A third of all food produced for human consumption around the world is wasted. If you love to cook you’re in a great position to do your small part to reduce food waste, one meal at a time. Bones and vegetable offcuts become stock, stale bread is blitzed into fresh breadcrumbs and coriander roots are cleaned up to pound into curry pastes – all of which freeze well. So before you go shopping, or bin food off-cuts, think about what delicious dishes you can make from what you have on hand. Here are my favourite no waste recipes.
Lamb Stock Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes While we often talk about making chicken (see video below), veal, fish and vegetable stocks, lamb stock is less common. Which is a shame as lamb stock is a flavour bomb – a secret ingredient for making the best […]
How To Make Croutons Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Croutons (croûtons in French) are a good way to use up stale bread and are great with dips, soups or tossed through salads. The name crouton is a diminutive of the French croûte, meaning crust. Originally crisped […]
How To Make Bread Crumbs Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Here’s how to make bread crumbs at home. It’s super easy and a great way to avoid food waste. In traditional cuisines food is never wasted, especially something as precious as bread which was revered as […]
Tarte Flambée Forestière Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! While restaurants in France and abroad add all sorts of toppings to tarte flambée (flammekueche) these days, the traditional toppings I’ve always seen in Alsace are crème fraîche and onion with either speck or mushrooms (or both). So […]
Steamed Asparagus with Pecorino Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! When I’m barbecuing, I’ll sometimes grill asparagus spears on the spot. But when I’m entertaining, and want to get as much done ahead of time as possible, I find it easier to steam them. I like […]
Armando’s Panettone with Berries Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring the food of Southern Italy! Armando’s panettone with berries is a delicious dessert made with Italy’s traditional Christmas cake, panettone. Panettone is a popular gift among Italians and my friend Armando Percuoco created it to use up all the leftover […]
Stir-fried Bean Sprouts & Garlic Chives Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! I love the crunch of bean sprouts scattered over many dishes, from char kway teow to laksa, but I find that whenever I buy a bag I always waste more than half of them as I’m using just a […]
Fish Head Curry Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! Fish head curry is a classic Singaporean and Malaysian dish. It’s said to have originated in Singapore in the 1950s, though it seems likely that thrifty housewives were finding ways to make fish heads tasty long before then, after all the meat […]
Albóndigas de Atún (Tuna ‘Meatballs’) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Spanish cooking class! Albóndigas, meatballs, are a classic part of the Spanish tapas repertoire and are also popular in Mexico where they’re served in soup. As a tapa they’re usually coated in a thick tomato sauce, I love to add a pinch of […]
Mini Bánh Mí Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Vietnamese cooking class inspired by Mark Jensen! Banh mi are a take-away mainstay. They’re a healthy quick lunch to grab on the run and fun to serve as finger food or a starter if you turn them into little open sandwiches on slices of baguette. […]
