Heidi’s kinda not really traditional Cornish pasty recipe Makes 6 Ingredients: (remove meat and eggs and replace with vegan cheese and nuttelex for eggs for vegan version) 3 medium potatoes (any kind really. 2 carrots 5 cloves garlic (I go hard on garlic so you may wish to lower the amount) 1 large turnip
Performing a greys anatomy on hospital food and my sore head. Emphasis on grey.
I was in a hospital ward after coming a cropper beachside for two weeks over christmas and new year. I think I have a hairline fracture in my checkbone. You know that well worn phrase about being dowen a rabbit hole? I burrowed deep and showed them rascscally wabbits. I’ve picked myself up and slowly
Zucchini, Potato and Caramelised Onion Frittata
An easy process and look at how good the goods look! Pretty good! Story: I’m staying with mum at the minute so together we have been concocting various projects. The highest mountain we’ve had to climb so far (our Everest) has been to build a flatpack butcher’s block with mum’s “lady tradie”
Elsie’s Curry and Chilli Cornish Chutney
Another day, Another story, another cornish preserve recipe So for the last 40 odd years, mum and two of her finest mates have been making Auntie Judy’s mother in law’s cornish curried chutney recipe. I make it with love with mum and some of my mates and we give it away to family and
Spiced scotch fig paste
In my frenzy of Christmas making I decided to make fig paste. It came from a late night on rundle street after going to a funny ole gay bar filled with young people doing young things like dancing on upside down on poles and looking longingly for a someone. Girls on boys knees
Low Sodium Shenzhen and Bali inspired BBQ treats
Recently, I spent time in Shenzhen China and Bali. What a street food array of amazing treats! I went to each place, found a local street food place I liked the look of and watched each one for a bit, making sure the joints were clean and the staff cooked well. Then, through the
Kale Sesame chips with Shichimi Togarachi
Sometimes in life… I write dodgy javascript, python software and muckaround with electronics hacking. Sometimes in life. I cook. And sometimes, when I have my nerd vest on, I think about all the homegrown goodness in my local hood. So, like a multitasking banshee yesterday
White pickled rocket seed pods and rocket root kim-chi
Made as a part of my durational long weekend rocket harvest Rocket Seed pickle Ingredients: Rocket seed pods White vinegar Szechuan pepper corns (whole) Method: Pick the seed pods from rocket plant’s that are “going to seed” and literally just wash the whole pods. Boil up white vinegar, a little sugar and sezchuan pepper then let
Rocket, garlic, onion and barossa cheddar baked pasty slice
Low Sodium Rocket Pasty slice thingo
Spicy Ginger Pumpkin and Coconut milk soup with coriander
Huge Batch of Pumpkin no sodium soup
LowSodium ANZAC / CANZAC Biscuits
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnbXxkHAEUI/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet This comes from a CWA recipe and uses Canadian Maple Syrup, hence the CANZAC modded title. Hey and the best news is, in all the ANZAC recipes I’ve found, none contain salt. Mad props to my mate Matt for introducing me to the idea of maple syrup. Ooooowf. View this post on
Low Sodium Tomato and Chilli Sauce
Tomato and Chilli Sauce from scratch: CWA style One thing I have really been missing is a good and salty, buttery pie with sauce. The Cornish pasties and Sausage Rolls I’ve been throwing together have been filling the gap for the most part but the idea of being able to walk into a Bakery
My Auntie Judy’s Cornish LowSodium celery soup
Had a whinge on Facebook about missing salt in my LowSodium world. Auntie Judy came to the rescue in the form of this terribly simple soup. Ate this tasty little number with my home made Tomato and Chilli sauce last night and it was a win! Ingredients: 4 Oz saltless butter 2 onions2 Celery heads2lb potatoes 2.5
Fresh LowSodium Ricotta Parmesan cakes
This is a hand made from scratch ricotta recipe, made and then baked with fresh parmesan and herbs.
LowSodium Persian-spiced barley and mandarin salad
LowSodium recipe for persian barley, mandarin, cranberry and almond warm salad
LowSodium braised tuscan cabbage, broad bean mash on a bed of saffron rice
I seem to be eating a lot of well, “windy” food of late. maybe it’s winter and maybe it’s my dietician telling me to up my protien with me in overeager ascent. Regardless, my house is now filled with aromas. Not the good kind. This LowSodium recipe was made up on a snap pea frozen
Retro NoSodium Frangipani Pie from the 60’s
When mum was a newly married sort, back in the golden syrup laden decade of the 70’s, she was given Golden Circle’s Tropical Treats cookbook. Today she passed her copy to me and I actually read it for the first time in my 43 year old life. As the custodian of a collection of classic
Low Sodium Spicy Turnip and Barley Soup
Low Sodium Spicy Turnip and Barley Soup Again, my dietician told me to up my levels of legumes and mentioned pearl barley as something I could eat. Hurrah! I love pearl Barley. Reminds me of the eighties and my mum’s winter broths. This tastes great, is super healthy and contains no added salt. Ingredients:
Low Sodium Roast Turnip and Carrot
Feels kinda dumb to put something so simple and Low Sodium up but it was so tasty! The turnip caramelises as does the garlic and as long as you use good quality extra virgin olive oil you just can’t go wrong. Ingredients: Carrot, peeled and cut into large chunks 800 gms Turnip, cut with skin
Low Sodium Middle Eastern Turnip Pickles
This is an experiment in a no Salt, Low Sodium Pickle. I will let you know how the mop flops with this one… could be gold .. could be not gold. At Least it looks pretty. Ingredients: 7 cups water 3 cups distilled white vinegar Pickling spice Peppercorns 1 tspn Coriander Leaves 1 tsp Fennel