Another sumptuous dessert to finish off a dinner party. And it's relatively easy to make. What you need (for two people) 20 juicy strawberries 1 tinned pear 50 gr. chocolate1 spoon cane sugar1 spoon lemon juice How you do it: Chop the strawberries and season them with sugar and lemon juice. Arrange two quarters of […]
Until the contrary is proven and publicised, they tell us to eat 5-6 fruit and veg portion a day. When you get sick of lettuce, apples and other 'boring' produces, here is a deliciously nutrient fruit mix that keeps in the fridge for a day or two or can be easily frozen using one portion […]
April and May are perfect months for wild asparagus [Asparagus acutifolius], the uncultivated type that is hand picked in central and south Italian regions. What you need (for two people) 200 gr. wild asparagus 100 gr. frozen shrimps 1 garlic clove 1 spoon lemon juice180 gr. orecchietteolive oil, salt, black pepper How you do it: […]
Easy, quick, tasty, healthy and tempting, they're delicious served with fluffy roasted potatoes. What you need (for two people) 2 chicken breasts 6 stricky bacon rashers 5-6 bay leavessalt, olive oil, beer How you do it: Flatten the chicken breasts and cut them in 4×4 cm pieces. Cut the rashers and tie the slices to […]
Adrien Brody is looking the worse for wear. The Oscar winning star is normally and rightly regarded as one of Hollywood's most elegant leading men. He's so smart and chic in fact that Esquire Magazine named him America's best dressed man and he's often seen modelling top of the range designer gear. Today however 31 […]
It is a cool but sunny Sunday afternoon. I can see the top of his hat from the car when I pass by the huge conservatory from where he is facing over the Blackheath Esplanade. Sydney Hulls, sports reporter for the Daily Express for 35 years, is waiting for me in his victorian flat. The […]
Rather than spend three weeks lounging around Sydney, I decided that my recent visit to Australia should include something a bit more adventurous. Canvassing opinions from friends who had been to Australia recently, the overwhelming consensus was that the highlight of any trip down under was a cruise on the Great Barrier Reef. The world […]
The word that keeps coming up, in conversation with Johnny Bramwell, lead singer and songwriter with Mancunians I am Kloot, is drama. Whether it be references to Harold Pinter, or the description of their latest album as “like Richard III as a character”, it’s clear that he, and indeed the band, have specific goals in […]
“In the words of Archdeacon R.H.Charles in 1931, science may have ‘exposed many superstitions of the dark ages and laid bare the falsity of the religious and secular magic of the past and present, yet in their stead it has introduced legions of new alarms that beset our lives from the cradle to the grave’” […]