00:00:03live from here I’m in London this is
00:00:05very this is backyard cooking mate we’ve
00:00:08got a little camera and anything could
00:00:09happen if you were to tweet in tweet in
00:00:12questions if you want a Facebook in go
00:00:14to the Jamie I love a Facebook page and
00:00:16I’ve got a bunch of questions that I’m
00:00:18going to answer I’ve got the lovely list
00:00:19here that’s going to ask questions and
00:00:21they’ll be tweets coming in so feel free
00:00:23to do that we’ve already put a little
00:00:24question out there sort of what dishes
00:00:27do you want help with and shockingly to
00:00:29me omelette mastering the perfect
00:00:32omelette it was requested so I’m gonna
00:00:34give you your request so just to kick
00:00:37off and we’ll come back to some
00:00:38questions later we’re gonna do a perfect
00:00:40omelette now I suppose in a way medium
00:00:43heat nonstick pan about 8 inches the
00:00:46nice thing about an omelette all that
00:00:48you know the difference between a good
00:00:49omelette and the bad one is phenomenal a
00:00:52bad one is hideous a good one is just
00:00:54wonderful but eggs are probably the
00:00:57cheapest sort of the most brilliant form
00:01:00of protein all the nutrients minerals
00:01:02and stuff in there are really really
00:01:05good for you and they’re so quick to
00:01:07cook so basically what I’m saying is
00:01:09anyone can afford a good omelette and
00:01:11anyone has got enough time to make it so
00:01:14I’ve got three eggs in there big boy get
00:01:15in there in there we’re going to hit
00:01:17that up with some pepper
00:01:19we’ve got some salt over here we have
00:01:23got our little that we’ve made an effort
00:01:25we’ve made an effort to get a pan cam so
00:01:27there’s our pan can gonna whisk this up
00:01:30how does this work is your just going to
00:01:32ask random questions as we go yeah
00:01:47okey-dokey now can we hear lives Richard
00:01:49over there have we might lives up that’s
00:01:52good okay
00:01:53so can’t afford to get loads of organic
00:01:56meat now first and foremost and at the
00:01:58forefront of the food revolution it’s
00:02:00about just cooking a meal you know
00:02:02cooking from scratch it’s about fresh
00:02:04ingredients and it’s about sitting down
00:02:06with your family once or twice a week if
00:02:09you’re doing that already
00:02:10then you’re incredible you’re in the
00:02:12elite as far as trying you know if you
00:02:14haven’t got the budget for organic meat
00:02:16and just to clarify a lot of people
00:02:18think that organic meat is crazy weird
00:02:20hippie food why is it so expensive look
00:02:23it’s more expensive because the animals
00:02:26generally live twice as long if they
00:02:28live twice as long they need twice as
00:02:30much food which is generally while
00:02:32they’re twice as much okay so that’s why
00:02:34but it’s a good question because if
00:02:37you’re using ground meat if you’re going
00:02:39to use the cheaper cuts of meat anything
00:02:41like the brisket or the shins of beef or
00:02:43you know in a lamb it’ll be the shoulder
00:02:45of lamb or the shoulder of pork
00:02:46you know those we call them in England
00:02:49second class there’s nothing wrong with
00:02:50them it just means they cannot be cooked
00:02:52quickly in a pan if you’re using like
00:02:54the stewing clap cuts or the cuts that
00:02:56needs slow roasting or cooking overnight
00:02:59or mincing and sort of turning into a
00:03:01ragout you can actually pick those cuts
00:03:03up really really cheap and also kind of
00:03:07going back to stuff you know things like
00:03:08the chilies the ragu ‘s the polonaise is
00:03:11using the ground beef you can take a
00:03:14little meat and with other vegetables in
00:03:17herbs and stuff you can take it a long
00:03:19long way
00:03:19so hopefully that that question helps
00:03:22also if you buy local you’ve got a
00:03:24better chance of getting a cheaper deal
00:03:26because you have a relationship and also
00:03:29it’s not necessarily just about organic
00:03:31you know trying to get really good
00:03:32free-range or higher welfare stuff is
00:03:35really good too okay let me just get
00:03:37back to the earthly omelet it’s pretty
00:03:39damn hot in the pan I’m gonna add some
00:03:43smoked streaky bacon so I’m going to put
00:03:45that in first of all I’m gonna do a
00:03:47plain omelet but I’m just gonna give you
00:03:49like a little flavor you know something
00:03:52that I like to do funnily enough for my
00:03:54seven-year-old kid does this
00:03:57the weekend and Daisy she loves to cook
00:04:01loves to cook she can do fried eggs
00:04:04poached eggs boiled eggs omelets and I
00:04:08know I’m not supposed to be training her
00:04:09up but she’s interested so I can’t help
00:04:12myself and then popping my other kid
00:04:14she’s not interested at all she’s just
00:04:15doing her other things so the bacon goes
00:04:18in also I’m gonna you’ve got smokiness
00:04:21you’ve got saltiness come over here look
00:04:23at these Tomatoes if you look down the
00:04:24farmers markets these days or in decent
00:04:26supermarkets you haven’t just got the
00:04:29box standard boring Tomatoes you’ve got
00:04:31reds yellows cherries you can get back
00:04:35Tomatoes tight tiger skin sort of
00:04:38looking marble to Mars so have a little
00:04:40look around I guess what I’m saying is
00:04:42there’s some interesting stuff out there
00:04:44so make use of it I’m just going to let
00:04:47this fry and we’ve got crisps penis
00:04:50happening in the pan here let’s have a
00:04:51little look in here we’ve got the
00:04:53crispiness means flavor we’ll get that
00:04:56going I’m cooking it slowly because I’m
00:04:58talking too much
00:04:59any more questions lovely Liz all
00:05:08vegetables all breasts of course okay
00:05:12but first and foremost like you know
00:05:15eating different things trying different
00:05:16things that we’re all human we all have
00:05:19things that we don’t like that is normal
00:05:21okay but at the same time like anything
00:05:24else in life whether it’s music or
00:05:25fashion or clothes or art or whatever
00:05:27it’s what you’re exposed to it’s what
00:05:29you see it’s what you smell so literally
00:05:31just going down in America now there’s
00:05:33some incredible farmers markets I
00:05:35guarantee you that if you walk around
00:05:37there for 45 minutes
00:05:39just looking smelling having a laugh you
00:05:41will see stuff that kind of sticks in
00:05:44your head and you might have a little
00:05:45try of things and you might have a
00:05:47little go and that’s what it’s all about
00:05:49but if you want to find ways of getting
00:05:50veggies in you and liking it I guess
00:05:54things like juicing is really good you
00:05:58know just if you like like chopped
00:05:59salads you know if you like any other
00:06:01kind of foods that you love if you like
00:06:03a little salsa houses or wicked ways of
00:06:05getting loads of veggies into your into
00:06:08your food
00:06:09herbs citrus stuff like that so that’s
00:06:11let’s do this omelet cuz it seemed to be
00:06:13going forever what I want to do is just
00:06:16throw these tomatoes in I’m just gonna
00:06:19literally warm them up so I’ve got a
00:06:21lovely sizzling crispy bacon right now
00:06:24I’ve tossed it and all that lovely sort
00:06:25of bacon fat I’m going to take this out
00:06:28onto here
00:06:30I want this pan to be kind of hot but
00:06:33not too hot so I’m just going to take it
00:06:35off the hopper the heat for a second
00:06:36I’ve already got a little bit of fat in
00:06:38there I’m going to put an egg in there
00:06:40now I’m using a three-egg omelet right
00:06:43you can make it over two egg omelet as
00:06:46you can see I’m not even on the gas at
00:06:47the moment can you see as I move this
00:06:49around we’ve got it starts to set and I
00:06:54move the pan around like that and I’m
00:06:57just using residual heat now guys
00:06:59residual Heat and what we want is I
00:07:02don’t really want it to be like really
00:07:03golden on the outside I want it to be
00:07:05sort of delicate and soft and silky so
00:07:07I’m gonna take a little bit of cheese
00:07:08just a tiny bit and just grate that just
00:07:13little swoop to that from a height and
00:07:15what’s interesting if you get in there
00:07:17in the camera you’ll notice that it kind
00:07:18of looks still a little bit uncooked on
00:07:20the egg right which is at this point but
00:07:22eggs cook a really low temperature they
00:07:26cook at a really really low temperature
00:07:28so you kind of ought it’s a little bit
00:07:30like a now I’m going to talk about
00:07:32soccer now and you guys hate soccer
00:07:33it’s like when you’re trying to curve a
00:07:35ball into the top right corner
00:07:37but you kick it over there or in tennis
00:07:39you’ve got you need to try and put some
00:07:40spin on it you go over there but it ends
00:07:42up over there we’ve with the omelet you
00:07:44got to take it off early to cook it
00:07:46perfectly if you cook it perfectly in
00:07:48the pan by the time you get it to your
00:07:50plate it will be miserable dry fluffy
00:07:52and hideous right so bear with me on
00:07:54that one over here I’m just going to
00:07:57chop up this beautiful crispy omelet
00:08:01sprinkle this in like that going in with
00:08:05those just softened lovely softened
00:08:07tomatoes and then that’s it and I know I
00:08:11know it’s I know it’s Kiki guys but when
00:08:14my seven year old she does this on her
00:08:16own right when she mastered it I was so
00:08:19proud because there’s something about
00:08:21allowing your kid
00:08:22the basic skills it’s so weird like you
00:08:25know if you look at what kids do on
00:08:27America’s Got Talent
00:08:29you know that dancing around flipping
00:08:30around Pogo in I don’t know you know
00:08:32breakdancing BMX in karate whatever kids
00:08:36are so talented kids are so like precise
00:08:40and they’re so amazing and yet what no
00:08:43one wants to give them a pan or a knife
00:08:45because like oh like it’s more dangerous
00:08:47than a bike on a road next to a free
00:08:49ride you know I mean and so when I see
00:08:51my little kid knock out a beautiful
00:08:53perfectly cooked omelet I know that for
00:08:55the rest of her life she’s gonna be out
00:08:57of cook at university or if she goes she
00:08:59probably won’t go to university but you
00:09:01know she’ll be able to look after
00:09:01herself and that’s that’s the main thing
00:09:03so okay over here I’m just gonna roll it
00:09:07up like that beautiful and then I’m
00:09:11going to turn it out take the plate to
00:09:12it one two three gorgeous like that and
00:09:16the point of this bad boy is delicate
00:09:21soft silky still gooey in the middle
00:09:23smoky bacon in tommorows bit of a winner
00:09:26and you can win this omelet I will post
00:09:31this to you in America if you want it
00:09:34just just tweet in your address now and
00:09:37I will send this to you I’ve just got
00:09:39some I put some radishes that we grew
00:09:41these radishes in a flower box sort of
00:09:43four floors up in a block of flats from
00:09:46seed they don’t take very long to grow a
00:09:48couple of weeks so I’m going to show you
00:09:50and make a quick salad it’s nothing
00:09:53special
00:09:53I’ve got the cheapest lettuce that money
00:09:55can buy I think you call it a butter
00:09:57leaf lettuce and we in England call it
00:10:00just around lettuce so I’m going to
00:10:02throw that in this is the kind of list
00:10:04that you would get in British schools
00:10:06I’ve got the radish here people are a
00:10:09bit scared of radish but I’m gonna call
00:10:11some have some slice some kids love to
00:10:14grow these by the way
00:10:15and to answer that question that that
00:10:17person that was saying I don’t like any
00:10:18salad I don’t want any veg his in all of
00:10:22the time that I’ve worked with children
00:10:24in schools England or America and the
00:10:27small amount of work that I’ve done in
00:10:28Australia as well
00:10:29I’ve never ever met a child that won’t
00:10:32eat veggies or fruit when they’ve got
00:10:34involved in growing them and planting
00:10:36them fact so you know when you’re
00:10:39getting when you get involved in working
00:10:42with this stuff it’s great
00:10:44so radishes go in I’m gonna give you a
00:10:48quick principle I don’t know if you guys
00:10:50are into this but for me personally like
00:10:52herbs are essential in salad so just a
00:10:55little bit of parsley a mint parsley and
00:10:58mint make any salad really really Rock
00:11:01so I’m just gonna chop that up buyin
00:11:04salads in bags is okay but it’s really
00:11:07expensive so if you’re cash-strapped you
00:11:13know kind of buying whole heads is much
00:11:15better to make a dress in my simple kind
00:11:19of recipe is do it in a jam jar an empty
00:11:21jam jar and do three to one and that
00:11:24means three times more olive oil than
00:11:27acid so if I do it in a jam jar you can
00:11:30kind of very much visually they serve
00:11:32mr. cameraman get right in there big boy
00:11:34is that the closest you can get come on
00:11:35America is waiting on you if you film
00:11:37this wrong they’re gonna there’s gonna
00:11:39be dodgy dressings made all around the
00:11:41place that’s it get on your knees god
00:11:42bless you okay so three parts olive oil
00:11:45to one part lemon juice a good pinch of
00:11:47salt and pepper if you wanted to put
00:11:49herbs in there you can if you want to
00:11:51take it to Asia
00:11:52you could go lime and go Chile you can
00:11:54go soya sauce you can go coriander if
00:11:56you wanted to go to Italy you could put
00:11:57a little bit of there’s sun-dried tomato
00:11:59some olives and some balsamic vinegar
00:12:01you know basically what I’m saying is
00:12:03the concept of three two one three parts
00:12:05olive oil to one part acid use that take
00:12:08that and wherever you come from in life
00:12:10make it your own team okay lid on
00:12:14shaky-shaky you just do it once a week
00:12:18nothing can really go off in there
00:12:20that’ll see it if you did that much it
00:12:22could sit in your fridge for a whole
00:12:23week
00:12:24the biggest ripoff in the world is those
00:12:27hideous bottles of dressing full of
00:12:30loads of crack you know not really into
00:12:33those so at the end of the day most of
00:12:36the people that I work with everyone
00:12:38always says it’s way more expensive to
00:12:40cook fresh
00:12:41than it is to buy like the cheap
00:12:44takeaways and that’s probably true for
00:12:47cooking for one but debatable on – and
00:12:51for a family of four categorically
00:12:54absolutely not
00:12:55I’ve never worked the family where we
00:12:57can’t save them at least 10% on their
00:12:59shopping bill which is normally like a
00:13:01couple of grand a year and you know you
00:13:05want to do stuff with that money you
00:13:06know ask is good it’s good to save money
00:13:08and if it makes you live longer as well
00:13:11then happy days let’s just finish that
00:13:13salad this is a really humble salad
00:13:15costs nothing great with steak fish
00:13:19crunchy citrusy but more to the point
00:13:22that the reason for cooking these two
00:13:24dishes today is the kind of food that
00:13:26you guys have requested simple things
00:13:27done well a basic salad oh sorry a basic
00:13:30salad dressing and a basic omelet so get
00:13:34guys if you like that if you like the
00:13:36fact that we’ve got this little life
00:13:37thing going on I really want to work
00:13:39with you guys in America support you
00:13:40guys put your requests in if you want me
00:13:42to come back we’ll do it again
00:13:44and anything I can do to help god bless
00:13:47you we’re raising some money for schools
00:13:49and kids and teaching them of cook in LA
00:13:51there’s this cool website called causes
00:13:54calm it’s pretty massive actually if you
00:13:57go there what they do is they kind of
00:14:00like go into people’s like birthdays
00:14:02famous people’s birthdays my birthday is
00:14:04the 27th of May and we’re raised you can
00:14:07give up cash you can give up all sorts
00:14:10of things towards us helping other
00:14:12people so my wish is to get equipment
00:14:15for kids in LA to teach them cooking and
00:14:19if you guys want to help or donate
00:14:21anything go to causes comm and find it
00:14:24and the great thing is is if it goes
00:14:26ballistic only if it goes ballistic you
00:14:29get to get a pie pushed in my face
00:14:32that’s how serious we are oh god mind
00:14:35you lovely people
00:14:36sign the petition go to Jamie’s Food
00:14:38Revolution calm sign the petition join
00:14:41the revolution the next six weeks are
00:14:43going to be critical because we’re going
00:14:45to be making noise making points and you
00:14:47can’t just watch the show you got to get
00:14:49involved and make some noise so we can
00:14:52all get some improvements made fake
00:14:53very much over an hour
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