Impressive meals made easy.

There’s a problem with most recipes! And Sharpen the Knife is here to fix that.

Unfortunately most recipes are written by people passionate about the food, but not always so good at communicating how to recreate their dishes clearly, in a way that’s so easy to follow that it’s hard to go wrong.

Many recipes do not exactly set you up to win. Sometimes they seem inflexible on ingredients, often they’re not clear, they get sequencing wrong which wastes your time, they have too many instructions in each paragraph and you lose where you’re at, and frankly you have to do a lot of mental gymnastics under the pressure of a dish that’s beginning to burn….

So we’re here to fix all that.

They’ve been written by me, Mark, so that they teach my daughter, Ellie (in her teens) to learn to cook, and to produce meals of a high standard by simply doing the right things in the right ways, at the right times.

Ellie has tested the instructions by following them without my help! And we’ve gone back and improved them where required.

The goal is that they take out the room for error, all the mental gymnastics, and that you can follow them clearly, checking them off as you go, and have an increased chance of enjoyably turning out dishes of a surprisingly high standard. All stress free!