Author

Alana Reyes

Alana writes and tests everything published here. She cooks at home, not in a restaurant, and the recipes on this site are the ones that survived being made repeatedly in an ordinary kitchen with ordinary equipment.

When a preparation arrives with a health claim attached, she goes and reads what has actually been published about it, and writes down what she finds — including, most of the time, that nobody has checked properly. That is the whole editorial position, and it is set out on the about page.

16 recipes

June 27, 2026 · Breakfast

Salted Honey Butter on Good Toast

Barely a recipe, and the only one on this site where the whole thing depends on the bread.
June 8, 2026 · Lunch

Tomato and Bread Salad

Stale bread and tomatoes that are slightly too ripe. It is designed around both problems and it is better than either ingredient deserves.
May 16, 2026 · Dinner

Skillet Gnocchi with Spinach

Shop-bought gnocchi, never boiled, fried straight from the packet until the outsides blister.
May 5, 2026 · Dessert

Apple Cider Cheesecake Bars

The cider gets boiled down to a syrup first. That step is the difference between apple-flavoured and apple.
April 19, 2026 · Breakfast

Savoury Oats with a Soft Egg

Oats cooked in stock instead of milk, finished with cheese and an egg. It sounds wrong and it stops sounding wrong at the first spoonful.
April 2, 2026 · Dinner

Mustard Crust Baked Salmon

Twelve minutes in a hot oven under a mustard and breadcrumb lid that keeps the fish from drying while it cooks.
March 25, 2026 · Lunch

Leftover Rice, Egg, and Not Much Else

Fried rice works because the rice is old. Fresh rice steams instead of frying, and no amount of heat fixes it.
March 13, 2026 · Dessert

Peanut Butter Banana Mug Cake

Ninety seconds, one mug, one fork. It exists for the specific evening when you want cake and are not going to make a cake.
March 2, 2026 · Breakfast

Cottage Cheese Pancakes

Four ingredients, no flour worth mentioning, and they come out light in a way that ordinary pancakes do not.
February 27, 2026 · Lunch

White Bean and Tuna Salad

Store cupboard from start to finish, and it improves for an hour while you get on with something else.
February 19, 2026 · Dessert

Crème Brûlée, Without the Drama

Five ingredients and a water bath. The only difficult part is the sugar on top, and that is a matter of two thin layers rather than one thick one.
February 11, 2026 · Breakfast

Grated Apple Overnight Oats

The apple goes in raw and grated, which is the whole trick: it releases enough liquid overnight that the oats end up creamy without extra cream.
February 5, 2026 · Dinner

Smoked Paprika Lentil Soup

Red lentils, which need no soaking and collapse into the soup on their own. Forty minutes, mostly unattended.
January 22, 2026 · Lunch

Two-Ingredient Cottage Cheese Wraps

Cottage cheese and eggs, blended and baked flat. They roll without cracking, which is more than most low-carb wraps manage.
January 14, 2026 · Dinner

One-Pan Lemon Chicken and Potatoes

Everything on one tray, and the potatoes cook in the fat from the thighs, which is the entire reason this is worth making.
January 8, 2026 · Dessert

Three-Ingredient Lemon Posset

Cream, sugar and lemon. It sets without gelatine, without eggs and without an oven, and it has done for about six hundred years.