Julia Busuttil Nishimura might be literally 8 months pregnant… but that hasn’t stopped her from coming up with another fabulous recipe for us, just before the year is out!

Hazelnutty and creamy with sweet juicy peaches, this Eton Mess recipe is the perfect solution if you’re on Christmas dessert for the whole family (…or by yourself!) and will surely have people coming back for seconds… and thirds!

Julia Busuttil-Nishimura’s recipes always seem to come at the perfect time. This is partly by design – this is, after all, a column about seasonal ingredients – but Julia’s recipes have a way of bringing on a feeling of fizzy anticipation for exciting things to come. This month’s recipe for eggplant parmigiana has us thinking of the summer dinner parties that are now only weeks away, when time is abundant, food is plentiful and our social lives are happy and full!

We loved seeing so many of you making Julia’s Strawberry Galette recipe from last month! If you do whip up any of her fantastic recipes from our seasonal series, please tag @thedesignfiles and @juliaostro so we can re-post your creations!

It is well established that the mass production of meat is a huge contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, takes up enormous amounts of farmland, uses precious water supplies, and in factory farming, involves animal rights abuses and exploitative conditions for low paid workers. Incorporating more plant-based meals into our lifestyle is a proven way to contribute to an issue that can seem pretty overwhelming!

In support of Meat Free Week this week – an initiative supported by  Bowel Cancer Australia, World Animal Protection and Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation – today we’re sharing some of our favourite veggie recipes from the TDF food archives.

Even the most carnivorous of eaters will be asking for second helpings!

Spring is here! And it’s made all the more joyous by one of our favourite Melbourne foodies, Julia Busuttil Nishimura, who is back with another simple-yet-delicious seasonal recipe.

Today, the acclaimed author and self-taught cook shares a fresh, flavoursome, and teenie-bit-nostalgic dish!

We’re immensely chuffed to launch a new monthly column today!  Author and passionate self-taught cook Julia Busuttil Nishimura will be joining us each month, sharing a snapshot of the seasonal flavours in her kitchen, along with one super easy, recipe. SO EXCITED!

Julia kicks off the column today with a fresh, flavour-packed salad inspired by an ingredient that’s juicy and abundant at this time year – citrus!