Meals for One
TV chef James Martin explores home cooking. James devises replacements for ready meals for one, including a Thai crab risotto and steak and chips with bearnaise sauce.
James devises perfect recipes to replace those ready meals for one. On the menu is a Thai crab risotto, and an easy-cook steak and chips with homemade bearnaise sauce. Historian Ivan Day recreates kippered salmon, a dish popular with single scholars who relied on quick and easy meals in their university lodgings. And cake maker Serena Whitefield explains how her love of making healthy flourless cakes has grown into a flourishing business.
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French onion soup with Gruyère croûtons
Duration: 06:35
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Thai crab risotto with lemongrass and kaffir lime
Duration: 07:14
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Yorkshire wagyu fillet steak with fries and béarnaise sauce
Duration: 06:49
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Chocolate and caramel salted banoffee cheesecake
Duration: 04:02
Music Played
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Biffy Clyro
Biblical
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Lucy Rose
All I've got
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Half Moon Run
Call me in the afternoon
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Eliza
Go Home
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Biffy Clyro
Pocket
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Deee‐Lite
Groove Is In The Heart
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Peaches & Herb
Shake Your Groove Thing
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Eileen Barton
If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake
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Madonna
Into the Groove
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Biffy Clyro
Black Chandelier
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Biffy Clyro
Biblical
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Lucy Rose
All I've Got
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Eliza
Go Home
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Deee‐Lite
Groove Is In The Heart
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Peaches & Herb
Shake Your Groove Thing
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Eileen Barton With The New Yorkers
If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake
Food producers
- Keith Birkett from Selsey Shellfish Direct, Middleton-on-sea
- Serena Whitefield from Pearl and Groove, London
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | James Martin |
| Executive Producer | Karen Plumb |
| Series Producer | Rosemary Edwards |
| Director | David Robertson |
| Participant | Ivan Day |
| Participant | Serena Whitefield |
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