Hello, and welcome
I’m Rosa, and I cook every day
Everything on this site has been made at least four times in a home kitchen with one oven, one good pan and no assistants. If a recipe needs a special tin or an hour you do not have, I say so at the top.
Behind the blog
How it all started
It started as a shared document. I was cooking the same eight things on rotation and writing them down badly — half a method, no quantities, a note that said “less butter next time” — and every few weeks someone would ask for one and I would have to reconstruct it from memory.
So I began testing properly. Four times, minimum, before anything gets written up, and always in a home kitchen: one oven that runs hot, a pan that has seen better days, and whatever the shop had that week. If a recipe only works with a stand mixer or a spare two hours, that is the first thing you will read.
Nine years later the document is this site, and the eight things have become a few hundred. The rule has not changed.
Get to know me
Coffee order
flat white, one sugar
Couldn't live without
a lemon and good salt
Sweet or savoury
savoury, then sweet
Go-to weeknight meal
anything on toast
Favourite kitchen tool
a fish slice, for everything
Always in the pantry
anchovies
Guilty pleasure
supermarket custard
Most-used pan
the scratched one
Join the community
The newsletter
One email most Fridays: what I cooked, what went wrong, and the recipe that came out of it.
The cooking club
A few hundred people swapping substitutions and photographs of their failures. Free to join.
On video
The techniques that are easier watched than read — dough, pastry, anything involving a thermometer.
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New recipes, most Fridays
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