The feats goes on: Christmas Green Soup with Stilton and Pine Nuts

The feats goes on: Christmas Green Soup with Stilton and Pine Nuts By Annie Bell Published: 00:02 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 20 December 2020 Food stylist: Louise Kenney. Props stylist: Charlie Phillips A deliciously thick and rich green soup that is full of veggies. Dish it up with wholegrain bread for … Read more

Whether roasted, mashed or made into soup, pumpkins are a princely veg, says Monty Don

Plump for pumpkins! Whether roasted, mashed or made into soup, pumpkins are a princely veg, says Monty Don. All they need is sun and space to spread… Monty Don shares his tips for growing the best pumpkins Says that growing cross-patch crops such as lettuce or radishes can fill space Ensure 5cm of the pumpkins neck … Read more

Two chemicals in Earth’s ‘primordial soup’ created the first ever Krebs cycle

Metabolism is a key process in living things that enables fuel to be turned into energy, but its evolutionary origin is a long-standing enigma.   Now, a study by US researchers has found a simple reaction between two chemicals, called glyoxylate and pyruvate, in Earth’s primordial soup billions of years ago may have led to the … Read more

ADRIAN THRILLS: Reissue of Rolling Stones’ 1973 classic Goats Head Soup

The Rolling Stones: Goats Head Soup (Polydor) Verdict: Spicy musical broth  Rating: Molly Tuttle: But I’d Rather Be With You (Compass) Verdict: Classy quarantine covers Rating: Various: AngelHeaded Hipster (BMG) Verdict: Ambitious Bolan tribute  Rating: The Rolling Stones have coped as well as anyone with the upheavals of 2020.  Forced to cancel their U.S. tour … Read more

Brewers’ hops could be used to clean up the ‘brown soup’ of Berlin’s River Spree

Brewers’ hops could be used to filter out iron particles from Germany’s River Spree that have run into the water from open-cast coal mines The River Spree is turned brown by run off of iron compounds and heavy metals  Researchers hope to create ‘filter bags’ made using by-products from brewing These bags would hang in … Read more

‘Porridge and lentil soup’ diet aims to curb diabetes in Scotland

Doctors in Scotland to trial an 850-calorie ‘porridge and lentil soup’ diet to curb the nation’s spiralling diabetes epidemic A total of 15,980 new patients diagnosed in 2018 – including 205 under age of 30 The 850-calorie daily diet plan includes five portions of fruit and vegetables Participants will lose a stone a month and ‘diabetes … Read more