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Bingo Bango. Dinner’s on.

Leftovers done right, big weekend cooks, useful weeknight feeds and plenty of pizza.

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A finished pizza directly on my timber worktop

From my kitchen

Stivalicious merch

Wear it in the kitchen.

The Bingo Bango tee, hoodie, apron and embroidered cord caps, made to order in Australia.

See the range

Hoodie

Tee

Caps

Apron

Good place to start

What are we cooking?

Clear steps, honest portions and the original Instagram post when you want to see the cook.

Two pieces of medium-rare porterhouse steak showing the cross-section

How to Cook Any Steak

Dry-brine overnight, bring a thick steak up slowly, sear it hard and give it a proper rest.

Steak guide · Four steps

Bowl of udon in a creamy sauce with prawns, capsicum and chilli crisp

Creamy Tofu Prawn Udon

No cream in it at all. The sauce is silken tofu and peanut butter powder, blended smooth.

Weeknight feed · Serves 1

Slice of dumpling lasagne with spring onion and chilli crisp

Pork & Prawn Dumpling Lasagne

Pork, prawns and mushroom layered between dumpling wrappers and crisped in the oven.

Meal prep · Serves 4

When you have the time

Big cooks

Proper weekend feeds: a bit more time, a lot more dinner, and usually something worth eating again tomorrow.

Sliced pink lamb leg with pea puree, mash and roasted vine tomatoes

Pizza-Oven Lamb Leg

Treated like a roast steak: light applewood smoke, then straight into a ripping hot oven.

Big cook · Serves 4

Braised lamb shank on mash with spinach and glossy gravy

Goldy Braised Lamb Shanks

Low and slow in Goldy with Vegemite and miso, reduced into a glossy gravy.

Big cook · Serves 2

Crispy-Skin Butterflied Chicken

Crispy chicken, garlicky white-wine mushrooms and greens cooked in the rendered chicken fat.

Big cook · Serves 3–4

It started with a phone, a cardboard-roll tripod and something good in the pan.

Why Stivalicious

Cooking became the good distraction.

I started filming food in 2022 when back trouble took Sunday golf off the table. The videos were rough, the camera lens was not always clean and the first tripod was a cardboard roll.

The point was never perfection. It was having fun, learning something new and showing that good home cooking can be enjoyable and achievable.

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