RECIPES

Headed by Alex Elliott-Howery, the Cornersmith Kitchens bring traditional food knowledge and skills to modern cooks. With a focus on preserving, salads and good home cooking, you'll find recipes that nourish, reduce food waste and help you love being in the kitchen.

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An end of season pickling recipe for gardeners
Our gardens are heaving with too many cucumbers and green tomatoes that aren't ripening. It is often at the end of the season when we get busy in the pickling kitchen. This...
- pickles
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sustainable
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Kvass: or soda from stale rye bread
Soda made from stale bread? Yes please, I'll have another glass says everyone in Eastern Europe. Kvass is a traditional beverage that Jaimee's Russian grandmother used to m...
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Roasted Mushroom Broth and Mushroom Dumplings
Earthy and nutty, mushrooms are the flavour of Autumn. We wait all year for their arrival and then celebrate with a whole lot of cooking and preserving.This recipe shows yo...
- Autumn
- Recipe
- Reducing waste
- seasonal
- Sustainable
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2 WAYS WITH SILVERBEET STEM SAUTE
Every part of a silverbeets ruffly big bunch is delicious, even the stems. Too often cooks throw away the part of a vegetable that is a bit tougher and more fiborous. It's ...
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Pickled Cherries and cherry waste hacks
Cherries are the fanciest fruit on the Christmas table, and we love eating them by the fistful when they’re in season. Sweet, tart and a bit peppery, our favourite way to ...
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Green Tomato Hot Sauce
Green tomatoes are tart and leafy in flavour. They are the special treat for the impatient! Not a variety, but simply and unripe tomato. Green tomatoes are available at th...
- Tomatoes
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Puttanesca, Cornersmith style
We love a recipe that makes the most out of opening the cupboard and improvising with what you find. Enter, puttanesca. The origins of this sauce are hotly debated, as som...
- cooking
- seasonal
- Tomatoes
- Use It All
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Malt Pickled Onions
Malt Onion Pickles are a classic crowd pleaser. They are rich and savoury with warm spices and malt vinegar. Make a batch and let them sit for the next few months, come Chr...
- pickles
- preserving
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Waste Hack Bitters
Are you at home cutting up endless oranges for the kids? Or just taking advantage of the season and making fresh squeezed orange juice in the morning? In both cases you en...
- Citrus
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Strawberry Waste Hacks
Strawberries are really cheap right now. Due to COVID, strawberry farmers in Queensland are being forced to abandon their crops, as demand has drastically decreased withou...
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Strawberry and Basil Shrub
Shrubs or drinking vinegars make delicious summer beverages, perfect for cocktails or as an alternative to cordial. They're also a great way for using up excess fruit or he...
- preserving
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- Reducing waste
- seasonal
- Summer
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Rhubarb, Strawberry and Apple Jam
Rosy and old fashioned, this is the jam that a storybook grandmother would make. It's not too sweet and is perfect on hot buttered toast, sponge cakes, scones or even in...
- Fruit
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sweet Preserving
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