The last couple of months we’ve seen a new wave of foodies step up their home cooking game on Instagram and provide us all with some much-needed inspiration. 

Instagram is all too often a black hole of endless #inspo accounts, however, it’s the accounts that don’t take themselves or the dish they’re cooking too seriously that we’re after.

We went on the hunt to find those cult IG’s that intentionally leave out all the pompous technical cooking jargon and instead replace it with homegrown ‘how-to’ content we can really get around.

Here, we round up our six of our favourite accounts that quickly found their way to our save page.

Be warned, these six ladies might be new to the foodie world but each of them is already well respected in their own fields. Expect to meet a recent Le Cordon Bleu graduate, a runner up in 2020 BBC’s Britains Best Home Cook and Anna Wintour’s ex-assistant.

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Every Night Of The Week 

Lucy is the sort of girl we all need inspiration from for home cooking on the daily. Think, simple laid back meals that satisfy.

As her Instagram name suggests, ‘Every Night Of The Week‘, are the basis for Lucy’s cooking inspiration, They’re the sort of meal you’re happy to cook literally any night of the week. 

Her recipe lingo is no different, it’s simple and to the point, none of that pompous jargon I mentioned earlier. Straight forward, entertaining recipes allowing for free will. 

THE Wholesome Cook

Martyna Angell is the foodie slashie we all need in our lives. Living in Sydney you’ll find Martyna styling food, capturing food photography and posting to her Instagram like the well-respected food influencer she is. 

With a combination of eight books and Ebooks under her name, in addition to having completed her Holistic Health Coach studies through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Martyna is definitely someone to follow for easy/healthy and sometimes indulgent meals. The sort of balanced diet we all like. 

Her meals are inspiring but really quite simple, take this cooked fish en papillote with passionfruit for example. Who knew passionfruit was in abundance during the Australia winter months?

In collaboration with David Jones Rey created what she called a “Culinary match made in heaven”. Watch Rey whip up the truffle cheesy goodness over at David Jones’ Instagram page here. 

Follow Rey and you’ll find her whipping up classic pasta dishes from her past Italian travels, wine pairings with Penfolds in collaboration with Vogue Australia, to the ultimate Bake-free Banoffee Pie.

Not only does she master simple and chic at home cooking, but she is an also seriously stylish and incredibly intelligent. 

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It’s Georgia McDermott’s images that first catch your eye, she turns quite a simple image into something you want to chow down.

Another food slashie who’s doing it all including writing, cooking, photography while documenting it all on her blog. 

Hailing from Melbourne you’ll find Georgie cooking up gluten-free, pescatarian & FODMAP meals, from her own FODMAP book.  

Georgie cooks healthy meals but it’s the yummy bread and not so naughty treats you’ll love. Like these vegan and gluten-free choc chip cookies.

When Georgia isn’t posting healthy home cooking, you’ll find her posting inspiration of her travels throughout Europe. 

Gather & Feast 

Another foodie slashie hailing from Melbourne, Ashley Alexander is a recipe developer, stylist and photographer.

She is a self-taught cook who has spent a lot of her early years in the kitchen cooking up a storm with her mum. 

With her husband, she turned her love of cooking into a website Gather & Feast to which they cook wholesome and nutritious recipes, using in-season produce. 

It’s the sort of website you’d want to look to for inspiration if you’re hosting a dinner party.

Think  Tomato Vodka Fusilli with Fresh Basil, Smokey Fish Tacos with Fresh Coriander Slaw & Chipotle Mayo and Berry Pavlova with Lemon Curd & Fresh Mint.