I have made these cookies countless times over the lockdown period and I now always have an emergency frozen batch in the freezer, because they are just that good! This is a one bowl recipe and makes about 12 cookies, depending on how big or small you want them to be! This recipe is originally…
Travel
Recipe 3: For he’s a jolly good pesto!
Here is a pesto recipe. It is not the best one, but it works and pesto is incredible regardless. Grab your blender, food processor, whatever’s available, and throw in about 50g of parmesan (I used less because my family don’t like cheese for some reason, but believe in yourself and eat that cheese), then throw…
Arts, Venue
‘Secrets, trust, and danger’: the three promises of Rachel Sargeant’s new novel
Rachel Sargeant is quickly rising the ranks in psychological thrillers, with her novel ‘The Perfect Neighbours’, becoming a top ten Kindle bestseller. Now she talks to us ahead of the release of her upcoming novel, ‘The Roomates’. Sargeant’s new novel revolves around a university campus and explores the story of a stalker. Packed with darkness…
Science
Eating insects to save the planet?
For most, the thought of eating grubs and crickets for dinner is the stuff of nightmares which should remain on I’m a Celebrity. However, there is evidence to suggest that eating insects, far from being a nightmare, could be the key to preventing rising sea levels and increasingly intense heatwaves. Global warming is such a…
Creative Writing
Ice cream cone
Ice cream. Soft serve with strawberry sauce on the side. A limited edition offer to spin down its swirly vanilla slide. Smooth surface, untouched and shiny new, My heart beats faster as I think of the magic bound within you. Sprinkle covered cone, I take a hesitant bite, I go deeper and deeper till…
Creative Writing
Synesthetist
Ringing red lips, resounding around the room. Aniseed accent, lingering for me to lick off long after. Trembling taste. And you smell blindingly bright. While your pheromones take lightest flight on softest feathers. And in a million more ways than I can convey. You impress yourself upon me. But I can’t say. Because the…
Creative Writing
Jealousy
You appear as a dark shadow; small, black, faceless, getting bigger and bigger. Engulfing until your circumference becomes traceless. You sound like sharp green nails on a blackboard, scratching and screeching. Your voice bores into me, shrill and defeating A fiery burn as you suck and bite at me, a parasite slowly killing its host….
Features
Appropriation or appreciation? Styling in popular culture
It’s starting to seem as though, behind the success of every creative mind in the media industry, there has been at least one terribly planned “exotic moment”. In Western popular culture it has become a trend, most common in music videos, for artists to use a country or culture other than their own, to bring…
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