I'm dropping in on some typical food wasters to show them how to stop binning food and
start making delicious things out of the stuff they usually throw away.
Kaz and Ashley bin about half the food they buy.
We're just throwing money down the drain. We definitely are wasting, I know I waste a lot.
These two know they need help with their food waste so I'm rockin' up to hijack their kitchen.
Hello! ((Oh my god!)) You alright bro? How's it going? Hello darling! ((Hi, nice to meet you!))
Come on then you two,
what sort of areas are your main concern of stuff that you know you're throwing away that just,
you'd like some options to get around?
Literally all of this stuff, all the vegetables ((So fruit and veg)). Yeah fruit and veg goes in
the bin ((Herbs)), a bit of basil, coriander, and that just goes like that and then gets chucked.
Can we focus on herbs? ((Yeah sure)) As one thing that we can definitely do,
I mean a lot better. If you chuck away herbs, you chuck away flavour as well as money. There
are loads of ways of prolonging their life so you can use them whenever you want. You could easily
dry them by hanging them in a warm place. They'll keep for months, and they'll taste much better
than what you get in those expensive little jars. But right now, I'm gonna make some tasty little
flavour bombs that'll sit perfectly in the freezer instead of the bin. It takes literally a second
to make a flavoured oil. I'm gonna put a little bit of salt into here. Got leftover herbs,
throw it in there, smash it up for me. Literally 30 seconds, he's gonna turn those herbs that would
have been thrown away into like a pulp. Then we take a cheap olive oil. Muddle away, that means
go from pounding to doing that business. Okay so once you've done that right, look at the color.
One of the great things about herbs is you can freeze them without losing much flavour.
Freeze it into blocks, can go in the middle or end of cooking or if it's something like shellfish
it can go in at the beginning. And that would normally go in the bin yeah? ((Yeah)) Okay it's
gonna go in your freezer for a rainy day. And that'll keep for months and months and months.
Next one, pesto. We're gonna go in with some more salt. We'll go in with some basil.
So you pound that up, we can put some parsley in there as well.
Smash it up... look at that. Just use a spatula, I'm gonna put that into a bowl.
So look... miserable, look miserable? Yes, but not for long okay, we're gonna turn it
into something beautiful. We're gonna take some nuts. Traditionally it would be pine nuts. Let's
use almonds for a change. I'm just gonna put a few in there, I want you to just put your
hands around it and crunch it up. I'm just gonna put a small clove of garlic in. So whack that in
there me ol' mate. Me we're gonna go back in with the basil. This is parmesan here,
but you can use whatever you got available. If you've got a good olive oil nice, even if you've
got cheaper olive oil no problem at all. And we're just gonna loosen it. I like to put just a tiny
little drip of lemon juice, just lightens it a little bit. Try that. The point is, is remember
pesto doesn't have to be just basil and pine nuts, you can use any nuts, any cheese, any soft herb.
My last little flavour punch for the freezer is a sensational garlic herb and chilli butter.
So two cloves of garlic and then any random herbs, woody or soft. Parsley, got a bit of mint in there
a bit of basil in there. If you've got chili that you're kind of thinking of throwing away,
that's good. So we're gonna get this flavoured butter.
Let me just show you how to handle it in the fridge. Put that into some greaseproof paper, you
could do it in cling film if you want. Right we're gonna fold this over, squeeze it like a sausage.
Now you put that in the freezer that'll last a year. After it's been in for half an hour you
can take it out and just slice them, so they're already pre-sliced, so when you come back a little
bit drunk from the pub and you've got the munchies you just take a *click*, on some toast, lovely
garlic bread, there's a million and one things you can do with that. Okay guys I think my time here
is done, hopefully you enjoyed that. Can I safely say that there will be no more herb wastage in
this house? ((Definitely no, definitely not)) Yeah well don't tell me, tell them. Definitely not!