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Eat it
With the summer in full swing, pan-Asian cuisine is ideal to lend refreshing, light summery flavours to cooking.
Wagamama's head of food development, Ron Lento, has devised this recipe for Yorkshire Evening Post readers.
Barbecue seared beef sashimi
Beef carpaccio and vegetable salad with ginger and coriander
Serves 1
Ingredients
110g (4oz) fillet steak
salt and white pepper
1 small carrot, peeled and very thinly sliced lengthways
cucumber, deseeded and thinly sliced lengthways
4 spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced
25g (1oz) mangetout, thinly sliced lengthways
red onion, peeled and thinly sliced
green chilli, trimmed and thinly sliced lengthways
red chilli, trimmed and thinly sliced lengthways
tablespoon fresh ginger root, peeled and julienned
1 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoons light soy sauce
4 spring of coriander
Method
Season the steak with salt and pepper. Place the meat on the very hottest part of the grill, grill for 20 seconds on each side.
Remove from the heat and plunge into iced water for about 30 seconds. Wrap in cling film and place in the freezer for 1 hour to firm up.
Put all the vegetables, chillies and ginger into fresh iced water for 30 minutes to crisp. Remove and drain thoroughly.
To serve, slice the beef into very thin slices and arrange around the edge of a serving plate.
Place the vegetables in a bowl and toss with the soy sauce and olive oil.
Put the vegetables in the centre piled high now add the coriander for garnish.
Read it
Stalin Ate My Homework
Alexei Sayle
Sceptre
Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end.
His family ate salad. They read the Soviet Weekly. They travelled on transcontinental trains, and in the back of futuristic limousines. They saw Communism in action and ate strange smelling sausages. His mother was very keen on boiled eggs and the Moscow State Circus. Teachers were scared of her.
His father was a union leader who made friends wherever he went. He thought he was fluent in Esperanto.
Alexei became a member of the Czechoslovakian Young Pioneers. Sometimes he was bored and other times confused.
He thought he might be a great athlete, or maybe a famous artist. He spent a lot of time inventing complex explanations for the bizarre behaviour of grown-ups.
Slowly it dawned on him that telling stories was a good way of making sense of his perplexing world. An entertaining memoir from one of our top comedians.
Review by Waterstone's
Nest building
RemovE all evidence of clutter in your home with a trendy trunk that oozes charm and lasts a lifetime.
As well as creating instant style in any room, the trunk acts as a hiding place for books, shoes, toys or anything you want to hide away.
It could also become a handy hamper, a bed footer or even double up as a coffee table.
Whatever your storage needs, look no further than Barker & Stonehouse for an enviable collection of trunks to suit your taste, be it classic and simple or chunky and nautical, with detailing ranging from vintage cigar leather, rosewood and antique style clasps and studding.
Like the well-made trunks kept by 19th-century explorers, the pieces are designed with both durability and elegance in mind. Whoever said storage solutions have to be boring?
To view the range and for more decorating tips, visit www. barkerandstonehouse.co.uk.
Visit it
Bats are fascinating creatures and there is a chance to learn more about them tomorrow when a walk around Adel woods in Leeds will be held to check what bats are using the area.
Bat detectors will be used to bring the bat calls down to within our hearing range.
If you want to join in, take a torch and wear suitable footwear and clothing.
Meet at the car park of the rugby club, Crag Lane off King Lane at 7.30pm.
visit www.leeds.gov.uk/rangers for more information.
Listen to it
Various
Global Gathering: Festival Anthems (New State Music)
Global Gathering is a dance music festival held at Long Marston Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon. This year it celebrated its 10th anniversary with a heavyweight bill that included Faithless, Dizzee Rascal, 2manydjs and Carl Cox.
Festival Anthems is a triple CD that gathers together 60 tracks that have proved firm favourites at the event over the past decade.
Classics from 808 State, Underworld, Guru Josh and Utah Saints nestle alongside superstar DJ fare from Paul Oakenfold, Armin van Burren, Tiesto and Paul Van Dyk. And, of course, there's Leftfield and Lydon and Orbital's evergreen Halcyon.
A third CD features newer material from the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, MJ Cole and an excellent bass-heavy remix of Groove Armada and Fenech Soler's recent collaboration, Paper Romance.
All that, plus David Guetta's laptop tweaking of Robbie Riviera's Rock The Disco, makes this a must-have for rave fans.
Get fit
More and more people are realising that big old gyms are getting boring.
Exercising in a green space such as a field or park is great fun and a great alternative to the gym. It can also help to release the feel-good hormones in the brain.
At Iveridge we have created an outdoor trim trek as an alternative to the cardio suite.
It involves a trek on wood chipping that makes the body use 30 per cent more calories that on concrete. It also has five exercise stations en route so you don't get bored.
Recommended by Richard Hill, club manager of Iveridge Health Club. Visit www.iveridgehealthclub.co.uk for details
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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