American recipes

Big, direct food built for a table rather than a plate. Burgers, chilli, bakes, cookies and the sort of thing that gets made when people are coming over.

Most of it is forgiving. Quantities are loose, timings are wide, and very little of it collapses if you are ten minutes late to the pan, which makes it a reasonable place to cook while doing something else.

The baking here is worth more attention than the dinners. American cookies and traybakes travel well, keep for days, and are the easiest thing on this site to hand to somebody.