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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 />
from a favourite book and be<br />
in to win. Take a photo of the<br />
creation, and enter online at https://<br />
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/<br />
wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/12/<br />
LIU-Brick-Your-Book-entry-form.<br />
pdf or enter at the library. Entries<br />
can be submitted between 19-29<br />
<strong>January</strong>.<br />
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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free hot drinks and snacks. Make<br />
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Mandarin Conversation Club<br />
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 />
a class, but an opportunity to talk<br />
with others in Mandarin and to meet<br />
new people in the community. Free<br />
and no bookings are needed.<br />
Artwork by Grace and<br />
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Monday-Saturday, all day<br />
Redwood Library<br />
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 />
has exhibited her work publicly,<br />
while Virginia will share some of her<br />
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JP Clinic<br />
Saturday, 10am-noon – Fendalton<br />
Library<br />
Tuesday, 10am-1pm – Papanui<br />
Library<br />
Wednesday, 10am-1pm –<br />
Bishopdale Library<br />
A justice of the peace will be<br />
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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 />
“We were advised by an<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 />
spoke to them.<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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Name correction<br />
One of the spellings of<br />
Canterbury’s first born baby<br />
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wife Jaspreet Kour, welcomed<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 />
silver and bronze medals at the past four<br />
Masters Games.<br />
The group offers classes for<br />
women of all skill levels at St<br />
John’s Church in Woolston,<br />
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 />
“We constantly strive not only<br />
to perform to a high standard but<br />
also to have the most wonderful<br />
time doing it.”<br />
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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 />
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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 />
stabilise food<br />
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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 />
“Everyone has differences<br />
and strengths, and life is about<br />
making the most of what<br />
you have.”<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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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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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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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 />
add 2 tablespoons olive oil and 1<br />
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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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 />
Sudoku<br />
All puzzles copyright<br />
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