Recipes

Rich, warming, endlessly useful — and better the next day

A proper chilli con carne is not a quick-stir pasta sauce with beans. It is a slow-cooked braise of diced beef with a complex sauce built from dried chillies, toasted spices, and time. Using diced beef instead of mince gives it a heartier texture — chunks of fall-apart beef that hold their own against the bold sauce.

The recipe that turns a Tuesday into something worth coming home for

A good meatball is one of the great comfort foods — and it is entirely dependent on the quality of the mince you start with. Grass-fed beef mince has a depth and complexity that means you don't need a long list of additives to make a flavourful meatball. Let the beef do the talking, and build everything else around it.