The other day I invited my friends over for dinner, theyare from the UK and Germany. I was thinking about cooking something very easy and everyone enjoys it because my husband doesnat like pork and I want to take a break from chicken. Then I thought of my other friend who recommended this recipe – ... Read more

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What Is Kao Yum Gai Sab? This is another spicy lab dish from Thailand. We call it Crispy Fried Chicken in Lab. Or Lab Crispy Fried Chicken, up to you. Also up to you is how you attempt to spell it in English as there are at least different spellings – Laab, Larp, Lab, Larb, ... Read more

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Mok Pla Siw – Fish and Herbs Curry Wrapped in Banana Leaves Mok Pla Siw (a,

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Bua Loy Kai Waan is Sweet Thai Eggs Dessert This is one of the very well-known Thai desserts that is popular all over the world, but especially here in Thailand. There is another recipe called Bua Loy Fuhk Tong that is IMO even more delicious! Click that link to see it. It includes sweet pumpkin. ... Read more

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Thai Food Noodle Recipe: Pad See Ew (Thick Stir-fried Noodles with Shrimp and Squid) Pad See Ew is pronounced pad see you in the Thai language and consists of thick soft noodles that are stir-fried with shrimp, squid, or pork, and a green leafy vegetable, garlic, some sugar, and oyster or soybean sauce. This is ... Read more

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A Classic Thai Food Favorite – Lab Moo (Spicy Pork Salad) Lab Moo (Lahp or Lap Moo) is a traditional Thai food favorite across the nation. It is simply made, but the taste is really something special as you’ll see when you eat this lab we show for you below! One of my husband’s favorite ... Read more

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Who likes stir-fried morning glory? d Pad Pak Boong is one of the most eaten dishes in Thailand on a daily basis. It’s easy to prepare, and the simple tastes are delicious. Just about everyone in the country loves pad pak boong! The really nice part about it is that many people just go find Morning ... Read more

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Chinese Chive Balls (a,a,a,!a,a,,a,C/a,a1a,2a,C/) This Thai dessert recipe comes from Thailand but includes Chinese chives, an ingredient. Chinese Chives in a Ball is made from rice flour. It’s served with three flavors of Black and Sweet Soy Sauce. Khanom Kui Chai is a Thai snack that translates to “Chinese Chive Cakes.” These savory treats are ... Read more

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Pla Raad Prik a,a,Y=a,2a,PSa,2a,a,a,PSa,'a, – Deep-Fried Fish with 3 Flavors of Sauce This tasty deep-fried fish recipe is very easy for you to cook, even if you’ve never done it before. This is a good one to start for making Thai food if you are just a beginner because this is easy to follow along. ... Read more

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Yum Kai Kem – Salted Eggs with Spicy and Sour Salad Last week, my colleague ‘Goht’ went back home to Chaiya, Surat Thani where it is famous for salted eggs. Her family owns a business selling salted eggs in the area by Suan Mohk, meditation center. When she came back to work, we all got ... Read more

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Former home secretary says PMas aplan is not workinga and he needs to change course after local elections drubbing

Suella Braverman has said the Conservatives have run out of time to oust Rishi Sunak but he needs to aown this and fix ita, after local election results indicated the UK is heading for a Labour government.

The former home secretary said Sunakas aplan is not workinga and the prime minister needed to change course, as aat this rate we will be lucky to have any Conservative MPs at the next electiona.

Netanyahu cabinet votes to shut down TV networkas operations in Israel; Yoav Gallant says Hamas appear to not be serious about reaching a truce

A local official in southern Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a village on Sunday killed a couple and their child, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

aThe dad, the mother and their little son were martyreda, according to the Mays al-Jabal municipality chief Abdelmoneim Chukair.

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Full time: Brighton 1-0 Aston Villa

Itas always a triumph when an MBM preamble is out of date before the match has kicked off. Spurs might be back in the Champions League race after Aston Villa lost 1-0 at Brighton. It means Spurs are seven points behind Villa with two games in hand. One of them is against Manchester City, so they probably need to win today to have a realistic chance of finishing fourth.

People around the world have sent the book, with their personal stories, to Edinburgh for an installation to mark its publication 75 years ago

Copies of George Orwellas dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four have been arriving at an artistas studio in Edinburgh for months. Every shape and size, posted from Ukraine, Hong Kong, Peru, Germany, Cape Cod and Sarajevo.

Some are in mint condition, others dog-eared, tea-stained, heavily annotated or turned into graffitied art works. One is a water-stained first edition; one is a secret love letter from a married woman to her first love; another, a graphic novel version, came from Orwellas son Richard Blair.

Hillas portrayal of Yosser Hughes in 1982 BBC series launched career that included roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings

Bernard Hill, the stage, television and film actor who first became famous for his unforgettable portrayal of Yosser agizza joba Hughes, has died at the age of 79.

Hill played the character in Alan Bleasdaleas 1982 BBC series Boys from the Blackstuff.

Daniel Anjorin, who was attacked while walking to school in east London, has been described as atrue scholara

A candlelit vigil in tribute to Daniel Anjorin, a teenage boy who was killed in a sword attack while walking to school in east London, was attended by more than 300 people on Sunday.

Anjorin, 14, was killed in the attack in Hainault, east London, with a samurai sword and suffered fatal wounds to his neck and chest. Four other people were injured in the attack on Tuesday.

West Yorkshire police say four survivors were taken to hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries

A 10-year-old girl has died and a woman and three children have been treated in hospital after an early morning house fire in Bradford.

West Yorkshire fire and rescue service sent three crews to the fire at a residential property in the Bolton Outlanes area of the city at 1.05am on Sunday.

Wartime PM was so taken with Paul Trevillionas work he arranged to pay his compliments in person, artist reveals

At the age of 90, and with a successful career as a sports artist under his belt, there is one work of which Paul Trevillion is particularly proud. Perhaps surprisingly, it isnat among his portraits of legendary stars such as Sugar Ray Robinson, PelA(c), Muhammad Ali, George Best, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.

It is an image of another of Trevillionas heroes: a pen-and-ink drawing of Winston Churchill created in 1955, and carrying a rare signature of the UKas wartime leader.

About 6,000 have been installed this year, a quarter of them rapid chargers that can power up a car in under an hour

The UK has installed a record number of public electric car chargers this year, as companies race to keep up with the growing number of battery vehicles on British roads.

Nearly 6,000 new chargers were installed during the first three months of 2024, according to quarterly figures from data company Zapmap published by the Department for Transport. About 1,500 of those were rapid chargers, capable of charging a car in less than an hour.

• Hollywood actor buys stake in club owners 49ers Enterprises
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Will Ferrell is reportedly set to become the latest celebrity to be a minority investor in the Championship football club Leeds United.

Hollywood actor Ferrell has bought a stake in Leeds owners 49ers Enterprises, according to a report in the Sun newspaper. He will join the likes of fellow thespian Russell Crowe, the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and professional golfers Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas.

Keir Starmer says the prime minister has no option but to call a general election

Rishi Sunak was dealt a series of shattering blows last night as Labour won a knife-edge battle to seize the West Midlands mayoralty from the Conservatives and Sadiq Khan trounced his Tory rival in London to secure a third term.

The results, along with decisive victories for Labouras Andy Burnham in Greater Manchester, Steve Rotheram in Liverpool and Tracy Brabin in West Yorkshire, left Labour in charge of most of Englandas mayoralties.

Rishi Sunakas government tries to limit the damage as the Conservativesa worst fears prove correct in the English local elections

Keir Starmer was advised by his team to get an early night on Thursday before the first election results started to come through at dawn the next day.

They booked the Labour leader into a hotel at a secret location in the north-west, so he could be bright and breezy when celebrating an anticipated parliamentary byelection win in Blackpool South.

Come to Thurrock, where the Tory council went bankrupt, services are depleted and costs are up. People feel victims of a terrible injustice

Late last Monday, I got home from a long day of political reporting to find a political leaflet produced by the Conservative party. It had nothing do with the local elections; where I live, the only contest was the rather underwhelming vote on a new police and crime commissioner. Instead, what it said looked ahead to the general election.

aInflation down, wages up, taxes being cut a letas stick with the plan thatas working,a it read. There were pithy paragraphs about aensuring high-quality education and childcare for all childrena, and abetter transport for our communitya. As with a lot of what we now hear from the ruling party, I read it as a sign that the governmentas pitch to voters had decisively tipped into brazen self-satire. Its implied portrait of everyday life seemed to describe another country. Each promise and boast only highlighted yet another unmentioned failure.

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Worldas smallest army, which is preparing to swear in its latest recruits, has in the past engaged in ferocious battles

With their feathered helmets, ruffled collars and coloured, puffed-sleeve uniforms, the Vatican Swiss Guards are often likened by curious visitors to medieval court jesters. But while they willingly pose for photographs, the watchmen are not there to entertain.

Since the early 16th century, when Swiss mercenaries, revered for their bravery and loyalty, marched to Rome to serve Pope Julius II, the worldas smallest army has been enlisted at the Vatican to protect the pope, his residence and the cityas borders.

Mushrooms turning up in hot drinks and supplements as demand grows for ahealth products you donat needa

Sipping mushroom coffee sounds like a weird camping trip anecdote but more Britons are embracing this alternative morning pick-me-up as amushroom maniaa sweeps the high street.

With the food industry eager to cash in on demand for afunctional foodsa that promise extra health benefits, medicinal mushrooms a not the button kind you put in a stew a are turning up in hot drinks, supplements and even beer.

Pro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ainternational student revolta

Students across Britain have said they hope pro-Palestine protests will reach the same scale as those seen on US campuses as they call for universities to divest from companies supplying arms to Israel.

Protests have spread across university campuses in Sheffield, Bristol and Leeds, after a crackdown in the US on protests, which led to mass arrests of students and staff.

Known to his friends as the Legend, John Starbrook is living, breathing proof of the power of exercise and enthusiasm. I tried to keep up with him a and barely survived

I like to think of myself as a strong swimmer. Iam not fast, I canat dive or tumble turn, but when I get a lane to myself Iall happily bash out 50 or 60 lengths. Give me a nice big lake, and my idea of heaven is to backstroke into the middle and watch the swallows overhead. I donat worry that Iall cramp up or suddenly forget how to float.

But Iave never fancied water polo. If youave not watched it, itas a sort of cross between swimming, basketball and wrestling, usually played in a pool thatas so deep you have to tread water or drown. There are two teams, two goals, a large ball and an ungodly amount of throwing, catching and flat-out sprinting. Aquatics GB, the governing body, says players can swim two miles in a single game, and need aremarkable staminaa to cope with all the holding and pushing.

Sarah Manavis and her partner have a guilty secret. What they love to do most of all in private isa| read out loud to each other. And, as sheas discovered, it has many surprising benefits

Neither of us can remember exactly how it happened, but we both agree we were probably a little drunk. It was December 2016. We had been dating for eight months. Even with the booze we were, by many measures, still shy around each other, fearful of spoiling the magic. Which is why neither I nor my partner can fathom the conversation that landed us either in bed or on the sofa with him reading A Christmas Carol out loud to me for an hour. It wasnat something either of us had ever done with another adult. It wasnat something wead heard of adults in the real world ever doing. But the book kept getting read a always by my boyfriend, out loud to me, who listened with total fixation. It was finished before we left to be with our respective families for the Christmas break. And when we returned to be together again in January, we decided we wanted to do it again.

Seven years later, reading together is something we do regularly throughout the year. Without meaning to, we have read mostly classics a The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alice in Wonderland, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a always, without fail, returning to A Christmas Carol in December, me blurting out the big lines Iave memorised over time like an eager audience member at a kidsa sing-along.

Water detective Dr Leon Barron studies Londonas wastewater, analysing it in all its chemical, narcotic, polluted glory, before and after treatment. Amazingly, he still drinks the stuff from the tap

If you live in London, Dr Leon Barron knows what youare up to. He knows what prescribed drugs youare on a painkillers, antidepressants, antipsychotics or beta blockers a and what illicit ones youare taking for fun. He knows if youave been drinking and when (aFriday and Saturday are the main onesa); perhaps even if youare worried about your dog getting fleas.

Of course, I only mean the collective ayoua, the city. Barron, who leads the Emerging Chemical Contaminants team at Imperial College, has no idea what any individual is taking or doing; he explains that very clearly and carefully. He has a research scientistas precision plus the slight wariness of someone whose research has grabbed headlines, with the inaccuracies and misinterpretations that brings (I wonder what he thought about aPrawn to be wilda, reporting his research on cocaine residue in wild river shrimps.) But heas also infectiously enthusiastic and generous with his time, spending a whole morning taking me round his lab and through his groundbreaking work.