your butcher should be able to provide you with ox cheeks. If not, you can use featherblade, shin, or even oxtail. The art of braising and slow cooking – which is not simply putting a chunk of meat with some seasoning and herbs in the oven at a low temperature – seems to be in danger of disappearing, which is a shame because it’s a great skill to have and makes great use of cheaper cuts of meat.
Pasta is the most democratic of foods – delicious, adaptable It’s cheap, too – but just how cheap varies enormously. Bargain basement pasta costs 95p for 500g at the moment, enough for five hearty portions; but posh ones can come in at more than 10 times that. Not to mention that the price of pasta has increased by 90 per cent in two years, new research has revealed.
Chickpeas are a store-cupboard staple for me – they’re such a helpful starting point for dinner when there’s not much else in the house.
Not just pancakes, but particularly luxurious, rich, and flavorsome pancakes.
Can you make good pizza at home without a pizza oven?
Yes, but it’s more a question of which style of pizza you’re going to have the most success with. “The biggest thing is the temperature of the oven,” says Rich Baker, co-owner of Flat Earth Pizzas in east London, “because domestic ovens simply aren’t hot enough to achieve what a pizzeria does.
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