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Recipes we're keeping

From the TikTok recipe we saved last night to something we found in Grandma’s old cookbook. The salads, pastas, breakfasts, soups, cakes and slightly wellness-coded things we actually want to eat, cook again and send to friends. Mostly good for you, always worth making, made with great ingredients and never healthy just for the sake of it.

Dark miso mushroom broth with soba noodles, shiitake and spring onion in a ceramic bowl
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Miso mushroom broth with soba

A ten-minute broth with the depth of something that simmered all afternoon.

30 min · Serves 2 · Easy

Breakfast

Overnight oats in a glass jar topped with roasted plums, yoghurt and seeds

Overnight oats with roasted plums

Breakfast decided the night before, which is most of the battle.

35 min · Serves 2

Bowls & grains

Grain bowl with green tahini sauce, cucumber, crisp chickpeas, pistachio and herbs

Green tahini grain bowl

The sauce does the work. Everything under it is negotiable.

40 min · Serves 2

Soups & stews

White beans and blistered tomatoes in a cast iron pan with basil and olive oil

Slow-roast tomato and white bean stew

Two tins, one oven, almost no attention.

60 min · Serves 4

Golden turmeric red lentil soup with a coconut swirl and coriander

Turmeric red lentil soup

The soup we make when the week has already gone wrong.

40 min · Serves 4

Vegetables

Chopped salad with herbs, feta, radish, chickpeas and tomatoes on a vintage platter

Chopped salad with herbs and feta

Herbs treated as a vegetable, not a garnish.

20 min · Serves 4

Charred broccoli with golden breadcrumbs and lemon on a dark platter

Charred broccoli with anchovy crumbs

The side dish that quietly becomes dinner.

30 min · Serves 4

Mains

Roast salmon fillet on shaved fennel with blood orange slices and dill

Salmon with fennel and blood orange

Fifteen minutes, one pan, dinner-party respectable.

25 min · Serves 2

Whole roasted cauliflower with green herb sauce and pomegranate on a rustic platter

Whole roast cauliflower with green sauce

A centrepiece that costs less than a round of drinks.

85 min · Serves 4

Drinks

Ginger and citrus tonic in a glass carafe with lemon slices and fresh ginger

Ginger and citrus tonic

Not a cure for anything. Very good in a glass with ice.

25 min · Serves 6

Matcha and banana smoothie in a tall glass with banana slices and matcha powder

Matcha and banana smoothie

A green drink that tastes like breakfast rather than a penalty.

5 min · Serves 1

Snacks & sweets

Cacao and tahini bites dusted with cocoa and sea salt on a vintage plate

Cacao and tahini bites

Four ingredients, no baking, a solution to the four o'clock problem.

15 min · Serves 16