Open any Aussie school-fête cookbook and you’ll find a sticky, sugar-smudged page with one beloved title: honey joys recipe. Butter, honey and sugar bubble into a butterscotch syrup, then hug a bowl of Corn Flakes until every flake glows. Spoonfuls land in little paper cups and a short bake locks in the crunch. They’re simple,…
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Some dinners make the whole house smell like comfort. This corned beef recipe is one of them. A pot gently bubbles on the stove, the kitchen fills with peppercorns, bay leaves and cloves, and the beef turns meltingly tender without ever boiling. It’s the kind of meal that calls people to the table, needs only…
The scent of brown sugar and butter melting on the stove is the unofficial winter perfume of my kitchen. When it mingles with vanilla, cream and the toffee-sweetness of simmering dates, everyone knows what’s coming: my sticky date pudding recipe. The first spoonful is always the same kind of surprise soft, warm sponge that’s almost…
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Some dinners feel like a hug you can put on a plate. For me, that’s apricot chicken: tender pieces of chicken in a glossy, sweet-savory sauce that perfumes the whole house and brings everyone to the table without being called twice. This apricot chicken recipe is my polished, weeknight-friendly version of the Australian classic deeply…
Open any Aussie fundraiser cookbook and I’ll bet you find a page stuck together with chocolate fingerprints where the rocky road recipe lives. Sweet, crunchy, chewy and a little bit nostalgic, rocky road is our most generous slice: everyone throws in their favourite bits, it sets fast, and it feeds a crowd. If you’re hunting…
There are recipes you learn because you should, and then there are recipes you learn because people won’t stop asking you to bring them. This caramel slice recipe is firmly in the second camp. It’s the tray bake that disappears first at school fetes, work morning teas, and family BBQs, three layers of bliss: a…

I’m Ella, an Aussie home cook sharing my favourite Australian recipes , family-friendly meals and treats made simple, with fresh garden produce whenever I can.
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