The cooks behind the recipes

Nicole Maguire is the cook behind Simple Home Edit, sharing budget-friendly family recipes and meal-planning tips, and is the author of the cookbook The Simple Dinner Edit. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children and has built a following of more than a million home cooks online.

Jessica Holmes is an Australian cookbook author, recipe developer, food writer and the founder of Sweetest Menu, one of Australia's most popular baking websites. Her debut cookbook, Something Sweet, was published by Pan Macmillan Australia in 2026.

Sue Pressey is the author, cook and photographer behind My Korean Kitchen, a Korean food blog she has run since 2006. My Korean Kitchen has been listed by Saveur magazine as one of the 55 Great Global Food Blogs, and her work has also been featured by outlets including NPR, The New York Times and Serious Eats.

Jess Larson is the founder, creator and primary recipe developer behind Plays Well With Butter, a food blog she has run since 2016 focused on unfussy, fast, seasonal weeknight dinners. She spent her college years working at fine dining restaurants before starting the blog, and her recipes draw on her Midwest roots and Hawaiian family heritage.

Suzy Karadsheh grew up in Port Said, Egypt, and founded The Mediterranean Dish in 2014, which has grown into a leading site for modern Mediterranean recipes and lifestyle. She is a two-time New York Times bestselling cookbook author known for easy, wholesome recipes with bold Mediterranean flavours.

Tom Kerridge is chef owner of the Hand & Flowers in Marlow, the only pub to hold two prestigious Michelin stars, with recipes that combine seasonal, modern British flavours with rustic French inspiration. He has also appeared on numerous TV programmes including his own shows.

Julia Frey is a London based recipe developer and photographer who founded Vikalinka in 2012 to share accessible everyday recipes. She has nearly 35 years of cooking experience, including work in commercial kitchens and cooking courses in Italy, France and the Philippines.

Lisa Bryan is the founder of Downshiftology, a food blog and YouTube channel with over 2.5 million subscribers, where she shares wholesome, gluten-free recipes. She is also a bestselling cookbook author who left a corporate healthcare career after several autoimmune diagnoses to focus on real food cooking.

Natalie Perry is the cook, writer and photographer behind Perry's Plate, a gluten-free and paleo-focused blog she started in 2008, and the author of two Harvard Common Press cookbooks including The Big Book of Paleo Slow Cooking. She tests all her recipes in her own kitchen and has also contributed to Bon Appetit, Glamour and The Pioneer Woman: Food & Friends.

Natasha Bull founded Salt & Lavender in 2015 and is the site's recipe developer and photographer, as well as author of the Salt & Lavender: Everyday Essentials cookbook. She runs the comfort-food focused blog from Vancouver, British Columbia, with help from her sister and husband.

A recipe contributor at Spend With Pennies, the food blog created by Holly Nilsson. She developed this cowboy caviar recipe after first trying the dip at a potluck.

Angus (Gus) Young is a trained chef who founded and publishes Slow Cooking Perfected and Cooking Perfected, writing hundreds of recipes for home cooks. He lives on a rural property near Hobart, Tasmania, and holds a Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) alongside a background in software engineering.

Ann Otis is a food blogger, photographer, and videographer at www.OurHappyMess.com, a website she founded in 2017. At Our Happy Mess, she aims to give readers quick, family-friendly, easy recipes.

Jeanine Donofrio is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author who founded the Love and Lemons blog in 2011 to share seasonal, vegetarian recipes. Every recipe on the site, including this one, is developed and tested in her home kitchen.

Misty writes recipes for Borrowed Bites, a blog she runs with her daughter Danielle that adapts and tests recipes from cookbooks, magazines and other cooks. The site describes itself as a mom and daughter team who compare recipes and add their own techniques to create their versions.

He is the founder of Chisel & Fork, a food and woodworking blog, and writes it around a full-time job. He creates and tests the recipes himself, focusing on easy, flavourful dishes for home cooks.