• Baking

Try this fish pie recipe and you’ll see why it’s a menu fixture at this famous Melbourne pub

Comforting but not too heavy, this creamy fish pie is a year-round favourite. So don’t be shy – bust through the golden pastry cap and dive right in.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Andrew McConnell

• One-tray wonder

Adam Liaw’s one-pan rosemary chicken and potatoes

If you prefer breast meat, you can use a whole jointed chicken for this recipe instead of thigh cutlets.

• 2 hrs +
• Adam Liaw

• Substantial salads

A cracking new Easter egg recipe from Adam Liaw (with not a dot of chocolate in sight)

Dry-roasting the potatoes for this simple but flavoursome salad intensifies the taste, rather than watering it down by boiling.

• 1-2 hrs
• Adam Liaw

• Midweek dinner

Coffee-rubbed rib-eye with straw fries

Coffee-mustard rub adds flavour to the steaks and helps to tenderise them for this bistro-at-home dish.

• < 30 mins
• Jessica Brook

• One-tray wonder

This saucy, flavour-packed patatas bravas will make you friends any day of the week

Offering aioli and romesco sauces with a spread of duck fat-roasted potatoes will make you friends every day of the week.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Katrina Meynink

• Midweek dinner

What’s for dinner? Wing it with speedy peri-peri chicken wings and oven-baked feta fries

If you like hot wings, you’ll love this spicy Portuguese-inspired marinade.

• < 30 mins
• Jessica Brook

• Cookbook extracts

Transform canned potatoes into crispy golden spuds in 20 minutes in your air fryer

With just a few basic pantry ingredients, you can have roast potatoes, golden pumpkin, cauli cheese and more in less time than it takes to warm up the oven.

• January 2, 2025
• Samantha Milner and Dominic Milner

• Christmas

Christmas Day SOS: How to fix soggy spuds, dry turkey, rubbery crackling and more common cooking fails

Rest your turkey before serving, par-boil your potatoes, blast your pork with a hair dryer if you have to – just don’t panic, Christmas dinner help is at hand.

• December 19, 2024
• Caroline Velik

• Recipe collection
• Sweet potato

Pure gold: 20 perfect roast potato recipes for your Christmas table

Everyone knows the best bit of your Christmas meal is the crisp golden roast potatoes winking at you from under the gravy. Here are some of the best.

• Better baking

The secret to these fluffy cinnamon doughnuts? It’s all in the mashed spuds

The difference between gloriously puffy doughnuts and dense, oily rings comes down to an ingredient found in the vegie aisle.

• < 30 mins
• Emelia Jackson