Hello everyone it is barry here welcome to my virgin kitchen I hope you are well you
are looking good, todays video is sponsored by hello fresh, now if you do not know what
hello fresh is, mrs barry ok that was better we did one a minute ago and it hit me in the
face, hello fresh are an amazing company that send you food packages and boxes, this is
actually a family box, that we got sent and it is full of the most fresh ingredients,
I have never done one of these boxes before, some of my friends do and thought, you know
what when hello fresh got in touch, I am going to give it a go and that is what this video
is jolly well about and I am impressed it is good stuff.
Now phoebe, yes, it is fair to say we do get stuck in a rut sometimes especially after
that winter indulgence spring and summer is about we have some fresh ingredients we can
play around with when it comes to our cooking we can get stuck in a cycle of making lasagne
and spaghetti Bolognese over and over every time, but this box gives us a chance to step
out of that and it is really easy to use I have been really impressed with it and phoebe
helped me a lot.
And you helped me too nice, so I have genuinely been impressed with this box full of seasonal
ingredients really good ingredients too and it does first of all turn up at your doorstep
by a friendly delivery driver, just to say chloe is not the delivery driver for hello
fresh, there are many others it was just acting, yeah I love acting, give me angry, give me
happy, so you open up your box and it is all bagged up and colour co ordinated with recipe
cards all inside there the chilled items even get packed in eco friendly packaging which
the kids thought was food and first smelt it and thought it was a bit funny but there
are actually lots of hints and tips with it you can use it for composting or actually
as you saw on my Instagram recently under your sofa to help it stop marking your floor.
That is actually one of the tips they suggested so cheers.
So what was it to be, beef stir fry with noodles, sausage and butterbean stew, beef ragu rigatoni,
or the pan fried turkey steak.
The family and I love pasta dishes so we went for green on the recipe card which links with
the green on the bag it is all in there, amazing and it even comes pre measured out so things
like your sauces are in tablespoons and the herbs are in sachets so you just rip off the
lid and go like that, no struggling, you got it, you are going to do this.
So just like I have talked about in the past whether you are cooking at home normally and
not making an internet cooking show which for 99 percent of people is the case, it is
all about preparation no matter what you do, in a cookbook, using hello fresh, with anything,
that was the first thing we worked on, getting all of our ingredients together, the kids
helped as much as they cooked doing the kid friendly steps, we found that the brown bag
that the ingredients came in turned into a handy little desktop waste bin all we were
doing was following the recipe steps on the card on the reverse that is it on every single
one there is always 6 I do not know if they are obsessed with the number 6 but it works.
It is so easy.
First up add the oil to the pan and chuck in the beef mince.
Breaking it up with a wooden spoon chloe helped doing that step briefly but as it was a bit
of an adult step she took a look from afar while we carried on.
You basically want to keep cooking it until nice and brown baby, give it a season if you
wish with salt and pepper, then add in the onion and pepper that has been chopped cooking
it up for about 5-7 minutes until nice and softened, you then add in the chopped garlic,
the already portioned thyme, which is amazing because you are saving time � bad food pun�.
And the tomato puree give it a real good mix through then after a couple of minutes dump
in the passata again mix that through and cook away a little longer, you also need to
get a kettle on which phoebe insisted telling me and you, boil the kettle, pour it into
a jug and dissolve your stock cube in there, stirring it through until nice and smooth,
you then add that into your pan also the stalks of the basil leaves go in there it is all
being used and it really does help the flavour, looking back I could have used a larger frying
pan but it is ok as we simmer that for twenty minutes and it does reduce down and thicken
up meanwhile you are going to cook your pasta to package instructions, in the other room
chloe and mrs barry were doing the fun job of making the salsa so they were combining
in a bowl the chopped tomatoes, half the basil leaves, olives that chloe actually sliced
up, girl power, yeah!
Give me a food pun say, olive it, olive it.
So that needs to go with olive oil stir it together and you have got an amazing salsa.
With the pasta all nice and cooked drain that off to one side, maybe reserve some of the
water in case it gets dry that was a suggestion from hello fresh, mine was fine, I liked it
as it was.
You then dump the remaining basil leaves in with the ragu mixture, stir it through, and
then combine the pasta with the ragu sauce, stir it gently as it can break, you do not
want to break your pasta, just get it all nice and coated and it is time to serve it
up.
We piled it up into a big old dish, phoebe got excited with her spoon and sprinkled a
load of hard cheese on top, then we got some of the salsa that chloe and mrs barry made,
plonked it on there and it was looking phenomenal.
Oh my gosh, so good, and these guys made it.
Good job girls.
It tasted so fresh I now know why they are called hello fresh that was genuinely great
the ingredients were stonking.
Now for me I have been in the online food space for quite a while I love how I am actually
learning stuff, they put these random facts with steps which you will see in the next
bit, hello rigatoni, the pasta rigatoni the pasta name means rigid because of the lines
that run down the side and help the sauce to cling and boy did it cling.
For the second video while mrs barry and the kids walked the dogs, I thought I would have
a test to see if while they were out I could make the beef stir fry with noodles, again
this was really easy steps and super fresh ingredients, I just prepped all my ingredients
like before including grating ginger which is an incredible smell.
We start off by making a sauce, combining together ketchup, soy sauce, sweet chilli
sauce, rice vinegar and water, just mix that together and leave it to one side.
We make a coating for the beef in the stir fry by combining together the Chinese five
spice in a bowl with some corn flour, the steak gets dumped in there, at first it will
not cling to it, we got to spin it round and get it nice and covered, this is another example
of me learning through hello fresh.
You know you get those noodles that go so well with stir fry we are going to boil up
some water, pour it into a pan then just re-hydrate those, normally we do that and it cooks for
4 minutes then the next step is to drain them off and plunge straight into cold water, to
stop the cooking process I did not know you had to do that, and trust me it helped I am
definitely doing that going forward.
With the noodles to one side get some oil into a large wok then cook the steak away
until fully cooked in its entirety placing it on some kitchen towel to one side.
In that same pan you can then add in your pepper and the chilli, give that a cook for
a couple of minutes, then add in the garlic, ginger and spring onion, give that another
cook for about 90 seconds, or 2 minutes if feeling cheeky just to get it all mixed in
there.
Then we drive the flavour in there, the sauce we made earlier on, pour that in and let it
bubble away to get it really coating those vegetables, make sure you stir it all around,
get it all working together, hmm.
All we do is take those chilled noodles and dump them straight in the pan with the steak
and just mingle it all together carefully lift it through make sure it is randomised
so there is enough steak, noodle and vegetable festivities going on in that pan.
Pile it up high in a deep dish, this is completely optional but I added some extra spring onion
on top, some soy sauce I had leftover and also I seem to have a lot of sesame seeds
in the house at the moment so added them in there and trust me when I had some of that
it was so good, it was just the right amount of heat in there which you can tweak and adjust
to your liking and I made that in the time mrs barry and the kids went out for a walk,
it genuinely took me half and hour.
So I felt a little bad for mrs barry coming back with the dogs so I wanted to spoil her
right, ah thanks, mrs barry is not a fan of butter beans, which is in the sausage and
butter bean stew so I thought I would use my own creative mindset and make my own sausage
and garlic ciabatta using the ingredients found in here but just with a little spin
and it worked.
So I basically halved the ciabatta, brushed it with a little bit of olive oil, then placed
them face down into a warm griddle pan just to char it evenly put it to one side and rubbed
it with a little bit of garlic to give it a funky garlic bread vibe, nice.
The sausages were cooked and they were honey mustard sausages, I halved them and placed
them in a pan with some oil ensuring I charred them all over so you want to make sure that
even though you halved them you need to make sure they are cooked so do that and rest on
some kitchen towel to one side.
Now in that recipe there also came onion and mushrooms so I decided to chop them up shoving
them in a pan, cook them until nice and charred adding in just a little bit of the oregano
herbs and it was gorgeous when it was in there, the kitchen was like, �I smell good� she
hates it when I freestyle.
Makes me laugh.
By grating up the carrot that came with it and adding it in a bowl with a little mixture
of olive oil and the white wine vinegar it lightly pickled it giving it a real nice colour
vibrance and crunch.
That is what I went for.
And with that done down went the charred base, little mayonnaise so spread that with a spoon,
plonk down the honey mustard sausage halves, oh my gosh they would have been good on their
own, the charred mushrooms and onions, the pickled grated carrot pieces, some chopped
parsley and then shove down the lid.
Boom chick a wow wow it was good and I think you liked it?
That is a big old bite, taught her well.
Is that alright?
Wow.
And we still had loads spare from that recipe too to use up another day.
Can I get down you can get down now, so that is three out of the four recipes in the box
to use there is the pan fried turkey steak with the pancetta roasties still to be done,
it is right here, I am really tempted so I would really like to see you guys have a go
at it, so, let me put this down, so yeah that is it, do not forget to check out hellofresh.co.uk
there is a link down below to the video description, you will be amazed at it go on there customise
it tweak it to your way and most importantly let me know how you get on I have never done
anything like this before and I am genuinely impressed by hello fresh so thankyou to them
for sponsoring the video, thanks to you, your future self for giving it a go too and I will
see you again next time.
You know what when I was cooking these recipes I was thinking to myself they should bring
out a hello fresh dog pack I think they are sold too!