beef Archives — Days of Jay

With Halloween just around the corner, who could resist these spookily delicious Jack o’ Lantern Peppers filled with rich and spicy chilli beef?

Stuffed Jack o’ Lantern Peppers

12th October 20206th October 2020 main-event beef, capsicums, halloween, mince, peppers

One of the best things about cooking for a living is that I get to indulge my inner child and spend all day playing with food. This is never more true than around all the big holidays like Christmas, Easter and Halloween, as it’s a chance to get creative and

Easy Baked Beef Empanadas

10th August 20209th August 2020 Fakeaway, main-event beef, Latin American, mince, pastry, pies, South American

In my opinion, there are very few savoury foods that can’t be improved by being wrapped in pastry. From good old Kiwi and Aussie mince pies to Cornish Pasties, from Moroccan Pastilla to Indian samosas, it seems the whole world agrees. There is something so incredibly satisfying about a flaky,

Juicy Baked Meatballs ‘Polpette’

17th July 202018th July 2020 main-event American, beef, mince, pasta, spaghetti

Spaghetti and meatballs, nothing could be more Italian right? Wrong. Though spaghetti and meatballs have been drilled into us as the cornerstone of the Italian kitchen, starring in movies, books, advertisements, songs and more, the dish is actually an American invention, likely created by Italian immigrants to the U.S in