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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MainsTwice-Cooked Pork Belly
Simmered first, chilled, then sliced thin and fried until the edges curl and cup. The second cooking is where it earns its name and all of its texture.
1 hrServes 4Medium
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
SaladsCobb Salad
Everything chopped to the same size and laid out in stripes rather than tossed. The arrangement is the recipe — you dress and mix it at the table.
40 minServes 4Easy
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
SaladsClassic Caesar Salad
Anchovy mashed to a paste, egg yolk whisked to an emulsion, and croutons fried in the garlic oil. No bottled dressing comes close.
30 minServes 4Medium
SnacksHot Dogs with Quick Pickled Onions
Score the sausages, steam the buns, and make a quick pickled onion. Three small steps that take a hot dog from stadium food to something you would serve on purpose.
25 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
PizzaNew York-Style Pepperoni Pizza
A larger, thinner, foldable slice with a cooked sauce and low-moisture mozzarella. Use cup-and-char pepperoni and it curls into little pools of paprika oil.
26 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
BreakfastBreakfast Tacos with Egg and Cheese
Soft-scrambled eggs pulled off the heat while still glossy, folded into warm corn tortillas with melted cheese and a sharp salsa to cut through it.
25 minServes 4Easy