Food

Fast food is quick, convenient and often hard to resist. Whether it is a burger with fries, a crispy chicken sandwich or a pizza meal, these foods can add up to quite a few calories without looking like a huge amount of food. So, how many calories are in a typical fast food meal? For … Read more

Asian cooking can look complicated when you first start exploring it. There are different sauces, noodles, spices, oils, seasonings and ingredients that may not be part of your usual grocery list. But the good news is that you don’t need a huge collection of ingredients to start making delicious Asian-inspired meals at home. A small, … Read more

Seafood is having a big moment in home kitchens and restaurant menus right now. From colorful salmon bowls and spicy shrimp dishes to classic fish and chips, people are looking for seafood meals that are flavorful, simple to make and a little more exciting than the usual dinner. Recent recipe collections and food trend reports … Read more

When summer arrives, the last thing most people want is to spend a long time standing in front of a hot stove. Warm weather calls for dinners that are fresh, simple and filling without making the kitchen feel even hotter. The good thing is that summer has plenty of ingredients that can turn into a … Read more

Getting dinner on the table every night can feel like a job of its own. Between school runs, work, sports training, commuting and everything else that fills an Australian weekday, there are plenty of evenings when nobody wants to spend an hour in the kitchen. That is where easy Asian-inspired dinners can be very useful. … Read more

Weeknight dinners do not have to be complicated to be good. For many Australian households, the hardest part of cooking dinner is simply finding the time and deciding what to make. After work, school, sport, commuting and all the other jobs that fill a weekday, spending an hour preparing an elaborate meal is not always … Read more

Fish sauce can be one of the most confusing bottles in an Asian grocery aisle. Open it for the first time and the strong aroma can make you wonder why anyone would want to put it in their dinner. But once it is used correctly, fish sauce can do something quite different. It adds a … Read more

Soy sauce and tamari can look almost identical on the supermarket shelf. Both are dark, savoury sauces that can add plenty of flavour to stir-fries, noodles, rice bowls, marinades and dipping sauces. For someone new to Asian cooking, it is easy to pick up either bottle and assume they are basically the same thing. They … Read more