MainsSeared Duck Breast with Cherry Sauce
The fat comes off in a cold pan over a low heat, slowly, until the skin is glass-thin and crisp. Rush this and you get chewy skin over grey meat.
40 minServes 2Medium
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DessertsVanilla Custard Ice Cream
An egg-yolk custard churned to something dense and slow-melting. Shop-bought ice cream is mostly whipped-in air; this is the opposite, and you can taste every bit of the difference.
40 minServes 8Medium
SaladsCaprese Salad
Three ingredients and nowhere to hide. Everything depends on the tomatoes being ripe and the mozzarella being fresh, at room temperature.
10 minServes 4Easy
SaladsGreek Village Salad (Horiatiki)
No lettuce — a real horiatiki never has any. Chunky tomato, cucumber and pepper under a whole slab of feta, with nothing but oil and oregano.
15 minServes 4Easy
PizzaWhite Pizza with Ricotta and Garlic
No tomato at all. Ricotta, garlic oil and mozzarella, finished with lemon zest and rocket so it never tastes as heavy as it sounds.
25 hrServes 4Medium
PizzaNeapolitan Margherita Pizza
A 24-hour cold-fermented dough, uncooked tomato sauce, and the hottest oven you own. Three toppings, and every one of them has to be good.
25 hrServes 4Hard
BreakfastClassic French Crêpes
A thin batter that must rest for an hour, and a pan you barely grease. Rushing the rest is why home crêpes tear.
1 hrServes 4Medium
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
BreakfastGreek Yoghurt Bowl with Nuts and Berries
Barely a recipe, but toasting the nuts and macerating half the berries turns a bowl of yoghurt into something you would actually order.
10 minServes 2Easy
BreakfastBelgian Waffles
Whipped egg whites folded in at the last moment. That is what gives the deep pockets their shatteringly crisp shell and near-hollow inside.
40 minServes 6Medium
BreakfastCreamy Breakfast Oatmeal
Rolled oats, a pinch of salt, and constant stirring. The salt is not optional — porridge made without it tastes like wet cardboard no matter what you put on top.
15 minServes 2Easy
BreakfastThick-Cut French Toast
Day-old bread, cut thick, soaked properly rather than dipped. Stale bread is not a compromise here — fresh bread turns to mush in the custard.
25 minServes 4Easy