Cooking & Lifestyle Blog

So now you know all those vitally important reasons as to why you should get some simple recipes under your belt – social prowess, health, thriftyness – it's time to get stuck into the actual cooking malarky! Which brings me to recipe number one of our top ten student recipe series, the ever-comforting, ever-satisfying British favourite... bangers and mash!

Learning to cook? Did I think it was absolutely necessary? No! Having recently emerged into the world of work from four years of writing essays in my pyjamas, delaying doing my laundry until I got down to that last pair of bikini bottoms, and dancing like a loon into the ungodly hours of the morning I will be the first to admit how easy it is succumb to the good old excuse of “I don’t have enough time or money” when your Mum raises that classically irritating question of whether you’ve been cooking healthily. But looking back from the other side as a supposedly well-educated 24 year old, I warn you without any hint of maternal nagging to act now before it is too late.