Recipes

This jam is perfect for buttery toast and croissants, but also works well with cheddar or cured meats.

Many would say this is the original European pickle. Picked in Summer, submerged in a salty brine and eaten through the long hard Winter. Fermented gherkins have a sour puc...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fermented fruit sambals and chutneys are a specialty of Southern Asia, they are therefore well suited to the Australian climate where things ferment fast! Make tacos more i...

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...

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...

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 a ...