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• Tamal Ray’s recipe for baked yoghurt with Indian mango | The Sweet Spot

  27-04-2019 12:00
  A simple but decadent baked yoghurt dessert flavoured with new-season Indian mangoesIf you’re south Asian and have even a passing interest in food, you’ll know that now is a special time of year: mango season. I’m not talking about the robust, firm-fleshed ones that are usually grown in the Americas and available year-round in supermarkets, but the far rarer varieties grown in India, prized for their delicate, perfumed, sunset-coloured flesh. The alphonso is the so-called &lsqu
  
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• Rojak salad with avocado, tofu and tamarind recipe | The New Vegan

  27-04-2019 11:00
  Rojak salad is a sour, spicy and sweet south-east Asian stapleRojak salad is an Indonesian, Malay and Singaporean mainstay that to me always felt like a dish you’d serve at a retro dinner party. It’s often studded with tropical fruit, such as pineapple, packed with deep-fried dough and tofu, and covered in a sweet, syrupy tamarind sauce. It was, therefore, a dish I ate only on occasion – or at least it was until I stumbled across Claire Thomson’s version in her latest boo
  
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• Off-grid family holidays: Tim Dowling’s rules for survival

  27-04-2019 11:00
  ‘So there’s really no wifi? Kids, I’m as gutted as you are …’
  • The benefits of a break from the internetIn the past, whenever my family arrived at a holiday destination with no wifi, or mobile coverage, or television, I was always the first to complain. This is the first rule of taking teenage children on an off-grid break: act surprised. No one has to know you planned this; just pretend it’s part of the adventure. A regrettable part.Adolescents are res
  
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• From spicy beans to a fishy traybake: Yotam Ottolenghi’s 30-minute recipes

  27-04-2019 10:30
  Yotam cuts down the time with a trio of recipes you can make in half an hour (or so): fried tofu, a salmon and potato bake and a spicy bean brunchThe irony of a column about 30-minute dishes was not lost on me and the team, as we grinned, sheepishly, at such an apparently simple yet challenging task. We decided not to stray too far beyond our natural habitat by keeping the flavours complex and the ingredient lists, um, generous. So to stay within the time limit, we had to resort to microwaving p
  
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• The best buys from Pat McGrath’s first UK store | Sali Hughes

  27-04-2019 09:00
  She’s the world’s most influential makeup artist, and these are the products to get your hands onCharlotte Tilbury, Glossier, Huda, Fenty, Drunk Elephant: the most anticipated launches in modern beauty history have a 2019 inductee. This month, Pat McGrath Labs makeup (previously sold online only at Net-a-Porter and patmcgrath.com) launched in the London branch of Selfridges, its first physical UK space. There was a huge party, a masterclass, and blanket press and social media coverag
  
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• What links Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk? The Weekend quiz

  27-04-2019 08:00
  From the Polisario Front to The Quiet American, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 “Pamela, that ship has sailed,” was which film-maker’s reply to an author’s complaint?
  2 Albert Ghiorso co-discovered a record 12 what?
  3 What puzzle’s original name was Buvos Kocka?
  4 What are listed in the 10th-century Bald’s Leechbook?
  5 What animals were used in the wartime Operation Columba?
  6 Which Spanish-language song is the most-viewed video on YouTube?
  7 Which
  
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• Is it worth carbon offsetting flights – and how should I do it?

  27-04-2019 08:00
  I’m worried about the environment, but I’m not sure which schemes I can trustEvery 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.Like Emma Thompson, I take flights but am worried about the impact on the environment. I see various “carbon offset” schemes but never know what it is I’m really paying for, and which companies or sites I sh
  
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• ‘I got here speaking no English. Now I’m a Thai boxing coach’

  27-04-2019 08:00
  Amro Ghanem, 24, on how he made ends meet after arriving from Italy – and how martial arts changed his lifeName: Amro Ghanem
  Age: 24
  Income: £24,000 - £27,000
  Occupation: Professional boxerWhen I arrived in London I couldn’t speak a word of English. Not even “hello”. Nothing. Continue reading...
  
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• 15 of the best off-grid places to stay in the UK

  27-04-2019 08:00
  The complexities of modern life will recede into the distance with a wifi-free stay at these remote cottages and huts
  • The best off-grid places to in EuropeWith no wifi on the site, guests are encouraged to switch off completely at Guardswell Farm and spend time soaking up the jawdropping views. On a hilltop between the small villages of Abernyte and Kinnaird, the farm has a choice of self-catering options, from cabins sleeping two to a farmhouse sleeping 10. The Infield, a couple of field
  
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• 15 of the best off-grid places to stay in Europe

  27-04-2019 08:00
  With no wifi to bother you, nature, starry skies and wilderness take centre stage at these huts, pods, cabins, treehouses and more
  • The best off-grid places in the UKTeacher’s Cottage on Stóra Dímun, the smallest inhabited Faroe Island, gets snapped up fast (bookings for 2020 go live on 1 January). The island is a great place for stepping away from the world – just seven people live on Dímun (and hundreds of sheep). The cottage, sleeping eight, with kitchen
  
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• 'Someday' will never come

  27-04-2019 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Close your eyes and picture this.(OK, maybe don’t do that because you won’t be able to read, but you get where I’m going here.)Picture a man on his couch. His ......
  
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• Duran Lantink, the man behind Janelle Monáe's vagina pants

  27-04-2019 07:00
  The fashion designer may be known for one thing, but all that is set to change, as he makes 2019 his yearYou are probably already familiar with Duran Lantink’s fashion designs, even if his name doesn’t ring a bell. The Amsterdam-based fashion designer is the creator of the infamous vagina trousers worn by Janelle Monáe last year in her music video Pynk.Despite becoming the most talked-about trousers – and cultural yardsticks of 2018 – the wavy pink pants almost nev
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,806

  27-04-2019 01:00
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• Oldest human footprint found in the Americas confirmed in Chile: researcher

  27-04-2019 00:45
  A 15,600-year old footprint discovered in southern Chile is believed to be the oldest ever found in the Americas, according to researchers.
  
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