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Overall, this is a sensible book. It is a book for inspiration, not for food to blow the sox off your friends and neighbours. It is focused on using the smallest scrap of anything in your pantry, fridge, or from your garden. I quite like it.

I think you do need some basic cooking skills to use the book successfully, but there is no need for advanced or long-term experience.

Recommended for all interested in reducing food waste, and those who want to be better at using up their pantry.

I just saw a recipe for Flotsam and Jetsam Flat Breads. It's a use whatever is in your pantry approach, and very much my style.

You will enjoy this book and find it very useful.

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Oh my goodness,t here is even a recipe for Apricot Chicken, an Australian classic from the 1970's. And there is a recipe for the four-ingredient Dried Fruit Tea Loaf. I have a special affection for this World War and Depression Era cake, and as we speak the dried fruit are soaking on the Kitchen Bench. It is in the chapter on using up dried fruit.

Oh (again), a recipe for cumquat brandy (I make cumquat gin) and cumquat syrup (I make cumquat molasses, similar).

My only complaint is that there is not a table of contents for the 150 items covered in the book. How do you know, then, that Crakers are covered. Or Kimchi, honey or fig leaves? Poppy seeds or flax seeds?

You might expect the book to be FULL of pickles, given Cornersmith's reputation. But it is not the case. The pickles are in proportion - and I would use this book as a companion book to their other publications.

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The book is LARGE as you can imagine with over 500 pages. It has 1 bookmark ribbon - not sufficient in my mind for a book that is likely to be used a lot.

There are lots of books that take produce and pantry items and talk about how to use them - Nigel Slater has at least 4 volumes, I have one that is the Twelve Months of Italian cooking, another that focuses on seasonal produce in the London Farmer's/Pop-up Markets.

The unique feature of this book is that it focuses on using everything. So you have recipes for daikon leaves, for example (Yes! I love daikon and radish leaves - he covers both separately). And Pumpkin skins. Of course, pumpkins seeds. Pear scraps. Half lemons. How to use up the bottom-of-the-jar bits of harrisa paste.

Of course it is not all scrap and leaf usage, there are good, simple (can I say "solid"?) recipes for produce and pantry items. Most recipes are written in 1 or 2 paragraphs (so, yes, very simple).

There are no pics in this book, just page after page of suggestions.

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Today it is another Cornersmith book - their latest publication. We've had a look at their previous 3 books - check them out at #Cornersmith tag. Cornersmith is an Australian icon that is the leading voice in the war on household food waste. This book takes a different tack to the others.

Food Saver's A-Z: The Essential Cornersmith Kitchen Companion, by Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards
Published: Oct, 2022
Publisher: Murdoch
Pages: 560
Price: $30AU but look around as prices vary

Recipes: 899 recipes, and 746 of these are meat-, fish- and egg- free. Such a great ratio! 💓

The book is touted as the ultimate reference guide to using up and making the most of every ingredient in the fridge or pantry. It includes 150 common items, and discusses how to use up a lot or a little of something – from a single stem of asparagus to a bucketload of zucchini (I needed this a month ago).

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Vrijdag 2 december wordt de nieuwe Vlaamse #voedselstrategie voorgesteld om te komen tot gezonde voeding, binnen de ecologische grenzen in een veerkrachtige #voedseleconomie die boer en burger verbindt

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