Spinach & ricotta cannelloni By Suzanne Mulholland Published: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 For some extra punch, add a couple of cloves of fresh, crushed garlic to the spinach and ricotta mixture before filling the cannelloni tubes. For some extra punch, add a couple of cloves of fresh, … Read more
MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp) There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more
Whisper this softly, but we might just be falling out of love with film awards. The television ratings for last weekend’s Bafta awards were the lowest for 12 years, which, given that the coverage was recorded and you could have discovered the winners online some time before they were ‘revealed’ on TV, is perhaps not … Read more
Lazy lasagne By Suzanne Mulholland Published: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 For an even simpler method, replace the sauce ingredients with two 600g jars of shop-bought sauce. While the sauce is thickening, make the cheese layer. Put the mozzarella and ricotta in a large bowl and stir well … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 11 January 2020 THE WAY WE EAT NOW by Bee Wilson (4th Estate £9.99, 400 pp) ‘For most people across the world, life is getting better but diets are getting worse. Our food is killing us, … Read more
Unspeakable John Bercow W&N £20 Rating: The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. ‘Brevity,’ writes John Bercow, ‘is not my strong suit.’ You can say that again! Unspeakable might have been better titled Unstoppable, as it goes on and on and on, surfing the wave of its own long-windedness. Bercow never uses … Read more
Oh, the joy of knowing nothing! By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 Hair: Fabio Nogueira. Make-up: Ruby Hammer. Styling: Holly Elgeti. Blouse, Lisou. Trousers, Roland Mouret. Jewellery, Alighieri Recently I was taken to an American football game with my partner’s two teenage … Read more
HISTORY THE ZOOKEEPERS’ WAR by J.W. Mohnhaupt (S&S £18.99, 272 pp) Here’s a tale from the Cold War that’s little-known but deserves not to be. After World War II, as you know, Berlin was split into two. West Berlin was under the control of the Allies, while East Berlin was under the Soviet yoke, and an … Read more
Next In Fashion Netflix Rating: Baghdad Central Channel 4, Monday Rating: This week, a new thriller and a competitive reality show seeking a hot new fashion designer that, in its first moments, comes over as a cross between The Great British Sewing Bee and The Apprentice, which is not what we want. ‘I’m not nervous … Read more
Shepherd’s pie with sweet potato mash By Suzanne Mulholland Published: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 16 February 2020 Leave until completely cooled, then cover the dish with a plastic lid or with a layer of clingfilm followed by a layer of foil, then label and transfer to the freezer for up … Read more