*Big announcement* You’re going to be cooking with Tom Walton!

We reckon that cooking is even better with friends, so we’ve brought a mate along to help out in the kitchen for a few weeks. Yep, cookbook author, chef, dad and all-round True Blue legend Tom Walton is joining the QuiteLike crew for a little collab.

For six weeks only, between 10 February to 23 March, you’ll be able to choose from Tom’s six incredibly praise-worthy recipes as part of our QuiteGoodMates with Tom Walton partnership.

This is a food match that just makes sense. It’s basically the avocado and toast of collaborations. Tom is the bacon to our mushroom, if you will.

That’s because Tom’s food philosophy is akin to ours. It’s rooted in fresh and seasonal ingredients that are prepared with simplicity to let them shine. He’s all about cooking for the family at home and making delicious and achievable food that just feels good to eat.

“For me it all starts with ingredients,” says Tom. “And keeping preparations quite low-key, so it’s geared towards home cooking. I try to be quite versatile across simple ingredients, but I keep it minimal and don’t do too much to them, that way the recipes tend to be quite healthy.”

As a father of three, he’s also pretty across the fussy eating thing and has a few tricks to get the good stuff into growing bodies. Apart from sneaking in some vegetables here and there, Tom says he tries to ensure his kids develop a positive relationship with food. Which is more about getting them involved with cooking and trying different flavours, rather than enforcing they eat their dinner every night.

But what we love most about Tom’s recipe collection is that no matter your household configuration – kids, no kids, mates, partners, fur babies – his meals bring the magic to the table. Everyone is going to be asking for seconds, so just a heads up, you may want to over-order. After all, Tom is a big fan of embracing leftovers.

So what’s QuiteGoodMates all about?

QuiteGoodMates is a series of rotating guest collaborations. Every so often, we’ll bring brilliant chefs into the QuiteLike fold to mix things up in your kitchen. We’ll be partnering with cooks who share our love for beautiful home-cooked meals made using top-quality local produce. It’s part of our mission to inspire and upskill Aussie home cooks, so every box you unpack from us is virtually (but certainly not literally) exploding with excitement.