Recipes

Recipe: No-Knead Bread

Start it the night before you want to eat it

This is the easiest, quickest, most fail-safe bread recipe in the world. That’s not the reason to make it however. The reason to make it is, it’s totally delicious. The recipe comes from Jim  Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery… Continue reading

Recipe: perfect aubergine parmigiana

We saw this recipe, part of Felicity Cloake’s ‘How to Cook the Perfect…’ series in The Guardian about a month ago, and immediately tore it out because though we’d never made it before, every time we’d eaten aubergine parmigiana, either… Continue reading

Recipe: pretty brilliant carrot cake

We’ve got a bit of a thing about carrot cake, and how it hits the spot without making you feel too quesy. Over the years we’ve tried many different recipes and narrowed the winning formula down to two fabulous variations.… Continue reading

Cooking: Food 52, probably the best food website ever

The internet is brilliant for finding recipes and helping with all kinds of cooking. Videos and step-by-step photos make things ultra clear, and other cooks’ comments and questions often clear up baffling instructions. How great, then, to have all this… Continue reading

Cookbooks: Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries II & Margot Henderson’s You’re All Invited

Two really, really good cookbooks have come to our attention recently, both of which we love. Nigel Slater needs no introduction, but Margot Henderson, though well known and hugely admired by fellow cooks and foodies, is less of a household… Continue reading

Recipe: the best way to serve strawberries

OK, so there’s no balmy weather, but it’s still July and crunch time at Wimbledon and that means we should all be eating strawberries. Of course they are at their most scrumptious eaten straight from stalk to mouth on

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Cook book: Joanna Weinberg’s Cooking for Real Life

We’ve long since been fans of Joanna Weinberg’s food writing and recipes. Her first book, Relish, was about how to actually enjoy cooking for groups of people, rather than it being a stressful chore, and her advice and recipes really

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Recipe: best banana bread

We make banana bread quite often, ostensibly because we often have overripe bananas languishing in our fruit bowl (due to a toddler who only likes them uniformly yellow), but actually because we love to eat it. So we’ve had quite… Continue reading

Book: Eat London², a restaurant guide & recipe book

Written by Terence Conran and Peter Prescott (who has worked with Conran for over 10 years), we think this restaurant guide come recipe book is rather an inspired idea.  Covering London by different areas, it gives good, honest reviews of… Continue reading

Recipe: Prawn Korma – a great weeknight supper

We made this dish last week and what a winner it turned out to be. It was really fast and easy to make – just look at the recipe’s instructions: four brief sentences – but most importantly it was

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