Ice-cream sundae with leftover Easter egg chocolate sauce.

If life gives you leftover Easter eggs,make chocolate sauce (plus four more irresistible new ideas)

Use those post-Easter chocolate egg dregs in all manner of fun snacks and desserts.

  • Katrina Meynink
Chickpea,brown rice and greens salad with creamy harissa dressing.
EASY

Chickpea,brown rice and greens salad with creamy harissa dressing

This salad improves with a good sit in the fridge. The key to its longevity is to coat the chickpeas and grains very lightly.

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Sweet and sour chicken and rice salad.
EASY

Agrodolce-style chicken and rice salad with lemon and garlic yoghurt

I’ve turned the traditional Italian sweet-and-sour sauce into a lively dressing that coats the grains and chicken beautifully.

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Amatriciana-ish cous cous salad.
EASY

Amatriciana-ish cous cous salad

The beauty of this salad lies in its adaptability;add chilli and whatever deli-style goods you have lurking in your fridge.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Lentil and tuna salad with honey-mustard dressing.
EASY

Lentil and tuna salad with honey Dijon dressing

This is a heavy-hitting serve of protein with the lentils and tuna making it a robust,dinner-worthy kind of salad.

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Advertisement
Sweet and sour chicken and rice salad.

Four robust salads that work overtime as both dinner today and lunch tomorrow

These hefty salads relish a stay in the fridge overnight,while remaining fresh and full of delight.

  • Katrina Meynink
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s saucy spin on the classic prawn sandwich

This tangy sauce from the deep south of the United States tastes fantastic on this Aussie summer staple.

  • <30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chicken edamame lettuce cups.
EASY

Simple summer dinner:Katrina Meynink’s sticky chicken and edamame lettuce cups

Make this in double batches. It works like a dream for work and school lunches for the days that follow.

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s vegetable frittata.

How to save money by using the ingredients languishing in your pantry

Looking for an easy food budget win? Shop from the pantry and use up what’s already there with these thrifty tips.

  • Kimberley Gillan
Leftover brisket salad with greens ‘n’ beans.
EASY

Warm brisket salad with greens and beans

The nutty French cheese comte lifts this generous warm salad in an unexpected (and completely delicious) direction.

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink