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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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...
- preserving
- Recipe
- Reducing waste
- Sustainable
- Use It All
- Waste
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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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USE IT ALL: PINEAPPLE SKIN SODA
This simple fermented soda is based on the Mexican beverage tepache, a sweet and sour drink with an unexpected hit of heat. Its also a wonderful way to extract flavour from...
- Fermenting
- Reducing waste
- seasonal
- Summer
- Use It All
- Waste
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USE IT ALL: GREEN POCKETS
These green pockets are the ultimate fast food! They are our version of gozleme and we’ve been making them for years. If it’s the weekend we’ll make the simple yoghurt doug...
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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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Whole Grilled Corn with Miso and Lime Aioli and Basil
What is better than corn on the cob? Corn on the cob with this insane aioli. This is the perfect summer dish - we'd even say it's a summer essential - warmly welcomed at a...
- cooking
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Summer
- Use It All
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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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Apple Skin Caramel
Another excellent waste reduction idea coming out of our kitchens. After a big batch of plum and apple jam, Cristy came up with this Apple Skin Caramel to get the most out ...
- Autumn
- Recipe
- Reducing waste
- Seasonal
- Sustainable
- Use It All
- Waste
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Waste Hack: Brown Banana Jam

Puttanesca, Cornersmith style

USE IT ALL: PINEAPPLE SKIN SODA

USE IT ALL: GREEN POCKETS

Pumpkin Waste Hacks: from Marmalade to Mole

Waste Hack: Tired Herb and Stem Chimichurri

Whole Grilled Corn with Miso and Lime Aioli and Basil

Vegetable Scrap Bouillon

Apple Skin Caramel