30 recipes you should master by the age of 30 These classics will help you grow confident in the kitchen and build a repertoire of fail-safe favourites With these recipes under your belt, you'll never have to reach for a readymeal Credit: Shutterstock Beans on toast and ready meals may be a staple of student cooking, but if by your mid-twenties you still haven't progressed from the simple (lets face it, often terrible) meals that were whipped up in halls, then it's time to refresh your culinary repertoire. "Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. It's about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat," says Nigella Lawson in