ELIZABETH DAVID
BOEUF BOURGUIGNON
Eating meat is all about love
Good butchers are a rare breed. The profession requires love, dexterity and passion. You’ll hardly ever speak to a good one who doesn’t get misty-eyed about the beast he has butchered for your pleasure. Above all, you must love the thing you want to eat. Enough to slaughter, butcher and cook it. In London, the [...]
SUNDAY LAMB
A weekend roast lamb with anchovies
In 1980 Elizabeth David wrote a delightfully perverse and typically judicious article called 'The Besprinkling of a Rosemary Branch'. She finds it an overbearingly fragrant and frankly undeservedly ubiquitous herb.
SWEET CHESTNUT SOUP
Easy recipes with chestnuts
An October favourite for me is chestnuts. Something about their brave attempt to keep out intruders with those thick spiny shells but the inevitable fall makes the having more welcome. The smell and crack as they roast away in the oven or on a fire.
COMING BACK TO MY ROOTS
Different ways of using a horseradish root
An unexpected recent encounter was with a vast horseradish plant towering in a corner of the garden. It’s a delicious vegetable if used with caution.
DINING
ISLINGTON BARN
It struck me a while back when someone I know who lives in Islington said 'there's no-where to eat' in Upper St. So I walked along a couple of times and realise [...]
READING
COOKING WITHOUT RECIPES
Do you envy people who seem to be able to cook with effortless ease. Have you ever wanted to cook like your mother, bringing an endless variety of meals to the [...]
COOKING
LEMON CHICKEN WITH FENNEL
I reckon we get caught in a 'sunday' roast mentality - saving the sounds and sensations for the seventh day. But roasting up in the middle of a dreary week can [...]
EATING
THE DISHES I COOK
Quite often I am asked what sort of food I cook. After all how would you know what to expect from one of my pop-ups? It's the leap of faith presented by cooking [...]
CAMPAIGNS
FOODCYCLE
PipsDish is delighted to support the work of FoodCycle a social enterprise challenging the major issue [...]
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