Quick & easy
Cheesy leek tart
Easy, cheesy and really tasty. An ideal weeknight dinner. I went full fancy and chopped up my own potatoes for wedges to accompany, but a bag of McCain’s would do the job, ya know?
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Listen, I know I’m supposed to wang on forever about how I discovered this recipe in Brooklyn in ’07. But I have never actually been to New York. I was meant to go, this one time. Hurricane Sandy happened so I went to Paris instead. Anyway, this is a recipe for a delicious cream cheese […]
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Saag paneer
I know I’m supposed to tell you that this recipe was etched on to a banana leaf for me by some village elder in the remote backwaters of Kerala, but that would be a lie. It is a curry that I made one evening when dinner needed to be on the table fast. And it […]
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Quick sausage & butter bean stew
Everybody in the world seemed to have an opinion and advice about weaning my tiny baby onto solid food; there was less information out there for this stage, a year on, where that tiny baby is, well, a little less tiny and has actual opinions and things. I mean, it hasn’t really come as a […]
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Pan con tomate
I really, really, really hate the fact that pretty much everything essential to being a vaguely content and functioning individual is now an aspirational video on some kind of social media. A quick jump into the shower with whatever shower gel was on offer that floated my boat (always, always, always the citrus smelling ones […]
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Sweetcorn fritters
I promise not to wang on so much that you have to scroll for a solid five minutes just to get to the actual recipe, but sweetcorn fritters were the first thing I made for a breakfast club. It was quite pioneering, way back when, the breakfast club. I mean, avocados weren’t quite such a […]
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Leek & potato soup
I genuinely think this might be the thing I cook the most. I know food writers say this kind of thing all the time, and if they actually ate what they said they did as often as they say they do, there would be literally no meals left for eating out or trying something new […]
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Sticky mango paneer
This one is inspired by nothing except the desire to make a tasty dinner that is easy. If I was aiming to romanticise a trip to India with paneer in a tandoor oven, I would mention that shashlik does seem to be shorthand for a kebab with peppers and onions, but I’m not even sure […]
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