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Katrina Meynink

Katrina Meynink

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Katrina Meynink is a cookbook author and Good Food recipe columnist.Connect via Twitter.

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
Tomato soup, extra dirty.
EASY

Dirty martini tomato ‘n’ olive soup

When you’d like nothing more than an ice-cold martini, but midweek life has other plans, this soup gives hits of salty, briny goodness.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Mexican-inspired soup with all the toppings.

Give taco Tuesday, Thai green curry and carbonara the soup treatment

Katrina Meynink transforms three dinnertime classics − and one cocktail − into fortifying, satisfying soups.

  • Katrina Meynink
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pasta with slow-roasted shallot, chorizo and garlic sauce.
EASY

Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce

Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to, such as this simple tomato sauce.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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This creamy fennel sauce comes together in a blender.
EASY

Caramelised fennel, lemon and chilli pasta

This decadent, silky sauce comes together in a blender.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Peruvian-inspired green spaghetti with smoked almonds.
EASY

Peruvian-style green spaghetti with spinach, feta and smoked almonds

The influx of Italians in Peru in the early 1800s resulted in this twist on the Ligurian pesto pasta, known as tallarines verdes.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pork sausage ragu of sorts with burrata and casarecce.

The joy of six ingredients: Four new pasta sauces that punch well above their weight

Katrina Meynink’s flavour-packed pasta sauce recipes are easy on your wallet, your time and your shopping list. And they taste fabulous, too.

  • Katrina Meynink
Ice-cream sundae with leftover Easter egg chocolate sauce.

If life gives you leftover Easter eggs, make chocolate sauce (plus four more irresistible new ideas)

Use those post-Easter chocolate egg dregs in all manner of fun snacks and desserts.

  • Katrina Meynink
Rustic vegetarian quiche with greens and bagel seasoning.
EASY

Rustic quiche, heavy on the greens, with bagel seasoning

Bagel seasoning adds a different kind of crunch to this free-form and robust vegetarian quiche.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink