About

Update 2020: I’m back in Australia after 15 amazing months in Istanbul, Turkey. Several kilograms heavier as Turkish food is so ridiculously good but I don’t regret one single meal 😁

I now have four lovely chickens and two vegetable gardens, so I’m sure I’ll be sharing more of them in the coming months.

Update 2019: I’m now in Istanbul, Turkey. Hopefully until at least March 2020 but who knows, it could be a shorter or longer stay. Of course I would love for a much longer stay but I take each day as it comes.

The food here is amazing! Anyone that visits Turkey always comments on the food! There’s a reason for that, it’s YUM!!! 😋

Read more about how and why I’m in Istanbul here.

Back to the old “About us” page below. Yes, I’ll have to update it!

Good Food Recipes is published by me, Dion, a food loving, artist, thinker and tryer of new things. I live by myself in a regional city in Australia, not too far from Newcastle and a little bit further from Sydney. I’m not a chef or a cook but I love being in the kitchen and learning new things. For me it’s a creative act, similar to painting, but you get to eat your creation when you’re done in the kitchen. I’ve never eaten a painting before.

My goal is to share at least one new recipe each week. I don’t cook every night as I’m a house of one and always have leftovers unless I have friends over.

I don’t claim to be an expert cook or professional chef that knows everything about food and cooking as I’m not. I started Good Food Recipes as a learning resource for myself and hopefully others will learn something too. It’s also a great way for me to keep all of my recipes in one place. I generally scribble recipes down on paper and then spend forever looking for them next time I make them!

I also plan to share my herb and vegetable garden which now only exists as a bed of weeds and a few really tough herbs that compete with the weeds. I’ll share the different stages of turning the weeds into a productive edible garden filled with organic yum!

Things I Love in the Kitchen

Italian food
Turkish food
Mexican food
Ice cream
Chocolate
Caramel

Things I Don’t Love in the Kitchen

Cleaning, obviously!
Olives! Any kind of olive; green, black or stuffed. They’re all disgusting! Although I must admit that I can eat a whole olive without spitting it out now.
Olive update 2019: I have been eating small black salty olives in Istanbul lately. I’m not sure what they do to them but I can now eat them at breakfast 👍
Ginger in large amounts. Small amounts, great!
Pumpkin. Although, I am coming round with this one. I might have to soon take it off this list. See my pumpkin soup recipe.. lol
Burning things in the oven.

Talk soon
Cheerio
Dion 🙂