BreakfastBacon and Fried Eggs
Bacon started in a cold pan, eggs finished in its fat. Two techniques that cost nothing and are the difference between a good plate and a greasy one.
15 minServes 2Easy
For the carnivores
Meat Lovers
Steaks, burgers, fried chicken and slow-cooked beef — the recipes where the meat is the whole point.
33 recipes found · showing 25–33 (page 3 of 3)
Breakfast
SoupsMiso Ramen
The weeknight ramen. The miso paste is fried in aromatics before the stock goes in, which takes a 40-minute bowl a surprising distance towards an all-day one.
45 minServes 4Medium
SoupsShoyu Ramen
Built in three separate parts — tare, broth and toppings — the way real ramen shops do it. Assemble in the bowl, not the pot, and never boil the noodles in the soup.
2 hr 30 minServes 4Hard
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
MainsTexas-Style Beef Chili
Chunks of braising steak rather than mince, dried chillies toasted and blitzed into a paste, and no beans — which in Texas is not a suggestion.
3 hrServes 6Medium
MainsButtermilk Fried Chicken
An overnight buttermilk brine, a craggy double-dredge, and oil held steadily at 165°C. Patience at every stage, and it rewards all of it.
1 hr 10 minServes 4Hard
MainsPan-Seared Ribeye with Garlic Butter
Salted an hour ahead, seared dry and hard, then basted in foaming butter. A meat thermometer does more for a steak than any amount of confidence.
45 minServes 2Medium
MainsDiner-Style Smash Burgers
Thin patties pressed hard onto a screaming-hot pan for thirty seconds. All the flavour lives in that lacy, craggy brown crust.
30 minServes 4Medium
MainsCharred Lemon Chicken with Orzo
Chicken thighs roasted over orzo that cooks in its own stock, finished with lemon halves charred until they taste almost caramelised.
45 minServes 4Medium