Skillet chicken with burst tomatoes & white beans
One pan, forty minutes, and a sauce that makes itself. Where it goes wrong: crowding the pan.
Technique over shopping
Pantry school
Pantry school is the boring-sounding series that changes everything: how to season in layers, why your onions take twice as long as the recipe says, what 'medium heat' actually means on your hob. One technique a month, drilled through three recipes each.
Start here
Salt as you go, taste as you go. Ninety percent of 'bland' is seasoning added once, at the end, in fear.
The techniques so far
The frying-pan pasta that broke the rules and won
Raw pasta, cold water, one pan. It shouldn't work. Four tests later: it works.
Tomato-butter beans (the £1.20 dinner people request)
Butter, tinned beans and patience. The skint-week recipe that outgrew its origin story.
