Ghetto meets gourmet
From pickling to dumpster diving, Bottomfeeder is all about being resourceful AF with the food we cook and eat — without skimping on the flaves. A project by Filipino-Hungarian-Australian recipe developer and food writer, Margaret Sevenjhazi 🔪✨
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How To Brew Farm-Style Sake At Home
It looks like a hurricane has hit my apartment, just as my guest and friend Chiho Uei buzzes the intercom. There are jackets hung over chair backs. A dirty pan on the hob. Dust in dark corners. “Sorry Chiho,” I pre-emptively apologise. “It’s a bit of a mess when you come up!” “Don’t worry!” she says, “We’re…
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The Supermarket Bargain Bin Is Where My Dinner Potential Lives
I enter my local supermarket in a somewhat gloomy state. There’s brown shreds of smooshed lettuce in the bottom of the stacked baskets. I pass the bunches of broccolini that have made national news for being too expensive. A big picture of Justine Schofield is printed on the side of a display. She smiles violently…
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Roasted Strawberries Pop in This No-Churn Ice Cream
No churn without being sickly sweet and you only need 6 ingredients!
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Why Stop At Chicken? Filipino Adobo Pickled Mushies
Everyone goes mushroom mad sometimes. This recipe is perfect for when you’ve bought or foraged a few too many of mother earth’s favourite umami cups. It features the usual pickling spices, plus the Filipino zap of coconut vin – a taste which pairs well with the meaty mushrooms and reminds my inner child of mum’s…
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DIY ‘Aesop’ Post-Poo Drops (Natural Mandarin Toilet Freshener)
Aesop is an Australian skin-care and self-care company, known for their high-end, well-branded (and incredibly expensive) products. And there’s no bigger epitome of this than their fabled Post-Poo Drops, a toilet freshener which elicits an understated scent of Mandarin, Tangerine, and Ylang Ylang when plopped into your toilet bowl after (and this is to quote…
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Summery Sweet! Mango Pits & Peels Make a Delicious Marinade
There’s nothing like biting into some juicy mango on a hot summer’s day. I have so many memories of cross hatching mango cheeks with a knife and inverting them to become an edible cubist echidna. But what do you do with the pits and the peels that you can’t eat? I recently came across this…
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Use Your (Prawn) Head! Zero-Waste Prawn Head Oil
Merry belated Christmas! I hope, like me and my family, you enjoyed bucketloads of fresh seafood and prawns or maybe you’re having some for New Years. With all those prawns, inevitably comes lots of leftover prawn heads, tails and shells. In this recipe I’m going to show you how to get the most bang for…
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Mushroom makes a bloody good mince!
I usually make this mushroom mince when I have a glut of mushrooms that I either forgot about or overbought from the bargain bin. Semi dried out, sad looking mushrooms are perfect for this!
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This Filipino ‘Tomato Ketchup’ is Actually Made From Bananas! 🍌
Yes, it’s bananas! This is the homemade Filipino version of bottled ‘ketchup’, except ours is made from bananas, not tomatoes. This tropical innovation stemmed from a WW2 tomato shortage and is my favourite way to use up overripe bananas — and waaaay more versatile than banana bread! I originally tried this recipe served with chicken…
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Filipino Empanadas are easier than you think — just follow my tips
Angela Dimuyaga’s recipe is for empanada first timers and pros alike. Flavoursome, straightforward, baked or fried and most importantly ECONOMICAL!
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