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Minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs is a meal in a bowl.

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A hug in a bowl: 35 recipes to cook for someone you love

When someone you know needs a little lift, a home-made food care package is a thoughtful way to show you’re thinking of them.

35 recipes
Danielle Alvarez’s bean and pasta stew with pancetta and rosemary.
EASY

Shortcut bean and pasta stew with pancetta and rosemary

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Katrina Meynink’s marry me chickpeas.
EASY

Creamy marry me chickpeas

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Arabella Forge's cold-busting chicken soup.

Cold-busting chicken soup

  • 2 hrs +
  • Arabella Forge
Minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs.
EASY

Minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Roasted vegetable and lentil soup.
EASY

Roasted vegetable and lentil soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Pumpkin soup.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s pumpkin soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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RecipeTin Eats’ Golden coconut pumpkin curry.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ golden coconut pumpkin curry

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Adam Liaw’s adaptable chicken curry.
EASY

Quick chicken curry

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Parmigiana pasta bake with cauliflower balls.

Cauliflower parmigiana pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
You can use baby spinach but English spinach has a far superior flavour.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s artichoke, green olive and spinach spiral filo pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Zucchini slice.
EASY

Zucchini slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Quiche Lorraine topped with crispy bacon for extra pizzazz.

Quiche Lorraine

  • Jill Dupleix
Spring greens and cheese pie.

Helen Goh’s spring greens and cheese pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
No-fuss seafood chowder pot pies.
EASY

Seafood chowder pot pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Helen Goh's spinach, fennel, lemon and thyme bourekas.
EASY

Fennel and three-cheese bourekas (pastry triangles)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Cheese and greens galette.

Vegetarian cheese and greens galette

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw’s vegetarian lasagne.

Vegetarian lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's buffalo mozzarella lasagne.

Buffalo mozzarella lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Serve these oven-baked meatballs with cheesy garlic bread.
EASY

Oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Garlic and brie baguette.
EASY

Garlic and brie baguette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ Greek chicken and potato tray bake.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ Greek chicken and potato traybake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Neil Perry’s sautéed pork and beans.
EASY

Italian pork sausage and white beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Adam Liaw masterclass recipe: Vietnamese chicken salad.
EASY

Vietnamese chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Greek green salad.
EASY

Greek green salad with feta, mint and dill

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Salad in a jar.
EASY

No-cook jar salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Satay roast chicken salad.
EASY

Satay roast chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chocolate and almond pasticcini
EASY

Chocolate and almond pasticcini

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
ANZAC biscuit.
EASY

Anzac biscuits

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Have you ever sprinkled a pinch of flaky salt on a chocolate chip cookie just before baking? Try it. You won't regret it.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s salted tahini and chocolate chip cookies

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chocolate ricotta cake with chocolate ganache.

Chocolate ricotta cake

  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Lemon brownies with winter berries.

Lemon brownies with winter berries

  • Helen Goh

Berry and custard traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Gunfire granola.
EASY

Gunfire granola

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Hurricane popcorn.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s hurricane popcorn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh’s roasted spiced nuts with lime leaf and chilli.
EASY

Roasted spiced nuts with lime leaf and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Helen Goh