Tomato
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
Think of this as a vibrant Mexican riff on the poke bowl, a Hawaiian dish rooted in Japan.
- < 30 mins
- Jessica Brook