MainsPhilly Cheesesteak
Ribeye shaved almost to transparency and chopped on the griddle as it cooks. Everything about this sandwich is decided in the first two minutes.
40 minServes 4Medium
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MainsPub Cheeseburger
A thick patty cooked to a blushing middle, which is the opposite of a smash burger in every way that matters. Handle it as little as you can bear.
30 minServes 4Medium
SnacksSloppy Joes
Reduced until it mounds on the spoon rather than running off it. The name promises mess, but a sloppy joe that soaks through the bun before you lift it has been undercooked.
35 minServes 4Easy
PastaLasagne al Forno
Thin layers, restrained sauce and a béchamel made properly. The failure mode is always the same — too much filling, not enough patience, and a slice that slides apart on the plate.
5 hrServes 8Medium
PastaSpaghetti Bolognese
Milk before tomato, white wine rather than red, and three hours at a bare blip. A real ragù is a meat dish loosened with tomato, not a tomato sauce with mince in it.
4 hrServes 6Medium
MainsChicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
Beef, not chicken — it takes the name from being fried the way chicken is. Tenderised thin, double-dredged, and served under a gravy made in the same pan.
45 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
MainsGrilled Shark Steak with Chilli and Lime
A dense, meaty steak that grills more like beef than fish. Soak it in milk first — that one step is what removes the ammonia note shark is notorious for.
45 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
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