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Nigella Lawson · How To Be A Domestic Goddess

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This recipe uses Italian sausages, and I specify them advisedly; being 100% meat and loosely packed, they cook much faster than the densely-woven, finer-textured English sausage. If you are making this with regular sausages, you may want to add a couple of cloves of minced garlic to the sauce. Feel free to use whatever canned beans you have in the cupboard; borlotti or cannellini would be just fine, too. Similarly, standard canned tomatoes can replace the cherry tomatoes. Don

Nigella Lawson · How To Be A Domestic Goddess

Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson

In the normal run of things, I always know what I’m going to have for lunch or dinner. I care far too much about what I eat to feel comfortable just leaving it to chance. But there are inevitably those days when I run out of time or energy and find myself, as mealtime approaches, growling with hunger, and more in need than ever of the transporting power of good food. This is where my Sardine Spaghetti comes in: it’s an invaluable store-cupboard standby that can always be relied upon to do the trick, and pretty much instantly and effortlessly. If I’m having sardines on toast, I always go for a tin of sardines in olive oil and lemon; here, it’s sardines in tomato sauce that are needed. I advise you, however, to avoid the ones that are labelled as “spicy tomato sauce”. That may sound illogical given that the dried chilli flakes I add certainly make this dish pack a punch, but in all my testing (with a number of brands) I have found the taste of the tinned sardines in straightforward tomato sauce infinitely superior to the ones labelled as sold as spicy!

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Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

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I have always avoided making chocolate tarts, not out of laziness (I love a bit of pastry-making, in the right mood), but because I have never really felt that the pastry served the chocolate, or was worth the effort here. This is my simple solution: make a base out of chocolate biscuits. And the filling is just as easy to make, too. Not that you’d know from the taste. I never lie about how effortless something is to make, but no one will believe me on this one. I think the hit of salt is crucial: it subtly counters the richness of all the chocolate. I go gladly for smoked sea salt here, but you can substitute regular sea salt flakes (not fine flowing salt, though) and, similarly, you could use Bourbon biscuits in place of the Oreos.

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Real salted caramel requires patience, dexterity and a sugar-thermometer, none of which come naturally to me, but a salted caramel sauce can be rustled up in a matter of moments. True, in those moments you wouldn’t want to walk away from the stove, but the saucepan provides captivating enough watching to make that agreeable. I have given a range of quantities for the salt, but I tell you now that I go for the full whack. It might be wise to start off with half a teaspoon and add more to the finished sauce as needed, bearing in mind that the colder this is served the more the flavours will be muted and therefore need bolstering…. Final note: I use unsalted butter as was told when young that salt is added to inferior butter to mask any rancidity or unpleasant flavours and also because I prefer to be in control of salinity myself.

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Salted caramel is not just for eating...

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To make this hot chocolate you will need to have prepared my Salted Caramel Sauce.

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To make this brandy butter you will need to have prepared my Salted Caramel Sauce.

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

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While steaming then roasting potatoes may seem rather a fandango, one bite of these will convince you that it

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This is unexpectedly easy to shop for as well as easy to cook. Baby squid (better here than tougher, grown-up, windsock-sized ones) can be found, frozen, in 500g boxes, to be stashed in your freezer and thawed as needed. And while any recipe that involves a pestle and mortar can seem like too much kitchen faffing when you get back from work, let me tell you that a bit of murderous bashing can be a great stress-relieving exercise. But if you

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