“Virginia”

This is one of Matt’s faves — long has he spoken of its powers, but I had never made it until yesterday. 1 large ham hock 2 litres of chicken stock May 23, 2021
Everybody in our gang cooked Smitten Kitchen’s roast chicken with schmaltzy cabbage last year. It was the ultimate Pandemic Food: simple, rich, May 17, 2021
This is a winner – it absolutely survives being made from freezer salmon fillets (as I discovered today, when a day-long power outage made some April 9, 2021
Alison Roman got mildly cancelled last year, but she has worked pretty hard to redeem herself and anyway I would probably make the famous March 29, 2021
I’ve discovered the world’s lowest-stress most flexible dessert: this coffee mousse with chocolate tahini sauce. It feels infinitely variable March 11, 2021
Rob wrote: We left angel hair spaghetti for Aoife’s babysitter the other night. Inexplicably, she cooked the whole packet, ate a portion with Aoife March 9, 2021
We always have kimchi in the fridge — I eat it by the forkful from the jar (ssh), and it’s central to two of our kitchen staple meals, soondubu March 8, 2021
A very good one person lunch is some variation of Chinese tomato and egg-drop soup. March 3, 2021
Last night I made something close to the saag aloo shepherd’s pie from Anna Jones's new book, which is out this week. March 3, 2021