Comment on Waking Up with Gordon Ramsay, the Masterchef boys & the Good Food & Wine Show by Annie

I was there today and the Gordon Ramsey set was the same, almost word for word. I was also surprised that the auditorium was half empty, but was completely full for Masterchef. Justine wasn’t there today, but Chris, Poh, Lucas, Michelle, Julia and Melissa were all on stage, with Poh winning the audience applause competition to be allowes to cook the donuts

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Recipes to Rival, and I’m SOOOO Embarrassed

This month, little ol’ me had the opportunity to choose what we made for Recipes to Rival , a group of cooks who experiment with savory dishes. For some reason that I cannot fathom, I thought posting day was July 5. The reason I can’t figure out why I thought that is because we always post on the first of the month. I blame a Brain Fart. Please forgive me! So, while I usually post something for Frugal Fridays, today I am posting my R2R pick - Beef Wellington. Now, there are a lot of B

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5 Restaurant Food Preparation Tips That You Can Use In Your Home

by Malcolm J. Richmond One of the joys of going out to eat is having the fresh food, prepared especially for you by some incredibly talented chef. However going out to dinner can be very expensive. You are also bothered by other people, interrupted by the server and on occasion rushed through your meal because the restaurant needs the table. What if there was a way that you could recreate the same wonderful dining experience at home? Here are five simple tips that you can do at home to make yo

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Snatched Snake in Tagged Tracking

Thieves in Australia who stole a 2m carpet python from a Department of Environment and Conservation research centre could not have had worse luck. The snake had just finished eating a wild woylie (an endangered marsupial fitted with a tracking device) when it was stolen. Police and scientists worked with the air force to track the signal from the air. Sergeant Damian Ellson said, ’It’s fair to say the people were shocked when we turned up. They had no idea the snake had a tracking device

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Justine’s latest Families south east review: Summer 2009

AH! SUMMER IS HERE and I am at my laptop in the garden, squinting to make out the screen, breathing in the drifting chemical whiff of a hundred disposable barbecues as our corner of East Dulwich aims to accelerate climate change with a global flip of the Gordon Ramsey burger. It has all gone quiet now but have no fear because at sunrise tomorrow, our neighbours will once again release their small children into the atmosphere to yell in a garden not four feet from my own. I once suffered the igno

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