Skillet chicken with burst tomatoes & white beans
One pan, forty minutes, and a sauce that makes itself. Where it goes wrong: crowding the pan.
Tested four times minimum
Recipes
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.
Pantry school #1: salt is a schedule, not an ingredient
The single technique that fixes 'bland': season in layers, taste at every one.
Sticky lamb shoulder for people who like applause
Five minutes of effort, five hours of oven, one very good Sunday. Drama-to-effort ratio: exceptional.
Pantry school #2: what 'medium heat' is hiding
Recipes assume a hob you don't have. Learn your pans' truth once and everything improves.
