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
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There's more than one way to eat a pickle.
Sure pickles are great on a burger and in a toastie but a jar of pickles is the secret ingredient that you’ll want to have on hand to boost flavour in everyday dishes or w...
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Waste Hack: Brown Banana Jam
Brown bananas are not so tempting to eat, but they are so good for cooking! Before you make another bloody banana bread or a yet another banana smoothie - have a look at ou...
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- Reducing waste
- Sustainable
- Use It All
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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
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Roasted Wrinkly Vegetable Pickle
This antipasto-style pickles is the most delicious way to rescue very tired looking vegetables. By roasting them covering in a light vinegar brine and oil, you end up with ...
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Summer
- Sustainable
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A Quiet Christmas
Every year we write a sustainable Christmas guide, and this year a thoughtful holiday season seems more important than ever. Many of us have come under a lot of stress as w...
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Pumpkin Waste Hacks: from Marmalade to Mole
As we keep saying, there’s so much flavour in the skin, seeds and stems. So, there’s no reason these parts should end up in the bin. Here’s two very delicious waste hack re...
- Autumn
- cooking
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sustainable
- Use It All
- Waste
- Winter
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Waste Hack: Tired Herb and Stem Chimichurri
This green sauce is an excellent condiment for tacos, fish, eggs, grilled meats, avocado and the base of salad dressings. Save your left over parsley stems and any tired lo...
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Christmas cheer with less waste
We love the festive season for friends, family and food. It really is the best time of the year. But it is also one of the most wasteful times of year with excessive packa...
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Turmeric Pickled Mango
This is from the Spring chapter of our new cookbook. Mangoes are now in full swing, so it's time to get preserving! They're delicious mixed in through asian-style salads, o...
- pickles
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Spring
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Eating with Seasons
At Cornersmith seasonal eating is one of our most important values. We highlight the best of the season on our menus, teach our students how cook with seasonal produce in ...
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Vegetable Scrap Bouillon
This recipe is based on seasonal vegetables and herbs pureed into a concentrated paste and preserved in salt. Use one or two teaspoons dissolved in 500 ml of boiling water....
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