Elder & Ash
A small home cooking website
Recipes for slow weekends, and a handful of one-pot dinners for the rest of the time. Everything here gets cooked again — nothing’s a one-shot. Hover over the print button on any recipe page for a clean printout that fits one sheet.
Everyday dal
A weeknight dal that hides in plain sight on the meal rotation. One pot, no soaking, ready in under an hour.
Same-day focaccia
Soft, dimpled, olive-oil-flushed focaccia. Ready in an afternoon — no starter, no overnight.
Tarte tatin
Caramelised apples baked under a butter-pastry lid, flipped at the table. Less fragile than it sounds.
Sourdough loaf
A reliable everyday loaf — 25 % whole wheat, 70 % hydration. Two-day timeline; most of it is the dough resting unattended.
Slow ragù
The Sunday-afternoon ragù. Brown the meat hard, build flavour with soffritto, then walk away for three hours.
Brown-butter chocolate chunk cookies
Toasty, salty, with crackled tops and gooey centres. The brown-butter step is the whole point.