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What you’ll find here
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Recipes that have been cooked four times
Not once, for the photograph. Four times, in a home kitchen, until the quantities are right and the timings are honest.
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Nothing that needs equipment you do not own
If a recipe needs a stand mixer or a thermometer, that is the first line, not a surprise in step six.
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One email most Fridays, and no more
What I cooked that week, what went wrong, and the recipe that came out of it.
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The techniques that are easier watched than read — dough, pastry, anything involving a thermometer.
If you only make ten things
In the order I would cook them. The first three need nothing you do not already own.
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Burnt custard tarts
The tops should be properly scorched. A pale custard tart is an undercooked one.
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Charred corn and herb salad
Everything hot from the pan, dressed while it steams.
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Overnight oats with stone fruit
Assembled in four minutes the night before.
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Buttermilk pancakes, properly thick
Tall, tangy and worth the extra egg white.
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Saffron risotto
Stirred, not rushed — the rice should ripple, not stand up.
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Slow-roast shoulder with fennel
Six hours unattended, and the house smells like Sunday.
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Miso mushroom ramen
A broth that tastes long-simmered after twenty-five minutes.
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Weeknight red lentil curry
Thirty minutes, one pan, and pantry staples you already own.
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Brown butter apple tart
Nutty, caramelised and barely sweet — the tart we make every October.
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Charred tomato galette
Late-summer tomatoes roasted hard, then folded into rough pastry.
Out now
My First Ever Cookbook
Sixty recipes built around cooking once and eating twice — a long Sunday lunch, and what it becomes on Tuesday. Hardback, 240 pages, photographed in the same kitchen as everything here.
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Two weeks of dinners, planned
Fourteen dinners, one shopping list, and the order to cook them in so nothing goes soft in the drawer. Written for one oven and a weeknight.
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