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Icelandic rice pudding.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Icelandic rice pudding

Icelandic rice pudding is a dessert, but salty rather than sweet. The contrast between the slightly salty pudding and the sweet cinnamon sugar is lovely.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Home-made bone broth is inexpensive to make and nourishing to eat.

This pot of gold is one of the most nourishing things you can eat, plus it’s cheap and easy to make

A rich, long-simmered bone broth is the secret to these nourishing, big-flavoured dishes.

  • Rosheen Kaul
Spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed chicken breasts.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed chicken breasts

Packet French onion soup mix is probably used more for making dips than soup. Here it’s combined with ricotta and spinach for a tasty stuffing for chicken breasts.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ SOS recipe: Spiced chickpea mushroom stew.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ one-pot spiced chickpeas and mushrooms is a vegetarian slam-dunk

Mellow spices and fresh herbs add spark to this quick and inexpensive dish, which is served with warm flatbreads for dunking and scooping.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Eggplant shawarma with sumac pickled radishes and tahini.
EASY

Eggplant shawarma with sumac-pickled radishes and tahini flatbreads

All the fun of a flatbread-wrapped bundle of fragrant Middle Eastern goodness, but make it meat-free.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream makes the perfect Logies party snack

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

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
A customer enjoying the $2 espresso that’s available at Genovese Coffee House’s espresso bar.

Is it still possible to find a cheap coffee? Yes, if you know where (and when) to look

Smart cafe operators are offering happy hours, discounts or other deals. And in some cases it doesn’t matter which milk you drink.

  • Emma Breheny
Marinated minute steaks with sesame daikon salad and steamed rice.
  • Recipe collection
  • Meat

Flash in a pan: Six speedy minute-steak dinners from around the world

Forget meat-and-three. These midweek dinners inspired by Mexico, Japan, France and Italy will keep things interesting.

Tomato soup

Pantry staples: The great Good Food tinned tomato soup taste test

The brief: test affordable supermarket tinned tomato soups to see which ones are worth stocking the pantry with over winter. The result? Read on.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

Five ways to magic a meal from a can of tomato soup (starring this garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl)

Give a humble, cost-effective can a bit of juju with these ideas from Katrina Meynink.

  • Katrina Meynink