Occasional cooks: odds and ends

Here is your weekly thread to talk anything and everything food. 

Share what you're cooking this week, ask for tips or recipes for a dish, tell us about your meals out.

Via Good Food

This article claims it's going to explain why eating spicy food is good on a hot day, but it turns out the answer is "um... it makes you sweat?". I'm already sweating, I don't need hot food for that.

I know sauce on steak is a divisive question, but this anchovy sauce sounds really good.

Here's some Yotam Ottolenghi slow-cooker recipes for cold weather.

Via The Guardian

I feel like there'll be opinions on this - how the make the perfect Boston Baked Beans.