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The Hairy Bikers’<br />
Steak and Ale Pie<br />
Introduction<br />
Treat your old man this Father’s Day with a recipe from<br />
the ultimate creators of comfort food: The Hairy Bikers.<br />
Rich, flavoursome and pretty simple to make, this steak<br />
and ale pie will earn you ultimate parent points.<br />
Method<br />
1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/Gas<br />
Mark 7. Tip the flour into a bowl<br />
and season well. Coat the meat<br />
with seasoned flour.<br />
2. Add the vegetables, herbs,<br />
ale, and stock. Bring to a<br />
simmer, then cover with a lid<br />
and gently simmer for one hour.<br />
When cooked, season, add the<br />
remaining butter, and pour into<br />
an ovenproof serving dish.<br />
3. Brush the edge of the dish<br />
with the beaten egg. Roll out<br />
the pastry using as little flour as<br />
possible and place it over the<br />
dish. Pinch the edges of the dish<br />
so that the pastry will stick to it<br />
and trim off any remaining pieces<br />
of pastry from around the edge.<br />
Brush the pastry top thoroughly<br />
with the remaining beaten egg<br />
and place on a baking tray.<br />
4. Bake for one hour and<br />
20 minutes until the filling is<br />
bubbling and the crust is<br />
golden brown.<br />
Ingredients<br />
(serves 4-6)<br />
For the filling<br />
• 900g stewing steak, diced<br />
• 25g flour, plus extra for<br />
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• 100g butter<br />
• 2 onions roughly chopped<br />
• 2 cloves of garlic, roughly<br />
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• 2 medium carrots, roughly<br />
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• 150g button mushrooms<br />
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme<br />
• 400ml good-quality ale<br />
• 500ml beef stock<br />
• Salt and pepper<br />
For the pastry<br />
• 300g ready-made rolled puff<br />
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• 1 egg, beaten for glazing<br />
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An end to<br />
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It’s fair to say it’s not been a<br />
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A thoroughly<br />
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Everything we know about His Majesty’s upcoming coronation.<br />
King Charles III’s coronation will<br />
take place on Saturday <strong>May</strong> 6th<br />
<strong>2023</strong>, at Westminster Abbey.<br />
Eyes around the world will<br />
focus their attention once more<br />
on this magnificent London<br />
institution where the King<br />
will be crowned – alongside<br />
Camilla, the Queen Consort –<br />
in a ceremony overseen by the<br />
Archbishop of Canterbury.<br />
This opulent ritual is the last<br />
of its kind in Europe and has<br />
remained largely unchanged<br />
for the past 1,000 years. It is an<br />
honour of course, but for a King<br />
who wants to be a modern<br />
monarch there are a few<br />
wrinkles that must be ironed<br />
out with Buckingham Palace<br />
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Coronation will be ‘rooted in<br />
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coronation that came<br />
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of World War II. The<br />
ceremony itself is<br />
expected to last around<br />
two hours – rather<br />
than the three for Liz’s<br />
ascension to the throne<br />
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limited to 2,000 due<br />
to health and safety<br />
restrictions. That’s<br />
considerably less than<br />
the 8,000 dignitaries<br />
from 129 nations who<br />
were crammed into<br />
Westminster Abbey<br />
in 1953.<br />
There will also be less pomp<br />
and formality. Prince William is<br />
the only Duke expected to carry<br />
out the traditional gesture of<br />
kneeling and swearing<br />
allegiance to the King,<br />
and His Majesty has<br />
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male predecessors<br />
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Greenfingers… the<br />
Alan Titchmarsh<br />
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This month, Alan Titchmarsh<br />
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of those, for me, is to<br />
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for the style of my<br />
garden comes from the<br />
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They say that a builder’s<br />
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to his or her outside space.<br />
We have been in our current<br />
home for almost 20 years,<br />
and I am still evolving,<br />
adding, altering – every<br />
day. And that’s what makes<br />
each passing year so<br />
special – the fact you never<br />
go back to a blank canvas,<br />
but each spring there are<br />
new opportunities, ideas and<br />
spaces that emerge here and<br />
there, that can be formed into<br />
whatever takes your fancy at<br />
that particular time.<br />
While variety and versatility are<br />
definitely important in a garden,<br />
I do find it’s necessary to follow<br />
some familiar boundaries. One<br />
outside space. The<br />
two must complement each<br />
other or you may find you<br />
end up with an awkward<br />
juxtaposition between the<br />
building and nature.<br />
So my property is a classic,<br />
square Georgian farmhouse -<br />
thus I felt I had to do something<br />
that complemented that in the<br />
garden. I like straight<br />
lines anyway, which<br />
cross each other, and<br />
have softened this by<br />
planting throughout,<br />
creating a sort of<br />
billowing chaos in<br />
beds and borders.<br />
You essentially have<br />
one giving structure<br />
to the other.<br />
Remember, gardening<br />
is very different to<br />
architecture, because<br />
what you are dealing<br />
with isn’t just shape and<br />
form, it’s time as well –<br />
it’s a rapid adjustment<br />
and change between<br />
how something looks<br />
on day one and how it<br />
will look on day 100.<br />
And while I know you’ll hear<br />
gardeners talking all the time<br />
about planning out an area, the<br />
types of plants you’ll have, and<br />
the tone and feel of a space;<br />
very often the reality is you are<br />
inspired by something off the<br />
cuff, and it is that instinctive<br />
appeal that’s exciting.<br />
Whatever you’re going to<br />
do in your garden space, I<br />
would suggest it is gradual<br />
and over time. It really pays to<br />
observe and watch how nature<br />
embraces things – see what<br />
grows and what outgrows, and<br />
only when you are absolutely<br />
sure you want to adjust a<br />
certain area, only then proceed.<br />
It’s about a steady progression<br />
rather than the wholesale<br />
demolition… such is life!<br />
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