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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
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Side soup.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s side soup

In the West, soup is commonly a first course, while in Asia it’s mostly served with the main. This is a Western-style soup you can eat as a side dish.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Baked eggs with chorizo, peppers and soft polenta
EASY

Eat these eggs with chorizo, capsicum and oven-baked polenta for breakfast or dinner

Try this different take on the classic baked eggs, with the easy, fuss-free polenta base oven-baked instead.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
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
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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
Serve these oven-baked meatballs with cheesy garlic bread.
EASY

Mouthwatering oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce

Serve these simply but lovingly made meatballs alongside cheesy garlic bread.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
20-minute pizza alla norma.
EASY

Hold the phone. You can have pizza alla Norma on the table in 20 minutes.

A cheeky shortcut helps this vegetarian pizza come together in a flash.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Adam Liaw’s vegetarian lasagne.

Adam Liaw’s one vegetarian lasagne recipe (with seasonal variations) to rule them all

What’s red, white and delicious all over? This pasta bake, where you get to choose your own vegie adventure.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Mexican ceviche rice bowl.
EASY

Mexican ceviche rice bowl

Think of this as a vibrant Mexican riff on the poke bowl, a Hawaiian dish rooted in Japan.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook