In this issue of delicious. on Sunday, in Stellar magazine, we chat with Aussie restaurateur Bill Granger. Famous for making brunch the star of the weekend, Granger is about to open his 17^th restaurant in London’s Chelsea. In his career to date, the entrepreneur has also written 11 cookbooks and hosted five television shows. He has come a long way from opening his first eatery, Bills, in Sydney’s Darlinghurst, in 1993. Back then, he started by serving up luxurious breakfasts, becoming well-known for ricotta hotcakes and corn fritters. But his reinvention of breakfast and brunch came about by chance. “The only site anyone would give me at 24 was one with restrictive hours, from 7am to 4pm,” Granger says. The self-taught cook now lives in the UK with his wife and three daughters, and does his best to bring a little sunshine to the world through his food. “I’m always thinking about sunshine and light,” he says. “Australians live very much for the pleasure of the day to day… I’ve always celebrated our outdoors lifestyle with fresh, seasonal and simple everyday food.”

In our weekly meal plan, Valli Little shares her recipes for meat-free comfort food, from lentil moussaka bake on Monday to warm roast vegetable salad on Friday. Meanwhile, in his regular column, Matt Preston looks at the culinary State of Origin – between the foodie region that takes in northern NSW and southeast Queensland and the emerging culinary hotspot around Geelong in Victoria.

delicious. on Sunday appears in Stellar every weekend. Stellar is available in The Sunday Telegraph in New South Wales, the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria, and The Sunday Mail in Queensland.

If you want to make it a Stellar Sunday, be sure to #makeitdelicious, too!