous.

These are addictive.

This starter is ridiculously easy and ridiculously good.

For a classic, all-American pumpkin pie to serve this Thanksgiving, look no further than Dolly Parton and Rachel Parton George’s classic recipe.

There are very few things, in my book, which aren’t improved by a drizzle of creamy tahini sauce.

I think this is my most filling baked oats recipe!

This recipe by Jamie Oliver brings together chicken, chorizo and seafood onto the barbecue grill to make an amazing medley of flavours.

Some of life’s most wonderful things are formed in rolls.

This is a family favourite.

This is my favourite meal in this book.

Singing of summer, this is one of those beautiful dishes that’s at its best when made with bang-in-season zucchinis and tomatoes. An utter joy.

This fancy way of presenting vegetables has the advantage that the initial cooking can be done several hours ahead.

This recipe by Jamie Oliver is a celebration of Mediterranean flavours and ingredients, featuring tender salmon rubbed with anchovies, harissa couscous, chickpeas and vegetables. It comes out of the roasting tray ready to serve with harissa yoghurt and lemon.

Jamie Oliver’s flavour-packed prawn curry takes just 10 minutes to prepare with no compromise on taste – think juicy prawns, chickpea and mango in a creamy coconut curry sauce, all finished with a crunchy Bombay mix topping.

Filo is such a versatile pastry. No matter how you put this together, the results are always fun.

I once supervised and helped to cook this tart for 150 people in a woolshed in country Victoria, where it was served with the most sensational farm cream.

This is the dish Patrick Dempsey’s character tells Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones that he would have brought her on their imaginary second date in Bridget Jones’s Baby.

This colourful rice noodle salad with tender steak and sticky gochujang aubergine makes a quick and tasty dinner.

A healthy and fuss-free take on a meatball bake, this orzo dish makes a comforting dinner perfectly paired with a fresh salad.

When I go to a certain restaurant, I have to order the katsu curry, with a number of small plates of course. I like serving this with some cucumber, pickled onions and a bit of soy sauce. Divine.