Recipes 🍳

Things I cook often enough to bother writing down. Translated out of my own kitchen Dutch, and the quantities are even roughly correct.

Lemon Ravioli in Creamy Pea Sauce

Lemony ricotta ravioli in a pea sauce that's almost embarrassingly simple for how good it is.

4 plates · ~20 min

Chinese Tomato Soup

The sweet-and-spicy takeaway soup, made at home in a pot big enough to freeze half of it for a rainy day.

A big pot · ~2½ hrs (mostly waiting)

Lasagne

A proper Gennaro Contaldo lasagne, which is mostly an exercise in leaving a ragù alone for three hours.

A crowd (or one person, four times) · Most of an afternoon

Pizza

Homemade pizza isn't hard. The only real trick is shaping the dough and getting a raw pizza into a hot oven without folding it in half.

~3 pizzas · ~5 hrs (dough does most of it)

Fresh Fries

Real chips from the air fryer, no vat of bubbling oil required. Best tossed in a flavoured oil (garlic or chilli, your call).

As many as you can cut · ~40 min plus a soak