Wasting food hits your pocket Love Food Hate Waste provides recipes for using up leftovers and handy tips and advice to help us waste less food. Wasting food costs the average family with children around £680 a year. Eating out, eating in Boost your business Restaurant reviews are a popular feature of East End Life. If you would like to advertise on this page, call our ads team on 7364 4940 Mighty mint to peck up a pitta THIS month’s recipe comes from the Love Food Hate Waste website. This traditional Middle-Eastern salad is a perfect way to use up day-old pitta breads and makes a substantial but healthy lunch. If you have a recipe to suggest using leftovers or tips about reducing the amount of food we throw away, you could win £50 worth of shopping vouchers! Email your offerings to recycling@ towerhamlets.gov.uk Fatoush – serves 4 Ingredients Several pitta breads, French bread or ciabatta, toasted and torn into bite-sized pieces Salad vegetables – tomatoes, cucumber, celery, lettuce, rocket, baby spinach, red or green peppers, black olives, spring onions, red onions – all Method 1. Simply toss all the salad ingredients, the fresh herbs and the pieces of toasted bread to chopped into small pieces Generous handful of chopped fresh herbs – traditionally a mixture of flat-leaf parsley and mint Dressing, made from three parts olive oil to two parts lemon juice, crushed garlic, salt and pepper gether in a large bowl. 2. Pour the dressing on top just before serving. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com An urban melting pot of culture and cuisine BY PARSIMONIOUS PERCY IT WAS hard to know where to begin. Tucked away in the Euro car park on Shoreditch High Street, the Urban Food Fest was a bubbling melting pot of world culture and culinary delight. Tightly packed trucks, stalls and shacks with international delights lined the square around groups of tables. On offer was Caribbean and Mexican, Portuguese and Middle Eastern alongside Indian, Mexican and Brazilian and many more. For the thirsty, there were stalls selling cocktails, wines, spirits and beers. The choice was as varied as the clientele and there was even a makeshift stage (a small one) where a musician played Spanish guitar and sang whilst his friends accompanied him on backing vocals and percussion. Did I mention that the Urban Food Fest was packed? My choice was Colombian street food and, although the queue was long – it took about fifteen minutes to be served – it was well worth the wait. I chose the chicken and chorizo, at £7. The meat was cooked freshly on the grill by Roberto, a super-friendly Colombian chef. With a bed of salad greens as a base, the plate box was stacked with a layer of savoury rice, topped and toed with a red Roberto, the super-friendly Columbian chef cabbage, garlic new potatoes, fried plantain and kidney beans (frijoles). Then came the chargrilled chicken and chorizo, the dish topped with a tomato salsa. My dining partner chose the tender venison from the Brazillian churasco. Not only was our food great but we were lucky to find a table among the throng. We got chatting to three American students – Juliana from Long Island, Jessica from Los Angeles and Eliana, an upstate New Yorker. They wolfed Portuguese pastries and were amazed that London had night events like this, as nothing like this existed in New York. Also at our table sat Kurt, a Californian software developer on a weekend break from Luxembourg with his South African girlfriend. Next to them was a Slovakian and her girlfriend, who did not care to dine but came for the atmosphere and prosecco. The conversation was as mixed and as vibrant as the culinary offerings. The Urban Food Fest is a highly recommended dining and social experience at a budget that is highly affordable – the perfect platform for a great night out. Choose well and remember to talk to the people next to you. In total, the bill came to just £20 for two. The Urban Food Fest takes place Saturdays, 5pm to midnight, at Euro Car Parks, 162-167 Shoreditch High Street, E1. Admission is FREE and everyone is welcome. To book school trips or enquire about group visits please email youth@stepneycityfarm.org Registered charity number: 1136448 Homegrown, homemade… in East London Our award winning café and farm shop offer delicious farm to fork food, much of which is grown on this very special patch of green in E1. • Fresh, seasonal lunches, sweet treats & Sunday brunches • Farm eggs, fresh veg and preserves, and a weekly Saturday farmers’ market • Special evening and weekend events with guest chefs Opening Times: Farm: 10am-4pm Tuesday – Sunday Cafe: Wednesday–Friday 9.30am-2.30pm, Saturday-Sunday 10-4pm Farmers’ market: Saturday 10-3pm www.stepneycityfarm.org | @stepneycityfarm | facebook.com/stepneycityfarm 6 – 12 APRIL 2015 N E W S F ROM TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AND YOUR COMMUNITY 23
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