My favourite recipes tried and tested. Saturday, December 17, 2011. White Choc and Hazelnut Cookies. 100 g Roasted chopped Hazelnuts. 1 Cream butter and sugar till fluffy. 2 Add lemon juice and mix well. 3 Sift the dry ingredients. 4 Slowly add to butter mix and mix between additions. 5 When mixed add the fruit and nuts or choc.

150g mushrooms, roughly chopped. 1 clove garlic, crushed. Fry mushrooms in hot pan for a couple mins then add some salt and the garlic. Continue to fry for couple more mins then add onion and cook down. Fry steak quickly for 1 min each side. Add brandy and flame, then add mushroom mix back in, yogurt and slug of milk.

More bondage, hot off the presses. I think you missed the boat on that one a little. The Beat the Heat art pack sale is almost over! After July 17th this art pack will no longer be available for purchase.

Ramblings of a washed up traveller. The thought of 5 star holiday treatment had me dripping at the mouth. Yet it was the 28deg heat that really had me releasing bodily fluids faster than I could replenish them. Greece, you turned it up, even though things are looking pretty down. The Germans lived up to their classic towel-bandit behaviour round the poolside. They love getting dibs on the loungers and god forbid you move a towel, all scheisse breaks loose.