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Dolphins Fan Tries to Steal Touchdown Ball From Tyreek Hill's Mom
Dolphins Fan Tries to Steal Touchdown Ball From Tyreek Hill's Mom
VIDEO: Fan steals ball from Tyreek Hill's mom.
2023-10-09 03:08
Kadarius Toney blasts Giants fans just days after ruining Chiefs season opener
Kadarius Toney blasts Giants fans just days after ruining Chiefs season opener
Kadarius Toney had some fun at his former team -- the New York Giants -- expense despite some critical drops for the Chiefs last Thursday.
2023-09-11 22:01
Ace of Ashes: Motörhead icon Lemmy has more ashes scattered at Wacken Open Air Festival
Ace of Ashes: Motörhead icon Lemmy has more ashes scattered at Wacken Open Air Festival
Lemmy's ashes are being scattered around the globe and the latest location is Germany's Wacken festival.
2023-08-03 18:00
Ukraine pilot films moment drone flies into Russian truck
Ukraine pilot films moment drone flies into Russian truck
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has released footage of a soldier appearing to use a drone to shoot at a Russian truck. This clip, posted on Twitter/X on Wednesday (30 August), purportedly shows a border guard from the "Steel Border" unit watching on as a shot hits the vehicle. "The hand of a master," Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said. The release of the footage came as UK officials said Vladimir Putin faces the largest attack on Russia since the start of the war after it was hit by five separate drone strikes overnight on 29 and 30 August.
2023-08-31 15:33
Steven Crowder suspended from YouTube for letting Alex Jones guest host
Steven Crowder suspended from YouTube for letting Alex Jones guest host
Right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder is – once again – just a single strike away from
2023-05-20 06:30
Chef Maunika Gowardhan: ‘Indian food is so much more than chicken tikka masala’
Chef Maunika Gowardhan: ‘Indian food is so much more than chicken tikka masala’
Chicken tikka masala is a much-loved dish, but it’s only scratching the surface of delicious food cooked in a tandoor. The tandoor – a clay oven used in a lot of Indian cooking – offers a world of possibilities, and that’s something chef Maunika Gowardhan is keen to uncover. It’s not like there’s just one type of chicken tikka. From murgh malai to reshmi tikka, the options are endless – and Gowardhan, 44, had the best exposure possible growing up in Mumbai. “I grew up on really, really good street food – India is such a vibrant, diverse space. In every region you find some sort of street eat somewhere, and every corner of the country will have some sort of kebab or tikka,” she says. “Sometimes, books can have one or two of those recipes – you can’t have a whole book on just that” – and that’s what Gowardhan has set out to change in her latest cookbook, Tandoori Home Cooking. She wants people to recognise the history of the tandoor: “What really sets it apart, for me, is that it’s a cooking technique that is dated back to the Indus Valley [from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE]. It’s something that is so historic, that has so much of a rich heritage – it’s such a vital part of how we eat, not just in the streets of India or in restaurants, but even in our own homes.” Even though most homes in India don’t have a clay oven, there are plenty of techniques to replicate that smokey flavour. “When you have a look at the way a clay oven works, essentially it’s heat that’s 360 [degrees],” Gowardhan explains. “In our domestic kitchens, the endeavour is to replicate that – conventional ovens provide heat in an encapsulated space. So they are similar, but they’re not the same.” The main difference is the coals at the bottom of a tandoor – when fat drips from any meat or anything else you put in the clay oven, it drips onto the coal and the smoke that is produced gives the food that “charred, grilled smokey flavour”, she says. But how can you get that at home? One of Gowardhan’s genius tips is making smoked butter. “You can store it in the fridge, and when you start basting your food with that smoked butter, you’re getting the charred, smokey flavour that you’re really yearning for in tandoori dishes.” Not that Gowardhan has been perfecting smoked butter from a young age. “I’m going to put my hand up here and say when I first came to England [25 years ago], I didn’t know how to cook Indian food,” Gowardhan, who now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, confesses. She came to the UK for university, during which she was “thrilled” to be away from her parents with that “sense of freedom”. But after moving to her first house and getting a job in the city of London, Gowardhan says: “It slowly creeps up on you – when you go to an unfamiliar place, what you really miss is that familiarity.” That’s when Gowardhan started to learn how to cook Indian food, because “I craved it and yearned it all the time”, she says. She would ring her mother back in India and ask for simple recipes – daal, rice, green bean dishes. “I cooked not just for sustenance, I cooked because I missed home and I missed good food,” she reflects. Since then, Gowardhan fell in love with food and made her way into the industry, and this is her third cookbook. She now deems it her “calling”, saying: “I knew food was something that was a leveler on every aspect of my life. “When we did really well, my mother would say, ‘Can I make you something?’ If we were really upset she was like, ‘Let me cook for you’.” Gowardhan also suspects some of it comes from her grandmother, who was an “avid cook”. “My grandmother was the hostess with the mostess. In the 1950s in the city of Bombay, a lot of film stars and Bollywood film stars in India would actually come to my grandmother’s house to eat her food. To be a fly on the wall at my grandmother’s dinner parties…” Gowardhan’s grandmother passed down these recipes, and her mother’s passion for food “gave us this effervescence for cooking and eating good food”, she adds. After dedicating the past 20 or so years of her career to Indian food, there’s a major thing Gowardhan would like people to know about the cuisine. “People tend to forget it’s actually a subcontinent. Because it’s a subcontinent, you realise there is so much more, and every community has so much more to say about the food they cook. “Of course, it’s blurred boundaries as you go through every space, but I feel like every 20 or 30 kilometres you’re travelling, the food changes – because the crop changes, because the climate changes, because the soil changes. All of that makes a huge difference.” So, when people ask her to sum up Indian food, Gowardhan says: “It’s like saying, ‘What is your favourite European food?’ Impossible.” ‘Tandoori Home Cooking’ by Maunika Gowardhan (Hardie Grant, £25). Read More Banging brunch recipes worth getting out of bed for Think pink: Three ways with rhubarb to make the most of the season Love wine but can’t afford it? Here’s how to drink luxury for less Three meat-free dishes to try this National Vegetarian Week How to make TikTok’s viral whole roasted cauliflower Gordon Ramsay: ‘I’m going off the beaten track to become a better cook’
2023-05-24 13:30
Myanmar junta travel restrictions are holding up vital aid to cyclone-hit communities
Myanmar junta travel restrictions are holding up vital aid to cyclone-hit communities
Myanmar's military junta is holding up humanitarian access to some cyclone-hit communities in western Rakhine state after Cyclone Mocha devastated the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the poorest parts of the country.
2023-05-19 08:37
Ukraine and the Western Balkans top Blinken agenda for NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels
Ukraine and the Western Balkans top Blinken agenda for NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is turning his attention to Ukraine, NATO and the Western Balkans after weeks of intense focus on Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza
2023-11-27 22:01
Fire on small cruise ship in Alaska forces evacuation of 67 people, Coast Guard says
Fire on small cruise ship in Alaska forces evacuation of 67 people, Coast Guard says
A fire on a small cruise ship in Alaska forced 67 people aboard to evacuate Monday, according to the US Coast Guard.
2023-06-06 09:22
Dallas Wings beat the Connecticut Sun 91-81 to snap a three-game skid
Dallas Wings beat the Connecticut Sun 91-81 to snap a three-game skid
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Satou Sabally scored 28 points and had five steals, Arike Ogunbowale scored 23 points and the Dallas Wings beat the Connecticut Sun 91-81 on Saturday night to snap a three-game skid.
2023-08-13 11:00
Why France's Emmanuel Macron is courting Central Asia
Why France's Emmanuel Macron is courting Central Asia
Uranium is of interest to Paris, unsure about its supply of the fuel after a coup in Niger in July.
2023-11-02 02:44
Abu Dhabi Oil Giant Adnoc Makes Takeover Approach for Covestro
Abu Dhabi Oil Giant Adnoc Makes Takeover Approach for Covestro
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has made a preliminary takeover approach for German chemical producer Covestro AG, people
2023-06-20 20:22