MainsChicken Paprikash With Homemade Mlinci
Tender chicken in a sweet paprika and sour cream sauce, spooned over homemade mlinci that catch every last drop.
1 hr 15 minServes 4Medium
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SnacksSmoked Mackerel Pâté
Ten minutes, no cooking, and the only real decision is how much of it to blitz. Half smooth and half flaked is the texture worth aiming for.
15 minServes 6Easy
SaladsTuna Salad
Tuna in oil, drained but not wrung out, and everything else cut small enough to disappear into it. The crunch matters as much as the fish does.
15 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 Curry with Toasted Spices
Whole spices toasted and ground, and onions cooked far past the point most recipes stop. Twenty-five minutes of onions is the difference between a curry and a stew with curry powder in it.
1 hr 15 minServes 4Medium
DessertsNew York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and barely sweet, baked in a water bath and then cooled with the patience of a saint. Every crack in a cheesecake is a cooling mistake, not a baking one.
2 hrServes 12Medium
BakingBrown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned butter, chopped chocolate rather than chips, and a rest in the fridge. Three small changes that turn a decent cookie into one worth the oven being on.
1 hrServes 18Easy
DessertsDeep-Dish Apple Pie
Two kinds of apple, cooked down before they go anywhere near the pastry. That precooking is the whole answer to the hollow dome every apple pie threatens to become.
2 hr 30 minServes 8Medium
MainsPork Carnitas Tacos
Pork simmered in its own fat until the liquid goes and the frying begins. The whole trick is knowing not to stop at the tender stage — the crisp edges come after.
2 hr 30 minServes 6Medium
MainsSlow-Roast Lamb Shoulder with Garlic and Rosemary
Four hours at a low temperature and almost no attention. Shoulder has too much connective tissue to cook quickly, which is exactly why it rewards leaving alone.
4 hr 50 minServes 6Easy
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