00:00:02quick tasty cooking for really busy
00:00:03people every show we’re doing 40 shows
00:00:06and every single show has got a meal not
00:00:10not a dish a whole meal three four five
00:00:12different things drinks desserts you
00:00:15know you name it all right really
00:00:16interesting contemporary dishes really
00:00:18lots of influences from Asia India
00:00:21classic British Mediterranean cooking I
00:00:24mean that the whole thing about
00:00:2530-minute meals is about being organized
00:00:26having the right recipes having really
00:00:29good hints and tips and shortcuts and
00:00:31little are hard moments and you see over
00:00:33here this is almost in juicy to rest of
00:00:38juices now that’s what it’s all about
00:00:40rib just being clever it’s clever
00:00:41cooking just use your senses really your
00:00:43sense of smell
00:00:44you can smell when things are going
00:00:45wrong when things are catching you can
00:00:47hear when things are burning and you
00:00:50know try and grow some eyes in the back
00:00:51ear head stuff you want your board where
00:00:53clove so it doesn’t move I’m going to
00:00:55use a food processor with the normal
00:00:57tool mixing blade on the condiments
00:00:59I need my oven put on to 200 degrees
00:01:02okay so I Wagner on now I need a kettle
00:01:06put on what else honey I’ve written 50
00:01:1030-minute meals in the book and we
00:01:13filmed 40 of those for the TV series
00:01:15they’re going to go out like a month
00:01:17blog in England anyway going towards
00:01:20Christmas and a month block in spring me
00:01:23and all of my team have learnt a lot
00:01:25from doing this series about
00:01:26organization choices about sort of
00:01:30almost having sort of pockets of types
00:01:33of dinner like you know there’s a
00:01:34one-hour dinner now there’s like a
00:01:3630-minute dinner now there’s even a
00:01:3810-minute dinner now and then there’s
00:01:40the weekend sort of two-hour chill out
00:01:42have a couple of drinks sort of epic big
00:01:43roast kind of dinner family cooking so
00:01:46it’s funny I mean we’re experienced
00:01:47cooks but it’s made us really focus on
00:01:49what’s dinner or lunch gonna be like
00:01:51today well what’s the remit okay you’ve
00:01:54got 20 minutes okay you know so it’s I
00:01:57think yeah I think we’re just lean mean
00:02:00fast cooking machines now and we could
00:02:02always do it fast
00:02:03but 30-minute meals the genius of it
00:02:05isn’t just blasting stuff out a lot of
00:02:07thought has gone into it a lot of
00:02:09thought about what’s available in
00:02:10supermarkets down the market
00:02:12a lot of thought has gone into you know
00:02:15how you stagger food stagger dishes in a
00:02:17meal so that actually you end up at the
00:02:20end of 30 minutes with everything in the
00:02:22best possible Nick so yeah it’s been a
00:02:25real learning curve actually unknowingly
00:02:26I didn’t think I’d learn anything from
00:02:28this but but we have we’ve cooked so
00:02:32much food in the last couple of weeks
00:02:34that I’m drunk on 30-minute meals like
00:02:36honestly I don’t even know where I am
00:02:39anymore I’ve cooked so much you wouldn’t
00:02:41believe we’re on the with just some two
00:02:43meals today and the last two that we did
00:02:46were pretty epic
00:02:47one was piri piri chicken which was
00:02:49really good with a fantastic noodle
00:02:52salad and little Portuguese caramel tart
00:02:54you got to check that baby out and then
00:02:57this morning we cooked satay chicken
00:03:00skewers which was absolutely brilliant
00:03:02homemade satay sauce like it just made
00:03:05the stuff that I’ve tried before taste
00:03:06so bad so yeah they’re good ones but
00:03:09we’ve done all sorts with on stir fries
00:03:10we’ve done sort of we did a classic
00:03:12roast beef dinner in 30 minutes though
00:03:15you’ve got to see that one that that
00:03:16that took some thought to do that and
00:03:18the nice thing about the food is
00:03:20literally whether you’re cooked the cook
00:03:21or not cook you can achieve what I’m
00:03:24achieving 30 minutes you just got to do
00:03:26what you’re told so when you read the
00:03:28recipe just do what it says and trust me
00:03:31and you’ll end up with the right thing
00:03:32but if you start freestyling it but it’s
00:03:36it could go anywhere
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