00:00:02hard Yakka of a sweetie london kitchen
00:00:04these days he’s a global industry he
00:00:07lives not far from his dads country pub
00:00:09and rural essex and it’s there that he
00:00:11grows to produce for his latest show
00:00:13Jamie at home and of course to the
00:00:16supply 15 restaurant the London eatery
00:00:19he set up to give disadvantaged own
00:00:21people a chance in the food industry
00:00:23Michael Holland got a very lucky tour
00:00:25around Jamie’s veggie patch
00:00:35you
00:00:41this is my quiet relaxing you know to
00:00:45have this place this has been about
00:00:46seven eight year project for me no one
00:00:48lived here for 22 years and you know
00:00:50I’ve got a pretty pretty bonkers life
00:00:53and yet with kids I just I just craved a
00:00:56bit of normality so to find this place
00:00:59in the village where I grew up in means
00:01:01that God under pub and I don’t get
00:01:02hassled and I don’t get pissed and sort
00:01:04of that you know have a good time not
00:01:06anyone else all the people i know you
00:01:08know it’s wave and morning morning it’s
00:01:10just just normal life really we got
00:01:13squashes pumpkins all the lovely Italian
00:01:15leaves over here when you start off
00:01:18thinking about growing whether your big
00:01:20old book builder or all back or whatever
00:01:22like just a couple of tomorrow bag or a
00:01:26couple of square meters of pizza oil red
00:01:28ones yellow ones candy strike one Karen
00:01:30trusted third law in if you can master
00:01:32knock in a brilliant salad out and I
00:01:34think you’re on the good good way for
00:01:36good cooking your Swiss chard parsnip a
00:01:40million different cabbages fact that you
00:01:42can cut your stuff wash it and eat it
00:01:44with an hour you know that is kind of
00:01:47like the holy grail of kind of like
00:01:49getting the good stuff in your kids or
00:01:51the mother-in-law or you know you
00:01:54wouldn’t get too much good stuff in your
00:01:55mother-in-law would you know well you
00:01:57know I’ve been trying lead and various
00:01:59you know deadly nightshade but it’s not
00:02:01working for me marigolds now probably
00:02:05one in three households in New Zealand
00:02:08I’ve got a marigold plant somewhere and
00:02:10ideally when the leaves their most
00:02:13beautiful when they’re about that size
00:02:15they’re absolutely fantastic and that
00:02:17part of a mixed salad taste it it alive
00:02:20like slightly peachy mustardy if you
00:02:22think about how peppery a rocket leaf is
00:02:24it and I know it’s peppery in your mouth
00:02:26but imagine it with you know love leave
00:02:27it by ohmic vinegar and good olive oil
00:02:29bit of salty but and another crunchy
00:02:31salad gives it a lot like viagra keeps
00:02:33you going being a foodie yep there’s a
00:02:36little bit snob belly for something and
00:02:39I think not anything you can make it
00:02:40snobby definitely you can make it so
00:02:42snobby but you know if you break it down
00:02:44into sort of layman’s terms it’s about
00:02:46bro it’s about growing and cooking
00:02:48really and am I allowed to say
00:02:50not really so that’s that again
00:02:55but castellated where we grow stuff just
00:02:58for 15 restaurant we pick out the band
00:02:59it’s in the restaurant three hours later
00:03:01brilliant we brought most of soil in
00:03:03here from the middle of England where
00:03:05it’s really good sort of a fair
00:03:07taillights oil and and we put loads I
00:03:09can’t believe it’s come to the day where
00:03:10we actually paid for tons and tons of
00:03:13horse to come down you know it’s
00:03:14like it’s a revelation in your life my
00:03:17dad Nick’s quite a lot of stuff does he
00:03:19yeah well you come down the middle of
00:03:21all those years after looking after me
00:03:22my dad it’s really quite funny I said to
00:03:25Pete the garden the other day I see them
00:03:27if you ever hear my dad whistling he’s
00:03:29stealing and he does he comes out this
00:03:31and he said it comes up on his bloody
00:03:33van look and it’s like saying I’m here
00:03:39but it’s fine everything’s cool I’m
00:03:41whistling so I’m not hiding and then
00:03:43he’s like buddy fleece and all this
00:03:45stuff he’s taking it back to the pub
00:03:47yeah but we’ve got an invoice waiting
00:03:50for him it’s just coming at the end of
00:03:52the year now let me show you something
00:03:53come over here the point you can follow
00:03:59and when the Powerball roast these
00:04:02babies and I’m gonna incorporate them
00:04:03into the most incredible salad but
00:04:05hopefully you’ve ever eaten you’ve got
00:04:07three front of thin got purple you’ve
00:04:09got yellow I’ve got red dry chili not
00:04:12loads of chili so it’s like a curry just
00:04:14a little bit sounds like a little hum in
00:04:15the background so I’m just gonna crush
00:04:17them up have a little girl that big boy
00:04:25just a little more don’t give it some
00:04:32you know you do that really well um
00:04:36right spices go in and I just almost
00:04:40dressing it like a salad right and then
00:04:42just smell it smell it mmm you know I
00:04:47mean more than carrots nails no yeah its
00:04:49proper avocados quite a similar texture
00:04:51to the carrot and if you want to make a
00:04:53really good proper salad that just blows
00:04:55you away you don’t want everything to be
00:04:57the same texture you want soft crunchy
00:05:00you want sweetness sourness you want
00:05:03fragrance and stuff like that so what
00:05:04we’re gonna start doing is we’re gonna
00:05:06get crunch from the toast yep softness
00:05:09softness and spice so we can start you
00:05:12know laying these around look at all
00:05:13those absolutely amazing colors those
00:05:16could be our cooney carrots our Cooney
00:05:18so if there’s anyone from alcuni can
00:05:21they send me some seeds of your famous
00:05:22carrots cuz I’ll grow them here
00:05:24respectfully there be a little bigger
00:05:25yeah well size isn’t everything is it
00:05:29and then you take a few of these
00:05:32delicious salad leaves and the bread
00:05:34here and we’re gonna make this just
00:05:39plate this little baby up and stay there
00:05:41stay there for mr. cameraman
00:05:45finish that with some beautiful dressing
00:05:50over the top
00:05:56I didn’t give you any avocado you put
00:05:59that in your mouth quickly so you get
00:06:00the full experience that’s it let the
00:06:03flowering vines flowering viagra really
00:06:06good I’m pleased with that and give you
00:06:08good erection for that we thank you very
00:06:13much there mmm that’s New Zealand close
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