Sharing original, seasonal recipes from the cookbooks and the café, focusing on preserving, reducing food waste and inspiring traditional, home cooking & crafts.
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...
Go on, buy the whole cabbage and make enough sauerkraut to ensure your gut is well cared for this lockdown. Seriously, making a whole cabbage kraut is easy and economical. ...
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...
Fill up your pantry with these delicious Dilly Beans. The longer they sit the better they get. Great thinly sliced through a salad, on a cheese plate or take them to a picn...
We're enjoying the great indoors during lockdown by spreading the picnic rug on the living room floor. This potato salad, a wedge of cheese, a baguette, some relish, olives...
Keep your kitchen projects easy. A kitchen scrap ferment is just the thing. Make this at the end of the week when you have a few extra vegetables left. if you have never tr...
Make roasted fruits part of your weekly repertoire. It’s one of our most useful waste hacks to revive the average tasting pears in the fruit bowl, the withering grapes in t...
Our herb enthusast @fermetingprojects has been whipping up jars of this herbal elixir to lift our spirits. An oxymel is a mixture of vinegar and honey that is usually infu...
This is the recipe for one of our most famous chutneys. The natural sweetness of pumpkin is spiced with sesame seeds and ginger to warm up even the coldest winter day. Thi...
As if sauerkraut wasn't healthy enough! We've added a very healthy dose of fresh season turmeric for an extra winter blues fighting boost. The active component in turmeric...
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...
Quinces are often put in the too-hard pile for the home preserver, with all that peeling and coring and chopping. But our recipe for rosy-pink quince and apple jam takes al...