This week
One tray, forty-five minutes, and the potatoes cook in the chicken fat. The only skill required is leaving it alone for long enough.
Time45 minutes
ServesFour, with bread
EquipmentOne roasting tray
White bean soup you can make from the cupboard
Two tins, a lemon, and whatever herb is still alive on the windowsill.
Tomato pasta that tastes like it took an hour
The trick is cooking the tomato purée until it goes dark, before anything else happens.
The chilli oil that goes on everything
Keeps for a month in the fridge and rescues most things you have overcooked.
Cooked four times
Nothing goes up here until it has worked four times, including once when I was tired and impatient. That is the version you get.
Weights, not cups
Grams and millilitres, with cups in brackets where it matters. Change the servings and the quantities change with them.
No life story first
Ingredients and method at the top. If you want to know why the dish exists, that part is at the bottom where it belongs.
Start here
The storecupboard list: what to buy once, what to buy good, and the four things that are genuinely worth spending money on.
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