Recipes, most Fridays

Cooking worth sitting down for

Everything here has been made at least four times in a home kitchen.

An overhead table of shared dishes

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The meal plan, printed and clipped together

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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.

The author kneading dough in her kitchen

Who is cooking

Hello, I’m Marta

Four rounds of testing in an ordinary kitchen before anything gets published.

Kitchen essentials

The cookbook

The pan I reach for

The pan I reach for

A 26cm cast-iron skillet, seasoned once and never washed with soap. Everything starts here.

The heavy pot

The heavy pot

For anything that wants three hours and no attention. Mine is fifteen years old and chipped.

One good knife

One good knife

Not a block of five. One, sharpened often, and you will use it for everything.

A board big enough

A board big enough

Most boards are too small. This one holds a whole chicken and the vegetables beside it.

Glass measuring jug

Glass measuring jug

Graduations that survive the dishwasher, and a lip that actually pours.

A fine rasp grater

A fine rasp grater

Zest, garlic, parmesan, nutmeg. The one tool that makes food taste like a restaurant.

Instant-read thermometer

Instant-read thermometer

The end of guessing whether it is done. Pays for itself the first time.

Everyday olive oil

Everyday olive oil

The one for cooking, not the bottle you finish a plate with. Buy the big tin.

Everything here is something we cook with. Posted within two working days, thirty-day returns.

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.

My First Ever Cookbook, standing on a kitchen counter

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Bon Appétit
Epicurious
Saveur
Taste of Home

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