Category: The Beat
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Cocktails To Ring In The New Year!
It’s New Years’ Eve and we are allowed to indulge and get lit to ring in the New Year. I don’t know about you, but I love a New Year, especially when the 1st starts on a Sunday or Monday… not this year so we’ll take it. Before you kick off with the New Year…
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‘TIS AUTUMN
Not quite to bed, but a gentle retreat inside, warm evenings unfold over cascading landscapes. Trees full of life, with leaves in hues of golds and yellows and reds, can-can as the sun sets. Birds chirping a new song, beckoning a gentle morning. Where winter is a reckoning, and spring a delight, summer runs wild…
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THE SUMMER BERRY CAKE
The taste of summer is fat juicy strawberries that burst in your mouths revealing the sweetness and the faint hint of tart there is no better season than summer for strawberries except of course you are tossing it together in batter enter the summer strawberry cake, one for the ages. I walked into M&S the…
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THE LINCOLN LAWYER
The best show on Netflix without question, right now. I love this show, I have loved every iteration of the Lincoln Lawyer, yes even the Mathew McConaughey version but this series on Netflix is quite simply fantastic and they upped the ante in season 2, granted I am not a fan of how they chose…
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The Kitchen Table – Simple Spaghetti
This is a simple meal for one on days when you do not feel like going outside to forage for food, ordering in, or eating rice… we are now in the thick of summer proper so this is perfect for something light and more important easy. PREP: 10 MINS MAKE: 30 MINS SERVES: 2 It’s…
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WALK THE LINE – CARBIS BAY TO ST IVES
There is a magical walk in England along one of the most scenic routes in all the land. Some have even gone so far as to call it the most beautiful coastline in all of the Kingdom. And it is, truly it is the most beautiful because you are high up and lost in all…
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Beach Bum – West Wittering Beach
I never know how much I crave the beach until its scorching hot in the UK, you know that one day in the summer where everything is so hot, and muggy and stifling only a beach would do and everyone else has the same idea and we hightail it to the beach… yeah that day,…
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SUMMERING – BROOKLANDS MUSEUM
Parents, the children are out of school for the summer holidays, and I know, I know, they literally need to open the schools back up! Because what are you to do with little humans in need of food, drinks and supervision to avoid starting WWIII, all day? Well on one of those days, you are…
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THE KITCHEN TABLE – SCALLOPS
Scallops are the marmite of seafood I find, you either love them or cannot stand them simply because they can be tricky to get right when sautéing especially, but when you get this right they are quite spectacular and this meal is spectacular in its simplicity and the snappiness of the asparagus, caramelisation of the…