Recipes

Recipes worth lingering over

Simple, seasonal recipes: a signature drink, a bake, a hosting centrepiece and something easy for a weekday — tried at home before they are ever shared.

Each recipe is made to feel simple, generous and quietly special — the kind of thing you can serve without fuss, but still remember afterwards.

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A bowl of egg salad with curry and chives beside a crusty bread roll topped with the salad.

Time: 10 minutes, using eggs that are already hard-boiled, cooled and peeled · A small bowl, enough for a few rolls

Homemade Egg Salad with Curry & Chives

A bowl of salmon and egg salad beside a fresh bread roll topped with the salad.

Time: 10 minutes, using eggs that are already hard-boiled, cooled and peeled · A small bowl, enough for a few rolls

Salmon & Egg Salad

A bowl of lasagna soup topped with a spoonful of ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan, fresh basil scattered over the top, with crusty bread alongside by candlelight.

50 min total · Serves 4 generous bowls

Lasagna Soup

A bowl of Marry Me Chicken Soup with chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, orzo and wilted spinach in a creamy Parmesan broth, with crusty bread and a glass of white wine alongside.

45 min total · Serves approximately 4 generous bowls

Marry Me Chicken Soup

A crock of French onion soup with a spoonful of bubbling, browned Gruyère cheese being lifted away in long melted strands, beside a block of Gruyère and a glass of red wine.

Approx. 1 hr 40 min total · Serves approximately 4

French Onion Soup

A bowl of Italian wedding soup with tiny meatballs, acini di pepe pasta and wilted greens, finished with grated Parmesan and fresh parsley, with bread and Parmesan alongside.

55 min total · Serves approximately 4

Italian Wedding Soup

A bowl of creamy mushroom soup topped with darkly browned mushroom slices, shaved Parmesan and a scattering of fresh thyme, with a pile of fresh mushrooms nearby.

50 min total · Serves approximately 4

Creamy Mushroom Soup

A bowl of potato and leek soup with mustard, topped with golden leek ribbons and served with bread.

50 min total · Serves 4 as a light main course, with bread

Potato and Leek Soup with Mustard

A bowl of mushroom goulash with sweet paprika, served over soft, buttery polenta.

1 hr total · Serves 4

Mushroom Goulash with Soft Polenta

A sliced hazelnut coffee cake with a thin coffee glaze and chopped hazelnuts on top.

Approx. 2 hr 30 min total · Makes one 20cm round cake, 10 slices

Hazelnut Coffee Cake with Coffee Glaze

A small potato, onion and cheese bake in an individual oven dish, golden on top.

Approx. 1 hr 10 min total · Serves 1 generously

Potato, Onion and Cheese Bake for One

A sliced apple strudel dusted with icing sugar, served with a jug of warm vanilla sauce.

Approx. 2 hr 40 min total · Serves 8

Apple Strudel with Vanilla Sauce

A creamy potato and leek bake with thyme and a golden cheese crust, in a shared oven dish.

Approx. 1 hr 25 min total · Serves 4 as a main with salad, or 6 as a side

Creamy Potato and Leek Bake with Thyme

Warm apple, oat and brown sugar breakfast crumble served in a simple ceramic dish.

Time: 20 minutes, plus 35-40 minutes baking and 10 minutes resting · Serves 4-6

Apple, Oat & Brown Sugar Breakfast Crumble

A golden mushroom, thyme and Gruyère tart cooling on a wooden kitchen table.

Time: 20 minutes, plus 27-30 minutes baking and 5 minutes resting · Serves 4

Mushroom, Thyme & Gruyère Tart

Fresh cheddar, chive and black pepper scones split open beside salted butter.

Time: 20 minutes, plus 14-16 minutes baking and 5 minutes cooling · Makes 8

Cheddar, Chive & Black Pepper Scones

Salted maple hot chocolate in a simple cup beside a book on an autumn evening.

Time: 5 minutes preparation, plus 8-10 minutes cooking · Serves 2

Salted Maple Hot Chocolate

The Amberfell After Midnight blackberry and blood orange cocktail with rosemary, blackberries and candlelight

Time: About 5 minutes, once the blackberry-rosemary syrup is made · Serves 1

The Amberfell After Midnight

Bowl of Dutch tomato soup with small meatballs and vermicelli, served with fresh baguette, a linen napkin and silver cutlery.

Approx. 2 hr 25 min total · Serves 4-6

The Soup I Always Come Back To

A pale, sparkling Hugo Spritz in a large wine glass with fresh mint, lime wheels and ice, on a linen tablecloth beside a small bowl of olives.

Time: 5 minutes · Serves 1

Hugo Spritz

A stone board set with several open tins of sardines, anchovies, mussels and tuna, whipped feta, capers, cornichons, lemon wedges, crackers and torn bread, beside a glass of white wine and a small olive branch.

Time: 15 minutes · Serves 4-6, as a shared plate

Tinned Fish & Conservas Board

A round of burrata surrounded by grilled peach slices, basil leaves and chopped pistachios, drizzled with hot honey, served with toasted sourdough.

Time: 15 minutes · Serves 2-4

Burrata with Roasted Peaches, Hot Honey & Pistachio

A golden apple and croissant bake studded with thin apple slices in a speckled ceramic baking dish, with coffee and spices in the background.

Time: 15 minutes, plus 30-35 minutes baking · Serves 6-8

Apple Butter Croissant Bake

Two tall glasses of iced maple chai with milk swirled through, beside cinnamon and star anise.

Time: 15 minutes, plus chilling · Serves 2

Iced Maple Chai

A cinnamon honey latte in a warmed cup with soft foam on top, dusted with cinnamon.

Time: 10 minutes · Serves 1

Cinnamon Honey Latte

A slice of pear and almond cake topped with flaked almonds, served beside a halved pear.

Time: 25 minutes, plus 42-50 minutes baking · Serves 8-10

Pear & Almond Cake

A plate of honeyed fig and ricotta toast beside a jar of honey and a cup of coffee.

Time: 15 minutes · Serves 2-4

Honeyed Fig Ricotta Toast

A cooling rack of golden-edged brown butter cookies studded with melted chocolate chunks.

Time: 30 minutes, plus chilling and 10-12 minutes baking · Makes 12

Brown Butter Cookies

A golden focaccia studded with halved red grapes and rosemary sprigs, fresh from the oven.

Time: 2.5-3 hours, plus 22-28 minutes baking · Serves 8-10

Grape & Rosemary Focaccia

A tall, golden lemon and rosemary focaccia studded with rosemary sprigs and flaky sea salt, fresh from the oven at Forno Nica.

Time: 25 minutes, plus 2 hours proving and 25 minutes baking · Serves 8–10

Forno Nica's Lemon & Rosemary Focaccia

A golden fig and almond cake topped with honey-glazed figs and flaked almonds, served on a ceramic cake stand with fresh figs and a honey dipper alongside.

Time: 20 minutes, plus 40–45 minutes baking · Serves 8

Honeyed Fig & Almond Cake

A lemon, basil and almond cake studded with toasted almonds and fresh basil leaves, sliced open on a ceramic cake stand with a whole lemon nearby.

Time: 20 minutes, plus 35–40 minutes baking · Serves 8

Lemon, Basil & Almond Cake

Slices of toasted sourdough topped with whipped ricotta, roasted cherry tomatoes and torn basil, arranged on a speckled ceramic plate.

Time: 15 minutes · Serves 4

Tomato Butter Crostini with Whipped Ricotta

Two glasses of peach and thyme sparkling water cooler garnished with fresh thyme sprigs and peach slices.

Time: 15 minutes, plus 10 minutes infusing · Serves 4

Peach, Thyme & Sparkling Water Cooler

A glass pitcher and two glasses of peach and rosemary sparkling lemonade with ice, lemon slices and fresh rosemary sprigs.

Time: 15 minutes, plus 10 minutes infusing · Serves 4

Peach, Rosemary & Sparkling Water Lemonade

A bowl of courgette ribbon pasta tossed with toasted breadcrumbs, lemon zest and Parmesan.

Time: 20 minutes · Serves 4

Courgette Pasta with Toasted Breadcrumbs

A sliced olive oil cake with a golden, sugar-crusted top, served on a ceramic cake stand with citrus fruit in the background.

Time: 15 minutes, plus 35–40 minutes baking · Serves 8

Olive Oil Cake for Late Afternoons

A slice of sourdough toast topped with creamy ricotta and honeyed fig slices, served with a cup of coffee and fresh figs alongside.

Time: 10 minutes · Serves 2

Honeyed Fig & Ricotta Toast

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