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We keep our recipes as simple as possible. You won’t have to scroll past our life stories to get to the recipe, nor hundreds of videos and ads that crash your browser. Just the basics, and if there’s any fluff, after the recipe itself. These are all tried and multiple times tested recipes we cook at home ourselves.

Recipe: Lemon Yogurt Sauce

October 20, 2019April 23, 2019 by Stuart Melling
Lemon yogurt sauce ingredients prepped

This one proves the truism that the simplest things in life are the best. This quick and healthy sauce is ready in minutes, is impeccably healthy and can be used …

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Recipe: Cilantro Tomatillo Ranch dressing

September 21, 2019April 5, 2019 by Stuart Melling
Cilantro Tomatillo Ranch dressing ingredients

This fun dressing for Spring and Summer goes by several names online; in essence it’s a riff on the sauce you’ll find at the likes of Cafe Rio and Cost …

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Recipe: Quick And Basic Pulled Pork

September 21, 2019March 17, 2019 by Stuart Melling
Quick pulled pork shredded ready to eat

Most pulled pork recipes I see require more tools and more time than I ever have to hand. Maybe the recipe calls for a fancy smoker, maybe a slow cooker …

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Recipe: Vegetarian Larb

October 11, 2019March 1, 2019 by Stuart Melling

This recipe is my own simplified spin on the classic Thai/Laotian meat salad. I’ve cooked this for years and years, especially so when I ate a lot more meat. First …

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Recipe: Indian Cabbage with Peas

October 11, 2019February 17, 2019 by Stuart Melling

This dish is a riff on a fairly traditional Indian vegetable dish that I’ve been tweaking and testing for years. I don’t know the traditional name, and at this point …

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Recipe: Indian saag

October 5, 2019January 20, 2019 by Stuart Melling

This particular recipe is the result of on and off experimentation for the better part of two year. I’m pretty proud of the results and as such, we use it …

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Pie Fried Rice

March 7, 2020December 30, 2018 by Stuart Melling

Like many other scientific luminaries of our age, I didn’t stop to ask if I should, only if I could. Oppenheimer, Edison, Turing…and now…yours truly. To paraphrase Oppenheimer himself, “I …

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Recipe: British beef and onion pie

October 20, 2019December 29, 2018 by Stuart Melling

Pot pie to Americans, just plan and simple pie for us Brits; but equally delicious regardless of name or whatever continent you happen to be eating this on. First up, …

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Recipe: Easy Cochinita Pibil

October 20, 2019December 26, 2018 by Stuart Melling

If you Google this classic Mexican dish, it’s easy to be quickly intimidated by the exotic ingredient list and complicated instructions. While bitter (Seville) oranges and banana leaves might yield …

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Recipe: The Perfect Burger

October 11, 2019October 17, 2018 by Stuart Melling
The Perfect Burger

It’s safe to say that in the course of my food writing career the number of burgers I’ve chowed down on has easily passed quadruple digits at this point. South …

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