SnacksSalt and Pepper Squid
Cornflour rather than batter, so the coating stays light and shatters. Squid cooks in ninety seconds — past that it turns to rubber and never comes back.
30 minServes 4Medium
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Snacks
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
MainsSeared Tuna Steak with Sesame
Ninety seconds a side on a pan hot enough to frighten you. The centre stays ruby red, and that is not undercooked — it is the entire point.
20 minServes 2Medium
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
SnacksTortilla Chips with Salsa and Guacamole
Corn tortillas baked rather than fried, plus a raw pico de gallo and a guacamole that is mashed, never blended.
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
Cold drinksClassic Margarita
Three ingredients, fresh lime only, and salt on half the rim so you can choose with each sip. No sour mix anywhere near it.
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
Cold drinksReal Homemade Lemonade
A cooked sugar syrup rather than sugar stirred into cold water, so nothing grits at the bottom of the jug. The zest goes in too — that's where the lemon flavour actually lives.
20 minServes 6Easy