Back to basics: how to roast a chicken
A recipe for new cooks. Even if you think your oven is just a strange metal cupboard, you've got this.
Proper, old-fashioned, serious mash
Let’s be honest: making mashed potatoes worth eating isn't an exercise in subtlety. Butter makes it better.
Roasted garlic hummus
How to make the perfect hummus without compromises: full of great flavours and silky smooth.
Vanilla pouring custard
The simplest of custards is an easy, gentle undertaking while something warm and sweet bakes in the oven.
A useful, lemony salsa verde
Transform waning fresh herbs into a citrus-spiked green sauce and use it to take lots of dishes up a notch.
The metric pound cake
There's nothing fancy going on here except densely textured, buttery goodness. Welcome to Cake 101.
Risi e bisi
My way with this Italian classic of rice and peas is a set-and-forget affair. I call it my not-risotto.
Raw harissa
My easy version of harissa starts with fresh red chilli peppers, ready to be used in the oven or grill.