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• Kepos St Kitchen's pistachio and rosewater cake with plums and mascarpone recipe

  28-10-2017 23:28
  The couple behind Sydney’s popular Middle Eastern restaurants share the dishes they cook for themselves, friends and familyKepos Street Kitchen’s beetroot and salmon salad recipe
  This light and nutty cake will become your new favourite sponge recipe. You can change the nuts and fruit to whatever flavours you like and you can add any other flavouring. For example, substitute almonds for the pistachio nuts and almond extract for the rosewater, or use other nuts and vanilla bean paste.
  
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• AP learns DeVos may only partly wipe away some student loans

  28-10-2017 21:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit-colleges, The Associated Press has learned, abandoning the Obama administration's policy of fully erasing ......
  
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• Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the past

  28-10-2017 17:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - While declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday, President Donald Trump said: "Nobody has seen anything like what's going on now."He was right, and ......
  
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• Seafood fans hope for return of Maine shrimp in 2018

  28-10-2017 16:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PORTLAND, Maine - Seafood lovers might see the return of Maine shrimp to fish market counters and restaurants next year if interstate regulators decide the critter's population is strong enough.The ...
  
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• Your Guide to Energy-Efficient Home Heating Systems

  28-10-2017 14:00
  Heating the home in winter is one of the biggest household expenses. According to the EPA, 42% of the energy we use at home is for heating. While energy costs have risen, the improved energy efficiency of today’s heating systems offset those energy prices.There are plenty of energy-efficient home heating systems available for every budget to help you stay warmer this winter, and save you money in the process. Here’s your guide to the latest energy-efficient home heating systems.Let&r
  
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• Pick of the Litter: 40 Modern Pet Products for the Design Fanatic

  28-10-2017 14:00
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.  If you’re a design purist, the everyday dog bowl or cat scratcher doesn’t work in your modernist home. But wait till you see this roundup of some of the most gorgeous and innovative modern pet products. They mix two of your favorite things: good modern design and your favorite furry (or feathered) friend.Modern pet bowlsThe Pet Lounge Curved
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for ginger cake | King of puddings

  28-10-2017 11:00
  A slice of zingy, syrupy ginger cake recipe inspired by Nancy Silverton brings a bitter dash of espresso to balance the spicy warmthWhenever I hear the word “rhizome” I always think of Mapp and Lucia, the hilarious account of social rivalry between two extraordinary women, which reaches giddy heights over Miss Mapp’s infamous theft of Lucia’s recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. It is bonkers but brilliant storytelling. I hasten to add you will not be killing lobster in thi
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan autumn pilau with squash, cavolo nero and smoked garlic

  28-10-2017 10:30
  Don’t be scared of cooking rice: just follow a few simple rules and you’ll nail it every timeMy husband is a gifted cook – he can transform fridge scraps into heavenly meals and cook pasta dishes that nonna would be proud of – but ask him to make rice and he falls apart. It’s not only him: many people I’ve talked to about rice (more than you’d think) struggle to cook fluffy basmati; the fear of turning it to mush runs deep in Britain’s veins.A
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s lasagne recipes

  28-10-2017 10:00
  Whether your lasagne is meat-, fish- or veg-based, the only rule is to make it when you want something reassuring and comfortingThe word “lasagne” is a bit like “sandwich” or “pie”: as a descriptor, it gets you only so far, because there are so many variables as to what you can put inside. There’s a common misconception that lasagne is a pasta dish layered with meat ragù and béchamel. But that’s lasagne alla bolognese, which, while a
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the mother of a redhead

  28-10-2017 10:00
  We are not supposed to be offended. Yet if you replace ginger with any other unusual body part, it suddenly seems less acceptableMy son and I are frequently stopped by strangers who comment on his appearance and make assumptions about his character. Why? Because he is ginger.This happens almost every time we leave the house. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It was like a bereavement’: life after leaving a big job

  28-10-2017 09:00
  They used to be MPs, senior partners and surgeons, expert at dealing with pressure. So how do those who once had top jobs adjust to life in the slow lane?Leaving a top position can be tough. Your diary clears, your retinue of staff vaporises. Suddenly, no one is listening any more. Ego, hubris, whatever you call it, as we rise to positions of power, we too often come to “believe our own hype”. The inevitable fall can be bruising.This is especially true if you are an MP. Until June th
  
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• Beauty tips for the bride-to-be

  28-10-2017 09:00
  There are unique practical considerations as a bride. It may be a sunny day, and there’ll be heaps of photographs takenMy own wedding has caused me to revisit hundreds of reader emails on the subject. I’ve always been of the view that it’s a mistake to engage too much in the concept of “bridal beauty”, since by definition it in no way reflects how you ordinarily like to look. The very white become tanned, hair goes up for the first time in decades, poker straight be
  
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• What steam service runs between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead? The Weekend quiz

  28-10-2017 08:00
  From tinned meat to transport, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz. Answers below (no peeking now)
  1 Where are the words of Caroline Bingley now in circulation?
  2 Who or what was the first world war hero Cher Ami?
  3 Which sprinter went to six Olympics with Jamaica and one with Slovenia?
  4 What tinned meat was introduced by Hormel in 1937?
  5 What steam service runs between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead?
  6 If Sheena is a punk rocker, what is Suzy?
  7 Hendrik Verwoerd was the architect of
  
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• The milestones in a child’s life are every parent’s agony

  28-10-2017 07:45
  From Sats to jobs I’ve fretted about every big challenge my daughters have faced. Now I realise what really matters isn’t success or failure but how they copeA few weeks ago I caught a plane to the most grown-up experience of my life. The flight was to Schiphol: from there, I took a train into Amsterdam and then a taxi to a Bauhaus-style block of flats beside a canal. This is the place my eldest daughter, Rosie, 25, now knows as home. She and her boyfriend live what seems to me
  
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• Ask The Expert -- Rocket Radio

  28-10-2017 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Dear Mike,
  I was cleaning my parents’ house and found this little toy Miniman Germanium radio in the toy box. I think it might have belonged to my dad. It ......
  
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• When is it time to stop trick-or-treating?

  28-10-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A Facebook post about Halloween has gone viral because there is still no common ground on this seasonal debate: Should teenagers go trick-or-treating?It’s a bedevilling topic.Last year the Today show ...
  
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• A letter to ... the man who caused my sister’s death

  28-10-2017 07:30
  The letter you always wanted to writeI know that when you set off that day you didn’t intend to kill anyone, but you did and you changed our lives for ever. After a lovely day in London, I was unexpectedly met at the station by my solemn-faced next-door neighbour. He said: “There’s been an accident and your mum is at the hospital with your sister. I can take you there now.”I had very little information, but I wasn’t expecting to see what I saw when I arrived at the
  
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• Yanis Varoufakis: ‘I was missing my daughter so badly’

  28-10-2017 07:15
  He was Greece’s finance minister during part of the debt crisis. A more intimate crisis inspired him to write a book explaining economics to his teenage daughterYanis Varoufakis is telling me about the birth of his daughter, Xenia. “What I felt was an immense weight of responsibility,” he says. “Absolutely blind love and the sense of focusing on one individual.” But the experience didn’t make him feel like a different person. “It didn’t change my i
  
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• Blind date: ‘He was wearing a great shirt and a big smile’

  28-10-2017 07:00
  Did software developer Sam and trainee accountant Sarah, both 23, hit it off?What were you hoping for?A good time and a good story. Continue reading...
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,340

  28-10-2017 01:00
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