4 h. ago Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for pasta with sprouting broccoli, blue cheese and hazelnuts | Quick and easy

The luxurious feel of this dish hides the fact that it’s also a one-pan wonder that you can knock up in less than half an hourThis is one of my favourite types of dishes: a quick cook, quick carb, where the sauce takes as little time to make as the pasta. Broccoli and blue cheese are a classic combination, and with the crunch of hazelnuts and the creamy sauce, this feels like a special dinner, even though it takes just minutes to pull together. It serves two generously – we stretched it to three at lunchtime, so you may have enough for a lunchbox the next day. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Bella Hadid's everyday '5 minute' makeup routine includes a £12 affordable foundation

Supermodel Bella Hadid shared her quick and easy everyday makeup routine, which includes using an affordable Milani foundation to create a flawless base in under 5 minutes

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57 h. ago Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for peazotto with pickled peas | The new vegan

The freshness of pureed peas and mint and the tartness of lemony pickled peas combine to give pasta ‘rice’ a perky, vibrant liftToday’s recipe is inspired by an Italian method of preserving, sott’olio, which translates to “under oil”. The most delicate of vegetables, such as peas, are picked at peak ripeness, plunged briefly in vinegar, then stored in oil to preserve them until desired. I’ll admit that my recipe wantonly uses frozen petit pois, which are then in part pickled and in part whizzed up to make a stock in which to cook the orzo; nevertheless, eating it brings its own warm and welcome Italian sunshine to my English kitchen in cold, dark February. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Quick and easy air fryer roast potatoes recipe using just five ingredients

If you're looking to save time in the kitchen and still make a delicious roast potatoes, an air fryer is your new best friend

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7 d. ago Rukmini Iyer’s quick easy recipe for baked trout with beetroot, lentil and pomegranate salad | Quick and easy

Two meals in one: a bright, enticing salad and a substantial fish dinnerAn easy dinner packed with colourful plants and leaves. You could make a batch of the salad by itself for lunchboxes, but the trout elevates it to a filling dinner for two. You can, of course, use your preferred fish: any thick fillets, such as cod, pollack or haddock, would work well here. And if you don’t have pumpkin seeds, substitute breadcrumbs or any type of nut. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut and mushroom ragu with pasta | A kitchen in Rome

Its origins may be a mystery, but what is certain is that this luxuriant alternative to meat ragu is totally delicious“Antica e desueta [archaic and forgotten] is a beguiling introduction to a recipe,” I said to my friend, the cook and writer Stefano Arturi, when we talked on the phone the other week. He laughed, noting that those words in relation to recipes made him both curious and, because of their foggy closeness to mythologising, suspicious.It was his recipe for hazelnut ragu that started it all, sending us down more or less the same paths in books and online, where we met more of the same thing: fabulously contradictory stories in which ragu made from hazelnuts was an ancient Piedmontese dish of great beauty born out of economy and hardship, and also “forgotten”, which justifies the lack of any evidence as to where it actually came from. Yet also, a breezy, contemporary dish that, like so many modern dishes, was scorned by those faithful to more traditional (ancient, authenti...

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