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Corned silverside with slow-cooked carrots and mustard sauce

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40 comforting recipes just like mum used to make (only maybe even better)

Feeling nostalgic for the good old days? Re-create some of your favourite childhood dishes (only better) with a little help from our recipe writers.

39 recipes
Corned silverside served with boiled carrots, potato puree and creamy mustard sauce.
EASY

Neil Perry's corned silverside with mustard sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Skip the fish sauce to keep this broth vegetarian.
EASY

Big, clear vegetable soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Slow-cooked beef stroganoff.

Stroganoff stew

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Slow-cooked beef stroganoff with thick strips of pasta.
EASY

Beef short rib stroganoff

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Meatloaf meets parma.
EASY

Parmigiana meatloaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Six-ish ingredient Greek lamb meatloaf.
EASY

Six-ingredient Greek lamb meatloaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Add these to your Australia Day menu.
EASY

Adam Liaw barbecue recipes: Beef rissoles with avocado sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Delicious Fish cakes with tomato buer blanc at Three Blue Ducks in Sydney, Australia.

Fish cakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Fish cakes with dill and parsnip puree.

Dill fish cakes recipe with parsnip purée

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Comfort food classic: Bangers and mash with a rich onion gravy.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Bangers and mash (plus the secret to lump-free gravy)

  • Nagi Maehashi
Diana Lampe's Shepherd's pie .

Shepherd's pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Diana Lampe
Jill Dupleix's chicken pot pie recipe.

Family-size chicken pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie. Karen Martini MUSHROOMS recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed May 28, 2013. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Chicken, leek and mushroom pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Meatballs braised in tomato sauce.

Meatballs braised in tomato sauce recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Lamb shanks in red wine sauce.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Slow-cooked lamb shanks in red wine sauce

  • Nagi Maehashi
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This has to be the easiest cauliflower cheese recipe.
EASY

Roasted cauliflower and parmesan cheese recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Karen Martini's golden tubetti pasta bake with tuna.
EASY

Golden tubetti with cauliflower and tuna

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Cracking crackling roast pork.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: How to make perfect pork crackling

  • Nagi Maehashi
Steak with 'home sauce'.
EASY

Steak with 'home sauce'

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Crispy corn fritters.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Extra crispy corn fritters

  • Nagi Maehashi
Neil Perry's chicken cacciatore.
EASY

Chicken cacciatore

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Middle Eastern chicken kiev.

Spiced chicken kiev with zaatar crumb, crisp aleppo potato, smoked almond and kale salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Moussaka with leftover shredded lamb.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Pulled lamb moussaka

  • 2 hrs +
  • Nagi Maehashi
Chunky, hearty chilli con carne.

The ultimate chilli con carne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
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Chicken Kiev with garlic butter.

Neil Perry's chicken Kiev with garlic butter

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
This versatile creamy mushroom sauce will soon become your go-to recipe.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Chicken with creamy mushroom sauce

  • Nagi Maehashi
Chow mein-style pork with cabbage, peas and hokkien noodles.
EASY

Chow mein-style pork with cabbage, peas and Hokkien noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Salmon and spinach en croute with dill creme fraiche.

Salmon en croute with dill creme fraiche

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Egg and Bacon Pie.

Egg and bacon pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Stephanie Alexander
Good Food Hot Food. Potato Skins. Sept 10.Photo: Edwina Pickles. 4th Sept 2013.

Roasted potato skins with garlicky cheese dip

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
The can't-be-beat, benchmark Australian-Italian spag bol.

Italian-Australian spaghetti bolognese recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Real winter warmer: Creamy fish and potato-topped pie.

Fish, prawn and potato pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
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EASY

Creamy potato gratin

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
GF. Hot Food. June 4th. Mac n Cheese.Photo: Edwina Pickles. 28th May 2013.
EASY

Mac and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Cultured mashed potatoes with chicken gravy.
EASY

Cultured mashed potatoes with chicken gravy recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken.

Classic roast chicken with buttered vegetables recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

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