‘Easy cooking’, like ‘simple cooking’, depends again on what kind of cook you are. One person’s idea of easy is different to the next. Making your own bread, for example, is either something you grew up doing or, on the other hand, have never even contemplated. Pastries, ice cream, labneh, custard: they’re all the same. Sometimes it can be the simplest things that can floor one: getting couscous or rice perfectly fluffy or an egg perfectly boiled. The ‘E’ recipes here will all show you how much easier dishes can be than you think.