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Jamie's Huntington 1000

Tue 03 Nov 2009 @ 17:45
Monisha Saldanha

While shooting his new American TV series in Huntington, WV, Jamie has boldly bet local radio DJ Rod from The Dawg that he can collect 1,000 photos of people cooking any recipe of his.

Help Jamie by sending in a single picture of yourself and the meal you prepared to mob@jamieoliver.tv by Friday 13 November! We’ll be posting as many photos as possible on a large board in Jamie’s Kitchen in Huntington and also on JamieOliver.com The TV cameras will be shooting the board so your photo might end up in Jamie’s next TV show, “Jamie’s Food Revolution” which will be airing in the USA on the ABC network in early 2010.

Check out our moblog for images from Huntington: http://www.jamieoliver.com/moblog

Here's one that you can try out (there are loads more in our recipe section)

Sizzling beef with scallions and noodles
Serves 1

Ingredients:

• Vegetable oil
• a thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
• a fresh red chile (or 1 if you like things spicy), deseeded and finely sliced
• a small bunch of fresh cilantro, leaves picked, stalks finely chopped,

• 2 scallions, trimmed and finely sliced
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 4oz top loin or sirloin, sliced into thin strips
• 4oz cooked chow mein noodles
• a handful of beansprouts

• a handful sugar snap peas

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
Squeeze of honey

• 1 lime, for serving

To cook your stir-fry
• Preheat a wok or large frying pan on a high heat and once it’s very hot, add a good lug of vegetable oil and swirl it around.

• Add all your chopped ginger, garlic, chilli, cilantro stalks and scallions to the wok.

• Give the pan a really good stir to mix everything around quickly.

• Stir-fry for 1 minute, taking care to keep everything moving so it doesn’t burn.

• Rub a pinch or two of black pepper all over the strips of beef then add to the wok and cook for 30 seconds.

• Keep tossing and moving everything around.

• Add the noodles and then your beansprouts and sugar snap peas.

• Add a splash of soy sauce, and squeeze of honey and toss.

• Serve your stir-fry in a bowl with a lime wedge for squeezing over and a few cilantro leaves scattered on top.

Enjoy!

About the Author: Monisha Saldanha works on the JamieOliver.com web team.

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14 comments

1. annie Mon 09 Nov 2009 @ 05:09 dear jamie,
thank you so much for investing your time, money, knowledge, power, and love here in west virginia. we tend to be a very stubborn people and i know that the work you are doing cannot be a piece of cake, but i just want to let you know that it is appreciated so very much. keep up the good work!

2. Jim Heath Sun 08 Nov 2009 @ 11:15 Hi
An interesting point made by Sherry Phillips about career mothers not having time to cook good food for their children (or career fathers I presume). I completely disagree with this.
Good food does not take longer to buy, good food does not take longer to prepare and good food does not take longer to cook. My wife and I both work full time and we always manage to sit down with the kids and eat a decent tea each night made with the best ingredients we can find, because we enjoy it and we know how improtant it is for us all.
It's interesting that people always say they have no time for cooking and yet viewing figures of soap operas, reality tv shows and the like are massive. Perhaps there's a imbalance in today's lifestyle that should be faced and changed.
I've followed and been influenced greatly by the campaigns Jamie has been running here in the UK and I think he is right on the money with his aims and I commend him for his energy and enthusiasm.
Keep it up Jamie, it does have an impact and is worthwhile,
All the best to one and all
Jim (a 'career' father)

3. Steve Youngs Sun 08 Nov 2009 @ 01:23 In response to "reply to sherry phillips"

In case you hadn't noticed, it's no longer the 1950's. Gone are the days where the sole responsibility for caring for and raising the children is left to the mother. Ideally, it is shared equally between both parents. Sometimes one parent is home raising the kids more than the other, but it is not always the mother. Case in point, I'm a full-time stay-at-home Dad. My wife is the primary income producer. Don't forget also that there are many many situations and circumstances where both parents need to produce income simply to survive. And then there are the families that only have one parent for whatever reason.

What I'm saying is that it is naive to think that Mum can always stay home and bring up the kids.

Jamie's programs are all about education... Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him how to catch a fish and he eats for life. If you don't wish to support him financially, that's OK (plenty of us aren't in a situation where we can). I'm sure Jamie won't mind, especially because there is something far more valuable you could do to support him... You can teach someone how to fish.

Regards,
Steve Youngs

4. Tami G. Sun 08 Nov 2009 @ 00:11 Thanks Jamie for book signing in New York on November 6, 2009. It was great seeing you!!!!!!

I used to follow your Jamie At Home on Foodnetwork, but Foodnetwork moved it to such unusually early hours. At some point I think it was airing at 7 or 7:30 AM Eastern time on Saturdays. Terrible. And the worst shows of Foodnetwork were running in the afternoon and evenings.
I hope your shows will come back to Foodnetwork.
Good luck with all!
Wish you the best!

With Big LOVE citizen of Rep. of Georgia :)

5. Huntington1234 Sat 07 Nov 2009 @ 23:01 Betty, there is an article that said that Huntington will be the backdrop for the show but could branch out into Ohio also. I do not see that happening yet though. Maybe they decided just to stay in Huntington.
I'd like to know more specifics about the show. ABC only ordered six episodes and I do not see how they can fit everything into just six episodes.
Also Jamie did something similar in the UK but the UK is much smaller and probably easier to impact things there. The USA is huge. Maybe he could do this in a few more towns and let it be spread throughout several seasons.

6. Huntington1234 Sat 07 Nov 2009 @ 22:53 Big Fan, yes that is Jamie Lofiego. Jamie Oliver will be on an episode of Up Late. You can go to the Up Late site on YouTube. The episode is already posted.

7. Dara Sat 07 Nov 2009 @ 22:44 Contrary to what you'd like to believe, us working mothers do have our priorities straight. Not all of us adhere to a diet of Chef Boyardee and Ramen Noodles. Just keep in mind that we're doing the man and woman's job.

8. Huntington1234 Sat 07 Nov 2009 @ 01:12 Does the photo have to be of stir fry or can it be any food?

9. Huntington1234 Sat 07 Nov 2009 @ 01:10 I support this show. The only thing I don't understand is changing the school food menus. I thought that it was regulated already for school lunches to be healthy. I'd like to see this addressed in the show.

10. jonathanz Fri 06 Nov 2009 @ 20:09 Thanks for recipe.

11. reply to sherry phillips Fri 06 Nov 2009 @ 14:27 Throwing money into all those program isn't going to change parents taking responsibility what they feed their children. Whatever happened to mothers doing their job and taking care of their children by feeding them wholesome food from scratch. Oh yeah, I remember they don't have time to do this anymore since they have to go out and have a career instead of raising their children. This problem won't be fixed until mothers go back to being mothers and get their priorities right.

12. Betty Wed 04 Nov 2009 @ 22:01 This is a great premise for a show. Was there any consideration of crossing the river to KY or OH for any portion of your research? Was any footage shot in either state?

13. Big Fan Wed 04 Nov 2009 @ 15:31 Isn't that Jamie LoFiego? The host of Up Late?

14. Sherry Phillips Tue 03 Nov 2009 @ 21:38 I just came home from meeting Jamie and participating in the cooking demonstration in downtown Huntington. I must say it was a hoot and the stir fry was delicious. I commend him for what he is trying to do for us and I would like to help in some way because as I understand it,more funding is needed to continue the program. I am sorry to say, that I was so excited about meeting him and unexpectedly being part of the activity that I did not grasp the details of the project well enough discuss the funding needs with others. I remember Diane Sawyer's efforts on behalf of the children's health care needs in Kentucky and I so wanted someone to share their spotlight on our children here in West Virginia. Now someone is and his name is Jamie. Please send me information to arm me with the details so I can beat the bushes and try to bring in some more funds. I don't want this program to end. Even if ABC doesn't pick it up, it is a wonderful initiative and will have a tremendous impact on the future health of all our citizens, but especially out children.
My email address is above, but just in case, it is zekebadboy@comcast.net. Looking forward to hearing from you, and please keep up the wonderful work.
Sherry Phillips