Matt Preston's 100 Best Recipes

Matt Preston's 100 Best Recipes

'This is the food that I've loved since childhood; the things I cook on a Tuesday night or Sunday lunch at home; affordable, easily achievable and delicious dishes I hope you'll want to try - and then cook, again and again. It is the food that I cook when the cameras aren't rolling, when friends are due over for dinner or the kids are screaming for their tea. It is unapologetically simple food using everyday ingredients.'

'There are also some recipes here for meals that my kids would now like to call their own and regularly demand to make. The sort of stuff they cook now, and will undoubtedly cook for their own children - pasta, pizza dough, meringue, pastry, biscuits. Interestingly these all revolve around sugar, eggs or flour, which I suspect is just so they can ensure maximum mess in the kitchen for me to clean up!'
-Matt Preston

No one knows food like Matt Preston, one of Australia's most loved TV personalities, award-winning food journalist and recipe writer, judge on MasterChef Australia … and a seriously good home cook.

Gathered for the first time are Matt's best recipes for the dishes he cooks at home for his family - from his award-winning raspberry jam and ultimate bolognese sauce to the creamiest pumpkin soup and the only muffin recipe you'll ever need. Written in Matt's inimitable style, these are simple, delicious recipes that work: a virtual A-Z of ideas for bringing a whole new world of flavour to the things you cook every day. Cheeky twists on ingredients everyone uses, and ideas for clever shortcuts based on bought BBQ chooks, packets of puff pastry, chops and chicken wings make this the everyday cookbook you won't be able do without!

For the last couple of years Matt Preston has been introducing millions of Australians to the joys of simple tasty cooking every week. He's done this not only through his role as co-host and mentor on MasterChef but also in his column in the Taste food section that appears weekly in the Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier Mail, Adelaide Advertiser, The Mercury and the Sunday Times in Perth taking classics and adding a twist, bringing a little snap and crackle to the everyday.

This is Matt's first cookbook, not that this is his first foray into recipe writing. A passionate cook, for the last decade Matt's recipe features have run in delicious. magazine as well as in newspapers. In 2006 - two years before he was named 'World's Best Food Journalist' in the Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards - he joined a small but illustrious group of cooks and chefs, including Stephanie Alexander and Andrew McConnell, to win the coveted biennial Australian Food Media Award for 'Best Recipe Feature in a Newspaper or Newspaper Magazine'.

Matt was born in London and lives in Melbourne (and sometimes Sydney). He likes open fires, long walks on blustery beaches, and bacon.

Matt Preston's 100 Best Recipes
Macmillan Australia Publishers
Author: Matt Preston
Price: $39.99