How To Reheat Pizza

In 3 easy steps it tastes like fresh! We indulge in a pizza perhaps twice a year. We love pizza, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not the healthiest of foods for a diabetic or someone watching salt intake or even saturated fats. We’re a simmering urge that builds to a if-I-don’t-have-a-pizza-soon-I’ll- pop. And our…

Bacon In the Oven

I love streaky bacon. I don’t particularly love cleaning up the mess on the cooker afterwards though. But there is an easy, mess-free way to do this. Pop your streaky bacon on a foil-lined baking sheet, and you’ll find that this same bacon hardly shoots a drop of fat anywhere. Yes, it will sizzle and…

Heston’s Perfect Roasted Potatoes

How-To-Make Perfect Roasted Potatoes Heston’s secret is two-fold: 1. Use fluffy roasting or baking potatoes. Red skin ones are best, and a large size so you cut them into to equal size chunks. Small ones won’t work well because you need three flat sides. If they’re too small, you’ll only have one flat side because…

Creamy Green String Bean Casserole with Crispy Onions

My grandmother used to make this for special occasions. She grabbed a can opener, and set about tipping the contents of tins, condensed cream of mushroom soup, Blue Lake tinned beans, and vacuum packed crispy onions, into an oven-proof dish. Then she cranked up the oven and baked it until it bubbled, and a thick…

Basic Tomato Sauce for Pasta

TOMATO SAUCE FOR PASTA It’s harvest time, and even if you haven’t grown tomatoes this summer, you can still make this delicious basic tomato sauce that will wow your taste buds. It’s good. Really good. This is a slightly tweaked version of Marcella Hazan’s Basic Italian Tomato Sauce. I like spicy, so I’ve included black…

Today’s Lunch: Cauliflower Soup

How-To-Make Cauliflower Soup This will either taste deliciously subtle … or it will remind you of milky dishwater. It’s a very delicate soup with minimal ingredients: one large cauliflower cut into florets, one large onion thinly sliced, 4 cups of hot water, a generous pinch of salt (1/2 teaspoon or more to taste) and some…

How-to Make Cooked Red Cabbage

Cooked red cabbage is not something you fiddle about with in this house. Mr Misk just won’t have that. Danes hold it high esteem. He has his recipe for it, a slightly tweaked one from his mother, and now I have one that I can claim as my own. His and her red cabbage recipes….

How To Make Tomato Soup Fast

Soup just got easy. My original tomato soup recipe calls for a 400g tin chopped tomatoes, onion, celery, garlic, 400ml chicken or veg stock, chilli flakes, parsley and basil, seasonings, and a dollop of crème fraîche. And then blitz with a handblender. You need a handblender. Buy one if you don’t own one. This is…