All About Food | Cooking, Recipes and Ingredients Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded Lunch ideas for those hard at work in the office | The lunch box It can be difficult to focus amid the hubbub of office life and actually, you know, get things done. Whether it’s the incessant bleeping of those companywide emails warning about a mouse sighting or someone leaving their phone in the 5th floor loos, or the printer breaking, not getting distracted is quite hard. Unsurprising, then, that many people choose to come in early to get a headstart before it all kicks off. • If you have access to a microwave in your workplace then breakfast can be as easy as heating some eggs. • Obviously the easiest, most portable food to breakfast on is a piece of fruit, neatly prepackaged by nature. • Homemade granola adds a touch of class to desk breakfast proceedings, but the other advantage is that you can make gluten-free versions if you need to: mix 1-2 tbsp of honey and a little maple syrup into any combination of dried fruit, nuts and cereals you wish.
Our 10 best roast dinner centrepiece recipes | Roasts: A handbook The showstopper: Porchetta Buy the very best pork you can afford – ask your butcher to prepare you a boneless porchetta cut or a rectangular piece of pork belly and a loin. Fennel pollen is traditionally foraged, but expensive to buy. If you can’t find it, use ground fennel seeds instead. Serves 6-83-4kg porchetta joint1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed1 tsp dried chilli flakes2 tbsp rosemary, chopped2 garlic cloves, finely chopped1 tbsp fennel pollen or ground seedsSalt 1 Put the pork skin-side down on a clean work surface, season generously with salt, then massage the salt into the flesh with your fingertips. 2 Remove it from fridge at least 1 hour before roasting and preheat the oven to 160C/325F/gas mark 3. 3 Leave the meat to rest, uncovered, for at least 30 minutes before eating.Rachel Roddy, Five Quarters (Saltyard) The not nut roast: Chestnut and shallot tarte tatin Times have changed from the days when the only veggie option was a nut roast. 3 Heat oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6.