THE SMALL WINS RECIPE INDEX

All the recipes (and cooking concepts), organised

Welcome to the Small Wins Recipe Index!

Below you’ll find every recipe and cooking concept from Small Wins organised by category and in rough order of when they were posted. I’ve also included relevant dietary considerations in brackets.

I’ll try to keep this updated as I go — really hope it’s helpful!

P.S. Items with an asterisk sit behind a paywall.

P.S.S. Another way you could navigate this: by viewing it in your web browser, pressing CTRL + F on your keyboard and searching the page for a particular term or ingredient (e.g. “courgettes”).

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BY POPULARITY (THE TOP 10!)

1. The art of following a recipe*

2. The salad dressing that my friends go wild for (gf, df, vg)

3. My favourite brownies, ever

4. The best chocolate sauce happens to be vegan (gf, df, vg)

5. How to enjoy your own dinner party

6. Everything you need to know about cooking savoury eggs*

7. A guide to the Victoria Sponge*

8. All the best pancake recipes in one place*

9. The best roast potatoes (gf + easily made vg)

10. The cheapest way to improve your gut health (it’s sauerkraut!) (gf vg)

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BY COOKING CONCEPT / TECHNIQUE

• The value of time in the kitchen

• Understanding umami

• The salted caramel effect

• Maceration

• The powerful combination of acidity + sweetness (gastrique)

• The merits of steam

• The smoke points of different fats

• Confit technique (the simplest slow cook!)

• Air as an ingredient in baking

• Three ways to upgrade a cake

• How to achieve crispiness

• Ratios: the backbone of baking

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RECIPES BY CATEGORY

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MEAT, FISH & EGGS

• Duck confit (gf)

• Perfect boiled eggs*

• How to poach an egg (foolproof method!) (gf, df)*

• Mayonnaise that works every time (gf, df)*

• 15-second mayo (gf, df)*

• Cod saltimbocca

• Tuna confit (gf)*

• Saint Lucian saltfish fritters (accra)*

VEGETARIAN

• Roasted ratatouille (df, gf, vg)

• No-knead pizza dough (best and easiest) (vg)

• Spicy avocado crema (df, gf, vg)

• Simplest tomato sauce (gf, easily vg)

• Baked rice (foolproof method) (gf, easily vg)

• Best roast potatoes (gf + easily made vg)

• Shallot vinaigrette (gf, df, vg)

• Sauerkraut (the cheapest way to improve your gut health) (gf, df, vg)

• French buckwheat galettes (gf)

• 2-ingredient yoghurt flatbreads (v)

• Crispy smashed potatoes (gf, df, vg)

• Slow-cooked courgettes (very versatile) (gf, df, vg)

BAKING & DESSERTS

• Base panna cotta recipe (gf)

• Liquorice panna cotta with blackcurrants (from MasterChef) (gf)

• Bittersweet cocoa granita (gf, df, vg)

• Green apple + yuzu granita (gf, df, vg)

• Calippo granita (gf, df, vg)

• Salted cucumber + mint granita (gf, df, vg)

• Brown butter banana bread

• Vegan chocolate sauce (gf, df, vg)

• Blood orange, olive oil + vanilla cake (df)

• Quick rhubarb “jam” (gf, df, vg)

• Malted crèpes with lime and sugar*

• Saskia Sidey’s poffertjes*

• Favourite American-style pancakes (barely sweet)*

• Apple Dutch baby (best pancake for feeding a crowd!)*

• Best classic tiramisu

• Victoria Sponge (deep-dive)*

• Caramelised white chocolate (1 ingredient!)*

• Brown sugar, blonde chocolate & raspberry Victoria Sponge*

• Saskia Sidey’s fudgy malted brownies

• Flaky pastry (aka pie dough, aka pâte brisée)

• Strawberry + sumac tart

DRINKS

• Saint Lucian cocoa tea (the best hot choc in the world!) (gf, easily df, easily vg)

• Cranberry fizz (for Christmas) (gf, df, vg)

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ALL THE DEEP-DIVES IN ONE PLACE

Photo by Stella Ribeiro on Unsplash

• How to make jam*

• How to organise your kitchen*

• Everything you need to know about cooking pasta*

• Everything you need to know about cooking chicken*

• Everything you need to know about potatoes*

• A Christmas dinner menu*

• A guide to vegetarian cooking*

• A guide to date night cooking*

• All the best pancake recipes in one place*

• Everything you need to know about cooking eggs (savoury edition)*

• A guide to the Victoria Sponge*

• Everything you need to know about cooking fish*

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THE REST

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TRAVEL & DINING EXPERIENCES

• Cooking for the one you love*

• My TopJaw recommendations*

• A postcard from Norway*

• How to enjoy your own dinner party*

• Cocoa production in Saint Lucia

• Coming soon: A postcard from Marseilles*

MISCELLANEOUS

• How to navigate Substack

• The actually-helpful Christmas gift guide (2024)

• A good night’s sleep