Recipes

Recipe: Scones with Maple Syrup Icing

Here is another Summer recipe for Scones with Maple Syrup Icing which can be also made in other seasons. Yummy! Don’t skip the maple icing because it’s one of the best parts! Ingredients: 100g icing sugar 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 3 tablespoons maple syrup Handful, chopped walnuts, hazelnuts and pecan nuts 1 packet of Sultana Scones. Method Mix your icing sugar with a…
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Recipe: Alfred Prasad ’s hot mixed vegetables on toasted baps

Great British Chefs’ recipe to try with the kids: Alfred Prasad ’s hot mixed vegetables on toasted baps. Enjoy! Cooking Time: 50 minutes Serves: 6 Ingredients: 2 tbsp of vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped 1 green chilli, chopped 2 tsp of ginger-garlic paste 1/4 tsp of ground turmeric 2 large vine tomatoes, chopped 1/4 tsp of tomato paste 1 pinch of salt 1 carrot, finely…
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Recipe: Ice Cream Sconewich

Here is a simple and fun Summer recipe for Ice Cream Sconewich. It’s going to put a smile on everyone’s face. A scone is a rich quick bread cut into usually triangular shapes and cooked on a griddle or baked on a sheet. The scone is a basic component of the cream tea. It differs from teacakes and other types of sweets that are made with yeast. Its etymology from 1513 comes…
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Movies

Future Films Heads Up: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

At a loss for things to do next year on Valentine’s Day? Film adaptation of book sensation Fifty Shades of Grey will be released in UK cinemas on 13th February 2015. SYNOPSISFifty Shades of Grey is the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling book that has become a global phenomenon.  Since its release, the “Fifty Shades” trilogy has been translated into 51 languages…
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Future films Heads Up: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, the story of genius physicist Stephen Hawking & Jane Wilde

The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s.  The story Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 5 copies of new DVD MUPPETS MOST WANTED © 2014 Disney

To celebrate the release of MUPPETS MOST WANTED, on Disney Blu-ray™ & DVD from 11th August, London Mums is giving five lucky readers the chance to win MUPPETS MOST WANTED on DVD! The Muppets are back! And this time they are taking on the world in an exciting and hilarious new spy thriller that will take you on a whirlwind adventure of mistaken identity, dastardly sidekicks and double…
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Get Creative

Loom Band Mania

If you have schools’ children, you have probably noticed a certain buzz in the school playground and lots of small and colourful elastic bands on the floor. Loom Bands have now taken over playtime and both boys and girls have become very creative and have even abandoned cards’ or figurines’ exchanging games to make new bracelets for themselves and their friends. Loom Band Mania…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 3 Kallo Hampers

Sometimes, getting kids to eat three healthy, nutritious meals every day can feel like mission impossible. When you’re pushed for time (and what mum isn’t?), it can be especially tricky to whip up balanced dishes – particularly when they have to be lunchbox-shaped and your little one is refusing to eat anything except chocolate biscuits. It’s no longer rude to play with your food…
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Recipe: Adam Byatt ’s Butternut squash, pear and gorgonzola flatbread tart

From the Great British Chefs recipe archive here is Adam Byatt’s Butternut squash, pear and gorgonzola flatbread tart. Enjoy!  Cooking Time: 4 hours plus proving time Serves: 6 Ingredients: Bread base 250g of strong white flour 13g of dried yeast 1 tsp of sea salt 1 tsp of caster sugar 150ml of water, cold 1 dash of olive oil Topping 1 butternut squash, peeled and finely sliced 3…
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Recipe: Andrew MacKenzie’s tomato and vegetable risotto faces

Amazing recipe from Great British Chefs: Andrew MacKenzie’s tomato and vegetable risotto faces. Enjoy!  Cooking Time: 1 hour plus overnight soaking Serves: 4 Ingredients: Pearl barley risotto faces 200g of pearl barley 2 shallots, finely diced 3 garlic cloves 25g of Parmesan, grated 4 baby corns 1 carrot, cut into thin discs 2 beetroots, cooked, cut into discs 8 green beans 1 tbsp…
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