Shortcuts, Hints and Tips!

We will share with you some of our hints for keeping waste to a minimum, for recycling of leftovers and ways that you can make quite plain fare into glamorous morsels which will have your family or guests coming back for more!

Herb Butter
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Butter,Garlic and Herbs

Chop and mix together

If you grow your herbs this is great, but if you have purchased them for a specific dish and are unable to use them all, then recycling them into herb butter is a perfect way to stop them from simply becoming compost.

The butter must be at room temperature before mixing.

Take the herbs of your choice, chop finely.

Mix well into the butter using a spatula. You can add crushed garlic as well if you wish.

Place onto cling wrap and make into a roll, twisting the ends tightly.

Refrigerate.

You can then simply cut a slice as you require to put with steamed vegetables, steaks etc.

 Or, you can spread onto a baguette and heat to have with 
soups, pasta etc

Roll tightly and refrigerate

Place on cling wrap

Olives

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Marinated Olives

When you have a bottle of olives in your fridge that seem a tad boring, make up beautiful marinated olives by simply adding olive oil, herbs and lemon. Stir through and bottle to bring out as a complement to your cheese platter or nibbles.

Simply add olive oil, herbs and lemon!









Vegetable Stock 

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Have you ever thought how many vegetable leftovers you throw into the bin every week?  This is simply waste as they can be used to make vegetable stock - fresh, natural, economical and healthy.
There are many vegetables that can be used in cooking stock. I suggest you to keep all the vegetables (not green salad vegetables) until the weekend, then check your fridge and kitchen, I am sure you can find a wide variety of vegetables to use.
Today I have used:- onion skin and tails, celery leaves, spring onion, carrot skin, capsicum core, pumpkin skin, leftover tomato, cabbage... Wash them. Put all in a large pot and bring to the boil, cook on medium heat for a further hour..  
Strain into plastic containers!

Voila! I have fresh vegetable stock ready for me to use. I will cooking pumpkin soup tomorrow. The other I can keep in the fridge and freeze.
You can see how easy it is. Not only do you not have any waste, it saves you lots of money too. Most importantly your cooking has a fuller flavour and more tasty.   

You can also buy some beef bones or chicken racks, grill them in the oven, then cook with vegetables for 2-3 hours.

Fantastic!!!