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Real food from a very small kitchen

Recipes I actually cook on weeknights — honest timings, quantities for two, and no life stories before the ingredients.

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A weeknight laksa that doesn't take all evening
NoodlesOctober 22, 2026 · 6 min

A weeknight laksa that doesn't take all evening

Good shop-bought paste, a few fresh things, thirty minutes. Fry two tablespoons of paste with a crushed stalk of lemongrass for two minutes, add 400 ml of coconut milk and the same of stock, and simmer for ten…

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Shortcut ramen I'm not ashamed of
NoodlesSeptember 30, 2026

Shortcut ramen I'm not ashamed of

Chicken stock, miso, a jammy egg and twenty minutes.

One-pot tomato rice
RiceSeptember 8, 2026

One-pot tomato rice

The dinner I make when the fridge is empty.

Miso salmon with almost no effort
FishJuly 2, 2026

Miso salmon with almost no effort

Three ingredients in the glaze, ten minutes under the grill.

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Noodles

Noodles

Bowls for cold evenings
Rice

Rice

One-pot and fried
Fish

Fish

Quick and oven-baked
Salads

Salads

For hot days
Lena Ortiz
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I'm Lena.

I cook in a kitchen the size of a wardrobe, with two burners and one good knife. Everything here is something I make at least once a month.

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The summer salad I make twice a week

The summer salad I make twice a week

May 15, 2026