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Tom Kerridge's Best Ever Dishes ep.5 - Get Moving

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.5 – Get Moving

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.5 – Get Moving: For step five of his plan, Tom motivates his gang to up their exercise and eat the right food to fuel their bodies. He starts with his homemade energy bars – fruit and nut-filled flapjacks, the perfect snack for a workout. He takes a tin of them to his local tennis club where he meets up with the Roy Choudhury family. They have a history of heart problems in their family and want to make lifestyle changes to stay healthy but they don’t know what sort of exercise they can all […]

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Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 6

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 6 – We’ve Got This

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 6: The eight families who are following Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start plan have risen to every challenge he has set them, transforming mealtimes at home. Now, as the experiment draws to a close, they’re coming together to celebrate their achievements – and to take on Tom’s final challenge: cooking generous dishes for groups of friends and family.     Tom kicks things off by cooking beef biryani for his own extended family. With a one-pot wonder like this, the most important thing is to pack in tons of flavour. Tom roasts the mince for the

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Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 5

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 5 – Get Moving

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 5: for step five of his plan, Tom motivates his gang to up their exercise and eat the right food to fuel their bodies. He starts with his homemade energy bars – fruit and nut-filled flapjacks, the perfect snack for a workout. He takes a tin of them to his local tennis club where he meets up with the Roy Choudhury family. They have a history of heart problems in their family and want to make lifestyle changes to stay healthy but they don’t know what sort of exercise they can all do together. Tom

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Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 4

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 4 – Be Healthy

In Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 4 – Tom shifts the focus onto their health – using his recipes as inspiration to get his gang eating more fruit and veg. Tom’s brother Sam and his family come for lunch. Sam’s not a big veg fan so is an ideal candidate for road-testing one of Tom’s tasty veg-packed recipes – spicy beef lettuce cups. Tom stages a family cook-off with his brother, with niece Peyton as the judge. Tom explains the key to a delicious stir fry is to prep all the ingredients in advance, as the cooking part only takes

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Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start episode 3

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 3 – Start ’em Young

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 3 – Tom’s six-step plan for transforming family eating habits is nearing the half way stage. So far, the eight families are eating many more homecooked meals and have learnt how to plan ahead to save time and money. Now, for the third step of his plan, Tom wants to get everyone in the family helping out in the kitchen, not just one designated cook.     Tom believes that whatever our age or experience, we will have a healthier relationship with food if we do some cooking. To prove you are never too young

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Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start episode 2

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 2 – Be the Boss

Last time, Tom Kerridge got his gang of Fresh Start families cooking more meals from scratch at home. Now it is step two and he is encouraging his families to be more organised. Tom’s pubs have been awarded Michelin stars, a success which owes as much to meticulous planning as it does to amazing food. Can Tom’s professional tips transform the gang into menu maestros and kitchen bosses?     Tom wants the families to follow his three rules to bossing the kitchen. One: plan their meals ahead. Two: shop from a list. Three: instead of reheating shop-bought ready meals,

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Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start episode 1

Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start episode 1 – Get Cooking

Tom meets his eight volunteer families for the first time and introduces them to the six-step plan he wants them to follow for the next 12 weeks. They all want to make a fresh start with food because time pressure, fussiness or lack of confidence in cooking have contributed to an over reliance on convenience food. Tom believes there is a better way to live and as a husband, dad and chef who loves good food, he is the perfect mentor for his gang of fresh starters.     The first step of his plan is to simply get the

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Tom Kerridges Best Ever Dishes ep.4

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.4 – Tasty Dinners

In Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.4: Tom believes that we should cook and eat good food no matter what day of the week it is, so he’s got some incredible fuss-free dishes that are quick to make without compromising on flavour, like lemon pepper chicken – a whole meal in one pan that saves on the washing up.      He shows us how to spice up traditional lamb chops by giving the Barnsley chop a north African twist and serving it with a courgette and feta salad with an unusual dressing, before demonstrating his take on the

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Tom Kerridges Best Ever Dishes ep.3

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.3 – Weekend Specials

In Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.3 is all about dishes for the weekend, when there is a bit more time to enjoy being in the kitchen and cook something extra special to share with family and friends.     Tom turns an ordinary leg of lamb into an extraordinary dish by roasting it wrapped in branches of bay leaves to pack in extra flavour. He wants to shake up Sunday sides so is salt-baking garlic and lemon before stirring it through some wilted greens – much better than boring boiled broccoli. He visits a Malaysian supper club to find

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Tom Kerridge's Best Ever Dishes ep 2

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.2 – Takeaways

In Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.2: he creates dishes inspired by some of his favourite takeaway foods. This is the kind of casual grab-and-go food that puts a smile on people’s faces. He starts with a puff pastry pizza that saves on making pizza dough and is topped with delicious crispy beef. Next he cooks an upmarket version of the classic post-pub takeaway – the doner kebab. He swaps the usual lamb for duck, marinates it in Asian flavours and threads it on to lemongrass skewers for maximum flavour.     Tom’s favourite takeaway treats from his childhood were

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Tom Kerridge's Best Ever Dishes ep.1

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.1 – Crowd Pleasers

In Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.1 Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge wants to show us how to cook the best ever versions of the kind of food we all love to eat. This series his aim is to turn ordinary dishes into extraordinary ones with a few simple tricks that will help us all raise our game in the kitchen at home.     In this episode, Tom serves up some great crowd-pleasing dishes, perfect for sharing with mates at a party. However, there are no canapes on this menu – Tom likes to make proper hearty food for his

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