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Comfort food

March 2024

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's egg drop udon with seaweed furikake.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    Egg-drop udon and Persian noodle soup: Yotam Ottolenghi’s comfort food bowls – recipes

    Egg-drop soup with thick udon noodles and savoury Japanese sprinkles, and a thick and wholesome Iranian-style ‘minestrone’

29 January 2024

  • Truffled leek rarebit

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Truffled leek rarebit recipe by Lucy Cuthbert and Betty Cuthbert

  • Prawn toast

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Nigel Slater’s prawn toast recipe

  • Miso brown butter scrambled eggs

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Recipe for miso brown butter scrambled eggs by Sophie Godwin

  • Bruschetta of lentils, balsamic cream and salami.

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Bruschetta of lentils, balsamic cream and salami recipe by Paul Flynn

  • Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Broken beans recipe by Amy Newsome

  • Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Lamb tartare with pickled cucumbers and amba recipe by Oded Oren

December 2023

  • Experts are saying ‘smashed peas’ are a lower cost and more environmentally friendly alternative to avocado on toast.

    Peas on toast trump smashed avocados as UK cost of living bites, says Waitrose

    Britons return to comfort food like fish and chips, chicken kyiv and macaroni cheese as food prices rise at fastest rate since 1970s

October 2023

  • Tamal Ray's go-to snack is this tuna melt.

    Comfort classic: Tamal Ray’s recipe for an easy tuna melt

  • Rachel Roddy's chip omelette.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for cheese and chip omelette

30 September 2023

  • John Whaite's frozen Haribo snack – AKA the teddy bear's guilty pleasure picnic.

    John Whaite’s gummy bears’ picnic – recipe

  • Tom Kerridge's cheese and branston pickle toastie with a glass of beer.

    Tom Kerridge’s recipe for his favourite cheese toastie

  • Meera Sodha's leftover rice congee.

    The new vegan
    Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for leftover rice congee

  • Chaya Pugh's curried fried chicken with sweet mango pickle and celeriac slaw.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    From fried chicken to spicy dip: Yotam Ottolenghi’s comfort food recipes

29 September 2023

  • Male hands pouring espresso martini cocktail into glass... whats your secret tipple?

    Fiona Beckett on drinks
    Baileys, egg nog, cream sherry: which drink’s your old favourite?

    Many of us have a drink – alcoholic or not – that stirs the memory or the simple comfort of familiarity
  • Ravneet Gill's chocolate fudge cake with custard.

    The sweet spot
    Ravneet Gill’s recipe for chocolate fudge cake with custard

    This fudge cake luxuriates in its own sauce as it bakes, and then gets doused again with hot custard
  • Grace Dent at Wagamama's in Westfield Stratford City: ‘Come as you are, come dishevelled, hungover, heartbroken, alone or with a rabble ... My order rarely deviates and my love never dwindles.’

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    ‘A moment of dependable zen on a helter-skelter day’: Grace Dent on the joy of chain restaurants

    They may never dazzle, but your favourite fast food chain never really burns its bridges
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