Fast Easy Recipes

Sweet potato, chorizo & egg
Most recipes I publish here are dishes to share. This is an unusual recipe for one and is a decadent brunch or supper. Soothing and comforting with a kick of spice, luscious sweet potato, spiky chorizo, a creamy soft egg yolk and some ripe rich avocado on the side to calm it all down.

Books for cooks: Intolerant Gourmet
It's been a while since I've lusted over a cookbook, as bloated they usually are with butter, cream and cheese. After finding myself the mother of a child with severe food allergies, virtually all my cooking is now free of dairy, eggs, wheat, nuts and sesame.

April Bloomfield, cooking in pursuit of perfection
April Bloomfield harbors a deep fear that keeps her from joining the ranks of tattooed top chefs. But it's not the needles that bother her.

Nigel Slater's lamb with asparagus, and mussels with chorizo recipes
New season lamb and young asparagus tips combine brilliantly as a simple one-pot wonder for warmer days

Untraditional Mexican Fried Rice Recipe
"Traditional" Mexican rice is a staple in our household. However, by incorprating additional ingredients into it and by frying it a second time, I have created a nutritious, flavorful, colorful, simple yet multi-textured dish that I call "Untraditional Mexican Fried Rice."

Malaya Business Insight
FOR a number of homemakers, the month of June also means busy days ahead, especially when preparing tasty but healthy dishes for their school-bound kids.

True Brit: The Independent's Mark Hix celebrates a decade creating classic recipes
String up the bunting, bake a cake and marinate the herrings in cider (in the fridge, for about five days); Mark Hix, the man from the Jurassic Coast with a highly evolved taste for the foraged, the cured, the well-hung and – above all – the British, is celebrating 10 years as The Independent's resident chef. Appearing every week in these pages, the Dorset foodie has devised as many as 2,000 ...

Andy Bates Interview: pie-eyed about street food
Andy Bates, street food expert and pie guru, tells us about his love of pie, his new TV show, and his recipe for the ultimate Bedfordshire clanger

Bea Muoz: Magician in the open kitchen
I love surprises, so I try to develop new tastes with the simplest ingredients that will amaze my customers, says Beatriz Bea Muoz, chef/owner of Forque who cooks in the open kitchen of her European comfort food restaurant in Makati City . I (wouldnt) like it if people (visited) my restaurant because they (had) no choice on where they (could) dine; (I would rather that they came) because they ...

Serve sausages all day long
Did someone say sausages? Yummm. Readers share their favorite recipes using sausages for breakfast, lunch or dinner.