Cooking · Group

Mains

The centrepiece dishes -- pies, roasts, casseroles, traybakes. The thing the rest of the meal arranges itself around.

Cooking · Mains

Cream of Mushroom Soup

A proper mushroom soup -- a kilo of mushrooms browned hard, a handful of dried porcini for depth, sweated onions and garlic, a measure of whisky in the deglaze, blended just enough to be silky without losing the bite. The base freezes in single-serve portions; the cream goes in at reheat so it never splits.

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Cooking · Mains

Honey Soy Chicken Wings

Thirty minutes from packet to plate. Wings seared hard in a heavy pan until the skin crackles, then rolled through a sticky soy-honey glaze with ginger and garlic, served on jasmine rice with a scatter of spring onion and sesame. One pan, one rice pot, two bowls.

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Cooking · Mains

Fish Pie

Rick Stein's Cornwall fish pie, with Australian fish. White fish, smoked fish, prawns under a buttered mash, baked until the top is gold.

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