Simple Homemade Recipes

If you've been putting off making lentil soup because you can't be bothered with dried lentils, this is the version for you. Tinned lentils cut the whole thing down to about 25 minutes and the result is genuinely good. Here's exactly how to do it.

If you've ever bought a box of fancy chocolates and thought "I could probably make these myself," you're likely right. This post walks through a proper vegetarian chocolate recipe from scratch, including the ganache, the shells, and a few variations worth trying. No tempering machine required.

This fresh garden sleepy tea has become one of my favourite evening rituals. Made with chamomile, lemon balm, mint and calendula, it's simple, comforting and a lovely excuse to slow down after a busy day in the garden.

By late July the garden is practically throwing food at you. Courgettes the size of cricket bats, more tomatoes than you can eat fresh, and berries and currants that'll go off before the week's out. Here's how to deal with all of it before it ends up in the compost.

Piccalilli has a reputation for being fiddly, but it really isn't. You need a bit of patience with the salting step, and after that it comes together quickly. This is a straightforward recipe you can make in an afternoon.

That's usually when this homemade tomato soup recipe finds its way onto the hob. It's one of those recipes that doesn't need much. Just ripe tomatoes, a few everyday vegetables and a little time to let everything soften together.

Make this easy homemade barbecue sauce recipe with brown sugar in a food processor using simple cupboard ingredients. Thick, smoky and ready in minutes.

Learn how to make creamy homemade mayonnaise in just a few minutes using vegetable oil and a food processor. A simple recipe with everyday ingredients and food safety tips.

There's something incredibly satisfying about pulling a tray of freshly baked bread rolls from the oven.

Make soft and chewy banana chocolate chip cookies using bruised bananas, light brown sugar, and simple pantry ingredients. An easy homemade recipe that makes 10 delicious cookies.

My favourite courgette, potato and cheddar soup made entirely in the soup maker. No flour, naturally thickened, and blended silky smooth in about 25 minutes.

But recently I've been trying to make more things from scratch in our little cottage kitchen, and when I discovered you could make homemade ketchup from a simple carton of passata, I had to give it a try.

For years my breakfast was a cup of tea and whatever I could grab on the way out the door. Smoothies were meant to fix that and didn't, until I worked out the bit I'd been getting wrong. Here are the six high protein breakfast smoothies I make on repeat, all under five minutes and most of them from stuff you've already got in.

This dandelion honey recipe is one of those things that sounds like it shouldn't work and then absolutely does. Technically it's a floral syrup rather than true honey — no bees are involved, no hive. It's a reduction. Petals, water, lemon, sugar. You simmer it, strain it, simmer it again, and what comes out is golden, floral, and genuinely close enough to the real thing that it earns the name.

Every summer drink recipes list is the same five drinks. Lemonade. Iced tea. A mojito. Something with watermelon. A sangria that's mostly just wine with fruit drowning in it. They're fine. They're not exciting. And you've made all of them before, probably last summer, possibly while reading a list exactly like this one.

Butter pie is one of those proper old-school comfort foods that's been quietly feeding families for generations and somehow never made it into the same conversation as cottage pie or steak and ale.

Crispy Courgette Crisps in the Air Fryer. Once you've made these, the soggy disappointment that is most homemade courgette fries will never look the same. These come out properly crisp.

This is not a meal that sits in your stomach for the rest of the afternoon, leaving you regretting it. It’s definitely something that goes down easily and makes you feel a bit more like yourself afterward.

Looking for vegetarian BBQ ideas that’ll impress everyone at your summer cookout? Here are 8 smoky, sizzling, and seriously satisfying meat-free recipes—so good even the carnivores will be reaching for seconds.

The bright blue drinks aesthetic. The kind of thing that feels more Instagram than something you'd actually like to drink.