Author: Oliver Jobson
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Spiced vegetable curry
Ingredients: 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 onion, thinly sliced 1 garlic clove, crushed 5 tbsp mild curry paste 400ml can coconut milk 150ml vegetable stock 125g fine green beans, trimmed 1 large sweet potato, cut into chunks 175g baby corn, halved lengthways 1/2 small cauliflower (about 375g), broken into small florets 100g ground almonds 410g…
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Tomato and goat’s cheese tarts
Ingredients: 375g packet ready-rolled puff pastry Plain flour, for dusting 150g goat’s cheese 250g punnet vine cherry or pomodorino tomatoes, halved 1 egg, beaten with a little water Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling Large sprigs basil leaves, to garnish 4 slices Parma ham (optional) Rocket, to serve The Method: 1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.…
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Sweet Cherry Tomato and Sausage Bake
Ingredients 2kg cherry tomatoes 2 sprigs of thyme, rosemary and bay (each) 1 tablespoon of dried oregano 3 cloves of chopped garlic Good-quality Cumberland or coarse Italian pork sausage (12) Extra virgin olive oil Balsamic vinegar Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper The method: 1. Preheat the oven to 190°C. Put in all your…
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Chilli-Con-Carne in a rush
A great quick Chilli recipe – if you have time, use the Chilli Deluxe recipe! Ingredients: 1 tin kidney beans, drained 1 tin chopped tomatoes. If you can throw in some whole tomatoes that have ben roughly chopped it will improve the texture. 500g lean minced beef Vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped ½-1 tsp…
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Chilli-Con-Carne Deluxe
The Ingredients: 1 large onion or 2 banana shallots, chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 red chilli deseeded or keep half with seeds if you like it spicy 2 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked and roughly chopped Olive oil, for frying 500g good quality beef mince 1 tsp ground cumin 2 tsp sweet paprika…
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File types and codecs for importing to iMovie
I’ve been messing around with video editing recently – it’s something I have never really looked at before as I have never had the power to do it properly, but one of the first barriers I ran into was suitable file formats for importing into iMovie. I had a few old video’s that I wanted…
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Putting customer data first…
My next big project: Systematic communications strategy. We need to talk to all our customers at each stage of their relationship with us. We need to promote ourselves to different customer segments accordingly. We want to know how we are doing, what they think of us, so it must feed this information back to us…
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Formula One
It is astonishing how such a group of well meaning individuals can truly screw something up – I was looking forward to this as my family used to go to Donnington to watch the BTCC and MotoGP when I was younger (my father’s company sponsored a couple of different manufacturers which meant frequent corporate hospitality…
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Ultimate Sausage Casserole
Ingredients 8 Cumberland Sausages Onion (one large) Garlic (2 cloves) Peppers Mushrooms Butter beans (2x400g tins) Tinned Tomatoes (1 tin) Assorted herbs Chicken stock (300ml) The method: Grill the sausages and put to one side. Brown the onion with the garlic in a large casserole dish. When the onions are ready, throw in the tomatoes, chicken…