Warm sunlit Australian kitchen with cast iron cookware and native herbs on the bench

About the blog

Cooking the old way,
with new curiosity.

Aussie Cooking 2 is a blog about the traditional dishes that have shaped Australian home kitchens for generations. Honest recipes, real ingredients, and the stories behind every meal.

The cook at a worn timber bench in a warm Australian kitchen
Est. in Australia
The story

Where it started.

Aussie Cooking 2 grew out of a simple question: where do the recipes that generations of Australians cooked every day actually come from? The answer turned out to be a long and delicious journey through colonial kitchens, outback camp ovens, coastal fish shacks, and suburban backyards.

This blog is the record of that journey. Every post is a dish. Every dish has a place and a history. The writing is plain and the recipes are tested, because food writing that cannot be cooked is not really food writing at all.

Whether you grew up eating damper by a campfire or pavlova at Christmas, you will find something here that feels like home.

What drives the blog

Three things this blog stands for.

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Tradition, kept honest

The recipes here are the ones Australian families have cooked for years. Nothing is reinvented for trend. The originals are good enough.

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Native ingredients, respected

Bush tucker and Indigenous food traditions are part of the Australian story. This blog treats them with the respect and curiosity they deserve.

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Stories before shortcuts

A recipe without its story is just a list of steps. Every post here starts with where the dish came from and why it still matters.

Wide view of red earth outback landscape under a vivid blue sky

The land behind the food

From the red centre to the coast.

Australian cooking is shaped by an extraordinary range of landscapes and climates. The blog follows the food across all of it, from outback campfires to harbour-side fish and chips.

What you will find here

The territory this blog covers.

Traditional Australian cooking spans a continent. These are the categories explored most on Aussie Cooking 2.

Cast iron pot over an outback campfire with red earth surrounds

Outback and Campfire

Camp ovens, fire pits, and the stripped-back cooking that sustained drovers, stockmen, and explorers across the interior. Damper, stews, billy tea.

Fresh seafood on a grill at a coastal Australian backyard barbecue

Coastal and Seafood

Australia is ringed by ocean. The coastal kitchen reflects it: whole fish on the grill, prawns with garlic butter, oysters straight from the shell.

A family Sunday roast spread on a large timber dining table

Classic Home Cooking

The Sunday roast, the meat pie, the lamington. These are the dishes that built Australian food culture, one kitchen at a time.

Native Australian herbs and bush tucker plants in a garden bed

Bush Tucker and Native Ingredients

Wattleseed, finger lime, lemon myrtle, quandong. Indigenous ingredients have flavoured this land for tens of thousands of years. This blog explores how to cook with them today.