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Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Julia Busuttil Nishimura is a Melbourne-based cookbook author, Good Weekend columnist and host of Good Food Kitchen.

Good Weekend Christmas menu 2024.

Season’s feastings: The Good Weekend Christmas menu

Prepare a festive celebration for the ages with this mouth-watering spread. Just add champagne!

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s strawberry and rose Eton mess.

Strawberry and rose Eton mess

This twist on the classic British dessert is the perfect end to a relaxed, Christmas lunch.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s heirloom tomato salad with peaches, mint and almonds.
EASY

Heirloom-tomato salad with peaches, mint and almonds

I make a version of this salad every Christmas, it makes for a wonderful side for ham or roast meats.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Okinawan beef taco rice recipe.
EASY

This fun 1980s fusion dish is your new budget-friendly family dinner

Julia Busuttil Nishimura adds extra Japanese flavours to this taco-rice mash-up.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lemon ciambella (Italian ring cake).
EASY

Cake for breakfast? Bring it on with this lemon ciambella

This Italian breakfast cake is simple and quick to make, and stays moist for a good few days.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Beef tagliata with tonnato sauce.
EASY

Beef tagliata with tonnato sauce

This play on the Italian classic, vitello tonnato, uses sirloin steaks instead of veal.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s stuffed flatbreads with minted yoghurt. 

Stuffed flatbreads with mint yoghurt

These fluffy, fragrant flatbreads are perfect for lunch with a squeeze of lemon and some mint yoghurt for dipping.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Braised chicken with peas and lettuce.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura braises your midweek cooking repertoire with this chicken dish

A French-style one-pan dish celebrating fresh, spring produce.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Apricot, almond and cardamom cake.
EASY

Apricot, almond and cardamom cake

This gently spiced cake contains nuggets of sun-dried apricot for a perfect balance of sweet and tart.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura.

‘Your cooking will be better for it, I promise’: Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s five essential tips

Including the kitchen tools she can’t do without, and the essential ingredients she always has in her pantry.

  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura