Casual Chef

casual chef

Recipes & Kitchen Notes

Simple recipes. Serious flavour.


Casual Chef is ten recipes I actually make, written out the way I'd write them on a card for someone standing in my kitchen.

No stories about my grandmother, no list of forty ingredients, no step that exists to pad the page. Each one says what to buy, what to do, and the one thing that decides whether it works.

Latest · SANDWICH

Tomato & Mozzarella Sandwich

The trick is roasting the tomatoes instead of slicing them raw — twenty minutes in a hot oven turns them sweet and concentrated, and stops the bread going soggy underneath.

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Tomato & Mozzarella Sandwich

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Why it works

Short pieces on the mechanism behind a technique — what is physically happening, and when the usual advice stops being true. The first one lands shortly.