Lara Dunston 
My cucumber sour cream salad recipe makes a creamy cucumber salad that has crunch from the cucumbers and shallots, zing from lemon and vinegar, tang from pickles and sour cream, and fragrance from fresh dill. The Eastern European style salad makes a fantastic addition to a zakuski table or delicious side dish for roast chicken, … Read more
This easy blistered green beans recipe with toasted almonds makes a delicious vegetable side dish of fast wok-fried green beans that are only lightly blistered so that they’re still vibrant green and tender but firm. Stir-fried with toasted almonds for a little crunch, the green beans are piled onto a creamy garlic white bean purée … Read more
This simple caramelized Brussels sprouts recipe makes melt-in-the-mouth browned Brussels sprouts with crispy bacon for the best Brussels sprouts ever. Made in thirty minutes, the Brussels sprouts are thrice cooked – boiled until tender, wok-fried in bacon fat until almost charred, then simply seasoned and roasted with crispy bacon. They make a perfect side for … Read more
This easy French-style braised chicken recipe makes the juiciest chicken with crispy skin from just seven ingredients – stock, olive oil, lemon, garlic, a homemade chicken seasoning, and butter. It’s a foolproof dish with little work required other than basting. Whether you cook it on high, go low and slow, or reheat it, the chicken … Read more
For our latest edition of What to Cook this Week we’ve got recipes for a salad of crunchy cucumber spears tossed in our easy vinaigrette, a cold beetroot soup or warming bowl of borscht, a creamy broccoli pasta recipe with a broccoli pesto sauce, fried rice recipes beyond the obvious, and tasty Basque pintxos. Like … Read more