SUNDAY LUNCH
PHEASANT WITH BREAD SAUCE
The season for pot roasted pheasant
I suppose one of the main influences that inspired me to write Cooking without Recipes was the seemingly natural instinct my mother had in the kitchen, as she moved effortlessly around her Aga, her sleeves rolled up, barking orders to a young boy standing on a stool, to wash dishes or peel vegetables. Sometimes I [...]
CHILLI CON CARNE
It’s such a seventies dish, popping up at every dinner party before anyone could cook, accompanied by garlic bread and grated cheese. Well we’ve moved on apace since those days of culinary dreariness and this version is a wholly more exciting affair. Best of all it uses up all that leftover beef from the Sunday [...]
ROAST LAMB MOUSSAKA
An easy recipe for leftover lamb
There's not much better to do with the remains of a Sunday roast lamb than to mince it up for a moussaka. The cooled lamb fat recooked into the shivering slices of aubergine melting with the mountain flavours of thyme and sage recalls the best of Greek home cooking.
SPICED SUNDAY CHICKEN
One of the best ways to induce flavour into a chicken is to get under its skin. By that I mean, just gently (using your fingers of course) easing the skin away from the flesh. This method is great for putting herbs or even wafer thin slices of lemon (see Midweek Chicken with Lemon and Fennel). [...]
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.
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
MARMALADE, BAKED HAM, DUCK CONFIT
Something about January marks the midset of winter. Cold. Wet. Miserable. Looking forward now to that wonderful March day when the light evenings return. But in [...]
EATING
THE DISHES WE COOK
Quite often I am asked what sort of food my kitchen partner, Mary and I cook at PipsDish. After all how would you know what to expect from one of my pop-ups? It [...]
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KITCHEN TABLE PROJECT
For me, an integral part of business is to find ways to ensure that the community we work in somehow benefits from our success. This is not some sort of pious a [...]
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