Free school meals will be brought in for all pupils in Scotland’s primary schools, the Deputy First Minister has insisted after Humza Yousaf signalled a u-turn.
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You’d be surprised by the number of mouth-watering meals you can rustle-up using the contents of your store cupboard. Jo Pratt, a chef and author who's known for her passion for inspirational, modern and tasty food, is on a mission. She has partnered with specialist food importers Cooks&Co's to inspire home cooks to explore and experiment with exciting new flavours, using store cupboard essentials with a few fresh ingredients thrown in the mix.
Whether it's a delicious dinner or a simple but tasty cake, Jo shares some of her favourite recipes that showcase Cooks&Co's range, adding an extra dimension to your cooking. And from sweety drop peppers to plump pitted black cherries, there's an ingredient to elevate every dish... Cherry Streusel Cake With Cherry Cream Ingredients / Serves 8-10 425g can of Cooks&Co Pitted Black Cherries 50g caster sugar 200ml double cream 1 tbsp kirsch (cherry liqueur) For the base 115g unsalted butter, soft 115g caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract or paste 3 large eggs 75g ground almonds 75g polenta 1 tsp baking powder (gluten-free if required) For the Streusel topping 85g porridge oats (gluten-free if required) 65g unsalted butter, diced 25g caster sugar 65g coconut flakes Method Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
Line the base and sides of a 20cm square cake tin with a piece of baking parchment. Drain the Cooks&Co Pitted Black Cherries, reserving the liquid. Sit the drained cherries on a plate lined with some kitchen paper to absorb any excess liquid.
Put the cherry syrup in a wide saucepan with the 50g caster sugar. Bring to the boil and leave to reduce to a more syrupy consistency until you have about 150ml in quantity. Set aside and leave to cool completely.
Free school meals will be brought in for all pupils in Scotland’s primary schools, the Deputy First Minister has insisted after Humza Yousaf signalled a u-turn.
Trade unions have criticised Humza Yousaf after he signalled a u-turn on extending universal free school meals.
Record Store Day 2023.Weekly market data from the Official Charts Company has come in today that offers a complete picture of the annual event’s success. Vinyl sales enjoyed a 121.8 per cent increase in the last week, with 190,000 copies sold, surpassing the week’s nationwide sales of CDs (standing at 182,189).
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift is looking at becoming the first artist to have an exclusive Record Store Day release enter the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart when the next results are reported this coming weekend. That’s because nearly all 75,000 domestic copies of her RSD-exclusive double-LP, “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions,” are believed to have sold through within a day of having gone on sale Saturday. Even though the 75,000 copies of “Long Pond Studio Sessions” issued in the U.S. was almost four times as many copies as any RSD release has been issued with before, it was no surprise that it was a hot enough commodity to sell out in a day. The 115,000 copies that went out globally are said to be the only pressing the album will ever receive. While that might be a high quantity for anybody else, it’s worth remembering that Swift’s previous album, “Midnights,” sold about 400,000 copies in its first day out — and that was without the promise that it would never be available again.
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A record store housed on a canal barge sank the night before Record Store Day as it sailed to Manchester. Rubber Ducky Records owner Myles Greenwood lost around 1,000 vinyl records as the 28ft boat went down on the Rochdale Canal on Friday.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The checkout lines for Record Store Day might move more swiftly than usual this year, due to the likely numbers of customers who will be buying one exclusive album and one exclusive alone — Taylor Swift’s “Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions,” the most massively coveted item RSD has seen or ever might see. And listen, we’ll be picking it up, too… if supplies last. (The title has been pressed in quantities of 75,000 for the U.S. and 115,000 for the world — about four times as many as any previous RSD title. Will those be enough to last on shelves for even a day? We’ll find out.) But slow down, Swifties. There are 300 other new releases where that one came from, and this is a chance to indulge some other retail-therapy whims or make some new discoveries. Yes, there are hundreds of middle-aged guys outside in line behind you who weren’t motivated to get up quite so early, and why should they be the only ones who get to enjoy newly minted LPs from the Cure, Arooj Aftab, Nas, Orville Peck, Charlie Parker or the Pixies on a Saturday night? There’s more to life than hoarding Taylor Swift, and it is hoarding absolutely everything that has a “limited edition” sticker slapped on it, with no prejudice as to the genre, level of obscurity or how long the artist has been dead.
Record collectors and music lovers have descended onto Manchester’s ‘vinyl valley’ in their droves this morning for the annual Record Store Day event. And one eager fan camped out overnight outside Piccadilly Records in order to secure an exclusive release from his favourite artist.
Record Store Day 2023 kicked off earlier today (April 22) with vinyl fans descending on UK record shops around the country.A number of limited-edition and special releases were made available over-the-counter at over 260 participating stores, with many customers queuing since the early hours.The 1975, Blur, Pixies, U2, London Grammar, Madonna, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Foals, Donna Summer and Björk all released vinyl as part of the 2023 event.Taylor Swift, who was last year announced as the first-ever global ambassador of Record Store Day, released ‘folklore: the long pond studio sessions’ on vinyl for the first time today, with many fans taking to social media to celebrate grabbing the limited-edition record.“Still can’t believe she is mine,” said one fan, posing with the vinyl.
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