...l upgrade the summer house at the back.
You’re having people over for dinner: what do you cook?
It’ll either be a British or Jamaican classic – we both love the food we grew up with. When we have people round in the evening we don’t want to be slaving in the kitchen making something comp...
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...always on hand. From parsley to cilantro, fresh herbs can make an everyday dinner feel like a five-star meal. But buying herbs at the grocery can leave you with way more than you needed and backyard gardens limit your pestos to the summer months.
For fresh herbs all year round, you’ll need to b...
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...se of it – you don’t feel the need when you can come back here and eat dinner outside.”
Fergus: “We both go to our restaurants every day. I take a taxi though, normally to St. John Bread and Wine for lunch.
Margot: “He’s above ground!
Fergus: “I find the world of the Undergrou...
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...ared table outside and we all cook for each other. On Sundays, we all have dinner together – we’ll just lay the table and whoever comes, comes. It’s very sweet.
“At the weekends I can just shut the door and cook endlessly. With so many emails, phone calls and meetings during the week for ...
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...s just a thought; I have what I need.
You’re having people over for dinner: what do you cook?
Endless possibilities…
My love
language is definitely food and I’m very extra with it. I have multiple paella
pans, multiple tajine pots and I could go on. I love making foods from all ove...
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...s in there by Gabriel Hartley. I have a rule of always giving at least one dinner a week, as I love to cook. I can fit about 17 people in for dinner because of the two dining tables.“I’ve had various friends, actors and actresses come and live here over the years. We’re such a transient bunch,...
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...eppe Nobels’ chicory tarte tatin.
But there’s more to a successful dinner – or lunch, or brunch, even – than what you put on the table. Ingredients for a good time extend to what you choose to fill your guests’ glasses with, your ability to put people at ease and, above all, making s...
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...my partner, which creates a really warm atmosphere. It’s a couple having dinner and there’s a big plume of smoke above them – you don’t really know what they’re doing but it’s so inviting.“Even before the pandemic I spent a lot of time at home, entertaining, having friends over for tea...
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...just that: an extended balcony with enough room to accommodate an alfresco dinner. The lack of lawns or trees doesn’t come at the expense of a connection to nature, however. The enviable prospect of the flat has uninterrupted views over the greenery of St. Luke’s Park, while the terrace is lined...
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...g a time when he was having trouble finding his people, he took to hosting dinner parties in his home, building the kind of environment that he couldn’t find. “In the transition of my home becoming more comfortable,” he says, “I would welcome people into my home and have these dinners, meeti...
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...
What do you eat at home?
“Last night we had sausages and mash for dinner, using pretty ordinary sausages. If I served that here at Rochelle Canteen, I’d make sure they were really great sausages, either made by us or sourced from a good supplier.
“I cook a lot of Asian food at home. ...
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...k with a few too many drunken tourists in hair braids. If you do go, enjoy dinner or lunch at the Fire Restaurant at W Hotel Bali or Sarong Restaurant or Metis Restaurant and experience the incredible massage services at Jari Menari the home base of many of the massage therapists that work at the re...
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...“Upstairs has a bit more formality to it. If we have drinks upstairs and dinner downstairs, everyone sits in the living room not knowing what to do. You have to sit people down at a table – it doesn’t work otherwise.”
“Because we’re such big eaters, the open-plan flat was fantastic be...
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...s a big eating
out culture.
“When I was growing up, it
wasn’t just dinner that was important, we would spend time eating breakfast
together as a family too. But, back then, I didn’t think about it too much
because it was so ingrained.
“I started thinking about
food more when I moved ...
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...hem all on again.”
,Monica: “Only when we have friends over for dinner
,and we can’t see what we’re eating!”
,Simon: “Yes, well, good lighting is essential,
,externally and internally. And the thing is, it’s not actually that difficult
,to achieve and it doesn’t ha...
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...e the time to cook for their families. As a family, we have always enjoyed dinner together as it’s a really good time to share our day and talk about things.
I have always used cooking at home as a kind of therapy. I think we can all do with slowing our thoughts down a bit at the moment. I feel...
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...and for The Store, which I walk to, and then in the evenings we tend to do dinners here. The thing is, when you live in Soho, no one finds it hard to pop in because it’s so central.
“I’ve never been a very private person. I have very personal things, but my home has always been a space wher...
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... it feels like a jungle.”
Marie: “We love inviting friends to have dinner or inviting colleagues for a drink after work on our terrace. Were really using all of our outdoor spaces and making the most of them. We feel so privileged to have them and when you’re up there, it doesn’t feel li...
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...’s been nice to have a place I can host them for, well, I wouldn’t say dinners because I’m not a very good cook, but snack dinners, as I call them.
“It’s just nice to have a
space you feel ownership over, and my housemate, photographer Jeff Hahn, is a
dream to live with – he’s so a...
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...les homes today. Hosts can talk to their friends whilst they are preparing dinner (which, actually, is not always welcomed due to the level of concentration I require to not burn a chicken!). We have purposely not installed a TV in the main living space. Conversation, laughter, dancing and Sunday pa...
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...o light a barbecue is a good compromise.
“People hate inviting me for dinner – I feel really sorry for them. But, if I went to someones house and they cooked me beans on toast, Id be happy. Its a lovely thing to cook for someone, and to be fed. Although I know it causes a lot of stress theres...
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...ay nights, when we all went over, we would have to take it in turns on the dinner table.
“There were always big trays of lamb chops with mint sauce. On Sundays we would have a big Jewish feast. We weren’t religious, but my grandfather was Jewish, and he’d go to delis in north London and Ste...
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... dining table
you could fit ten people around.
“We
have had a lot of dinner parties but now we do more brunches because it’s
easier with the baby. Over the years we’ve had a few parties or larger
gatherings and Christmases too, which seem to work pretty well. I think the
openness of the sp...
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... the idea of having a separate kitchen you can throw everything into after dinner and then close off.
“People put so much emphasis on open-plan everything but, actually, utility rooms, cupboards and spaces you can shut off are really functional and nice to have; people have forgotten that.
...
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...can spend the whole day reading books, doing yoga by the waterfall, having dinner by the campfire, and not get bored from the monotony of the surroundings.There is an opinion that water makes us happier. And it's true, ponds always attract the eye, relax with their sounds and ad...
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