Chicken & Veggie Stir-Fry

If you’re looking for an alternative to takeout, why not try making your own stir fry? This easy recipe is a great way to use up any leftover vegetables and proteins you have in your fridge. Plus, you can control the amount of salt, sugar, and oil you use, so you can make a healthier version of your favourite take-out dish. Start by heating up some oil in a wok or large pan. Once it’s hot, add your protein of choice - chicken, beef, pork, or tofu - and cook until it’s golden brown. Then, add your vegetables and stir fry until they’re tender. For extra favour, you can add some

Ingredients for 6 servings

• 0.7kg (1kg) chicken breast (455 g), cubed

• salt, to taste

• pepper, to taste

• .7kg (1kg) broccoli forets (455 g)

• 1 cup mushroom (225 g), sliced

• 3 tablespoons oil, for frying

Sauce

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 tablespoon ginger, minced

• 2 teaspoons sesame oil

• cup reduced sodium soy sauce (80 mL)

• 1 tablespoon brown sugar

• 1 cup chicken broth (240 mL)

• 1/4 cup four (30g) garlic, ginger, and chilli fakes. Once the vegetables are cooked, make the sauce by combining soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, and sesame oil in a small bowl. Pour the sauce into the pan and stir it through the stir fry. Cook for a few minutes until everything is well coated and the sauce has thickened. Finally, serve your stir fry with a side of steamed rice or noodles. You can also top it with some fresh herbs, toasted sesame seeds, or a dollop of chilli sauce.

Enjoy your homemade take-out meal!

Apple trees and grass are not exactly good companion plants.

We are o en asked how wide a mulch ring is around any given fruit tree. is can be a specious argument, depending on who you ask. But let’s just suppose for a moment, that you could fast forward time about ve years a er you’ve planted your rst apple tree. Let’s also suppose that you’ve also planted chives around that tree.

CHIVES

Well let’s just assume that the variety of apples you wanted is more susceptible to apple scab; chives can take care of that. Chives not only are added to many dishes in the kitchen but are also used as nature’s pest confusers. Plant these around the trunk of the tree.

DAFFODIL ese also get planted in a ring around the tree. Not only are they among the rst blossoms in the spring, but are a rodent deterrent, keeping the rodents from chewing the bark o . Plus owers to bring in for the dining table.

CURRANTS

All black, white, or red currants are bene cial below the tree. ey each o er medicinal and culinary uses.

STRAWBERRY

What is the best month to plant fruit trees?

The best time to plant bare root fruit trees is in the early spring from February to early May since this will give enough time for their root systems to grow and for the plant to survive a harsh winter.

Should you fertilize newly planted fruit trees?

When fruit trees are first planted, the priority is to encourage them to grow roots by maintaining even soil moisture in good-quality soil. Once young trees find their feet – usually one to two years after planting – you can start fertilizing them to promote strong, steady growth.

Another plant that is not only good to eat but draws in bene cial insects. e canopy of the tree provides less sunlight, the strawberry will spread out as the tree grows, on its own, or with your help to get out from underneath the tree canopy to get more sunlight.

LEMON BALM

Another plant used for stabilizing soil, drawing in bene cial insects, medicine, and food avoring. Many herbs are used here. Don’t limit yourself to Lemon Balm only.

PEA VINES & BEANS

Why not let a pea vine climb up the tree? Food, nectar, and most important in this situation, nitrogen- xing. Many plants fall into this category called nitrogen- xing plants. ese plants set atmospheric nitrogen that the tree ends up with. Nitrogen- xing plants are a necessary part of growing great fruit. Peas and beans will t the bill just right, though there are a number of great plants for this. Stand back now and take a look at what you’ve just done. It’s ve years down the road; you have a great selection of plants with all kinds of uses around your apple tree. is is just one example of all the possibilities out there.

DANDELION

Why the dandelion has become one of the homeowner’s most dreaded plants Lord knows. For food, med- icine, and soil structure, there are few other plants that are as nutritious and healing, e cient, proli c, and persistent. is applies to pear trees especially. However, most fruit trees fall into what we are about to explain. Pear blossoms are not quite as sweet as other ower blossoms in the morning. But as the day goes on, the nectar levels build and by the a ernoon these levels will attract the attention of the bees. e dandelion feeds the bees all morning, and by the a ernoon the sugar levels on the pears are coming up. Like humans, bees also get a variety of food. So you can see one of the importance of the wonderful dandelion. You have food, medicine, pest repellants, and plants that draw in bene cial insects, all in one little space around your tree. Bees are extremely important here and will have a nice variety to choose from. We are maximizing the owering components of an orchard interplant, to eliminate grass, to draw in all pollinators, predatory insects, and even insectivorous birds. Accomplishing multiple crops in one area versus one crop, one area. Multiple crops to complement each other easily eliminates chemical pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers. Albrecht’s Nursery does not approve of these chemicals. Not only do the chemicals harm us, but they can also harm bene cial that we need to bring in to keep the balance.

Fruit trees need to be planted in a sunny spot that receives at least six hours of sunlight per day year-round, with enough room to grow in – space them away from other plants and surfaces, and welldrained soil. Dig a hole larger than you need to help the roots spread out when planting.

Can you plant di erent fruit trees next to each other?

If the fruits are di erent varieties, they won’t pollinate each other properly, but there are ways to ensure they don’t grow too close to each other. Aim for at least three feet between two trees for optimal pollination. Aim to plant di erent fruit trees at least ve feet apart.

How do you prepare a fruit tree for planting?

Remove the tree from the pot and lightly tease roots down side of the root ball and loosen any matted roots at base of root balls. Fill in soil around roots, making sure not to plant root ball any more than 2cm lower than it was in the container. Trees will suffer if planted too deep.

Sherlock Holmes comes to QPAC with the world premiere of The Mystery of the Valkyrie.

This coming March 2023 at QPAC, one of the most piece band will perform, Rob Brydon – A Night Of Songs & Laughter. This new show follows on from the huge success of his 2019 sold out tour of Australia and marks the frst time the much-loved entertainer has created a show that includes songs and music alongside his acclaimed wit and comedy. With songs from Tom Waits to Tom Jones, and Guys and Dolls to Elvis (and almost everything in between), audiences can expect Rob’s usual warmth and humour as well as some of his famed gallery of voices. Rob Brydon’s varied career began with the TV comedy shows Marion and Geoff and Human Remains in 2000, for which he won British Comedy Awards.

Since then his comedy credits have included A Small Summer Party, The Keith Barret Show, Directors Commentary, Supernova, Cruise Of The Gods, Black Books, I’m Alan Partridge, Little Britain, Live At The Apollo, Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive, QI, The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year, Have I Got News For You, Gavin

Helen Cassidy is Inspector MacDonald

Darcy Brown is Mycroft

Rowan Chapman is Moran

Jackson McGovern is Nikita Ivanovsky

Danny Brown is Sergeant Turner

Sarah McIntosh is Claudia This production is not and Stacey, Rob Brydon’s Identity Crisis, Would I Lie To You and The Trip with Steve Coogan. He has also appeared in the dramas Oliver Twist, Heroes and Villains: Napoleon, The Way We Live Now, Murder In Mind, Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore, Marple and the flms 24 Hour Party People, MirrorMask, A Cock and Bull Story and the flm Swimming with Men.

In 2009 alongside Ruth Jones, Robin Gibb and Sir Tom Jones, Rob reached number one in the UK charts with the single Islands in “The Stream”, in aid of Comic Relief. He also embarked on an 87 date tour of the UK with his stand up show, Rob Brydon Live, which included a three week run in London’s West End. He also recently enjoyed a sold-out tour with Lee Mack and David Mitchell, before his own sell-out tour in 2020.

“I’m so excited to be heading back to Australia sponsored or endorsed by, nor is it associated in any way with, The Conan Doyle Estate or any of its affliates and/or licensors. and getting back on stage with this new show. Touring with this incredible band of musicians is such a delight. I’m looking forward to getting around your fne country next year and bring some much needed music and laughter.”

Recommended for ages 15 years and older.

Rob Brydon

Rob Brydon Act 1 –1 hour 5 mins

Rob Brydon Act 2 – 1 hour

Concert Hall 2 hours and 25 min(includes interval, subject to change without notice) literature and screen comes to life on stage with this highly-anticipated new Australian work. Journey back to 221B Baker Street with Holmes, Watson, Adler and Moriarty, as this fast-paced dramatic thriller explodes onto the Playhouse stage with extraordinary staging and projections.

Written and Directed by the extraordinary Michael Futcher, this epic play will have you on the edge of your seat, until The Mystery of the Valkyrie is solved. Book today. The game is afoot. Only at QPAC for a strictly limited season!

Eugene Gilfedder is Sherlock Holmes

Anthony Gooley is Dr. John Watson

Bryan Probets is Professor Moriarty

Kimie Tsukakoshi is Irene Adler

Free Live Music Friday Nights

Scream VI review – Ghostface takes Manhattan in standout slasher sequel

There’s plenty of fun to be had in a gorier and smarter followup to last year’s franchise relauncher

There’s a moment in the uncommonly good slasher sequel Scream VI when Hayden Panettiere’s returning fan favourite character says she died for four minutes after being stabbed in 2011’s fourth instalment. That flm, now viewed as a rather underappreciated entry, killed the franchise for far longer, positioned as the start of a new trilogy but instead stopping the series for over a decade, its wounding box offce proving far harder to heal.

But easy access to the series via streaming and an increased appetite for the horror genre led to a hyped resurrection and

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ballinafaircinemas.com.au last year’s simply titled Scream became a surprise hit, re-engaging the OG 90s kids while also inspiring a legion of new bloodthirsty fans. As a legacy sequel it was only half-successful, juggling the old and the new with shaky hands, but it was good enough in a landscape where that’s more than enough, and cautious intrigue awaited wherever the franchise might go next.

As with 1997’s Scream 2, we didn’t need to wait that long with the worryingly rushed Scream VI out just over a year later, survivors re-assembling for more meta mayhem. While, as is always the case with a Scream movie, there are plenty of surprising twists in store for them and us, perhaps the biggest surprise is just how impressive the whole thing is, given both the frantic cram of production and the muddle of what came before. There are so many plates now in the air – two different generations grappling with one absurdly convoluted timeline – but returning screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick have found a way to make the spinning feel effortless, mastering a tonal balance that they struggled with last time around.

Tone has always been key with the Scream movies, an unusual melange of self-referential snark, Scooby Doo mysterysolving, gory horror and far-fetched family soap. Unlike so many slasher sequels that focus more on the primal basics of watching someone in a mask do horrible things to anonymous young people, a new Scream is tasked with not only tackling an almost 30-year-long melodrama involving multiple families and multiple grudges but also with a need to reinvent the wheel, each sequel having to say or do something we haven’t seen before. While Scream VI is far less fxated on a thesis than the ffth was, it’s still clever enough to comment on franchise fatigue and the repetitive grind of trauma without feeling as didactic or as smug as so many more superfcially high-minded horror flms. There are brief but effective tinges of sadness (it’s the sixth flm and a lot of people have died at this point) but it’s sprightly enough to not get bogged down by it, remembering the most important thing a Scream flm should be is fun. We’re out of Woodsboro for only the third time in the franchise (the second flm took us to a leafy college campus, the third to Hollywood) and, like

Jason Voorhees before him/her/them, Ghostface is taking Manhattan, or more accurately Montreal posing as Manhattan.

Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), aka the daughter of Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich, still returning in visions, still a heinous idea), has insisted herself upon her sister Tara (Jenna Ortega), an understandably smothering presence after the two almost died months before. But before you can say the classic slasher sequel line “It’s starting again”, it starts again with bodies piling up around them, at the bodega, in an apartment building and, of course, on the subway.

What’s notable this time around is that it’s not Neve Campbell’s tortured Final Girl Sidney Prescott resignedly delivering that line because, for the frst time, she’s not a part of this chapter. The star spoke out about a perceived low salary, a slight given her prominence in the franchise and how much money the last flm made, and decided not to return (a strategy that will surely, hopefully, pay off with a healthy paycheck for the inevitable Scream VII). Instead, it’s down to Courteney Cox, returning as opportunistic yet haunted journalist Gale Weathers (and thankfully given more to do this time which she does predictably well), and Panettiere’s flm geek turned FBI agent to represent the older guard while Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown’s brother-sister pairing Chad and Mindy, aka nephew and niece of Jamie Kennedy’s Randy Meeks, return on the younger side. After a genuinely surprising and horribly effective cold open, something every Scream is judged by, directors Matt BettinelliOlpin and Tyler Gillett fnd their groove instantly, freed from the shackles of both the scene-setting of the last flm and a need to be as tiresomely meta. Barrera also feels freer, overcoming some of her soapier acting impulses, and fostering a strong sibling dynamic with Ortega, again a standout. While we might have left the ffth flm worried that the newer generation would ever be able to capture the same longrunning chemistry as their predecessors, there’s little doubt here, the “core four” as they call themselves proving both charming and heartfelt.

It’s the second flm in the new rebooted universe so bigger is seen as better with a number of brash and bloody setpieces, most of which prove suspenseful enough if never actually scary (has a Scream flm needed to be truly scary since the frst?). It’s the goriest movie of the series so far but without veering into grimness, again that tonal balance perfectly modulated. The last act reveal is as goofy as one would expect but satisfyingly so for reasons impossible to explain without entering spoiler territory. What can be said about what’s to come next. propulsive jolt then there’s

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• Disney 100yrs SingAlong “Frozen” (March 24 & 25)

We have an amazing line up of shows coming to the Saraton.

DREAMS: FLEETWOOD MAC & STEVIE NICKS SHOW

Friday March 17, 2023 @ 8pm

STEVE O: THE BUCKET LIST TOUR DOWN UNDER PT 2

Thursday April 20, 2023@ 7.00pm.

CELTICA: A NEW ERA OF IRISH

HERITAGE

Wednesday May 3, 2023 @ 7:30pm.

LUKE KIDGELL HAPPY HOUR

Sunday June 11, 2023 @ 6.30pm

QUEEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Friday 16 June 2023 @ 8pm

THE ROBERTSON BROTHERS 60’S

VARIETY SHOW

Sunday June 18, 2023 2:00pm

LIAM COOPER’S KINGS OF KEYS

Saturday August 5, 2023 @ 7:30pm

MUSIC OF THE NIGHT TRIBUTE

TO ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

Sunday August 27, 2023 @ 2pm

Tens of thousands of years ago, a genetic mutation gave rise to the physical manifestation of red hair in humans. Now, like many, they are endangered. The audience enter QPAC’s Playhouse to fnd a transparent infatable containing two dance performers with red hair. Audience members are taken to their seats on stage. Eventually the air inside the infatable is gradually removed, ultimately vacuum packing the two performers, preserving them with nothing but one another.

Opening to critical acclaim at Brisbane Festival in 2021, RED illuminates the preciousness of life and the intrinsic value of nature through the exquisite, immersive performance by ensemble members Marlo Benjamin (Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer – 2020 Australian Dance Awards) and

Performing at QPAC for the frst time, Dancenorth is one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance companies having presented work in over 45 International Arts Festivals and venues around Australia and the world.

Epic and intimate, RED illuminates the universal challenge of our survival.

Time is running out.

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7 The name of which Adelaide suburb is a palindrome?

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