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A quick, adaptable homemade tomato sauce with real depth of flavour. Make a batch, freeze the rest, and turn it into midweek meals with pasta, gnocchi or chicken.

When did you last buy anything in central London for £3.95? At ICCO Pizza, that still gets you a freshly made 12-inch pizza – just as it has, give or take a few pence, since 1999. We pop into...

A classic apple crumble recipe with a twist: softened apples under a buttery 2:1:1 crumble topping, finished with crunchy nut granola for the last twelve minutes. Works with cooking or eating apples, takes about an hour, and is best...

A Basque-style beef ragu inspired by my trips to San Sebastian. Beef shin is slow-cooked in the oven with brandy, smoked pimentón, shallots, potatoes and peas for a comforting one-pot meal with no tomatoes in sight.

The classic Sunday roast, with a twist on the side: roast topside of beef with sticky balsamic beetroot and buttered Savoy cabbage, plus a temperature guide and one-oven timing plan.

A classic leek and potato soup made with slowly sweated leeks, thyme and rich bone broth, finished with a bubbling Gruyère toast.

Introduction I was on holiday in the Greek islands recently, eating in a lovely little taverna, when I spotted sea bass fricassée on the menu. I had to order it. It was delicious: a fresh fillet of sea bass...

I came back from Greece determined to find out what I should actually be looking for on an olive oil label. Ben and Elle Caring — who launched Krude with Gordon Ramsay — set out four things worth checking,...

Thin slices of potato baked slowly in garlicky cream until meltingly soft and golden on top. My dauphinoise potatoes recipe, with the simple tricks that stop the cream from splitting.

A Punjabi kidney bean curry that travelled to Bombay and stayed. Rajma is soft, savoury and faintly smoky, and it is better on the second day.