Sharing original, seasonal recipes from the cookbooks and the café, focusing on preserving, reducing food waste and inspiring traditional, home cooking & crafts.
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...
This one's for the jam makers out there. Instead of buying commercial pectin, make your own from fruit scraps.
Citrus peels and pips and apple and quince skins and cores...
There will be a time to celebrate in the furture. We will have our family and friends over to share a meal and have a toast to good health. Make this project with that time...
This easy orange caramel is insanely delicious over cakes, ice-cream or drizzled over a plate of freshly peeled and cut orange slices. I use a teaspoon of this sauce in sa...
Mandarins are appearing in the markets and shops. They are the best snacking fruit and make a great jam. Star anise is a classic flavour combination with mandarin. Spread t...
We love cumquats for their sweet bitterness and one of our favourite recipes is to pickle them! Tart, bitey and sweetly spiced, pickled cumquats are great in a grainy salad...
If you're making lots of stews, curries and slow cooked meals this winter, make this insanely addictive condiment. This is an Indian style pickle where the lemons are prese...
Making marmalade isn’t hard and this small-scale recipe uses up the last few bits of citrus in the fruit bowl. You can easily store it in the fridge for a few months or dou...
Preserved lemons form the basis of some of the world's best dishes and every home cook should know how to make them! In winter there is plenty of citrus around and this is ...
It's lemon thyme! Lemons combine well with the flavours from woody herbs. We make this with thyme but you could also try it with bay or rosemary. Throw in a teaspoon of bl...
Lemon season is in full swing! In Australia, this staple winter fruit is at its peak from June to August, and that is when we see box after box of citrus, and particularly...