Mind Food: Plant-based recipes for positive mental health

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Wanderlust is heightened in our travel section, where we consider Viking’s festive cruise options, take a scenic train journey on the world-famous Tranz Alpine route, explore Northland’s drawcards and discover Dobbiaco, a tiny picturesque town in the Italian Alps.

Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience is a polished pebble of a novel: opaque, contained, unyielding. The story seems to begin when the unnamed female narrator relocates to look after her elder brother, whose wife and children have left. Using a rubber spatula, scrape the ganache from the baking sheet and strain through a fine-mesh strainer and refrigerate until needed. Place the onions and lemon under the lamb. Add the water and the extra 2 tbsp of spice mix to the roasting pan. Lay a 1 by 1-inch white cake strip on top of the blue strip so that ganached sides of the two strips are touching. Squeeze along the length of the cake to make sure the strips adhere, and then spread ganache on any bare interior sides.Working in intervals of 10 to 20 seconds and stirring often, heat the ganache until it is free of lumps but not so hot that the edges start to burn. Reheating ganache is much harder without a microwave. Without a microwave, to keep ganache warm during use, put it into a glass liquid measuring cup and rest the cup in a bowl of warm water (110 degrees F to 120 degrees F).

Chetna Maroo’s subtle novel follows a British Asian girl, Gopi, who plays squash fiercely to cope with the grief of her mother’s death. Our Grow Some Share Some course is for those who have spent time with us previously and runs on Fridays and Saturdays. If I Survive You tells the interconnected stories of the men from a Jamaican family that migrate to Miami. The novel moves between stories from brothers Trelawny and Delano, their father Topper and their cousin Cukie as they navigate issues of belonging, racial identity, displacement, father-son relationships and hurricanes in 20th- and 21st-century America. To serve, turn out your Christmas pud onto a lipped serving dish. Warm up the extra brandy in a small saucepan (don’t let it boil) and then pour it over the hot Christmas pudding. Carefully set light to it and serve as soon as the flames have died down, with brandy butter. Serve with pomegranate glazed carrots and kumara or the moroccan carrot salad with toasted pita and feta whip .However, the narrator’s insistent attention on duty and deference is linked to echoes of historical oppression and exclusion rooted in her identity. Though not named, it is inferred by repeated allusions to her scapegoating by the Christian community she lives among. A sense of solidarity also comes from a common sense of purpose – we’ll be fixing up our space for others to enjoy. And the great news is: doing good…feels good. What matters is that we can all share a similar recovery journey.​ Carefully place the remaining 1/2 by 1-inch white strip on top of the 2 by 2-inch white strip, laying it flat and ganache side down to the right of the 1 by 1-inch strip. Squeeze firmly along the length of the cake to make sure the strips adhere, and then spread ganache on the bare side. Place the apples, sugar, vinegar and cider in a bowl and toss to combine. Add the apples and bay leaves to the pan and pour over the liquid. Return the pork to the pan, cook for a further 20 minutes or until the meat is tender and rind is golden and crunchy. Serve the pork with apples and pan juices.