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Hi guys, I'm Talia Chai and welcome to Real Food Live
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Today I'm going to be showing you a little tip that can come in handy when you want to
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store fresh herbs. So we all know we go to the store and herbs come in this really big package and you only
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use a little bit in cooking here and there and then you have so many herbs left over
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that you don't know what to do with and they go bad in the fridge or the freezer and it's
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just a disaster. This is a really simple trick that only requires an ice cube tray and with this trick you will
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prolong the life of your herbs keeping them fresh and enhancing your cooking for months
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and months. So all you need is some herbs and what I like to do, you can see here I have some oregano
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I have rosemary and I have thyme. Make sure you pick the leaves off the stems because the woody stems won't be as good and
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we don't need them in our actual cooking. So you pick the leaves off, you can give them a rough chop if you want
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I'm going to say the more fibrous herbs like these ones are the best options because they'll
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sit in the oil and preserve a little bit better than the softer ones like parsley or cilantro
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So what I'm going to do is I have a clean ice cube tray here, I'm going to sprinkle
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in some herbs into each cube just like this and you can do rosemary in one, thyme in one
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oregano in one or you can combine them all into different cubes
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Totally up to you, have fun with it, get crazy, play around and I'm going to do separate ones
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for all of them because depending on what you're cooking like oregano may not go with
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everything so just going to split them up that way and you're just filling up the ice
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cubes about halfway, not all the way to the top and then the fun part comes in
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All you need is some olive oil and I recommend using good quality extra virgin olive oil
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and I always like to sniff it, smells really really fruity and really nice and all I'm
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going to do is pour the olive oil on top of the herbs making sure it's covering the
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herbs once again just a little bit more than halfway up the top
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When you pop this in the freezer, I would leave it in the freezer overnight just to
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set and they turn into this kind of milky white yellow creamy cube color, they're really
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beautiful and all you have to do is whenever you're ready to cook, pull it out of the freezer
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grab an ice cube and throw it into your pot or your pan of whatever you're making with
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heat and then your olive oil is taken care of and you have an automatic flavor burst
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of all these gorgeous fresh herbs that otherwise would have probably ended up in the garbage
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I hope you guys love this trick, I do this all the time, it really really comes in handy
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so have fun with it and I'll see you in the next video
