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Here are 7 ways to save a dinner that's gone wrong. Honestly, most of it is way more fixable than you think.

1️⃣ Too salty is the classic one, and don't add more salt trying to balance it. Drop in a couple of chunks of raw potato and let it simmer, it pulls some of the salt out. Or just bulk it up with more liquid and veg.

2️⃣ Too spicy and you'll want fat to calm it down. Stir in some cream, yoghurt, coconut milk or a k**b of butter and it's manageable again. A bit of sweetness helps too, and rice on the side carries the heat.

3️⃣ Tastes flat and boring, and you keep adding salt but it's not helping? It's almost always acid it needs, not salt. A squeeze of lemon or a splash of vinegar and the whole thing just wakes right up.

4️⃣ Burnt the bottom, so stop stirring the second you smell it, because that's what drags the burnt taste through everything. Gently lift the good bit off the top into a clean pan and leave the burnt layer behind.

5️⃣ Dry, overcooked meat is basically always saveable. you just slice it thin and drown it in something. A sauce, a gravy, a dressing, whatever. Dry chicken becomes a curry or a sandwich filling and nobody's any the wiser.

6️⃣ Sauce too watery, so just let it simmer uncovered for a bit and it'll thicken as it reduces. If you're in a rush, stir in a teaspoon of cornflour mixed with a little cold water and that sorts it fast.

7️⃣ Genuinely beyond saving, so stop trying to rescue it and turn it into something else. Wrap it in a tortilla, pile it over rice, add an egg, cover it in cheese and bake it. Some of the best meals start as mistakes.

That's the thing with cooking though, it goes sideways for everyone, even people who really know what they're doing. Save this for the next time it all goes wrong. 🤍

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When you want something good but don't want to try that hard. So here are a few recipes that use stuff you've probably already got 😋

• Chocolate Peanut Butter Baked Oats- dessert for breakfast, basically. Chocolatey baked oats with a gooey peanut butter middle. ( )

• Street Corn Soup- it's corn blended down till it's smooth and creamy, with lime and a bit of chilli. Tastes like it took ages, takes about 30 minutes. (.dietitians.dinner )

• Harissa Beans on Toast with Eggs- basically beans on toast but actually good. Spicy tomatoey beans on sourdough with an egg on top, done in under 15. ( )

• Peri Peri Corn Salad- corn and capsicum tossed with lemon and peri peri, ready in 15. Nice warm, nice cold, works either way. ( )

• Milo Mug Cake- for when it's 10pm and you need something sweet. Chocolatey mug cake with Milo frosting. Literally takes 5 mins.

Comment "RECIPE" and we'll send you the links to all five.

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The part that stayed with me wasn't the question. It was how normal he thought it was to ask it.

Nobody asks my husband who'll run things when we have kids. They ask me. Like ambition comes with an asterisk if you're a woman, like somewhere down the line I'll be the one who has to choose and he won't.

And most women don't have someone stepping in at that exact moment. Usually there's no one to say it for you. You just sit there holding an assumption you never agreed to.
In our house, running a company and raising a family were never a his-job and a her-job. They're just ours.

I didn't have the words in that room. So I'm saying it now: if you've been asked some version of this, you were never the one who needed to explain. They were.

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Meet Adora, the world's first AI cooking assistant that refuses to write you a recipe 🤯

Sounds backwards, we know. But that's the whole point.

Every other AI just makes a recipe up on the spot, no person behind it, never actually tested, no story to it. Adora does the opposite.

She finds you real recipes made by real people, and helps you actually cook them.
Tell her what's in your fridge and she'll find something you can make right now. Tell her you want something quick, or spicy, or comforting, and she'll match it. Stuck halfway through cooking? She's right there.

She'll do pretty much anything in the kitchen. She just won't fake a recipe, because the good ones already exist, made by people who spent years getting them right.

That's Adora.

Try her on chefadora.com
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Garlic cooks really fast, and once it goes past golden it starts to taste bitter. That bitter taste can throw off the whole dish, even if everything else is perfect 😵

Here's where most people go wrong. They add the garlic at the same time as the onions, right at the start. But onions take a good few minutes to soften, and in that time the garlic just sits there burning. By the time the onions are ready, the garlic's already gone bitter.

The fix is simple. Cook your onions on their own first. Once they've softened up, then add your garlic, and only let it cook for about a minute. You'll know it's ready the moment you can smell it. That smell is the sign, not the colour.

One more thing. If your pan's really hot, lift it off the heat for a few seconds when the garlic goes in, so it doesn't catch and burn.

Do this and you get all that lovely garlic flavour, none of the bitterness😋
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We asked a few of our creators what they'd tell their younger selves in the kitchen. Here's what they said 👇

- Season and taste as you go, because if you wait till the very end you'll only find out then that it needed more salt. And tasting the whole way through is how you actually learn what a dish needs, whether that's more salt or a bit of acid or a little sweetness to balance it out 😋

- Get everything out before you start cooking, all your ingredients and your utensils. Because the whole thing feels so much calmer when you're not running around looking for stuff halfway through, and it makes the cleaning up so much easier too😉
dietitians.dinner - Pick a recipe with ten ingredients or less and measure everything out before you even turn the stove on. Once it's a simple recipe and it's all ready to go, cooking suddenly stops feeling like this big stressful thing 🫩
calendar - Get your basics right first, so learn how heat works and get to know your seasonings and have a picture in your head of what you're making. It also really helps if you actually want to cook, because if you're being forced into it you'll hate every second and nothing about it will feel worth it 😵

Save this for the next time you're in the kitchen, and tell us in the comments, what's one thing you wish you knew when you started cooking?

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A few Oreo recipes even Ava's mom would approve of. We think 🫣

• Oreo Baked Oats ( ) - dessert pretending to be breakfast. Chocolatey baked oats with crushed Oreo through it and a gooey chocolate middle. Basically breakfast, so she can't say anything.

• Oreo Tiramisu ( ) - Oreos soaked soft and layered with a creamy yoghurt mix and a cocoa top. Looks fancy, takes 15 minutes.

• Oreo Brownie Cookie Bar ( ) - cookie dough on the bottom, a full layer of Oreos in the middle, brownie on top, fudge over everything. Okay, this one she might have questions about.

• High Protein Oreos ( ) - creamy Greek yoghurt, crushed Oreo, chocolate ganache on top. Actual protein in there, so genuinely Michelle-approved.

• High Protein Oreo Chocolate Cake ( ) - a warm little chocolate cake with a melty middle and an Oreo on top, with enough protein that it counts as sensible. Sort of.

Comment "OREO" and we'll send you all five recipes 🍪
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