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• Matt Moran's silverbeet, leek and gruyere tart recipe

  02-12-2017 22:59
  Known for his Sydney restaurants Aria and Chiswick, the chef makes the most of the diversity of Australia’s fresh produce in his latest cookbook Silverbeet is often overlooked, especially these days when kale is the new(ish) leafy green vegetable on the block. I love silverbeet paired with loads of butter, leek and garlic, which form the basis of the tart filling here. This is one of my favourite dishes for a leisurely lunch at the farm and if there are leftovers, they’re just as goo
  
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• Tofu turkey with all the trimmings? Britain carves out a meat-free Christmas

  02-12-2017 21:30
  Supermarkets are changing the menu this festive seasonForget about the Christmas nut roast – those who don’t eat meat are going to be spoilt for choice on 25 December as Britain’s supermarkets roll out their biggest range of festive vegan and vegetarian food to date.Treats on offer include the first mince pies to be given the Vegan Society seal of approval, a vegan version of the Christmas classic Baileys, turmeric-spiced cauliflower wellington and mountains of new dairy-free c
  
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• Former P.E.I. doctor opens up about struggle with opiod addiction in new memoir

  02-12-2017 19:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CHARLOTTETOWN - He was a doctor, a father, a marathon runner and an upstanding member of his Prince Edward Island community — but beneath the white coat, Grant Matheson says ......
  
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• Cookies and curds: Jeremy Lee’s 12 puddings of Christmas part 2

  02-12-2017 12:00
  Orange and fennel biscuits, clementine curd tarts and currant ginger cakes: these goodies will keep family and friends fed through the festivities•Jeremy Lee’s 12 puddings of Christmas, part 1Both the pastry and the curd keep well in the fridge for a few days. The former can also be made the week before and frozen, while making a double portion of the curd will give you enough for a breakfast treat over the holidays. The tarts themselves, though, are best cooked fresh. Continue readin
  
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• Pope gets laughs in Bangladesh after diplomatic tightrope

  02-12-2017 11:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DHAKA, Bangladesh - Pope Francis urged Bangladeshi priests and nuns to resist the "terrorism of gossip" that can tear religious communities apart, delivering one of his trademark, zinger-filled spontaneous speeches ......
  
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• Rachel Whiteread: ‘My favourite word? Plinth’

  02-12-2017 10:30
  The artist on swearing, her best kiss and what keeps her awake at night Born in Essex, Rachel Whiteread, 54, studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic. She went on to do an MA in sculpture at the Slade. In 1993, House, her life-size cast of the interior of a terrace house, was the first work by a woman to win the Turner prize. Her major public projects include the Holocaust Memorial (1995) in Vienna, Monument (2001) in Trafalgar Square and Cabin (2016) in New York. A retrospective of her work is
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for butternut squash and black bean mole

  02-12-2017 10:30
  When you have the time, it’s time for a mole, the dish that is the cornerstone of Mexican cuisine I once had a flatmate who loved good food and cooking, but had no patience or time, so everything she cooked was awful. Tinned tomatoes were left watery and raw, never to reach their full rich and sweet potential, while her pasta took al dente to a tooth-shattering extreme.These days, we are too busy to cook, so 15-minute dinners, ready meals and recipe boxes have sprung up to fit in around ou
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for cooking with hot sauce

  02-12-2017 10:00
  Hot sauce is the fast-track way to bring savoury complexity and heat into a dishI was tickled by a recent interview with Wole Soyinka, in which the Nobel laureate revealed that he never travels without his own hot chilli sauce. The interview took place over lunch in the UK, and Soyinka had left his sauce in Russia, where he’d just been, so when his spaghetti vongole arrived, he pulled out a substitute from his pocket: a plump green chilli. “This one I got when I arrived in London,&rd
  
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• Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’

  02-12-2017 10:00
  The presidential candidate and the classicist discuss winners and losers
  Hillary Clinton is sequestered in a hotel room, giving a big television interview, when Mary Beard arrives at Claridge’s. While she waits outside on the sofa, though, it quickly becomes clear that the star of this conversation is the classicist. One by one, members of Clinton’s staff approach in reverent tones to declare her their heroine. Even a passing cameraman stops to pay court and say: “I love you!&r
  
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• Has Hollywood changed? Mel Gibson’s bulletproof career would suggest not | Hadley Freeman

  02-12-2017 10:00
  Clearly it takes an awful lot to destroy a high-profile straight white man’s careerThis is the story of two actors, one female and one male, both hugely successful in the 80s and 90s, and both blighted with what Wikipedia would euphemistically call “legal controversies”. These largely happened in the early years of this century, when the woman was caught shoplifting in 2001 while under the influence of prescription drugs; and the man, while being arrested for drunk-driving in 2
  
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• Beauty: I’m a convert to Trinny Woodall’s quick and easy makeup

  02-12-2017 09:00
  Individual screw-top pots snap into a stack, allowing you to reduce or increase your cargo according to handbagNo one would have anticipated that one of 2017’s most talked about beauty launches would come from makeover presenter Trinny Woodall – including, I imagine, Woodall herself. And yet I’m currently fielding daily reader requests for my verdict on her new capsule makeup line.While Woodall has cannily reinvented herself as a beauty enthusiast in recent months, I’ll a
  
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• Pope leaves Bangladesh laughing after diplomatic tightrope

  02-12-2017 08:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DHAKA, Bangladesh - Pope Francis urged Bangladeshi priests and nuns to resist the "terrorism of gossip" that can tear religious communities apart, delivering one of his trademark, zinger-filled spontaneous speeches ......
  
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• What links Martha the passenger pigeon, Celia the Pyrenean ibex and Benjamin the Tasmanian tiger? The Weekend quiz

  02-12-2017 08:00
  From a bone to a burned stone, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which writer won the Booker prize and two Oscars?
  2 Which city is married to the sea each year?
  3 Where in the body is the ethmoid bone?
  4 Which former African leader is an inmate of Frankland prison?
  5 Barci the cockerel is the symbol of what restaurant chain?
  6 A burned stone is a hazard in what sport?
  7 Joual is spoken where in North America?
  8 In 1824, geologi
  
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• Should I try recipe meal kits?

  02-12-2017 08:00
  My partner and I work long hours, and I’m looking for a quick, healthier alternative to similarly priced takeawaysEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘Can a sober companion help me give up drink?’

  02-12-2017 08:00
  I am considering another run at sobriety this month – but what about all the social events where it’s not humanly possible to avoid drinking?I have been considering – no promises – a sober rerun for December. For this, I need a sobriety coach, which is a real thing. Dr Bunmi Aboaba is transitioning out of dentistry into sober coaching/companionship. So I devised four scenarios in which sobriety is not humanly possible and deposited them before her. They are all real-life
  
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• A letter to … the boy on the bus who said I was ugly

  02-12-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeYears ago, I was travelling home on the bus from college with a group of friends. After the last of my friends had gone, I heard you and your friend, at the back of the vehicle, discussing how ugly you thought I looked.You proclaimed loudly that I was possibly the ugliest person you had ever had the misfortune to set eyes on, that every ounce of your body was repulsed, and that this observation gave you an intense desire to physically hurt me. You said you wo
  
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• Reality of home office demands design decisions

  02-12-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Working from home has become as ordinary as having a job in the first place. No one blinks at a request to go remote part time, because traditional separations between ...
  
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• Big boys don't cry, except when they do

  02-12-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Grab a family-sized box of Kleenex, kids, because it’s going to get a little mushy in this space today.That’s because we need to take a few minutes to have a ...
  
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• ‘Handwritten letters belong to you like your DNA’

  02-12-2017 07:15
  When Kiran Sidhu rediscovered letters her aunt had written 20 years ago, she could picture her and hear her voice. The discovery transported her to a precious time in her family life in a way that a text or email never couldA small tug on the thread of nostalgia can unravel a whole garment. One Sunday afternoon, I came across a trove of letters in a battered hatbox in the cupboard underneath the stairs. The letters had been written in the 90s while I was at university; some were from friends, bu
  
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• Our love turned us into pariahs but we never backed down

  02-12-2017 07:00
  When Khurrum Rahman, a Muslim, and Rajinder, a Sikh, fell for each other at school, they became pariahs overnight. But the disapproval, threats and even violence only served to cement a bond that has lasted 24 yearsThe year was 1993. I was 17, and heading for the sixth form at a new school in Hounslow, west London. I wasn’t expecting it to change my life. Looking back, I struggle to remember a white face there. It was a sea of brown, where Muslim, Sikh and Hindu students mixed easily: it s
  
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• Blind date: ‘He didn’t get his phone out once’

  02-12-2017 07:00
  Did emergency ambulance crew Tom, 32, and events officer Lara, 26, hit it off?Continue reading...
  
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• Vancouver animators out of work due to Louis C.K.'s admissions of sexual misconduct

  02-12-2017 01:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Dozens of employees for a Vancouver-based animation studio lost a big gig recently after a new Louis C.K. TV series was shelved because of his admissions of sexual misconduct.Vancouver's Bardel ......
  
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• Sudoku 3921 hard

  02-12-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Killer Sudoku 582

  02-12-2017 01:01
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.
  For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at stan
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,843

  02-12-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,370

  02-12-2017 01:00
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• Decoration day

  02-12-2017 00:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Down, set... huh?On Grey Cup Sunday, while thousands of football fans across the city were making last-minute runs to their neighbourhood beer vendor or adding a touch more onion soup ...
  
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