Jiggly Japanese Pancakes
Ingredients: 2 large eggs 1 ½ tbsp milk ¼ tsp vanilla extract 35g plain flour ½ tsp baking powder 1 tbsp neutral oil (vegetable) Toppings Whipped cream 1 tbsp icing sugar Fresh berries Maple syrup Method: You will need a large non-stick frying pan with a lid, approx. 12 inch or large enough to fit three to four pancakes. Separate the egg whites and egg … Continue reading Jiggly Japanese Pancakes
Spicy Mashed Aubergine with Peas
BY RUCHIRA GHOSH Ingredients: 1 – 2 medium sized aubergine/ brinjal/ eggplant 1 cup shelled peas 1 large onion chopped 1 large tomato chopped 1-2 garlic cloves chopped 2 tbsps of chopped parsley Cooking oil Salt as per taste ½ tsp chilli powder Method: Dry roast the aubergines over an open flame. Peel the singed skin, wash the mass inside with water and transfer to … Continue reading Spicy Mashed Aubergine with Peas
Illusory Power
BY ANDREW MOODY I believe in America… The undertaker’s words to Don Vito Corleone (as the master toys with a kitten in a smoky back room office), are surely the most memorable opening lines in Hollywood history. I first saw the Godfather and the Godfather Part 2 on one, long hot summer’s day at a friend’s house whilst revising for my maths GCSE. I must … Continue reading Illusory Power
Fairytale Fury
BY FRANK HAVILAND For all its undeniable brutality, boxing is a fairytale. You don’t need to have ever laced up yourself or watched Rocky to understand that. The cold hard truths meted out in the ring are surpassed by the blood, sweat and tears that enable men to triumph over adversity; to fight battles others cannot see. Boxing has saved many men from a certain … Continue reading Fairytale Fury
A Prayer for Seamen
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and that Your families are healthy and safe. As another storm batters our country let us continue to pray for the flood victims and emergency services who are no doubt fed up by now of seeing the rain fall. Please pray for the several churches who lost their lead roofs this week … Continue reading A Prayer for Seamen
Welcoming Committees
BY NIGEL BEAN Early 80s – The old train rattled into Euston. Back then we still had the old slam shut doors that were difficult to open from the inside. I had gone down to London with my old mate Jimmy but we were to part company almost immediately as I was on my way to watch Arsenal v Liverpool and he was off to … Continue reading Welcoming Committees
Gas
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The second law of thermodynamics states that the universe tends towards increasing entropy or “randomness” – molecules want to be gases because in a gas each molecule gets to move around freely and do its own thing. Imagine comedy as liquid nitrogen, which is virtually impossible to contain or pin down. Now drop a brick on it and see how it scatters. … Continue reading Gas
Owl & the Pussy Hats
BY FRANK HAVILAND Like a freshly-embossed ‘Lord Bercow’ business card, the free speech jubilation over last week’s vindication of Harry ‘the Owl’ Miller was a tad premature. Miller, a man of such unspeakable wickedness he dared retweet an ‘offensive limerick’, had been visited by Humberside Police who wanted to ‘check his thinking’. He was told he had committed no crime, but the event would be … Continue reading Owl & the Pussy Hats
Sneezes & Sinophobia
BY ANASTASIA CHOO I am British-born Chinese. I am the second-generation daughter of Hong Kong immigrants who came over to the UK in the 1960’s and set up a successful business. My sisters and I grew up in leafy Hertfordshire and attended state schools where we were subjected to the occasional joke but didn’t suffer too badly from racism as people took us for who … Continue reading Sneezes & Sinophobia
