It’s easy enough to grab a tube of harissa from your grocer but homemade is better.

A transporting burger sauce to take you somewhere else.

A wickedly good cream cheese spread channeling the all-in bagel with fried onions, sesame and poppy seeds.

A dead-simple, moreish, nutty, crunchy breakfast spread.

A smoky ham & potato spread for the what may or may not be the last cold snap of winter.

A Vietnamese sauce for noodles, salad rolls, and pork burgers.

Zhug’s bewitching combination of chilli heat and aromatic spice is at home on so many things, you owe it to yourself to make a jar.

A gorgeous bittersweet orange & chocolate truffle spread to share, or not, on Christmas morning.

A sandwich relish inspired by a trip to an Istanbul deli.