If you re thinking of baking this May Bank holiday weekend, read on to find out three mouth-watering cake recipes.
Novelty is a drug. We love new flavours, new recipes, the unusual, the unfamiliar. But most of us also have a core repertoire of dishes that are as much a part of us as the way we dress. We make them because we love eating them but also because we could turn them out in our sleep.
I do make cakes that require work (layers of genoise, stripes of mousse-like filling, a glossy mirror of glaze on top) but these are project cakes, theyâre not what I slide into the oven on a weekend afternoon. I have what I think of as a âcapsule wardrobeâ of cakes, favourites that can be subtly changed or accessorised.
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“Simply Julia”’s ricotta potato chip fish cakes with peas.Credit.Melina Hammer
Turshen’s recipes never feel as though they’ve been developed in a test kitchen a good thing!
The food is comforting and familiar (ricotta and potato chip fish cakes with peas, vegan chili, pork tenderloin piccata, French onion meatloaf, mustardy cracker-crumb fish) and, thanks to a series of honest personal essays by the host herself (one on body acceptance, another on how cooking helped her anxiety), you can feel like your best self, too. Also helping with the charm: a series of pretty and practical listicles, including one about the things that are always in her pantry (vinegar, tahini, beans), and another on the things she can always count on for good vibes (No. 3: her grandmother’s old china dishes). There are 11 make-ahead meals, 11 chicken recipes, 11 one-pot vegan dishes and more.