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17 th March <strong>2024</strong><br />

THURSDAY, JANUARY <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />

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Moll’s Dolls take to the stage<br />

Extensive work on intersection upgrades to finish in June<br />

MAJOR ROAD works,<br />

including intersection upgrades,<br />

road resurfacing and water main<br />

renewals, have started in Ilam,<br />

Bryndwr and Burnside.<br />

The work will run on the city<br />

council transport and three<br />

waters projects until June.<br />

It will include upgrades to<br />

three busy intersections – Athol<br />

Tce and Waimairi Rd, Clyde Rd<br />

and Ilam Rd, as well as Clyde<br />

Rd and Greers Rd – to improve<br />

safety.<br />

Contractors are also continuing<br />

construction of the Te Ara<br />

O-Rakipaoa Nor’West Arc<br />

Cycleway along Ilam Rd between<br />

Memorial Ave and Ilam Fields.<br />

Old water pipes will be<br />

replaced on Memorial Ave<br />

between Ilam Rd and Roydvale<br />

Ave, as well as odour control<br />

work on University Drive. There<br />

will be resurfacing work on<br />

sections of Grahams Rd and<br />

Roydvale Ave.<br />

Said city council transport<br />

operations manager Stephen<br />

Wright: “This<br />

is a huge<br />

package of<br />

work, and we<br />

know road<br />

works are<br />

disruptive so<br />

we’re taking a<br />

high impact,<br />

short duration<br />

Stephen<br />

approach<br />

Wright<br />

and doing<br />

everything in the area at once to<br />

get out of people’s way as quickly<br />

as possible and minimise the<br />

impact on the area in the longer<br />

term.<br />

“The bulk of the work began<br />

in early <strong>January</strong> to make the<br />

most of the quieter holiday<br />

period for residents and before<br />

students head back to school and<br />

university.”<br />

While some of the projects<br />

will be finished by March, the<br />

Memorial Ave water main<br />

renewal work will run into May<br />

• By Sasha Watson<br />

SHUFFLE BALL change, time<br />

step, and buffalo are just a<br />

few of the most common tap<br />

dancing moves – ones which<br />

Molly Chapman knows very<br />

well.<br />

As the director and vice president<br />

of an all-female competitive<br />

tap-dancing team, Moll’s<br />

Dolls, Chapman, who teaches<br />

the team and competes alongside<br />

them, has been preparing<br />

for several months for the 35th<br />

New Zealand Masters Games.<br />

The event will take place in<br />

Dunedin from February 3-11,<br />

and the group of 35 to 70-yearolds<br />

will dance the nights away,<br />

competing against four teams<br />

in the formation dance and<br />

show dance categories of the<br />

dance-sport section.<br />

The group will also compete<br />

as duos, triples and quad teams<br />

in the under-50s and over-50s<br />

categories.<br />

• Turn to page 5<br />

and the Nor’West Arc Cycleway<br />

construction will continue<br />

through to June.<br />

“The work has been planned to<br />

keep traffic flowing as smoothly<br />

as possible but if you’re<br />

travelling through the area,<br />

particularly to the airport or for<br />

school pickups and drop-offs,<br />

please allow for extra time,”<br />

Wright said.<br />

“Thanks for your patience as<br />

we replace old pipes and make<br />

our streets way safer.”<br />

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what’s on<br />

this week<br />

Thursday Book Club<br />

Thursday, 1-2.30pm<br />

Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library and<br />

Community Centre<br />

Go along and join a friendly group<br />

of readers and chat about current<br />

reading and old favourites. With no<br />

set book to read, this is a relaxed and<br />

social group that meets in the library<br />

on the last Thursday of each month.<br />

Brick Your Book –<br />

International LEGO Day<br />

Friday, all day<br />

Papanui Library<br />

Play with giant Lego to celebrate<br />

International Lego Day in<br />

conjunction with Imagination<br />

Station. Get the whānau together<br />

to recreate a scene or character<br />

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pdf or enter at the library. Entries<br />

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Let’s Have a Cuppa<br />

Wednesday, 10am-noon<br />

Fendalton Library<br />

Join in for a social morning with<br />

Unity Under the Sun Saturday, 11am-2pm at Morley Reserve, Bryndwr.<br />

Join in a social gathering for the Bryndwr community. Foster connections,<br />

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Wednesday, 5-6pm<br />

Fendalton Library<br />

This is a drop-in group where anyone<br />

is welcome to come and practice conversations<br />

in Mandarin, in a friendly<br />

and relaxed environment. This is not<br />

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Artwork by Grace and<br />

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Monday-Saturday, all day<br />

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Artwork by Grace and Virginia<br />

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Trust is on display throughout<br />

<strong>January</strong>. This is the first time Grace<br />

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Saturday, 10am-noon – Fendalton<br />

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Tuesday, 10am-1pm – Papanui<br />

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Wednesday, 10am-1pm –<br />

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A justice of the peace will be<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 3<br />

Cedars felled at social housing unit<br />

a ‘shame’, says resident<br />

• By Sasha Watson<br />

A LONG-STAY social housing<br />

resident is feeling deflated after<br />

finding out five large cedar trees,<br />

that once provided the units<br />

with a sense of tranquillity and<br />

shelter, will be felled.<br />

Garry Roberts,<br />

who has lived at<br />

Aorangi Courts<br />

in Bryndwr for<br />

about five years<br />

in a unit next<br />

to the cedars, is<br />

confused as to<br />

why the more<br />

than 50-year-old<br />

trees were not just<br />

pruned back.<br />

Garry<br />

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“I really believe the trees would<br />

benefit from a good trim – just<br />

taking off a third of the top and<br />

a prune back of the overhanging<br />

branches, not a full felling. It will<br />

change the character of the area,”<br />

said Roberts.<br />

But Ōtautahi Community<br />

Housing Trust chief executive<br />

Cate Kearney said trimming the<br />

trees could prove problematic.<br />

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“We hope the new trees and<br />

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such as wind, rain and the<br />

sun, and if the trees were to be<br />

preserved and looked after, they<br />

would be “a good something to<br />

pass on to the next generation.”<br />

“Cutting the cedars down is<br />

not just about the trees, it’s about<br />

the nature and wildlife that<br />

comes from having them too.”<br />

Built in the late 1970s, the<br />

Aorangi Courts complex consists<br />

of 18 single-story units, four<br />

ground-floor units, and four<br />

top-floor units, which are owned<br />

by the city council and leased to<br />

Ōtautahi Community Housing<br />

Trust.<br />

“Council staff contacted us<br />

to discuss removing the trees<br />

at the request of the Waimāero<br />

Fendalton-Waimari-Harewood<br />

Community Board, following a<br />

public forum presentation to the<br />

board by Aorangi Courts neighbours,”<br />

said Kearney.<br />

TreeTech Specialist Tree Care<br />

Ltd began felling the trees on<br />

Monday and work is expected to<br />

take two weeks, depending on<br />

the weather.<br />

Works will include the removal<br />

of the trees, stump grinding,<br />

tidying up, and replanting, as<br />

well as follow-up works to remedy<br />

any damage caused to lawns<br />

and gardens.<br />

While two neighbours have<br />

opposed the tree felling, Roberts<br />

said the majority of neighbours<br />

living at the courts reacted positively<br />

or apathetically when he<br />

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“Right now, I feel this is quite a<br />

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It seems like taking the easy option,”<br />

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“The trees make me happy –<br />

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“Most of us at the courts are<br />

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One of the spellings of<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 5<br />

Competing a ‘life highlight’ for dancers<br />

• From page 1<br />

Chapman, 65, said: “The<br />

masters is one of the only<br />

competitions where we get<br />

to showcase our talents and<br />

compete against other groups.<br />

We are really excited about<br />

competing as representatives of<br />

our local community.<br />

“We’re also a masters games<br />

award-winning team, having<br />

won gold, silver and bronze<br />

medals in the formation team<br />

and dance sport at the last four<br />

games.”<br />

The team has received a New<br />

Zealand Community Trust<br />

grant of $2000 to help with the<br />

running of two minivans and<br />

accommodation costs.<br />

Chapman donned her first pair<br />

of tap shoes when she was four<br />

and never looked back. Born<br />

and raised in Dunedin, she now<br />

lives in Bromley and has been<br />

teaching dance for more than 45<br />

years.<br />

She passed her love of dance<br />

onto her late daughter Nicola,<br />

who died six years ago, and her<br />

son Hayden, who graduated<br />

MOLL’S DOLLS:<br />

Dancers have<br />

been practising<br />

twice a week<br />

for the past<br />

few months in<br />

preparation for<br />

the competition<br />

in Dunedin next<br />

month.<br />

from the American Musical and<br />

Dramatic Academy in 2014 and<br />

is now a New York-based off-<br />

Broadway performer.<br />

“I love dancing, it has been a<br />

full family affair. It brings me so<br />

much joy and I believe it is never<br />

too late to learn how to dance,”<br />

Chapman said.<br />

“Moll’s Dolls is about being,<br />

dancing and competing together<br />

and enjoying yourself. We’re one<br />

of very few tap-dancing teams<br />

that actively compete . . . and we<br />

have an absolute blast.”<br />

The group was founded in<br />

2015 and came about when the<br />

mother of a young girl Chapman<br />

was teaching suggested setting<br />

up a class for adults, as well as<br />

preschoolers.<br />

It was while attending a masters<br />

games event with a softball<br />

team that Chapman became<br />

aware of the dance-sports category<br />

and soon after began setting<br />

up a competitive dance team.<br />

Team member and performer<br />

Julie Riker said Molls Doll’s was<br />

their “senior sports club” and<br />

provided an invaluable sense<br />

of community, happiness, and<br />

health.<br />

”Being able to dance with<br />

childhood friends some fifty<br />

years later and travel to the NZ<br />

Masters Games in Dunedin will<br />

be a life highlight for me.”<br />

COMPETE: Moll’s Dolls have won gold,<br />

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Masters Games.<br />

The group offers classes for<br />

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ranging from absolute beginners<br />

to seasoned tappers, and offers<br />

the opportunity to dance at<br />

corporate functions, community<br />

events, rest homes and other<br />

performances.<br />

Said Angela Yannakis, who<br />

is also a part of the performing<br />

team: “Moll’s Dolls are a funloving<br />

dance group with one<br />

thing in common – a passion for<br />

tap dancing.<br />

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to perform to a high standard but<br />

also to have the most wonderful<br />

time doing it.”<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 7<br />

Feeding vulnerable communities<br />

a team effort, says award recipient<br />

• By Sasha Watson<br />

FOUNDING charities to<br />

stabilise food insecurity in<br />

schools and vulnerable groups<br />

has seen community advocate<br />

Verity Verster receive a city<br />

council civic award.<br />

The Shirley resident was<br />

surprised to be recognised for<br />

her voluntary services at the city<br />

council’s annual ceremony.<br />

“In November, I was informed<br />

that I had won an award. I didn’t<br />

know I was nominated so it was<br />

a bit of a surprise.”<br />

Verster, a social worker,<br />

founded Kai for the Community<br />

Charitable Trust, in 2018 and<br />

Mums on Meals in 2020.<br />

Kai for the Community, which<br />

was started to address food<br />

poverty within the central city,<br />

is run by volunteers who provide<br />

in-house hot meal services.<br />

“I feel like an imposter<br />

receiving this award because<br />

it isn’t just me, there are<br />

many people, volunteers, and<br />

supporters who are working in<br />

the background, who should<br />

receive it too,” Verster said.<br />

“We also offer social<br />

needs support and practical<br />

information to external agencies<br />

to about 110 people from<br />

ACKNOWLEDGED: Verity Verster receiving her award from Mayor Phil Mauger and Linwood Ward councillor Yani Johanson,<br />

and with the Kai for the Community team.<br />

vulnerable communities every<br />

Sunday afternoon.”<br />

Mums on Meals is a division<br />

of Kai for the Community with<br />

eight volunteers who work on<br />

a rostered system, catering for<br />

selected Christchurch East<br />

schools that do not qualify for<br />

Government or other agencies’<br />

funding programmes.<br />

“The division works closely<br />

with social workers in schools to<br />

identify the children in need<br />

and support them with homecooked<br />

and high-nutritional<br />

meals, like cottage pie and<br />

lasagne served with vegetables,”<br />

said Verster.<br />

“We are currently working<br />

with about 40 to 50 children.<br />

Food insecurity does not just<br />

affect the individual, it is the<br />

entire classroom feeling those<br />

effects too.”<br />

Both Kai<br />

for the<br />

Community<br />

and Mums<br />

on Meals<br />

aim to<br />

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8<br />

Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />

McKenzie aims for Paralympics<br />

• By Dylan Smits<br />

MCKENZIE DRAGE is in<br />

the pool six days a week in<br />

preparation for the New Zealand<br />

championships in April, with<br />

a long-term goal of competing<br />

at the Los Angeles 2028<br />

Paralympics Games.<br />

The 19-year-old was born with<br />

Apert syndrome, but it has never<br />

stopped her from pursuing her<br />

dreams.<br />

“I am very determined and like<br />

to face challenges with a positive<br />

mindset,” she said.<br />

Apert syndrome causes fusion<br />

of bones in the fingers, toes, and<br />

head and neck. Various surgeries<br />

were needed during Drage’s infancy<br />

and childhood to improve<br />

her quality of life.<br />

“School and social life have<br />

been a challenge but I’ve never<br />

let my disability hold me back<br />

from setting goals and achieving<br />

them,” she said.<br />

When swimming, Apert<br />

syndrome mainly affects Drage’s<br />

range of movement as she cannot<br />

fully extend her arms, neck or<br />

shoulders.<br />

“I have limited reach and kicking<br />

ability, but I follow a daily<br />

stretching programme to try and<br />

develop my flexibility.”<br />

Drage works part time as<br />

a lifeguard at Jellie Park. She<br />

attended Hagley College until<br />

graduating last year and lives on<br />

the family farm near McQueens<br />

THE RIGHT<br />

LANE:<br />

McKenzie<br />

Drage with<br />

the award<br />

qualifying her<br />

team for last<br />

year’s Oceania<br />

tri series.<br />

Drage’s longterm<br />

goal is<br />

to compete<br />

in the 2028<br />

Paralympics.<br />

Below – with<br />

coach Emma<br />

Smith.<br />

Valley with her parents and older<br />

brother.<br />

Farm life has taught her how to<br />

work hard.<br />

“I’ve learned how to get jobs<br />

done and be organised with my<br />

time.”<br />

The family owns 80 free range<br />

chickens, and Drage is partly<br />

responsible for selling their<br />

eggs to customers in Christchurch.<br />

She has always enjoyed swimming<br />

and started competing in<br />

year 11.<br />

“Being able to swim well helps<br />

me feel confident in any water.<br />

I really like the discipline of<br />

training hard and feeling fit and<br />

healthy.”<br />

Drage is part of the Aquagym<br />

Swim Club where she is coached<br />

by Emma Smith.<br />

In September, she represented<br />

New Zealand for the first time at<br />

the Oceania tri series swimming<br />

‘Everyone has differences and strengths, and life is about<br />

making the most of what you have’ – McKenzie Drage<br />

championships in Hastings.<br />

She won the 100m individual<br />

medley, achieving a personal<br />

best of 1min 52.4sec.<br />

“I feel really satisfied when I<br />

get a personal best time in a race<br />

I have been focusing on,” she<br />

said.<br />

“They don’t come easy though,<br />

there’s a lot of hard work and<br />

sometimes you get disappointed<br />

when you don’t make a time.”<br />

Drage is training hard ahead<br />

of the New Zealand swimming<br />

championships in April.<br />

With her eyes on the future,<br />

Drage wants to achieve qualifying<br />

times for the world para<br />

series in Melbourne next year<br />

and then the Los Angeles 2028<br />

Paralympic Games.<br />

Being a paraswimmer has<br />

given her amazing opportunities,<br />

she said, like meeting her hero,<br />

Paralympian Sophie Pascoe,<br />

and being able to represent New<br />

Zealand in international competitions.<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 9<br />

Chicken feet an<br />

unwelcome find<br />

WHAT<br />

A CASEBROOK couple feared<br />

their children or pets could<br />

have been poisoned after raw<br />

chicken feet painted with pink<br />

nail polish on the claws were<br />

thrown onto a Cavendish Rd<br />

property.<br />

The house was also egged<br />

earlier this month, but it was<br />

the unusually decorated chicken<br />

feet which concerned the adult<br />

occupants, who wished to<br />

remain anonymous.<br />

Although a common pet food<br />

for dogs, uncooked chicken<br />

feet can cause outbreaks of<br />

bacteria-related salmonella,<br />

campylobacter and listeria.<br />

“The nail polish can be toxic<br />

and we’ve got no idea what else<br />

could have been done to them,”<br />

said the mother-of-two.<br />

Her children are aged two and<br />

six, while there is also a cat in the<br />

household.<br />

“We had six (chicken feet)<br />

dotted across our front lawn. Our<br />

cat was trying to eat them, we<br />

had to get her away from them,”<br />

she said.<br />

“We also have young children<br />

on the property so they’re a<br />

potential danger to them as well.<br />

RAW EMOTION: A<br />

Casebook couple were<br />

appalled to find potentially<br />

harmful raw chicken feet<br />

on their lawn after their<br />

property was targeted by<br />

pranksters.<br />

“It was quite disturbing to us<br />

and it would have been just as<br />

disturbing to the children, had<br />

they seen them.”<br />

The chicken feet were found in<br />

the early hours of <strong>January</strong> 5, and<br />

it was not an isolated incident,<br />

leading the woman to believe<br />

local youth were emulating a<br />

social media trend.<br />

“Apparently there is some viral<br />

TikTok prank about this which<br />

originated in America,” she<br />

said.<br />

“Our best guess is someone<br />

is trying to replicate it here. It<br />

surprise me if there’s a video of it<br />

happening here as well.”<br />

The woman, who lodged<br />

a report with police and is<br />

awaiting the chicken feet to be<br />

taken away for analysis, posted<br />

her concerns on the Bishopdale/<br />

Burnside/Casebrook Community<br />

Facebook page and soon learned<br />

other members had been<br />

targeted.<br />

Another Cavendish Rd resident<br />

found chicken feet crammed into<br />

a letterbox the same morning; a<br />

woman who lives on Casebrook’s<br />

Regents Park Drive found<br />

chicken feet on her car.<br />

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cans into rubbish<br />

YOU can place in your<br />

yellow, green, and red bins for<br />

kerbside collection is changing<br />

to make sorting waste easier<br />

across the country.<br />

From February 1, the<br />

Government is standardising<br />

what materials can be collected<br />

from households for recycling<br />

and organics across the<br />

country.<br />

The only items able to be<br />

recycled from home will be<br />

plastic bottles, clear meat<br />

trays and containers number 1,<br />

2 and 5, food and drink tins and<br />

cans, paper and cardboard, and<br />

glass bottles and jars.<br />

Christchurch residents will be<br />

able to put empty pizza boxes<br />

into the yellow recycling bin.<br />

Tea bags, shredded paper,<br />

serviettes, paper towels and<br />

aerosol cans will need to go into<br />

the red rubbish bin. All lids, soft<br />

plastics and drink cartons must<br />

continue to go in the red bin.<br />

Collecting the same materials<br />

through kerbside collections<br />

will make it easier for everyone<br />

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no matter where they are in New<br />

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as well as dispose of large<br />

quantities of green waste or<br />

refuse at the transfer stations.<br />

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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 11<br />

Asian inspired keto creations<br />

Thai beef salad<br />

Serves 4<br />

Gluten, Sugar, Dairy and Egg Free<br />

For the zesty Thai dressing<br />

1 Tbsp fresh ginger, finely grated<br />

½-1 chilli, seeds discarded,<br />

finely chopped<br />

1 clove garlic, crushed<br />

1 Tbsp fish sauce<br />

1 lime, zest and juice<br />

1 tsp rice wine vinegar or apple<br />

cider vinegar<br />

30g Allulose (or another easy<br />

dissolving sweetener)<br />

1 tsp Dijon mustard<br />

2 Tbsp sesame oil<br />

2 Tbsp fresh coriander, finely<br />

sliced<br />

½ tsp salt<br />

For the salad<br />

400g scotch fillet steak, left<br />

covered at room temperature for<br />

30 minutes prior<br />

3 Tbsp olive oil<br />

1 tsp salt<br />

1 tsp cracked black pepper<br />

120g mesclun<br />

50g mung beans or bean sprouts<br />

8 cherry tomatoes, quartered<br />

¼ small red onion, finely sliced<br />

¼ cucumber, diced<br />

2 Tbsp fresh coriander, roughly<br />

chopped<br />

1 Tbsp fresh mint, roughly<br />

chopped<br />

30g peanuts, chopped<br />

Method<br />

• First, make the dressing by<br />

putting everything in a jar and<br />

shaking to combine or whisk it all<br />

together in a bowl. You can make<br />

a larger batch of this and leave it<br />

in the fridge for a ready-made,<br />

light and fresh salad dressing, just<br />

omit the coriander so it doesn’t<br />

discolour.<br />

• Heat a heavy-based frying pan<br />

over a high heat.<br />

• Rub the steak with the oil, salt<br />

and pepper. Once the pan is very<br />

hot, add the steak and cook on<br />

high to your liking. Once the steak<br />

is cooked, remove it from the pan<br />

and let it rest while you prepare<br />

the rest of the salad.<br />

• On a large serving platter,<br />

scatter the mesclun on the<br />

bottom, then arrange the mung<br />

beans, cherry tomatoes, red onion,<br />

cucumber and herbs over the top.<br />

• Once the steak has rested for<br />

at least 5 minutes, slice it and pat<br />

dry any excess juices with a<br />

paper towel.<br />

• Lay the steak<br />

on top of the<br />

salad, sprinkle<br />

over the<br />

chopped<br />

peanuts,<br />

season<br />

lightly with<br />

salt and<br />

pepper,<br />

then drizzle<br />

over about<br />

half of the<br />

dressing (you<br />

can add more as<br />

desired) and serve.<br />

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vinegar is believed to help<br />

moderate blood sugar levels, as<br />

well as lower cholesterol.<br />

Spring onion pancakes<br />

recipe<br />

Makes 4<br />

Suitable for GF, sugar free, plantbased<br />

Ingredients<br />

200g ground almonds<br />

30g psyllium husk powder<br />

2 tsp Xanthan gum<br />

1 tsp baking powder, gluten-free<br />

½ tsp salt<br />

¼ tsp White pepper<br />

100ml to 170ml boiling water<br />

2 spring onions, thinly sliced<br />

4 Tbsp olive oil<br />

Method<br />

• Place the ground<br />

almonds, psyllium<br />

husk,<br />

xanthan<br />

gum,<br />

baking<br />

powder,<br />

salt<br />

and<br />

pepper<br />

into a<br />

bowl.<br />

Whisk<br />

to combine<br />

and<br />

remove any<br />

lumps.<br />

• Add 100ml<br />

boiling water to begin with and<br />

stir to mix, adding a little more<br />

water as needed to make a dough.<br />

It can look dryer than it is, so it’s<br />

best to get your hands in to feel it!<br />

• Wrap the dough in cling<br />

film and set aside for 5 minutes.<br />

The psyllium husk will absorb<br />

a bit more liquid so the rest<br />

time is essential so you can add<br />

more water, if needed, before<br />

continuing.<br />

• After 5 minutes, unwrap the<br />

dough and squeeze it. It should<br />

feel a bit tacky but not crack too<br />

much. If needed, knead in a little<br />

more water.<br />

• Cut the dough into four.<br />

Working with one piece at a<br />

time, roll out between two sheets<br />

of baking paper into a circle<br />

about 2mm thick. Sprinkle over<br />

a quarter of the chopped spring<br />

onion, then fold it in half. Roll<br />

again to 2mm thick, then repeat<br />

the process with the remaining<br />

dough.<br />

• Preheat a non-stick frying pan<br />

over a medium heat. Once warm,<br />

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or 2 pancakes, depending on the<br />

size of your pan.<br />

• Cook over medium heat until<br />

golden brown on each side.<br />

• Repeat the cooking process<br />

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14<br />

Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />

CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

9<br />

10 11<br />

322<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER<br />

222<br />

6<br />

G T A<br />

T R E<br />

12 13<br />

14 15 16 17 18<br />

words of three or more letters,<br />

How<br />

including<br />

many<br />

plurals,<br />

words<br />

can you<br />

of<br />

make<br />

three<br />

from<br />

or<br />

the<br />

more<br />

six<br />

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />

words or words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />

once?<br />

TODAY<br />

Good 20 Very Good <strong>25</strong> Excellent 30<br />

letters, including plurals, can you make<br />

from the six letters, using each only<br />

No words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />

Solution 221: alb, all, allot, alto, atoll, ball, BALLOT,<br />

bat, blat, bloat, blot, boa, boat, boll, bolt, bot, lab,<br />

word. lat, lob, lot, oat, tab, tall, toll.<br />

Good 15 Very Good 22 Excellent 28<br />

19 20 21<br />

22 23 24 <strong>25</strong> 26<br />

27 28<br />

29<br />

Across<br />

1. Forms of creative activity for an<br />

audience (10,4)<br />

10. Proportion (5)<br />

11. Discard (4,5)<br />

12. Word formed from initial letters<br />

(7)<br />

13. Last in line (7)<br />

14. Unnamed object (5)<br />

16. Spying (9)<br />

19. Opponent (9)<br />

20. Enthusiastic (5)<br />

22. Training meeting (7)<br />

<strong>25</strong>. Mythical sea creature (7)<br />

27. Without thought or preparation<br />

(9)<br />

28. Halt (5)<br />

29. Black box (aircraft) (6,8)<br />

Down<br />

2. Blackmail (9)<br />

3. Scowl (5)<br />

4. Advise in favour (9)<br />

5. Point of dispute (5)<br />

6. Pretentious, ostentatious (9)<br />

7. African animal (abbr) (5)<br />

8. Ceremonial staff (7)<br />

9. School absentee (6)<br />

15. Environmental propaganda (9)<br />

17. Medical emergency worker (9)<br />

18. Make worse (9)<br />

19. Forsake (4-3)<br />

21. Blush (6)<br />

23. Plain clothes (5)<br />

24. Detection instrument (5)<br />

26. Happen again (5)<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 1. Performing arts,<br />

10. Ratio, 11. Cast aside, 12.<br />

Acronym, 13. Endmost, 14.<br />

Thing, 16. Espionage, 19.<br />

Contender, 20. Eager, 22.<br />

Seminar, <strong>25</strong>. Mermaid, 27.<br />

Offhanded, 28. Cease, 29.<br />

Flight recorder.<br />

Down: 2. Extortion, 3.<br />

Frown, 4. Recommend,<br />

5. Issue, 6. Grandiose,<br />

7. Rhino, 8. Sceptre, 9.<br />

Truant, 15. Greenwash, 17.<br />

Paramedic, 18. Aggravate,<br />

19. Cast-off, 21. Redden, 23.<br />

Mufti, 24. Radar, 26. Recur.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

age, are, art, ate, ear, eat,<br />

era, erg, gar, gat, gate, gear,<br />

get, grate, great, rag, rage,<br />

rat, rate, ret, tag, tar, tare,<br />

TARGET, tart, tat, tater, tea,<br />

tear, teat, teg, tetra, treat<br />

DECODER<br />

Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />

given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />

which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />

Decoder<br />

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