When we asked Matt Moran, “what’s the one thing you can’t live without?” we got the answers we expected.

A good saucepan. A seriously good knife.

But we also found out so much more about the chef, restaurateur, TV host and author that really surprised us.

Like his favourite dinner: a soft-boiled egg with dippy soldiers.

And apparently he never taught his son to cook. The 15-year-old just isn’t interested at all. Any girls angling to date Matt Moran’s son shouldn’t get their hopes up, they’ll be lucky to get a piece of toast, according to the chef.

Our new podcast asks the same question of some of Australia’s most prominent lifestyle experts. On the very first episode ofCan’t Live Without, Matt joined host Mel Buttle to talk about all of the things that he needs to make his life good.

As a chef trained in French cookery, with four cookbooks to his name, a judge on just about every cooking show that’s graced the tele, and with a number of successful restaurants under his slender belt, you might be expecting his home dinners to be as lavish as they come.

But it’s Sunday lunch that is his true love, and he tells us how to get the perfect roast chicken here:

And if a simple roaster isn’t making you salivate, check out his recipe for something more complicated – and spicy. #nomnomnom

YUM.

We can't wait to go home and try this baby out.

Listen to the full Can't Live Without interview with Matt Moran, here, and subscribe to our new podcast series in iTunes, or on the Mamamia podcast app.