Eleanor Wilkinson on the joy of cooking for one, how one podcast changed her life and the dishes that have shaped her life

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Eleanor Wilkinson.

Eleanor is a content creator and recipe developer from East Yorkshire. Having always loved food and cooking she made the decision to quit her job in the charity sector and embark on turning her passion into a full time career.

She started her series, One Pot, One Portion - recipes for people who eat, cook, or live alone but are tired of washing up and was soon getting millions of views on social media and quickly amassed some 600,000 followers on Instagram. She has now released a cookbook of the same name and counts the one and only Nigella Lawson as a huge fan.

Nigella described the book as a “brilliant, beyond brilliant idea” and we know Nigella is never wrong.

Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.

Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com

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0:00.0	This season of Desert Island dishes is sponsored by Mould and Salt, the finest natural sea salt flakes handcrafted from the British coastline.
0:08.3	They are, quite frankly, the masters of salt, putting craft care and passion into everything they do.
0:14.7	You only have to read one of my recipes to know that I use Mold and Salt every single day for all of my cooking. To say I am a
0:22.9	fan is an understatement. So to be working with them this season is a dream come true. I'm often
0:29.0	asked about the secret to getting better at cooking and my answer is honestly always the same. It
0:34.4	comes down to seasoning and not just as an afterthought. You have to season at every stage
0:40.2	and that's why I love mould and salt. It's light and delicate due to the soft and crunchy pyramid-shaped
0:46.8	flakes and it's just the easiest way to take simple dishes to the next level. Trust me,
0:53.0	your cooking life will not be the same. Thank you very
0:56.2	much to Molden Salt. Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:05.8	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven desert island dishes. These range from
1:12.5	finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best dish they've ever
1:17.3	eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the desert
1:22.6	island. The question is, what would you choose as your last meal? Hi, how are you all?
1:28.7	I hope everyone is having a good week.
1:31.0	We have a lovely episode for you today with the brilliant Eleanor.
1:35.1	I feel so lucky that I get to do this podcast and to meet such amazing guests.
1:40.5	And it's really fun to talk to a range of different people, not only doing different
1:45.3	things, but also at a different place in their career. I think there are so many lessons to
1:50.8	be learned from every stage. Eleanor is definitely in the whirlwind and it was brilliant to
1:57.5	catch up with her and hear her thoughts on everything that's happened over the last year or so.
2:02.7	I really think this is just the beginning for her, and it's going to be very exciting to watch it all unfold.
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