The leftover argument nobody wins by being smug
“You could have eaten yesterday's dinner.”
Independent thought. In print.
Weeknight Pantry
Good dinners from ordinary cupboards and a sink that is already full.
Words by Nisha Bell
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Your grocery list is not a personality test
There is a whole imaginary court sitting above my grocery bag. It has opinions about the bread, the beans and whether buying a shortcut means I have failed to become a sufficiently interesting adult. The
An AI recipe can sound delicious and still be a useless bloody dinner
The suggested dinner was ready in twelve minutes, used everything in my cupboard and required me to possess a second cupboard with completely different things in it. An impressive trick. I was standing in the
Two-minute onions? Your dinner deserves better.
There is a particular sentence in a recipe that makes me put down the spoon and stare at the page: soften the onion for two minutes. Two minutes? I have barely persuaded the pan, onion
The cupboard dinner that saved me another bloody shopping trip
At half past six I decided we needed a shopping trip. At twenty to seven I decided that decision was mostly fatigue wearing a very convincing coat.
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