about

Jade O’Donahoo is a Melbourne-based author, food writer and illustrator.

Beginning in restaurant and cafe kitchens around Melbourne, Jade went on as co-founder and operator of acclaimed hole-in-the-wall cafe, Switch Board.  A passion for user-friendly vegetarian food led Jade to share all her recipes via her website, Eat This My Friend. Her debut cookbook of the same name soon followed, published by Hardie Grant in 2017. Jade has also been featured in various publications, including Broadsheet, Lunch Lady, and Yen Magazine. 

In 2021 Jade launched Eat THIS! – a self-published zine that takes you on a culinary adventure like no other. Each issue is a celebration of a different culture’s food traditions – overflowing with delicious vego recipes (all with gf options), fascinating family stories, and rich cultural insights. EatTHIS! is designed to make cooking accessible to all, highlight cultural parallels, and inspire you to appreciate your own family traditions. 

Jade is a mum of two children, creates these zines from her tiny kitchen table, and skateboards in her spare time.

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  2. hey jade, its magda here! i love your block and the recipes. havent cooked any so far, but i saved a few already to my personal recipe list. cant wait to try! go on!!!! hope you are well and happy! Magda

    1. Magda! How are you?
      So glad that you like my blog – all the over in Germany! Woohoo!
      Everything good here. How nice to hear from you!!

      ps: make sure you let me know if you make something, I’d love to here how it goes. X

      Best,
      Jade

  3. gorgeous nutty and sweet chocolate. I can imagine that this recipe could be used in so many ways and I looking forward to start trying it. thanks for sharing the recipe with fabfusionfoods.

  4. Hi Jade, I’ve just had a look at your recipe index and yum! I can see lots and lots of yummy recipes. I’ll definitely give the orange, polenta and yoghurt recipe a go 🙂

    1. Thank you Splishsplasch – so glad you like them! That Orange Polenta cake is an understated beauty, I still make it often and really love it. You should defs give that one a try.
      Lovely to have you stopping by : )

  5. Came here from Vegies for Breakfast in the hope of seeing more of your illustrations! 🙂 I’m also in the process of collecting recipes and making illustrations for a cookbook.. so I’m thrilled to have some company!

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  9. Hi Jade. I love your recipes and how health focused they are some with a little indulgence as that’s healthy too. I’m a food photographer/blogger, I’d love to try some of your recipes and shoot them. Hope you’re ok with that. Once I do I’ll link them back to your site. I like to create recipes too. check out my site if you get a chance. BTW I love Australia 🙂 I have a co-worker that just moved from Australia and I have family in Adelaide. Though i haven’t visited YET the country and the people make me want to move there 🙂 keep well and keep cooking.

  10. Hello Agnes, your site is gorgeous!
    I especially love your beautiful photos. I cannot wait to see which of my recipes you cook and how you photograph them!
    Thank you so much for stopping by here. X

    1. Thank you! I do sell my work sometimes. I also do commissions, if you’re ever interested : )

  12. have loved the recipes I have already tried! super talented. Is this a totally vegan blog?

    1. Hi Joanna and thank you!! The blog is vegetarian and has lots of vegan recipes too but not exclusively 🙂

    1. So great to hear Anna! And from the other side of the globe too!! Glad you liked it 😉

  14. Loved your demonstration @ FTG Library. Nice chatting with you afterwards. R u able to e-mail me soon, re: ‘teaching the younger ones to cook like you’ (& a few life lessons along the way!)

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