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This is based on an English Easter chocolate cake, but I’ve substituted South African macadamia nuts for the more usual hazelnuts and the cake is decorated with physalis (Cape gooseberries). Prep time 20 minutes/Cook time 50 minutes/Serves 16 Ingredients: 250g (1 cup + 1 tbsp) butter (plus extra for greasing) 220g (1 cup less 1 […]
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This is a vegetarian centrepiece that will work for any major feast-style meal such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year or Easter. A versatile and spectacular dish that will wow carnivores as well as vegetarians. Prep time 60 minutes/Cook time 80 minutes/Serves 8 Ingredients: 500g (1 lb) butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1cm dice 2 tbsp olive oil
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Based on hasselback potatoes, this is a dish of layered potatoes cooked in butter and flavoured with thyme that makes an excellent accompaniment to Easter lamb, pork or salmon. Prep time 30 minutes/Cook time 45-50 minutes/Serves 6 Ingredients: 2kg (4 ½ lbs) white potatoes, peeled 140g (5 oz) butter, melted small pack thyme, leaves only sea
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The boned saddle of lamb is one of the classic roasting cuts for Easter. Here it’s stuffed with crunchy shallots, garlic and pancetta to kick up the depth of flavour even more. As the whole saddle is stuffed everyone gets the meat and the flavoursome stuffing as part of their serving. Prep time 20 minutes/Cook
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Carrot cake is one of the classic Easter bakes. Here it’s combined with a cheesecake topping to make an even more spectacular centrepiece. Prep time 45 minutes/Cook time 60 minutes/Serves 16 Ingredients: For the carrot cake 150g (1 ¼ cups) plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1⁄2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp ground cinnamon
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Mercy Chinwo threatens N2bn lawsuit against singer Obidiz for using her name in secular music.
A Zimbabwean woman reportedly brutalized her unfaithful husband after she caught him with another woman on their matrimonial bed. It was gathered that the lady, who was at her place of work, got information that her husband was home with his side chick. She quickly went home and on getting there, she found him in
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The Lagos state police command has arrested one Annie Ofili, for allegedly stabbing her friend, Glory Okon, to d3ath at her residence at Greenville Estate, Badore, in Ajah area of the state. An argument ensued between the friends which degenerated into a scuffle after Okon visited Ofili at home. It was gathered that during the
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Celina and Joseph Quinones, had been together for 17 years and have been married for more than ten years when Celina decided to dig into her family tree. While digging, she discovered that Joseph was her cousin. Posting on TikTok under the handle @realestatemommas, she broke the news of how the couple found out they
These are my personal views and I am constrained to express them given the fact that one @benllewellynjo1, a misguided, mischievous and clearly unlettered Englander who does not know his place, threw away all caution and mentioned my name in his inglorious commentary. I would advise this Ben, who I am told is the Deputy
A 41-year-old Dutch musician, Jonathan Jacob Meijer, is facing a court bid to persuade him to stop his obsessive sperm donation, despite claims that he has fathered hundreds of children around the world, DailyMail reports on Monday. According to the Donorkind Foundation, which is suing him, he deceived hundreds of women worldwide and may have
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A video online captures the moment a side chick to a huge risk to hide outside the balcony fence in order to evade her sugar daddy’s wife. The man’s wife had apparently returned home without informing her husband of her arrival. In a bid to escape being seen by the woman, the side chick who
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Top 10 Richest Igbo Men In 2023, Igbo Men Net Worth And Cars Rochas Okorocha Occupation: Politician.Net worth: $1.4 million.Cars: The wealthy billionaire is known for grandeur and luxury. It is reported that Rochas Okorocha has about 8 exotic cars. This includes Rolls-Royce Phantom,a Mercedes-Benz S600,a Mercedes-Benz Klassen V220,Mercedes Benz AMG63,a Lexus LX 570 among
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Here is an Easter version of classic bread and butter pudding where hot cross buns that are going a little stale are used instead of bread. Be economical in your cooking, but still have all the flavours of Easter. Prep time 15 minutes/Cook time 30 minutes/Serves 8 Ingredients: 400ml (1 2/3 cups) whipping cream, plus
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Carrot cake is something else that is synonymous with Easter. Here the traditional carrot cake is spiced up with the addition of chai (Indian spice tea) and finished with coconut icing. Prep time 45 minutes/Cook time 30 minutes/Serves 12 Ingredients: Finely-grated zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lemon 75g (2 2/3 oz) raisins 125g (4
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This is a giant version of a hot cross bun, ideal for toasting and serving spread with butter and/or marmalade. It also looks great sitting on the Easter breakfast table. Once baked the loaf will keep for up to three days, but is best sliced and toasted after the first day. Prep time 30 minutes/Cook
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This is a Greek-style Easter dish of roast lamb served on a bed of long-grain rice. The lamb is slow roasted, making it so tender it can be flaked with a fork. Prep time 45 minutes/Cook time 120 minutes/Serves 6-8 Ingredients: 4 tbsp olive oil 1 whole leg of lamb (1.7-1.9kg [3 ¾-4 1/3 lbs])
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easter-ham.png This is a classic American-style Easter ham recipe that forms the centrepiece of the Easter day meal for many in the USA. prep time 15 minutes/cook time 165inutes /serves 18 Ingredients: 150g (3/4 cup, packed) brown sugar 180ml (3/4 cup) orange marmalade 120ml (1/2 cup) Dijon mustard 1/2 fully cooked-bone-in ham (2.7-3.6kg [6-8 lbs])
Traditionally, South African bobotie is a dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping. The Afrikaans etymological dictionary claims that the probable origin is the Malayan word boemboe, meaning curry spices. Others think it to have originated from bobotok, an Indonesian dish which consisted of totally different ingredients. Originally it was made in the Cape
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Here is an alternate Easter recipe from South Africa. Why not spice up your Easter table with this fantastically flavoured and succulent curried slow-roasted whole leg of lamb. The mother-in-law masala blend is from the South African Indian community of Durban and is essential to the flavour. As you may not easily be able to
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