Perfectly Good Food: Zero Waste Home Cooking with Irene and Mei Li

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What’s on the Menu:

• Freestyle Vegetable Summer Rolls
• As-You-Like-It Savory Pancakes
• Scrap Chili Oil
• Peanut Butter Jar Nut Butter Sauce
  
  
  Here are phrases you don’t see in recipes very often: “Scraps and bits.” “A few lonely vegetables.” “Mix-and-match.” But in “Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero-Waste Approach to Home Cooking,” (use code MILK2024 for 10% off your order) sisters Irene and Mei Li use those terms with abandon. Why? Because that’s how real day-to-day home cooking happens: by employing smart techniques to transform the contents of your fridge and pantry into great meals. When you cook the way they do—with an open mind, trust in your senses and a few kitchen organization hacks—you can truly become a zero-waste cook. Join Irene and Mei for a livestream class where you’ll strengthen your zero-waste cooking muscles as you make four delicious recipes.
  
  First, their Savory Pancakes call for nearly any combination of shredded raw or cooked vegetables, plus a handful of “anything pickled.” Served alongside a homemade okonomiyaki sauce that requires nothing more than the four most common condiments in the American kitchen, this is dinner in minutes. Want to make something even more impressive without an extra trip to the grocery store? Whip up a batch of crunchy, refreshing and vegetable-forward Summer Rolls. As long as you stick—more or less—to their suggested ratios, you’ll have a delicious dish that’s different every time you make it. It’s even better served up with what Irene and Mei call Scrap Chili Oil, which simmers allium scraps—like bits and bobs of onions, clean scallion roots and garlic peels—in oil with spices and chilies to make the best chili oil you’ve ever tasted. And don’t toss that empty peanut butter jar: their favorite dipping sauce for summer rolls is shaken up right in the jar, meaning you don’t throw away even a drop of the good stuff.
  
  About Irene and Mei: Margaret and Irene Li are the co-authors of "Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking" (use code MILK2024 for 10% off your order) and "Double Awesome Chinese Food." Margaret, aka Mei, is the founder of Food Waste Feast and lives in Glasgow, Scotland. Irene is the CEO of Prepshift, which works with independent restaurants to create more profitable and sustainable businesses, and is a 2022 James Beard Leadership Award winner. She lives in Boston, supporting the Mei Mei Dumplings team.
  
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If you have any questions about this class, please don't hesitate to get in touch via cookingschool@177milkstreet.com.

This event has limited spots and you must register in advance via Eventbrite in order to attend. One sign-up covers one device. Payments for Milk Street livestream events are non-refundable. If you find yourself unable to attend, you may transfer the ticket to someone else, but we are unable to refund fees and all payments are final.

Closed Captioning is available for all Milk Street virtual events.

Immediately after registering, you will get a confirmation email that contains the Zoom meeting log-in information. One week prior to the class (or within 48 hours, if you register less than one week in advance), you will receive instructions on how to prepare ingredients and equipment in order to cook along, if you choose.

After class, you will receive a recording of the event, as links to any additional recipes and resources that may come up. NOTE:The recording link is only available online for one month following each event. If you’d like to have access to the recording for longer than that, you'll need to save the recording locally by clicking on “download” on the top right corner of the recording page.

Proceeds from livestream cooking classes and workshops support Milk Street's non-profit work with The Big Sisters Association of Great Boston, The Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester, FoodCorps and other partners.

Bonus: All attendees of this class will receive a one-time 20% off coupon to the Milk Street Store after class.