SoupsMussel and Saffron Soup
The mussels make their own stock in four minutes flat. Strain that liquor carefully, build the soup on it, and you get depth that no fish stock in a carton comes close to.
40 minServes 4Medium
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From a two-egg French omelette to a Croatian custard slice, by way of far too much olive oil.
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Soups
MainsGrilled Shark Steak with Chilli and Lime
A dense, meaty steak that grills more like beef than fish. Soak it in milk first — that one step is what removes the ammonia note shark is notorious for.
45 minServes 4Medium
SnacksFried Sardines with Lemon
Whole sardines in seasoned flour, shallow-fried hard and hit with lemon. Cheap, sustainable, and better than most things three times the price.
25 minServes 4Easy
BreakfastThe Perfect French Omelette
Pale, barely set and rolled rather than folded. No colour at all on the outside — a browned French omelette is, strictly speaking, a failed one.
10 minServes 1Hard
MainsCrispy-Skin Pan-Fried Salmon
Skin-side down for ninety per cent of the cooking time, weighted flat so it never curls. You barely touch it, and the skin shatters like a crisp.
20 minServes 2Easy
PastaSpaghetti Aglio e Olio
Five ingredients, twenty minutes, and the whole dish depends on getting the garlic exactly golden — a shade darker and the oil turns bitter.
20 minServes 4Easy
PastaSpaghetti alla Carbonara
No cream, ever. The sauce is just egg, cheese and pasta water, brought together off the heat so it turns silky instead of scrambling.
25 minServes 4Medium
SnacksTriple-Cooked French Fries
Simmered, dried, then fried twice at two different temperatures. Tedious, entirely worth it, and the reason restaurant chips taste the way they do.
1 hr 30 minServes 4Medium
Hot drinksMulled Wine
Kept below a simmer the whole time, because boiling drives off the alcohol and leaves a stewed, syrupy shadow of the wine you started with.
35 minServes 6Easy
Cold drinksTom Collins
Essentially a gin fizz built long. Shake everything except the soda, then top the glass — pour soda into the shaker and you lose every bubble.
5 minServes 1Easy
Hot drinksRich Dark Hot Chocolate
Made with chopped real chocolate rather than cocoa powder, and thickened with nothing but the chocolate itself. Thick enough to coat the spoon.
15 minServes 2Easy
BakingGarlic Bread with Parsley Butter
Raw garlic grated to a paste, not chopped, so it melts into the butter instead of catching and turning bitter in the oven.
25 minServes 6Easy