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Kitchen Basics Recipes

These kitchen basics recipes are designed to make your life easier in the kitchen. From an easy white sauce, to a cheat’s white sauce recipe, the best simple pancake recipe, how to make an omelette and many more. Good cooking is not about complicated and fussy recipes, it all comes down to the kitchen basics.

Plate of smoked salmon pate topped with fresh dill and mini crostini.

Seafood Recipes

Smoked Salmon Pâté with Dill and Lemon

White shallow casserole with puttanesca dotted with torn burrata and fresh basil.

Easy Pasta Recipes

Penne Puttanesca

formed garganelli.

Easy Pasta Recipes

How to Make Homemade Garganelli Pasta

Kitchen Basics Recipes

How To Make Pasta Dough

Celery Root Remoulade (Celeri Remoulade)

Salad Recipes

Celery Root Remoulade (Celeri Remoulade)

Chicken Katsu Sandwich cut in half.

Lunch Recipes

Chicken Katsu Sandwich

lemon meringue tart with slice removed.

Easy Dessert Recipes

Lemon Meringue Tart

foldied triangoli on silver tray.

Easy Pasta Recipes

How to Make Homemade Triangoli Pasta

Honey Mustard Sausages in a bowl with a dip

Christmas Recipes

Honey Mustard Sausages

quick bolognese sauce with rigatoni 2quick bolognese sauce with rigatoni in a beige bowl

Easy Beef Recipes

Deliciously Quick Bolognese Sauce with Rigatoni

White bowl of butternut squash soup garnished with pumpkin seeds and chilli flakes with bread on the side.

Comfort Food

Roasted Butternut Squash and Chilli Soup

Chicken Katsu Wrap

Easy 30 Minute Meals

Chicken Katsu Wrap

Chorizo and Potato Breakfast Hash

Breakfast & Brunch

Chorizo and Potato Breakfast Hash

pasta al pesto pistacchio on a plate

Easy Pasta Recipes

Pistachio Pesto Pasta (Pasta Al Pesto Pistacchio)

courgette gratin with tomato and basil.

Weeknight Supper

Courgette Gratin (Gratin de Courgettes)

british pancakes on plate with lemon halves

Easy Baking Recipes

British Pancakes (perfect for pancake day…and beyond!)

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