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Weeknight Rescue

Dinner, sorted. Even on a Tuesday.

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Quick weeknight dinners and easy dinner recipes for when time, energy and the fridge are all running low.

Illustration: a karahi of chicken jalfrezi seen from above, charred chicken, peppers, onion and green chillies in a glossy sauce, next to a 30-minute kitchen timer, a bowl of basmati, garlic and a red onion.

Weeknight Rescue

A 30-minute chicken jalfrezi, with a timing plan that actually works

Hot pan, chunky peppers, charred onion, green chillies and a sauce that clings. The trick isn't a secret ingredient. It's doing things in the right order so the rice, the chicken and the sauce all land at once.

By S · 10 min read · 7 October 2026

Illustration: a sourdough tuna sandwich cut on the diagonal, its filling of tuna, sweetcorn, peri-peri mayo, spring onion and red onion on show, with crisps, lemon and a dish of peri-peri mayo.

Weeknight Rescue

The ultimate tuna sandwich, on sourdough with peri-peri mayo

Tuna, sweetcorn and a spoonful of peri-peri mayo, piled onto proper sourdough with a crunch of spring onion and a squeeze of lemon. Ten minutes, one bowl, and lunch stops being sad.

By S · 8 min read · 25 September 2026

Weeknight Rescue

Five dinners from a nearly empty cupboard

Tins, a bag of rice, half an onion and some optimism. The five dinners T makes when the fridge has given up and nobody wants to go back out in the rain.

By T · 10 min read · 11 September 2026

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