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Classic Tiramisu
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Classic Smash Cheeseburger
A smash burger with lace-edged, deeply browned patties, American cheese melted to the edges and a soft toasted bun…
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Dinner
Spaghetti Carbonara
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
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Desserts
New York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and creamy with a faint tang, on a buttery biscuit base. The water bath and a slow cool in the…
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Dinner
Margherita Pizza
The Neapolitan original: a blistered, cloud-edged crust under nothing more than San Marzano tomatoes, milky fior di…
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Dinner
Baked Mac and Cheese
A baked macaroni cheese with a proper béchamel, three cheeses and a buttered breadcrumb top. Evaporated milk and a…
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Dinner
Birria Tacos
Jalisco's chilli-braised beef, shredded into tortillas that have been dipped in the scarlet fat from the braise…
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Breakfast
Shakshuka
Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…
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Baking
Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Soft, tall rolls made with a tangzhong starter that keeps them pillowy for days, filled with cinnamon-butter and…
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Appetizers
Buffalo Wings
The Anchor Bar original, baked rather than fried using a baking powder trick that makes the skin crackle like it…
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Lunch
Caesar Salad
The original Tijuana Caesar: whole romaine leaves, a dressing built on egg yolk, anchovy and garlic, and croutons…
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Breakfast
Three-Egg Omelette
Three eggs, butter, and about ninety seconds. The French rolled style has no colour at all and a barely-set centre…
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Dinner
Chicken Parmigiana
Shatteringly crisp breaded cutlets under a thin blanket of sauce and mozzarella, grilled just long enough to melt…
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Dinner
Chicken Enchiladas Rojas
Corn tortillas rolled around shredded chicken, blanketed in a red chilli sauce made from whole dried chillies rather…
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Appetizers
Buffalo Chicken Dip
Shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch and hot sauce baked until bubbling. Invented in Buffalo, adopted by every…
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Quick Meals
Skillet Grilled Cheese
Mayonnaise on the outside instead of butter, two cheeses for flavour and melt, and eight minutes over patient…
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Appetizers
Loaded Nachos
The real thing, not a pile of chips with sauce poured over: every chip laid out individually, each one bearing its…
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Lunch
Philly Cheesesteak
Thinly shaved ribeye, sweated onions and melted cheese crammed into a soft hoagie roll. The debate over Cheez Whiz…
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Healthy
Horiatiki Greek Salad
A real horiatiki has no lettuce in it: just tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion, olives and a slab of feta, dressed…
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Dinner
Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
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Desserts
Red Velvet Cake
A tender buttermilk cake with a whisper of cocoa, a tang from vinegar and buttermilk, and a proper cream cheese…
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Dinner
French Onion Soup
Forty-five minutes of patient caramelisation turns four pounds of onions into something meltingly sweet and mahogany…
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Desserts
Spiced Carrot Cake
A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…
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Baking
Adjaruli Khachapuri
A boat of bread filled with molten cheese, with an egg yolk and a knob of butter dropped in at the end and stirred…
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Breakfast
Chilaquiles Verdes
Fried tortilla chips simmered briefly in salsa verde until they soften at the edges but keep a bite at the centre…
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Dinner
Enchiladas Verdes
Corn tortillas dipped in a charred tomatillo salsa, rolled around shredded chicken and baked under more salsa, crema…
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Dinner
Cheese Fondue
Gruyère and Vacherin melted into white wine with a little cornflour and kirsch, kept just below a simmer and eaten…
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Lunch
Croque Monsieur
The Parisian café sandwich raised to its proper form: ham and Gruyère between buttered pain de mie, blanketed in…
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Desserts
Flan Napolitano
A dense, cream-cheese-enriched custard baked over caramel and turned out so the syrup floods down the sides. Denser…
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Desserts
Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
The jiggly cotton cheesecake — somewhere between a soufflé and a sponge, barely sweet, and impossibly light. It…
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Desserts
Sicilian Cannoli
Blistered fried shells filled to order with sweetened sheep's-milk ricotta and candied peel. Filling them any…
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Lunch
Mission-Style Burrito
San Francisco's contribution to world food: a steamed flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa…
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Quick Meals
Pesto alla Genovese
Genoese pesto made the traditional way, with basil bruised rather than blitzed, so the sauce stays emerald green…
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Dinner
Shrimp and Grits
Lowcountry breakfast turned into dinner: prawns in a bacon and stock pan sauce over grits cooked slowly with cream…
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Dinner
Cottage Pie
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
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Baking
Pão de Queijo
Brazilian cheese breads made from tapioca starch scalded with hot milk and oil, giving a crisp shell and a chewy…
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Breakfast
Breakfast Hash
Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…
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Baking
Skillet Cornbread
Batter poured into a screaming hot skillet of bacon fat, which sets a crust the instant it hits. The Southern style…
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Dinner
Melanzane alla Parmigiana
Layers of fried aubergine, tomato, basil and mozzarella baked until the edges catch and the middle sets into…
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Quick Meals
Cacio e Pepe
Two ingredients, one technique, endless opportunity to get it wrong. This cacio e pepe recipe uses a Pecorino slurry…
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Appetizers
Mozzarella Sticks
Batons of low-moisture mozzarella double-breaded and frozen solid before frying, so the crust sets before the cheese…
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Lunch
Reuben Sandwich
Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing between rye, griddled in butter until the cheese runs and…
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Dinner
Gnocchi alla Sorrentina
Potato gnocchi baked under tomato sauce and mozzarella until the top blisters and the cheese pulls. From the…
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Breakfast
Loaded Breakfast Burrito
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
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Dinner
Bucatini all'Amatriciana
The Roman classic from Amatrice: guanciale rendered until crisp, tomatoes cooked down in the rendered fat, and…
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Appetizers
Elote — Mexican Street Corn
Charred corn slathered in crema and mayonnaise, rolled in salty cotija and dusted with chilli and lime. It is the…
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Dinner
Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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Dinner
Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Tender dumplings filled with potato and farmer's cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. A weekend…
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Dinner
Milanesa Napolitana
A breaded beef cutlet topped with ham, tomato sauce and melted cheese — Buenos Aires by way of Milan, and eaten with…
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Breakfast
Arepas
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
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Healthy
Lemon Herb Quinoa Salad
Quinoa cooked until the germs uncoil, cooled, and tossed with herbs, cucumber, tomato and a sharp lemon dressing…
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Cobb Salad
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
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Dinner
Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta and beans, cooked together so the pasta starch thickens the broth into something between a soup and a stew…
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Appetizers
Caprese Salad
Three ingredients in the colours of the Italian flag, which means there is nowhere to hide. Ripe tomatoes at room…
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Appetizers
Coxinha
Shredded chicken and cream cheese wrapped in a dough made from chicken stock and flour, shaped like a teardrop…
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Dinner
Chicken Milanese
Chicken breast beaten thin, breaded and fried in butter until the crust is deep gold. Milanese in method, and the…
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Lunch
Cuban Sandwich
Roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard pressed in Cuban bread until the cheese melts and the crust…
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Queso Fundido
Melted cheese in a hot skillet with chorizo and roasted chillies, brought to the table still bubbling and scooped…
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Quick Meals
Tuna Melt
Tuna mayonnaise under melted cheese on griddled bread, in the diner tradition. The tuna is dressed with celery and…
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Desserts
Knafeh Nabulsi
Semolina-orange dough over a layer of fresh white cheese, baked until the base is crisp and the top is orange, then…
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Quick Meals
Cheese Quesadillas
A properly made quesadilla is about the cheese pull and the crisp, blistered tortilla — nothing more. Ten minutes…
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Dinner
Pasta alla Norma
Catania's great pasta: fried aubergine folded into a bright tomato sauce and finished with salty ricotta salata…
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Dinner
Käsespätzle
Soft egg noodles scraped straight into boiling water, then layered with grated cheese and topped with fried onions…
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Appetizers
Spanakopita
Spinach and feta between shattering layers of filo, brushed generously with olive oil and butter. The trick is…
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Breakfast
Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
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Dinner
Ragù Napoletano
Naples' answer to bolognese, and nothing like it: whole cuts of beef and pork simmered in tomato for four hours…
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Dinner
Doro Wat
Ethiopia's national dish: chicken stewed in an enormous quantity of onions cooked down without any fat, then built…
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Desserts
Künefe
Shredded kadayif pastry packed around a layer of stretchy unsalted cheese, fried in butter on both sides and soaked…
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Dinner
Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
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Pupusas
El Salvador's thick stuffed corn cakes, filled with cheese, beans or chicharrón and griddled until blistered, served…
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Breakfast
Rösti
Grated potato pressed into a pan and fried slowly in butter until a deep golden crust forms on both sides and the…
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Pasta alla Gricia
The ancestor of both carbonara and amatriciana: guanciale, pecorino and black pepper, with no egg and no tomato…
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Desserts
Knafeh
Shredded pastry over a layer of stretchy cheese, baked until the top is crisp and orange, then soaked in…
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Appetizers
Cheese Börek
Layers of filo or yufka with a feta and parsley filling, rolled into coils or layered in a tray and baked until…
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Dinner
Soupe au Pistou
A Provençal summer vegetable soup finished at the table with pistou — basil, garlic and olive oil pounded to a…
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Lunch
Tinga Tostadas
Crisp fried tortillas topped with chicken tinga — shredded chicken in a smoky chipotle and tomato sauce — with…
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Lángos
Deep-fried yeasted flatbread, stretched thin in the middle, rubbed with raw garlic and covered with soured cream and…
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Breakfast
Merguez Shakshuka
Merguez browned first, then eggs poached in a tomato and pepper sauce built on harissa and caraway. Hotter and…
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Dinner
Ají de Gallina
Shredded chicken in a creamy, mildly spicy sauce thickened with bread and walnuts, coloured yellow by ají amarillo…
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Dinner
Raclette
A half wheel of cheese melted under heat and scraped onto plates of boiled potatoes, pickles and cured meats, one…
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Dinner
Francesinha
Porto's sandwich: steak, sausage and ham between bread, wrapped in melted cheese and flooded with a beer and tomato…
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Baking
Pineapple Cake
Buttery shortbread cases filled with a firm, slightly tart pineapple and winter melon jam, baked in small square…
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Quick Meals
Welsh Rarebit
A thick, savoury cheese sauce spiked with mustard, ale and Worcestershire, spread on toast and grilled until…
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Appetizers
Saganaki
A slab of hard sheep's cheese floured and fried until the outside is a crust and the inside is molten, hit with…
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Sopes
Thick masa discs with a pinched rim, griddled then lightly fried, and piled with beans, meat, lettuce, crema and…
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Appetizers
Coquilles Saint-Jacques
Scallops poached in wine, folded into a mushroom velouté, piped back into their shells under Gruyère and browned. A…
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Appetizers
Sicilian Arancini
Sicilian rice balls with a molten mozzarella and ragù heart, breadcrumbed and fried until they shatter…
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Lunch
Salade de Chèvre Chaud
Rounds of goat cheese on toast, grilled until the surface blisters and the centre slumps, dropped onto dressed…
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Lunch
Ploughman's Lunch
Not cooking so much as assembly: a wedge of sharp cheddar, good bread, pickled onions, chutney, apple and butter…
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Dinner
Welsh Cawl
Welsh lamb and root vegetable broth, traditionally eaten in two courses: the broth first, then the meat and…
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Breakfast
Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes
Pancakes bound with cottage cheese and eggs rather than mostly flour, sweetened by nothing but a ripe banana, and…
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Breakfast
Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl
Cottage cheese with tomato, cucumber, olive oil and plenty of black pepper — eight minutes, no cooking, and 26 g of…
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Breakfast
Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 42 g of protein a…
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Lunch
Grilled Halloumi and Herb Salad
Halloumi griddled until it blisters, over a salad of herbs, cucumber and tomato with lemon and olive oil —…
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Appetizers
Smoked Mackerel Pâté
Smoked mackerel beaten with cottage cheese, lemon and horseradish into a coarse pâté — twelve minutes, no cooking…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Lettuce Cups
Caesar without the croutons: chicken breast seared hard, tossed in an anchovy and Parmesan dressing and served in…
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Breakfast
Baked Eggs with Spinach and Feta
Eggs baked into a bed of garlicky spinach with feta crumbled over, straight from oven to table in the pan — 34 g of…
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Holiday Specials
Bibingka
Filipino rice cake baked in a banana leaf over Christmas, topped with salted egg and cheese and finished with butter…
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Quick Meals
Croque Madame
Ham and Gruyère between buttered bread, blanketed in béchamel, grilled until it bubbles, and crowned with a fried egg.
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Desserts
Burnt Basque Cheesecake
The tarta de queso from La Viña in San Sebastián: no base, no water bath, and a deliberately scorched top over a…
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Quick Meals
Chicken Quesadilla
A properly built quesadilla: cheese against the tortilla on both sides so it welds shut, filling in a thin layer…
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Dinner
Baked Ziti
Ziti layered with a quick tomato sauce, ricotta and two more cheeses, baked until the top blisters. The pasta comes…
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Lunch
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Thick, orange and unapologetic, with half the broccoli blended into the base and half left in pieces. The cheese…
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Dinner
Chicken Tortilla Soup
A brothy Mexican soup with real depth: dried chillies toasted and blended into the base, chicken poached in it and…
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Breakfast
Vegetable Frittata
Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…
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Appetizers
Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Hot, thick and properly cheesy, with every drop of water squeezed out of the spinach first. That one step is the…
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Lunch
Meatball Sub
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
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Dinner
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Rebuilt without the tin of soup: a proper mushroom béchamel, egg noodles cooked short, and a buttered crumb top with…
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Breakfast
Green Shakshuka
The green version: eggs baked into a pan of wilted greens, leek and herbs rather than tomato, with feta and a lemony…
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Dinner
Cauliflower Mash
Steamed rather than boiled, then blitzed with butter and cream cheese until it is genuinely smooth. Not a substitute…
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Dinner
Courgette Lasagne
Courgette planks salted, griddled and used in place of pasta, under a proper ragù and a béchamel. The griddling is…
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Breakfast
Bacon and Cheddar Egg Bites
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
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Baking
Cloud Bread
Three ingredients whipped and baked into light, flexible rounds that stand in for a roll. Not bread in any real…
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Breakfast
Baked Avocado Eggs
An egg baked in the hollow of an avocado half, which sounds like a magazine idea and works because of one…
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Dinner
Cauliflower Cheese
Cauliflower roasted rather than boiled, under a mustard-sharp sauce made with cheese that is actually strong enough…
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Lunch
Glamorgan Sausages
Welsh sausages with no meat in them: Caerphilly, leek and breadcrumbs, rolled and fried until the crust crackles…
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Healthy
Greek Stuffed Peppers
Gemista, the Greek summer dish: peppers roasted before they are filled, so they are sweet and collapsing rather than…
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Healthy
Beetroot, Orange and Feta Salad
Beetroot roasted in foil so it steams in its own juice, dressed while warm, and served against orange, feta and…
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Healthy
Green Goddess Salad
Everything chopped to the size of a pea and bound in a herb dressing thick enough to cling, eaten with a spoon or a…
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Quick Meals
Grilled Halloumi Wrap
Halloumi griddled until it squeaks and blisters, wrapped with a lemony slaw and a garlic yoghurt. Twenty minutes…
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Dinner
Mămăligă
Coarse polenta cooked in salted water until it pulls away from the pan, layered with soft cheese and soured cream…
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Breakfast
Cachapas
Sweetcorn blitzed to a batter and griddled into thick, sweet pancakes, folded around a slab of soft white cheese…
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Dinner
Griddled Aubergine Parmigiana
Aubergine slices salted, then griddled rather than fried, layered with a long-simmered tomato sauce and two cheeses…
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Appetizers
Cheese Rakakat
Cigarettes of filo around salty white cheese, fried until they blister. The cheese has to be one that softens…
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Desserts
Atayef Asafiri
Little pancakes cooked on one side only, folded round thick cream and left open at one end so the pistachio shows…
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Desserts
Halawet el Jibn
A stretchy semolina and cheese dough rolled around cream and soaked in syrup. Somewhere between a pastry and a sweet…
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Dinner
Macarona Bechamel
Penne bound in béchamel over a layer of spiced mince, baked until the top sets into a sliceable crust. Egypt by way…
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Appetizers
Gebna Domiati Salad
The soft white brined cheese of Damietta, cubed with tomato, cucumber and oil into a breakfast salad. Salty enough…
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Desserts
Kunafa bil Manga
Shredded kunafa pastry baked crisp and layered with cream and fresh mango. A modern Cairo dessert, everywhere since…
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Appetizers
Doigts de Fatma
Fatma's fingers: malsouka pastry rolled around cheese, parsley and meat and fried into crisp cigars. The same pastry…
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Dinner
Tajine Tunisien
Nothing like a Moroccan tagine: this is a baked omelette thick with chicken, cheese and parsley, cut into squares…
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Appetizers
Gougères
Choux buns with cheese beaten through, baked until hollow and eaten warm with a glass of something cold. Burgundy…
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Dinner
Hachis Parmentier
Braised beef minced by hand under a potato purée and baked. The French version predates the English one and is made…
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Dinner
Cordon Bleu
Chicken breast wrapped around ham and cheese, breaded and fried. Swiss in origin, French in execution, and the seal…
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Dinner
Endives au Jambon
Chicory braised, wrapped in ham, covered in béchamel and baked. The bitterness of the chicory is the point and is…
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Dinner
Gratin de Courgettes
Courgettes cooked down with rice and bound with egg and cheese, from Provence. The rice is cooked in the courgette…
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Dinner
Gratin de Macaronis
Macaroni in a nutmeg béchamel under Gruyère and breadcrumbs. The French version is looser and less cheesy than the…
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Lunch
Galettes Bretonnes
Buckwheat crêpes filled with ham, cheese and an egg, the edges folded into a square. Savoury and dark, and a…
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Appetizers
Fiori di Zucca Fritti
Courgette flowers filled with ricotta and mozzarella, dipped in a thin batter and fried. The batter should be barely…
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Appetizers
Supplì
Roman rice croquettes with a piece of mozzarella at the centre that pulls into a thread when you bite it. Supplì al…
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Dinner
Culurgiones
Sardinian parcels of potato, mint and pecorino, closed with a pleat that looks like an ear of wheat. The pleat takes…
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Dinner
Malloreddus alla Campidanese
Ridged saffron gnocchetti with a sausage and tomato sauce. Sardinia's everyday pasta, and the ridges exist to hold…
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Dinner
Trofie al Pesto
Ligurian twists with potato and green beans cooked in the same water, all dressed in pesto. The potato is not a…
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Dinner
Busiate al Pesto Trapanese
Trapani's pesto: almonds instead of pine nuts, raw tomato instead of just basil. Made in a mortar and never cooked.
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Dinner
Trippa alla Romana
Tripe in tomato with mint and a heavy shower of pecorino. Saturday lunch in Rome, and the mint is not optional.
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Dinner
Involtini di Manzo
Thin beef rolled around cheese, parsley and garlic, then braised in tomato until it can be cut with a spoon. Sicily…
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Dinner
Parmigiana Bianca
Aubergine parmigiana with no tomato at all — just béchamel, basil and two cheeses. Lighter than it sounds and much…
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Dinner
Torta Pasqualina
A Ligurian Easter pie of chard and ricotta with whole eggs baked inside, under many thin sheets of pastry. Cut…
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Desserts
Sfogliatella Riccia
A shell of a hundred paper-thin leaves around a semolina and ricotta filling. The hardest pastry in Naples and worth…
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Desserts
Pastiera Napoletana
A wheat, ricotta and orange flower tart that Naples makes on Good Friday and eats the following Tuesday. It…
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Desserts
Cassata Siciliana
Sponge, sweetened ricotta and marzipan under a white glaze and a riot of candied fruit. Palermo at its most baroque…
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Dinner
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
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Dinner
Rumbledethumps
Potato, swede and cabbage mashed together, topped with cheese and baked. The Scottish Borders answer to what to do…
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Dinner
Pan Haggerty
Potato, onion and cheese layered in a frying pan, cooked on the hob and finished under the grill. Northumberland…
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Dinner
Stuffed Marrow
A marrow hollowed out, filled with spiced mince and baked with cheese on top. What the allotment demands every…
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Appetizers
Potted Cheese
Hard cheese beaten with butter, mace and port and sealed under more butter. Eighteenth-century, requires no cooking…
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Dinner
Budae Jjigae
Army base stew: kimchi, gochujang, sausage, tinned meat and instant noodles in one bubbling pan. Invented from…
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Appetizers
Korean Corn Cheese
Sweetcorn bound with mayonnaise under a lid of grilled mozzarella. A side dish that arrives bubbling and never comes…
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Dinner
Chile Relleno
A poblano stuffed with cheese, dipped in whipped egg and fried, then sat in a thin tomato broth. The hardest easy…
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Baking
Garlic Bread
A baguette split, packed with garlic and parsley butter and baked until the edges crisp and the middle stays soft.
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Quick Meals
Pesto Pasta
Basil pounded with pine nuts and cheese, loosened with pasta water and tossed off the heat. Twenty-two minutes.
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Dinner
Ragù alla Bolognese
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
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Dinner
Lamb Kleftiko
Lamb shoulder sealed in parchment with lemon, oregano and potatoes and cooked three and a half hours. The parcel is…
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Appetizers
Tiropita
Feta and egg between layers of filo, baked until the top shatters. Cut it before it goes in the oven, not after.
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Dinner
Youvetsi
Beef baked with orzo in a cinnamon-scented tomato sauce until the pasta has drunk the lot. One dish, ninety minutes.
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Quick Meals
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Bread buttered on the outside, cheese in the middle, cooked slowly until the crust is deep gold and the inside has…
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Dinner
Loaded Baked Potato
A potato baked until the skin is crisp and the inside floury, split and filled with butter, cheese, bacon and soured…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Wrap
Griddled chicken, cos lettuce and parmesan rolled in a warm tortilla with a proper anchovy dressing. Under half an…
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Dinner
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Meatballs browned and finished in the sauce, over spaghetti. Italian-American, and none the worse for it.
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Breakfast
Syrniki
Curd cheese pancakes, crisp outside and almost custardy in the middle, eaten with soured cream and jam.
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Appetizers
Papa a la Huancaína
Boiled potatoes under a yellow chilli and cheese sauce, cold, with olives and egg. Thirty-five minutes.
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Breakfast
Baleadas
A thick flour tortilla folded over refried beans, cream and crumbled cheese. Honduras's breakfast, and thirty minutes.
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Appetizers
Chili Cheese Fries
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
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Lunch
French Dip
Thin roast beef in a roll with a cup of the roasting juices to dip it in. Forty-five minutes, and the jus is the…
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Dinner
Patty Melt
A burger patty between rye bread with caramelised onion and Swiss cheese, griddled like a toastie. Thirty-five…
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Breakfast
Cheesy Grits
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly in milk and stock until creamy, finished with butter and cheese. Thirty minutes.
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Appetizers
Obatzda
Ripe Camembert mashed with butter, paprika and beer into a spread for pretzels. Fifteen minutes and no cooking.
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Dinner
Pierogi Ruskie
Dumplings filled with potato and curd cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. Poland's most-made dish.
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Desserts
Sernik
A dense baked cheesecake made with twaróg rather than cream cheese, which makes it drier and more interesting.
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Lunch
Sopa de Tortilla
A chilli and tomato broth with crisp tortilla strips added at the table so they keep their crunch. Forty-five minutes.
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Appetizers
Esquites
Corn cut off the cob and fried, then dressed with mayonnaise, lime, chilli and cheese and eaten from a cup with a…
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Dinner
Gorditas
Thick corn cakes griddled until they puff, split open like a pocket and stuffed. Fifty minutes.
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