Love to feed your friends but hate spending a fortune and working yourself to exhaustion? Here’s how the experts ramp up the flavour while dialling down the chaos
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ne of the great joys in life is enjoying good food with friends. It can taste all the better if you have cooked it yourself, but this isn’t something that comes naturally to everyone. What are the best tricks to pull off a meal – whether it’s for two or 20? Here, chefs share the simplest ways to wow at a dinner party.
“Rather than trying to impress people, it is actually the opposite that ultimately does impress,” says Rosie Kellett, who hosts supper clubs in London and is the author of In for Dinner.
“My advice is keep it really simple. Cook something that you know you’re going to nail and feeds the right amount of people. Go for the heavy-hitters that are solid gold in your repertoire.”
