Many of our recipes also call for a glug of oil, often when heating oil in a pan or lightly dressing vegetables before roasting. We don’t expect you to pull out a measuring spoon every time you go to cook (but if you want to, that’s ok!) so we estimate a glug is about 2 tablespoons worth of oil.

A pinch of salt is a generous three fingered pinch, and equates to about ⅛ of a teaspoon of kosher or sea salt.

Zest is the outer layer of a citrus fruit, before you get to the white part (called the pith) and the inner flesh. Citrus zest is packed with flavor and aromatic compounds, so we almost always use it along with the juice to add zing and pep to our recipes. A special tool called a zester or microplane is best for getting just the outer layer, since the pith can be a bit bitter.