The Recipes I’d Cook to Win Someone’s Heart

These are my recipes. The ones I make time and time again, no matter what mood I’m in, and the ones I’d absolutely cook for my future husband when I’m trying to convince him that marrying me is an excellent idea. If you want to know what I genuinely love eating and cooking when nobody is asking me to develop a recipe, start here.

These are also the recipes that have me dancing around the kitchen with Spotify blaring while I cook. Usually with Lulu somewhere nearby, waiting for his opportunity to inspect whatever I’m making. He insists on sniffing practically everything that comes out of my kitchen, especially the vegetables. I’ve genuinely never known a cat so interested in green things.

Some recipes become favourites immediately. Others quietly earn their place because I find myself making them again and again until I realise they’ve become part of how I cook. My Paprika Chicken with a Creamy Sauce is here, naturally, along with my Venison and Feta Salad and my copycat version of Leggo’s Tomato, Chilli and Olive Pasta Sauce. They’re completely different dishes, but they all have that little something that makes me genuinely excited to eat them again.

This collection will keep growing as I cook, experiment and inevitably become completely obsessed with something new. I’m not including recipes here simply because they’re popular or because they photograph beautifully. They have to earn their spot by becoming something I genuinely want to cook for myself.

These are the recipes I truly, devoutly and wholeheartedly love. The food that makes me happy, the food I want to share with people I love, and the dishes that feel most like my cooking.

If you’re wondering where to start with Cooking with Bry, I’d start here.