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Cooking for Slackers: Peanut Butter Salad Sandwich

Slackers love sandwiches. Quick, cheap and idiot proof, what’s not to like? Peanut butter sandwiches are a favourite and they’re healthy. Peanuts are packed with nutrients. They contain all 20 amino acids (the building blocks of protein), fiber, vitamins, minerals, … Continue reading

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Cooking for Slackers: The Egg Mayonnaise Canoe

The Egg *Mayo*1 sandwich is iconic in Britain. It’s a permanent feature in buffets at birthdays, marriages and funerals. Sometimes it has a watercress garnish. Let’s improve it; The Egg Mayonnaise Canoe Ingredients A hard-boiled egg2 Baguette Mango chutney Mayonnaise … Continue reading

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Cooking for Slackers: Fried Bread

Fried bread has a terrible reputation for ruining your long-term health. Lovers of fried bread can be fat and unlovely. But that’s correlation not causation. Fried bread doesn’t make people obese and unlovely.1 Ethnic Fried Bread Traditionally fried bread comes … Continue reading

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Free Thinking?

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Cooking for Slackers: Mish-Mash

Slackers have mothers and their words of wisdom leave an indelible scar. “Don’t waste good food” resonates down the years. Slackers don’t. They put left-over food in a box and three weeks later throw it out. But! Mum was right. … Continue reading

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Another delicacy disappears

The South Korean parliament on Tuesday passed a law to ban trade of dog meat by 2027. There were 208 votes in favor and two abstentions for the bill, which bans the breeding, butchering, distributing and selling of dogs for … Continue reading

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Grace Dent reviews non-alcoholic drinks

“…if you’re like me and have stopped boozing, she [the owner] will tempt you over to the weird and wonderful world of experimental, low-intervention, funky, kombucha style brews – cloudy, whiffy things that taste like distilled elderflower marsh fog with … Continue reading

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Cooking for Slackers: Crunchy Banana Toastie

Toasted banana is lovely but not everyone likes its gooeyness. The classic recipe is grilling one side of bread then smearing mashed banana on the untoasted side. Grill that for a couple of minutes until it’s bubbling. Carefully get it … Continue reading

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Cooking for Slackers: Gourmet French Toast

Eggs and a frying pan are a slacker’s best friend. Basic eggy bread is wonderful. An egg and a slice of bread with a very hot frying pan. Soak the bread with frothy egg and slap it in – flip … Continue reading

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Cooking for Slackers: A Vegan Christmas Lunch

For slackers everywhere Christmas is a nightmare. The level of expectation is horrifying. Shops are shut for 48 hours but enough food is bought as if a siege is imminent. Vegan slackers are no different to any other slacker and … Continue reading

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