30 recipes you should master by the age of 30
These classics will help you grow confident in the kitchen and build a repertoire of fail-safe favourites
With these recipes under your belt, you ll never have to reach for a readymeal
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Beans on toast and ready meals may be a staple of student cooking, but if by your mid-twenties you still haven t progressed from the simple (lets face it, often terrible) meals that were whipped up in halls, then it s time to refresh your culinary repertoire. Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. It s about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat, says Nigella Lawson in
Rainbow recipes to perk up Blue Monday, from citrus salads to seared steak
Banish Blue Monday woes with vibrant dishes packed with ingredients – nourishing nuts, greens, and oily fish – to lift sagging spirits
Nothing brightens the day like a vibrant bowl of something delicious
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Today is officially “Blue Monday”, supposedly the most depressing day of the year. Although it was actually created by a holiday company in 2005 using a formula that factored in weather, credit-card debt and our faltering motivation to continue with New Year resolutions, it’s true that this time of year can leave us often feeling rather down in the dumps – and that s without even factoring a global pandemic into the equation.
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