Recipes you can follow at the stove.
Four recipes, each set out the same way: a short note, then the card with times, ingredients and numbered steps. They read well on a phone propped against the flour jar.
The four recipes
Weeknight roast chicken with lemon and potatoes
One pan, one hot oven: the potatoes cook underneath and soak up everything the chicken gives them.
Main · 1 hr 25 min · Serves 4 · Gluten-free · Dairy-free
Slow Sunday beef ragù
Beef chuck braised for three hours in wine and tomato, then pulled apart into a sauce that holds onto wide pasta.
Main · 4 hr · Serves 6
Big green salad with mustard vinaigrette
Soft lettuce, cucumber and a fistful of herbs in a sharp, thick mustard dressing. Good beside anything rich.
Salad · 20 min · Serves 4 · Vegetarian · Gluten-free · Dairy-free
Brown-butter apple cake
A plain, tender cake with a layer of apple slices on top and the nutty depth of browned butter all the way through.
Dessert · 1 hr 15 min · Serves 8
Before you start
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