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  • Recipe: Sweetheart Coleslaw

    Sweetheart Coleslaw

    Cabbage – Surprisingly, cabbage is richer in vitamin C than oranges. This roughage food helps to reduce the amount of free radicals in the body, and is great for preventing premature aging. Cabbage is a great food to eat more of if you have been burning the candle at both ends. Cabbage has been reported to treat ulcers, depression, boost the immune-system and aid treatment of certain cancers. (source: https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/vegetable/health-benefits-of-cabbage.html )

    Why are we not eating more of this amazing food? If you are keen on cabbage then check out my Cabbage & Roots (insert link to cabbage with roots recipe here).

     

    Ingredients

    2 medium size carrots (grated and dried with kitchen towel)

    1 medium size onion (thinly sliced or chopped)

    1 tbsp parsley (finely chopped)

    ½ sweetheart cabbage (shredded)

    ½ tsp English mustard

    4 dessert spoons mayonnaise (opt for low fat version to make this healthier)

    Pinch of black pepper

    Instructions

    1. Simply prepare the ingredients as stated above and mix together in a bowl, and serve.

    Skinny Tip!

    If cholesterol is a concern or if you are watching your calories. You can reduce the amount of fat in this simple side by using 1 dessert spoon low-fat mayonnaise, and 3 of plain yoghurt, as opposed to all mayo.

    Preparation Tip!

    Halve the cabbage, and again- to create quarters. Slice the bitter inner root out at an angle, and then shred finely.

  • RECIPE: Fennel And Chestnut Mushroom Pate

    Fennel & Chestnut Mushroom Pate

    Prep 5 mins

    Cook 35 mins

    Makes 2 ramekins (enough for 4 as a light starter)

    Starter / Vegan / Minimal Ingredients

    It’s simple and tasty food like this that strokes my vegan veneration. Whether you immediately scoop this from the food processor, warm, onto a seeded piece of toast or save for later and have in a sandwich with some home made pickled cucumber. I simple slice skinned cucumber, put on a small plate and douse in white wine vinegar.

    MUSHROOMS – Mushrooms contain high levels of vitamin D, which is a vitamin a lot of us are deficient in without even realising. Polysaccharides and beta glucans within mushrooms are beneficial to the immune system function.

    FENNEL – Fennel contains a healthy amount of flavanoids that give it strong anti-oxidant properties. When researchers tested the impact of fennel on animals, it has repeatedly shown to have anti-inflammatory properties and help prevent cancer. Fennel is a very good source of fibre too, as fibre helps flush out potential carinogenic toxins, fennel could be useful in treatment of colon cancer. High in potassium this vegetable is another winner for helping lower blood pressure. (SOURCE; http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=23 )

    Ingredients

    Olive oil

    225g closed cup chestnut mushrooms, peeled & chopped roughly

    1 fennel bulb, root removed & chopped roughly

    3 sprigs thyme

    1 garlic clove

    1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard

    1 tsp balsamic vinegar

    Salt and pepper

     

    Preheat your oven to 200c / 180c (fan) / Gas Mark 6

     

    Instructions

    1. Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper
    2. Mix together the mustard with 1 tbsp olive oil
    3. Place all the ingredients on the lined baking sheet, and smother with the mustardy-oil to coat all over.
    4. Roast in the oven for 20-30 minutes, the fennel should start to brown and the mushrooms shrivel slightly.
    5. Take out the oven and set aside for a few minutes.
    6. Tip the mix into a food processor along with the balsamic vinegar and pulse a few times.
    7. Add in a tablespoon of olive oil and pulse again a couple of times.
    8. Spoon into ramekins and serve.

     

     

     

     

     

  • RECIPE | Fennel & Red Cabbage Slaw

    Fennel & Red Cabbage Slaw

    Side Dish

    This wintery style slaw is perfect for using up any leftover red cabbage. It’s zingy and nutty, and for anyone that doesn’t like fennel, make this, and get them to try and figure out what the secret ingredient is. You would never guess its presence, but at the same time this coleslaw would not be the same without it.

    I don’t even make this to accompany anything in particular, I just like having it in the fridge. I do use it in sandwiches, or to have alongside my usual lunch of carrot, cucumber, and celery sticks, vine tomatoes, and beetroot. And yes, sometimes on it’s own, by the spoonful. I try and eat as healthy as possible but sometimes my addiction to anything covered in mayonnaise gets the better of me.

     

    Skinny Tip!

    Replace the mayonnaise for a low-fat version, or you could do 2 tbsp natural low fat yoghurt and 2 tbsp low fat mayo if you are watching calories.

     

    Ingredients

    ½ fennel bulb, thinly sliced

    ½ red cabbage, thinly shredded

    ½ onion, finely chopped

    bunch of fresh parsley, finely chopped

    1 small carrot, grated

    1 tbsp wholegrain mustard

    4 tbsp mayonnaise

    Pinch of black pepper

     

    Optional: a handful of walnuts

     

    Instructions

    1. Simply prepare the ingredients as stated in the list above, and mix together in a bowl.

    *Will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days, in an air-tight container.

     

     

  • LOOK AT ME | Stacey Solomon, Gayer Than Anyone Who Reads This Magazine….

    As we sit down to talk with Stacey Solomon, she blurts out, “I’m probably more gay than anyone who reads the magazine…” We can tell this is going to go very well indeed.

    TGUK: What’s the best thing about being Stacey Solomon?
    SS: The best thing about being me is getting to dress up and go to amazing things and do the job that I’ve always dreamed about doing.

    TGUK: Is this something you’re wearing later? (pointing at a dress even a Disney princess might have trouble pulling off.)
    SS: Yeah… (Laughs) It’s my Cinderella dress… Most people go for what is going to look cool and fashionable, because they’re gonna get pictured… I went for like, what is the most glittery, sequin-ey most Disney-ey dress I can get.

    TGUK: We’ve seen you’ve written a book and a GBF features prominently… What’s the best thing about a gay best friend?
    SS: The best thing about having a gay best friend is the brutal honesty that I can always count on. If I do look like absolute poo, then he’ll be like, “Oh my god babes, don’t go on…”

    TGUK: Marry snog and avoid… Elton John, Sam Smith and Boy George
    SS: I would marry Elton John, he seems like he’s got it altogether. You know, comfortable, I mean I can’t marry him… He’s already married… I’d quite like to snog Sam Smith… If the opportunity ever arose… I wouldn’t say no.

    TGUK: So you’re going to be avoiding Boy George?
    SS: Oh that means I’m going to have to avoid Boy George! Can’t there be a best friend option?

    TGUK: Do you know what Amyl Nitrate is?
    SS: I have no idea…

    TGUK: It’s poppers…
    SS: Oh yeah, you sniff them and like they make your bum bigger? Is that right?

    TGUK: It could do… Have you done it?
    SS: No… (laughs) I’ve never done anything like that… I’m such a geek.

    TGUK: Okay, so today we asked the internet how gay Stacey Solomon is and it answered, “It has come from reliable sources that she has been know to have the odd girl fling!”
    SS: Ohhh! Who’s the reliable source?
    TGUK: Answers.com
    SS:(Shrieks with laughter) I’ve never had a girl fling, I’m sorry to say, But I feel like I’m a gay man rather than a gay woman. I feel really camp. I’m like the campest person you’ve ever met trapped inside a woman’s body.

    TGUK: Do you know who else said that? Cheryl Baker!
    SS: Yeah well… me and her. Same person. (Laughs)

    TGUK: So champagne is…
    SS: A drink? A drink that tastes like fizzy wee if I’m honest. Yeah it’s not my favourite. For sure.

    TGUK: Who is your favourite Kardashian?
    SS: Humm, that’s a toughie. I think I like Courtney the best. For some reason… oh no, Chloe.. (manager agrees). Chloe’s got like the most, funnest personality, but I like Courtney’s dress sense. I think she’s got great fashion.

    TGUK: So your new single is about being Shy. You don’t come across as Shy…
    SS: Really?

    TGUK: You did once tell an arena of people you were going to poo yourself…
    SS: I’m quite happy and open to share my feelings with people, but when it comes to like intimate situations I get really shy.

    TGUK: So what’s the gayest thing about you?
    a) Losing the X Factor to Joe McElderry
    SS: Is that gay?
    For the purposes of this interview yes…
    b) The Iceland ads.
    c) Judging Top Dog Model SS: Top dog model. I got to be the campest presenter ever.

    TGUK: Do you have a dog?
    SS: I have a Chihuahua Pomeranian. Hashtag Gay.

    TGUK: In your house are we most likely to find a shrine to: Peter Andre, Kylie Minogue Or Simon Cowell?
    SS: Kylie. I’m obsessed with Dannii, I am in love with her.

    TGUK: So you’d use her as a conduit to Dannii?
    SS: I mean it’s my only connection to Dannii. She’s genuinely the loveliest lady ever in the whole entire world. She still keeps in contact with me six years later. Whenever I do something she texts, “Well done, I love this” I love her.

    TGUK: We do love a bit of Dannii if truth be told…
    SS: I’ve got all her albums.

    TGUK: We’ve had a lot of sex to those albums… (with ourselves…)
    SS: Me too. (laughs)

    TGUK: Tell us something wildly camp about Simon Cowell
    SS: Everything. (Laughs.) Really. He wears like the tightest trousers, he is so well pruned, he really looks after himself everything about him is camp.

    TGUK: Did you get to know anything about his dressing room activities?
    SS: No and I’m not upset about that. I’d rather not know.

    TGUK: What’s the best way to get back at a cheating lover?

    A) Bottle of Red, singing All By Myself out the window

    B)  Cutting up his silks,

    C)  Everything he owns in a box to the left?
    SS: Ermm. I think I’d be the one singing to the window. I’d probably be making my own rain. Just to add a bit of effect.

    TGUK: What do you feel about men in oneies?
    SS: I mean each to their own. They’re not attractive on anyone are they? But you know, comfort comes first.

    TGUK: What should Cher do next?
    SS: Come and see me. I love her. Cher if you’re listening. I’ve been waiting all my life to meet you. If you’re not busy.

    TGUK: What would you do if she actually came back to yours?
    SS: I don’t know. Probably sing her songs back to her.

    TGUK: We’re just imagining Cher’s face.
    SS: (laughs) She’d love it!

    TGUK: What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever read about yourself?
    SS: People always write about how I’m feeling. There’s always like a headline: “Stacey’s tired today…” I’m like ‘no I just didn’t wear make up”, “Stacey’s really upset or heart broken today”. I’m like no! Didn’t anyone wanna ask me.

    Sometimes people go on and randomly change my Wikipedia page. They add little things. It gets taken off the next day because it has to be confirmed, but it goes up for 24 hours. The other day someone wrote: “Stacey is currently dating Steve O who she thinks is a great person and she’s really excited to have met such a wonderful man…” I was like who took the time to write this nonsense.

    Once someone on there wrote my eldest son’s dad was gay. That was on there for 24 hours.

    TGUK: That gives you multiple points if that’s true…
    SS: It’s not. Maybe I should just roll with it… He may take me to court over it. But as long as I get points.. (Laughs)

    TGUK: Finish this gay mantra….
    Ladies with an attitude, fellas that were in the mood…
    SS: I didn’t hear a word you just said then!
    TGUK: (We repeat) Ladies with an attitude, fellas that were in the mood… finish… SS:(Looks blankly at us) Sing it to me…
    TGUK: We can’t it’s a rap.
    SS: (looks a little lost)
    TGUK: Ladies with an attitude, fellas that were in the mood, strike a pose there’s…
    SS: And?
    TGUK: There’s nothing… SS: To it?

    TGUK: Wow. Minus-five.
    SS: Sorry I was struggling..

    TGUK: Do you know who Madonna is?
    SS: Stop it!

    TGUK: Will you ever wear a cape?
    SS: Not now… She handled that so well.

    TGUK: Have you ever fallen on stage?
    SS: No. But ratio to the amount of times I’ve been on stage and Madonna’s been on stage…

    TGUK: You don’t do too much dancing do you?
    SS: Come on now, look at me. I’m not the dancing type am I. I’ve got two left feet and I’m like a stork. I trip over thin air. It’s best for me to sit still. Maybe a little walk to the right.

    TGUK: Do you know what Space Docking is?
    SS: No… by the smile on your face it does not sound good!

    TGUK: We learnt this one from The Overtones! Well it’s when two men “dock” with each other’s penises,with their foreskins…
    SS: (Looks astounded at us) Like a little hoody? Well the Jews wouldn’t like it would they! How they gonna do that? That’s not for everyone. That’s why I don’t know!

  • Get Juicy: Big Beet Juice Recipe

    Get Juicy

    Try to buy organic when juicing as you’re often using the whole fruit or vegetable and you don’t want any chance of pesticides getting into your home made healthy concoction.

    Focusing on the recommendation of eating whole fruits & juiced vegetables- my juice recipes are packed with veggies and have minimal appearances from fruits like apple, lemon or lime, providing a touch of something sweet yet sound.

    Simply chuck your ingredients listed below into your juicer, following your manufacturer’s guidelines for some of the ingredients…

     

    Big Beet (Great Pre-Workout!) – Makes around 600ml

    Beetroot has had recent TV coverage on how it can help us perform more efficiently in exercise regimes. Boron in Beetroot boosts our stamina, helps us to exercise longer and has positive influence on blood flow & pressure.

     

    Ingredients

    3 uncooked beetroot, use the whole thing including its leaves

    3 carrots

    1 garlic clove

    1 apple, cored

    a thumbnail of ginger

    big handful of kale

    1 tbsp fresh lemon juice, stir this in at the end of juicing

    optional- Dried organic cornflowers (immune boosting qualities)

     

  • RECIPE: Chia Coconut Cookie Cakes

    Chia Coconut Cookie-Cakes

    Makes 12

    Prep 10 mins

    Cook 10 mins

    Quick & Easy / Minimal Ingredients

    With a simple bung in the bowl and beat method, these are ridiculously easy to make. When handling the mixture to shape, it will be wet, but this is what gives them the sponge like texture inside, under their toasty coconut exterior.

     

    Ingredients

    80g coconut flour

    5 tbsp coconut oil, melted if solid

    4 medium eggs

    2 tbsp honey

    1 tbsp apricot conserve/jam

    2 tsp chia seeds

    ½ tsp baking powder

    Pre-heat your oven to 200c / 180c (fan) / Gas Mark 6

    Instructions

    1. Grease and line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper.
    2. Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix for a couple of minutes until completely combined.
    3. With your hands shape into equal size balls. If the mixture is too wet to handle add a couple of tablespoons more of coconut flour. You want them to be around the same size as when you connect your thumb to your index finger making a circle.
    4. Place each ball on the prepared baking sheet and press down lightly.
    5. Place in the oven for 10-12 minutes when the tops of the cookie-cakes have turned slightly golden.
    6. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool. Store in an air-tight container.

     

     

     

     

  • Naked Dancing Gets Aaron Booted From Big Brother House

    We revealed earlier that Aaron Frew has been removed for inappropriate behaviour, it turns out that he was flashing which upset Joel.

    According to a statement from the Big Brother producers, Housemate Aaron Frew, 24 from Northampton was in the bedroom with Joel, Nick, Jack, Harriet, Sarah and Danny.

    The statement reads:

    “Aaron seems drunk and is flashing Joel and being rowdy, often naked.

    Despite Joel’s continual requests for him to behave himself, Aaron continues to tease and flash to the amusement of some of the other Housemates.

    As a result of his actions, Aaron is ejected from the Big Brother House.”

    Earlier in the series, Joel did admit feelings for Aaron, saying that he could make out with Aaron. However, Joel, 19, has maintained that he is “proudly heterosexual.”

    The model and personal shopper took to twitter earlier today to thank Big Brother for his time in the house.

    Aaron managed to stay in the house for 16 days. Watch his eviction in tonight’s episode at 10PM

  • GAY MARRIAGE: Greenland Says Yes, Germany Says Not Yet

    Following hot on the heels of Ireland’s historic Referendum, Greenland yesterday became the latest country to legalise same-sex marriage.

    In a unanimous vote in its Parliament Greenland, which is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, extended marriage and adoption rights to LGBT couples. This arctic wonderland with a population of only 57,000 became the 20th country in the world where same-sex marriage is now legal.

    However despite the fact that recent polls have shown that 75% of the German population is in favour of same sex marriage, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday quashed all rumours that they may be next saying that they were not a goal of her government. Her spokesman Steffen Seiber added somewhat tersely “In Germany we’ll take a path that suits Germany.”

  • THEATRE REVIEW | McQueen

    ★★★ | McQueen

    Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February, 2010 at the age of 39. But his work and memory lives on, including in a new play simply called McQueen.

    Stephen Wight plays (and looks just like) McQueen, who was one of the most celebrated UK fashion designers of our time. McQueen, though very successful, had a troubled life; drugs, depression, the suicide of his friend and muse Isabella Blow, who practically helped McQueen become the success that he was, and the death of his mother are some of the factors that probably led him to take his own life in his Central London flat on Feb. 11, 2010.

    McQueen is written not as a play about his life but more about the journey McQueen took to build his career. The journey is brought on by fictional character Dahlia (Dianna Agron) – the idea taken from McQueen’s 2008 collection ‘The Girl Who Lived in the Tree.’ She’s basically a stalker who breaks into McQueen’s flat. He’s startled at first, but her childlike personality and beautiful looks and curvy body appeal to McQueen in a visual sense.

    So McQueen and Dahlia travel through a few important milestones in McQueen’s life; the tailor shop where McQueen got his start and where, on the spot, he makes a dress for Dahlia. They go to his mother’s home, where she is upstairs in bed, sick. And McQueen gets to be reunited with the ghost that is Blow (a smashing Tracy-Ann Oberman), the woman who bought up all of McQueen’s first collection but who still wants to know why he didn’t take her with him to the top, and why did he leave her behind when it was she who made him what he was. In between these pit stops we are visually treated to very slow moving dancers who change the set and morph with, through and in between each other. Visually it’s stunning, you don’t realise the set is changing because the movements are so mesmerising. But this doesn’t make up for the fact that McQueen the play is a bit too thin and doesn’t provide the theatregoer with a true celebration and story of McQueen’s life.

    Wight is amazing as McQueen. In fact, he looks exactly like McQueen did in his later years. Wight captures all of his mannerisms and idiosyncrasies, including the scene where he instantaneously creates a dress for Dahlia. It’s an excellent performance. Agron as Dahlia is given lots of soliloquy dialogue to recite – is she talking to McQueen, the audience, or to herself? And yes, she does recite, likes she’s reading from a teleprompter. Hers is not a great performance as she’s with the amazing Wright during the whole show. But Oberman practically steals the show from Wright in her all-too-brief turn as Bow. It’s a showstopping performance, with Oberman dressed in a sexy negligee. Playwright James Phillips and Director John Caird have produced a play that is weak in biography but beautiful in its presentation, but we’re still left wanting to know more about McQueen and his life and his fashions. We will have to do with the V&A Museum’s Savage Beauty exhibition as well as the highly-acclaimed book about McQueen; Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin, by Andrew Wilson, as well as Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, by Dana Thomas.

    McQueen is playing at the St. James Theatre until June 27th:

    http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/theatre/mcqueen

  • BREAKING: Gay Big Brother Housemate Removed From The Big Brother House

    Openly gay Big Brother contestant Aaron has been removed from the Big Brother for what producers are saying is “inappropriate behaviour”

    More to follow.

    Producers have confirmed that Aaron Frew, 24, from Northampton has been removed from the Big Brother house after “inappropriate behaviour”.

    The model and personal shopper lasted 16 days in the house. Details about his behaviour are due to follow shortly and his exit will be featured in tonight’s episode.

    Aaron tweeted from his official account this after saying: “@bbuk THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME! WILL NEVER FORGET IT! #BBUK”

  • Camp Biscuit Is Bad For Business

    For those of us who like a little flamboyance at our business meetings, apparently pink wafers spell disaster as survey reveals biscult etiquette.

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