Food & Cooking

Confident kitchen techniques and safer ways to store ingredients. Browse 9 carefully prepared how-to guides.

Crisp roasted chickpeas are easy to make, but they turn soft when too much surface moisture goes into the oven with them…

Roasting turns sharp raw garlic into soft, sweet cloves that can be squeezed straight from the bulb and spread onto brea…

Roasting hazelnuts deepens their flavour, makes them crunchier and loosens much of the papery brown skin. You can roast…

Potatoes last longest when they are kept away from light, heat and excess moisture. A cool, dark, dry place works well,…

Tomatoes are unusual because the best storage place changes as they ripen. An underripe tomato benefits from room temper…

Rice is easy to reheat, but it needs more care than many leftovers because the food-safety risk is mainly created before…

The easiest way to get the boiled egg you actually want is to use the same starting method every time. Drop a large hen'…

A bunch of bananas can move from just ripe to heavily spotted in what seems like a day. Freezing is a useful way to stop…

For a simple British-style pancake, you only need plain flour, eggs, milk and a little oil. The batter should be thin en…