How to Grow Fresh Herbs with the Urbipod and Chef Dominique Rizzo

How to grow fresh herbs with Chef Dominique Rizzo made easy. My new project is to grow herbs for my kitchen in my NEW Urban Feast Cooking School due to open in 2020. The Urbipod is so useful when I am cooking. I have been using the Urbipod for over a year and I have had great success. It’s wonderful to have all the herbs in reach and always fresh. Herbs don’t keep well in the fridge and I know that they are items that tend to be thrown out – that’s your money your throwing away. I found it easy to use and so easy to maintain and I also started growing lettuce and edible flowers. I’m starting a new round of seeds and I look forward to sharing my harvest with you.

Urbotanica, a forward-thinking Australian company has now released the latest Urbipod. The UrbiPod Smart Garden – which as the name suggests will have added features including a sensor to gauge the local growing conditions and best of all its all controlled by your smartphone.

Urbotanica is launching the UrbiPod Smart Garden through an international Kickstarter campaign which allows customers to buy in advance of production at heavy discounts to the RRP. There will be limited stock through this campaign, we are first offering the opportunity to our close friends, supporters and their networks.

We would appreciate it if you could share our post with your network as it will allow them access to the launch day and early-bird discounts available. Click Here For Details.

Kickstarter Urbipod Smart Garden

How to grow fresh herbs with Chef Dominique Rizzo

Join me as I demonstrate the first in a series on my Urbipod experience from unpacking the box of all the pieces, simplifying the jigsaw of putting them together ready for planting. I want to share my tips on what bits of the pod fit in where and which way up so that you can confidently move onto the next exciting step of planting your herb seeds. This may save you time and streamline the assembly of your Urbipod when you join the ever-growing number of kitchen-herb-gardeners.

 

 

Watch How to grow fresh herbs with Chef Dominique Rizzo

If you would like to check the Urbipod, here is their website Urbotanica.

Once you have all your herbs growing, join me in my kitchen. I have a great collection of easy, flavorsome RECIPES using herbs.

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Next in this series “How to start planting with the Urbipod”: This video takes you through the next stage in setting up the Urbipod for growing,

 

Le Creuset

Thank you again for taking this opportunity to work with Le Creuset. You have been gracious and a joy to get to know through this experience.

Make food waste a thing of the past with clever cooking techniques – Chef Dominique Rizzo and Sam Thaiday

Make food waste a thing of the past with clever cooking techniques – Sam Thaiday & Celebrity chef Dominique Rizzo set out on a mission to bust the fact that food waste costs the average household about $2200 to $3800 per year.

Make food waste a thing of the past - Chef Dominique Rizzo and Sam Thaiday

At the Brisbane City Council Green Heart Fair, Chef Dominique Rizzo and NRL legend Sam Thaiday shared their tips on how to turn what is already in the fridge into creative meals, how to reduce your food waste and how to save time and money creating delicious dishes at home.

That’s good for your budget and good for the environment.

Living sustainably is all about reducing waste, recycling, reusing and being kind to the planet.

Make food waste a thing of the past - Sam Thaiday and Chef Dominique Rizzo

Getting into action on stage at the Green Heart Fair, Dominique and Sam chose the ingredients for the dishes that they were cooking from food leftovers that usually were tossed out in the garbage bin.

Together, they demonstrated how to cook a delicious menu of dishes starting with

Corn Soup with Avocado Salsa,

Vegetable San Choy Bow,

Sweet Potato Pizza, 

Bacon and Vegetable Strudel.

Make food waste a thing of the past - Sam Thaiday and Chef Dominique Rizzo

There were no sad lonely vegetables in the kitchen after this cook-off.

Watch Brisbane City Council’s video of Dominique in “Make food waste a thing of the past – Chef Dominique Rizzo” on You Tube

If you want to know more about how to cut down on food waste, join the “Love Food Hate Waste Workshops” supported by The Brisbane City Council and presented by Dominique at her cooking school at Putia Pure Food Kitchen.