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SOON after the announcement was made that the Queen had died peacefully at Balmoral, people began sharing their memories of encounters with her. News outlets were filled with their stories. Grown-ups remembered childhood meetings when the Queen visited the hospital where they were being treated. Community champions reminisced about the time they had received an award from her. One contributor said that, while they had not seen her in person, nor been a ‘huge royalist’, they had been touched by her ‘ability to convey warmth, wisdom and encouragement each Christmas’.
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It was a personal faith that she would mention in her Christmas broadcasts. Last December, after the loss of her ‘beloved Philip’, she acknowledged that ‘life consists of final partings as well as first meetings’. She spoke of joy and sorrow, of reminiscing and looking forward. And she spoke of Jesus, ‘a man whose teachings have been handed down from generation to generation’ and whose birth – she said, quoting the carol –addressed the ‘hopes and fears of all the years’.
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This week’s War Cry too contains memories of the Queen. We report that, in a statement issued after her death, the leader of The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland, Commissioner Anthony Cotterill, said: ‘We especially remember with gratitude and affection the occasions when she demonstrated her support for the frontline work of The Salvation Army.’ He notes that the Queen visited Salvation Army centres, and he recalls a personal encounter when she welcomed Salvationists to Windsor Castle for an event thanking faith groups and charities for their work during the Covid-19Elsewherepandemic.inthisissue, Austin Burn shares his memories of the Queen. He has much to remember, having worked for the royal family for almost two decades. He recalls the Queen’s interest in his membership of The Salvation Army. He also remembers how ‘the Queen was always open about her own Christianity’.
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‘His birth,’ she concluded, ‘marked a new beginning.’Whichis a truth that – in difficult and more joyful times – is always worth remembering.
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with Commissioners Anthony and Gillian Cotterill at Windsor Castle in 2020
‘We share the sorrow of the nation at the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,’ says the commissioner in a statement. ‘It brings to an end a reign lasting more than 70 years. The Queen has remained steadfast in her Christian faith throughout the tremendous challenges and enormous changes the country has come through in that‘Ourtime.sincerest condolences and prayers go out to the Queen’s children and grandchildren, and all of the royal family, at this extremely difficult time.
thanks to God for her long life of service, devotion to God and people, and will continue to pray for the royal family.’
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HE prayers of The Salvation Army go out to the royal family after the death of the Queen, says the leader of the church and charity in the UK and Ireland, Commissioner Anthony Cotterill, adding that the Army remembers ‘with gratitude and affection’ the times when she demonstrated her support for its work.
The commissioner personally remembers how, at Christmas 2020, the Queen welcomed him, along with his wife, Commissioner Gillian Cotterill, and a Salvation Army band playing carols, to Windsor Castle to thank The Salvation Army and other faith groups and charities for their work during the pandemic.
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The Queen in 2002 at her reopening of a centre for people experiencing homelessness
The leader of The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland has said that the church and charity gives thanks for Elizabeth II
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‘It was an honour to meet her and members of the royal family,’ he says.
‘As head of the royal family, the Queen has been an inspiration to us all and we give thanks for her long reign and her outstanding service to country and Commonwealth. We especially remember with gratitude and affection the occasions
‘I know that Salvationists throughout the United Kingdom, and beyond, will give
The commissioner notes that the Queen attended The Salvation Army’s centenary celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965 and often visited its services around the‘Sheworld.regularly visited our centres and met the people we look after, including those battling drug addictions and homelessness,’ he says. ‘She opened many of our facilities, including our home for women in 1980 and numerous others around the country, always taking time to meet and talk with individuals.’
when she demonstrated her support for the frontline work of The Salvation Army.’
Austin worked at Buckingham Palace and other royal residences
With a period of mourning having begun and a state funeral being planned for Monday (19 September), Austin reflects on two other deaths within the royal family.
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‘Everyone will be feeling a great sense of loss,’ he says. ‘Working for the royal family feels like you’re working
HETHER they were outside Buckingham Palace and saw the small white notice being attached to the gates or were somewhere remote and received a notification on their phone, many people will remember how they felt when they learnt that the Queen had died peacefully at Balmoral on the afternoon of 8 September 2022.
With most of the population in the UK unable to remember a time when the Queen was not on the throne, her death will bring an enormous sense of loss. One person who will feel that sense
for your adopted family. I spent almost two decades working for them, and I am gutted. The Queen has been like the grandmother of the nation, but it’s also a very personal loss for the many people who worked for her.’
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‘I was privileged to be in Windsor Castle for the funeral of Prince Philip,’ he recalls. ‘I also went to the Queen Mother’s funeral, but because I had spent more time with Prince Philip than I did the Queen Mother, it was a totally different experience – particularly because the prince’s was so much smaller and informal.’
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AUSTIN BURN, who spent 18 years working for the royal family, reflects on how the Queen treated everyone with respect, had ‘a real interest’ in The Salvation Army and was open about her own faith
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of loss more than most is Austin Burn, who spent 18 years working for the royal family, first as an under-butler, then as a footman and then in a role called Page of the Presence. He has worked at all the royal residences, including Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral as well as on the royal yacht Britannia.
It was the Queen herself who invited Austin to her mother’s funeral. Knowing that he was a lifelong member of The Salvation Army, she wanted him to represent the church and charity at the service. Throughout his time working for her, the Queen always took an interest in Austin’s membership and any voluntary roles that he carried out for the organisation.
Austin’s experiences mean that he knows what people currently working in those royal residences will be experiencing right now.
In 2001, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Austin spent time in the US with The Salvation Army, providing support to the emergency services.
‘When I returned, I was at an event talking to some friends,
‘It’s a ver y personal loss for the many people who worked for her’
The Queen had a strong faith
‘Whenever there was anything on at St Paul’s Cathedral, like a service which I was invited to and where the Queen would be, I would always go in Salvation Army uniform, because that’s what the Queen would have expected.’
centres. But that respect goes back to Queen Victoria and has continued through every generation since.
‘The Salvation Army is very well respected within the household,’ he says. ‘The Queen had a real interest in it. It’s why she opened various Army
‘Her Majesty was a wonderful leveller who had a great sense of humour and could talk to people from every walk of life.’
wanted her evening tipple. When I gave it to her, she said: “Austin, for a Salvationist, you make a fantastic gin andAustinDubonnet!”’issure, though, that the Queen’s interest in The Salvation Army was influenced by her own Christian faith.
Austin also reveals that the Queen was well aware that uniform-wearing members of The Salvation Army are teetotal.‘There was one time when the Queen
‘The Queen was always open about her own Christianity,’ he says. ‘She had a strong faith and went to church every week. I will remember her as a good Christian lady who treated everybody with respect, no matter who they were.
when all of a sudden someone tapped me on my shoulder,’ he remembers. ‘I turned round and came face to face with the Queen, who asked me about what I got up to at Ground Zero. She had a real interest in what I had done there.’
The Queen with Austin in 1996 when she opened Edward Alsop Court, a Salvation Army centre in Westminster for people experiencing homelessness
However, Austin explains that the Queen’s interest in The Salvation Army went far beyond what one member of her staff did, and that the interest was shared by other members of her family.
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Schoolteacher John Bennett heard about Jack’s work and, realising the demand for tools in Africa, he encouraged his pupils to collect, clean and renovate tools to send out to the DRC. In 1984, with the support of the BMM, Tools with a Mission was founded.
T all began with incubators. In 1978 the Baptist Men’s Movement (BMM) asked Jack Norwood, a deacon at a Southend church, to head up a project to make them. In 1981, he travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for a year to develop solar-powered incubators to hatch chickens.
Recycle Week, an annual campaign that aims to galvanise the public into recycling more things, more often, begins on Monday (19 September). To mark the week, MIKE GRIFFIN, CEO of Tools with a Mission, talks about how refurbishing tools and shipping them to Africa is giving recipients dignity, an income and a new start in life
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widow in tears, saying: “My husband has just died. He has a shed full of tools. Will you please take them and use them?” When we collect the tools, we minister to the bereaved.
The organisation sends out toolkits for sectors such as agriculture, building and utility trades, tailoring and mechanics. It ships an average of 16,000 tools a year to the DRC, Zambia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and has plans to expand into Tanzania and Malawi.
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As Mike explains, Tools with a Mission works with smaller community-led projects that are run through self-help co-operatives or churches.
‘We have an application form where
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‘Or a company may change its brand image and send its old tools to us. We also receive individual donations. After the first lockdown, we were overwhelmed with tools after people sorted out their garages or Thesheds.’collected tools are transported from local groups and independent workshops to Tools with a Mission’s refurbishment centres in Ipswich and Rugby. There, volunteers sort them into specific trade categories and refurbish them. The tools are then shipped out to African countries and sent to distribution centres where recipients can pick up their toolkits.
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CEO Mike Griffin says that the tools come from various sources.
‘A member of the church applied for a carpentry workshop kit and two sewing machines. Hansuma used his weeks off work to make furniture, first to equip the school and then to ‘Thensell. a lady, Annin, used one of the sewing machines to make school uniforms, because the kids couldn’t afford them. After school the teachers used the machines to make clothes to sell and raise income for themselves.
At Tools for a Mission, we “post our guard” by doing all the planning, events and advertising. But the rest is in God’s hands, and we’re praying for him to give us success and provide us with the resources we need.’
people tell us about their community, the challenges they face and how we may be able to assist them. Communities just want help to become independent. Our work is about giving them ownership and dignity. They are the ones that are changing their lives.’
‘We went to Rize, a school that was set up by a church to reduce illiteracy
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through e-learning,’ he says. ‘There were 500 children who wanted to come to the school, but the school had no money.
Annin, the tailoring tutor at Rize, with her sewing machine
Mike explains: ‘The people say, “We prayed to the Lord and posted our guard.”
‘Next the parents of the children came to the school and said: “What about us? Can’t you teach us tailoring?” So the same lady is now teaching tailoring to the parents of the children in the evenings. Now the parents are earning money and can afford to pay the schoolToolsfees.’with a Mission isn’t just having a social impact. It’s having an environmental impact too. Reusing and recycling 405 tonnes of tools a year and diverting them from landfill has saved an estimated 1,134 tonnes in CO2 emissions every year.
Mike illustrates the ripple effect that the tools have within a community by citing a project in an area of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, that has a 70 per cent unemployment rate, partly as a result of widespread illiteracy.
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Hansuma using his carpentry kit to make furniture for Rize
In these uncertain times, Mike’s faith is a rock as he shapes the expansion plans of Tools with a Mission. He says he takes inspiration from a line in the Bible’s Book of Nehemiah, which tells how the enemies of God’s people threatened to destroy them.
In his work at Tools with a Mission, Mike is inspired by his Christian faith. Ahead of Recycle Week, which starts on Monday (19 September), he outlines how his beliefs influence the reusingtowardsorganisation’sfaith-basedattitudesustainabilityandresources.
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had a crisis too. That experience hasn’t left my mind even now.’
To raise such awareness, Alidor is starting a charity called Hidden Pain Society. He already goes into schools to give talks about his experiences and encourage blood donation – which is important for him and other people with sickle cell disease who receive regular blood transfusions. The charity will continue this work.
ALIDOR GASPAR, a grime artist known as A Star, has lived with sickle cell disease his whole life. To mark Sickle Cell Awareness Month he talks about growing up with the painful genetic condition, the resentment he felt towards his parents and how he is working to prevent the disorder from reaching future generations
‘It took me a while, but God restructured my thoughts about suffering,’ he says. ‘In the Gospels, the disciples ask Jesus why a man had been born blind. They wonder what his parents must have done for him to be like that. Jesus said the man’s blindness was nothing to do with anything his parents or he had done.
He explains: ‘It’s called Hidden Pain Society because sickle cell is a pain that no one sees. You can’t really look at someone and say they’ve got the condition. The pain that we go through in
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Alidor in hospital during a severe crisis
Alidor Gaspar, from east London, is one of 15,000 people in the UK who have sickle cell disease. The condition is genetic and can occur in a baby born to two parents who have the gene that causes the disease – the sickle cell trait –or the disease itself.
The name of the condition refers to the sickle shape of red blood cells produced by people who have it. The sickle-shaped cells prevent normal red blood cells from carrying oxygen around the body, which causes episodes of severe pain, known as crises. Sickle cell disease has no cure and, as an adult, Alidor still has crises, which can be triggered by, among other things, exercising and changes in temperature.
‘Growing up with the disease was tough,’ says Alidor. ‘I was in and out of school. I always had to wear gloves and a scarf in normal weather. I loved playing football, but I had limits because I couldn’t play too much. Once when I was 12, I went on a bike ride with my friends, and when I came back home I had a crisis.
During his childhood, Alidor lived at home with just his mum. His dad had been sent to prison. But while serving his sentence his dad became a Christian.
Some of those questions arose because a few fellow Christians would tell him that he should throw away his tablets and rely on faith to be healed. When he was not healed, they said it
As well as experiencing the disease himself, Alidor grew up watching a loved one in pain.
LIDOR’S earliest memory of a sickle cell crisis is from when he was aged five. ‘I remember being in tears, my body was hurting, I was rolling around,’ he says. ‘As a fiveyear-old, you just know your body is hurting but you don’t know why.’
‘After his release I’d see him once in a while, and he’d take me to church,’ Alidor says. ‘I remember going to Sunday school. If I had to tick an application form, I’d say I was a Christian, but I wasn’t living that way. I had a lot of questions.’
‘I have the mindset now that if I don’t get healed, I know one day I’ll be with God and I’ll be eternally healed. I hold on to that promise. Sickle cell is very painful, not just for me, but for everyone that goes through it with me, but I can trust in God, knowing that he’s got me.’
‘My mum has sickle cell disease,’ he reveals. ‘There were times when we would both be in hospital. I remember one time leaving my ward and going on another ward to see her, because she’d
There have also been times when Alidor found himself feeling resentful towards his parents. He recalls wondering why they had had a child.
‘Did they not understand that if someone with sickle cell disease and someone with sickle cell trait get together, there’s a huge chance of the child having sickle cell disease? Unfortunately, people in my parents’ generation didn’t have that conversation. That’s why I’m passionate about people having it now.’
‘It was frustrating. It just felt like I was always being told “you can’t do this”, “you can’t do that”, but I wanted to live a normal young person’s life.’
The pain we go through is on the inside
was because he did not have enough faith. Their attitude confused him. He wondered why he remained unwell. But, after he got to know God for himself, he came to a different understanding.
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Sickle cell campaigner his pain out of hiding
The single has raised awareness of the condition, and throughout his musical career, he has wanted to share his life and his faith with listeners. His overriding message, he says, ‘is trust in God and he will not leave you. Our sufferings are OK, as long as we are in his hands.’ brings
Alidor Gaspar
a crisis is all on the inside.’
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A few years ago, Alidor, who has been a gospel grime artist since the age of 20, performing under the name A Star, released a single with the NHS called ‘Hidden Pain’.
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Twelve hundred miles of road and 98 bridges were damaged or destroyed during one week, which has proved an obstacle to the delivery of aid and the ability of people to flee. Some areas had been so badly hit by the floods that many people had been unable to receive any support before The Salvation Army made contact.
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The church and charity was able to take aid to one of the worstaffected provinces, Balochistan. Food packages and hygiene kits were distributed to 500 families that were stuck there.
It also showed that younger adults are more likely to pray than
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CHILDREN received coats, shoes and other quality items of clothing from The Salvation Army in Gateshead during a three-day event ahead of the new school year, as part of the centre’s Every Child Warm initiative.
Families who may have been struggling financially were invited to attend the event and, to make their experience as enjoyable as possible, were offered a personal shopper to help them pick out items.
THE Salvation Army is offering aid in Pakistan, where monsoon flooding has killed more than 1,200 people and destroyed a million houses.
Salvation Army community manager Ann Humes said: ‘Every Child Warm is based on the idea that coats and shoes are the most expensive item that a parent has to buy. They may use a school uniform swap scheme, but finding the money for those items can be harder for parents with limited budgets. In Gateshead, where there are huge health inequalities due to poverty, we want to help make sure children are clothed properly for the winter.’
In the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is dealing with significant loss of life due to the flooding, some 600 families have received relief supplies from Salvation Army personnel. Support in the Sindh province, in the southeast of the country, has been focused on the Karachi slums and Dadu areas.
A Savanta ComRes survey of 2,037 adults commissioned by the church revealed that 48 per cent of people had prayed at some point in their lives and 28 per cent had done so within the past month.
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As well as clothing, The Salvation Army provided backpacks, pencil cases and stationery, offered lunches and snacks, and paid towards buses and taxis so that travel costs did not prevent people from going to the event.Gateshead
CHURCH of England findings on prayer ‘show that many people still long for that connection with something and someone beyond themselves’, says the Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell.
In October 2017, Grace Chocolates created its first batch of chocolates and began to help, in Joyce’s words, women ‘who have touched the criminal justice system’. It now sells an array of chocolates, including big bars, truffle gift boxes, chocolate-covered cinder toffee and coffee beans as well as vegan selections. As a community interest company, there are no shareholders and 100 per cent of the profits are invested back into the organisation.
Grace Chocolates founder JOYCE MURRAY explains how her company gives women ‘who have touched the criminal justice system’ a second chance through confectionery
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‘But what we do is not really about the chocolate,’ says Joyce. ‘We use the chocolate as a vehicle to support women who are coming towards the end of their prison sentence and can go out on licence as part of their rehabilitation into the community. Others have received non-custodial sentences
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New start tastes sweet
UNNING with your imagination and building an out-of-theordinary chocolate company sounds like something from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with its river of melted chocolate and abundance of sweets. But Joyce Murray has made a chocolate-making enterprise with a difference into reality. And its beneficiaries may well have picked up the golden ticket to a second chance in life.
Joyce had the idea for her company when she couldn’t find the kind of chocolate gift boxes she was looking for. At about the same time, her work at a prison presented an unexpected solution.
make chocolates and get the women to help me.”’
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‘I had started volunteering with the family hub at HMP Cornton Vale in Stirling in 2013, where families visiting women in prison could have a coffee and relax before they went in. I made a throwaway comment to my husband: “I’m going to
Such support has paid dividends in the lives of those who link up with Grace Chocolates. Joyce recounts some of the success
Joyce notes that, in many cases, the women at Grace Chocolates have been shaped by their upbringing and traumatic experiences.‘Twenty-seven thousand children in Scotland are affected by having a parent in prison,’ says Joyce. ‘Research has found that living with a person in prison or in a household with violence, drug or alcohol misuse makes you more likely to go down
‘We also run a mentoring programme, Rise, which provides one-on-one support. A volunteer is trained to be a mentor, and they meet the women online for one session per month for about an hour and help the women set goals to work on. The sessions create space for accountability and additional support.’
‘In our online health and wellbeing sessions, women can engage without having their camera on,’ says Joyce. ‘If women are living with addictions, particularly drug users, they may have poor dental health and they may be uncomfortable. We bring down as many barriers as we can.
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‘There are also women who are held in prison on remand, awaiting trial. If they are found not guilty, they return into the community with no prison sentence and no criminal conviction, but the effect on their life of having been in prison is enormous.’Joyceexplains how her community interest company works in practice.‘Werun a six-week course called Positive Changes, where women can learn practical skills and get their food hygiene certification. For some of them, that’s the first time they’ve ever had a qualification in their lives. We provide work experience too, where women come in on production days and make and pack chocolates.’GraceChocolates encourages the women to dream about the future and supports their wellbeing.
Grace is about being given a second chance
the wrong path. Up to 80 per cent of women encountering the justice system have lived with some abuse in their life. When you start listening to the women’s stories, you understand that there but for the grace of God go I.’
‘It costs £65,000 on average to put someone through the court system, and another £45,000 per year that they remain
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While the organisation is non-religious, Joyce sees parallels between its work and her faith, which represents that ‘second chance without having earned it’.
such as community orders.
She says: ‘I don’t think there’s one of us that can put our hand up and say that we haven’t made mistakes in our lives. Second chances are at the core of the Christian faith.’
‘Womenstories.have told us that they had considered suicide and wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been for our belief in them. Women have gone on to further education who didn’t believe they could. Others have gone on to full-time work and permanent employment. We’ve also had women who have now got their children back with them because they can go to the courts and say, “This is what I’m doing” and it helps their case. Those breakthroughs are why you get up in the morning.’
The other driving force in Joyce’s life is her Christian faith, which she describes as ‘absolutely at the core of everything I do –I can’t get through the day without it’.
The fact is that there is also an economic case to make when it comes to such rehabilitative social enterprises.
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‘We have supported about 70 women over the past five years, but it’s more about the depth and the difference we
help them to make in their lives rather than just numbers,’ she says.
The company’s name reflects its ethos.
‘Grace is about being given a second chance without having to earn it. That’s where our name comes from. That’s what we do for the women. We give them another chance. And it doesn’t matter if it’s their 2nd or 200th.’
in prison,’ says Joyce. ‘And around 45 per cent of people released from prison reoffend within one year. If we can break that cycle of reoffending, tax money can be reallocated to education and the health service.’Ultimately, though, Joyce aims to make a long-lasting change in the lives of the women who work at Grace Chocolates.
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Once the pasta is cooked, drain and toss it through the sauce. Garnish with the basil, then squeeze over the juice of a lemon wedge and serve immediately with the remaining lemon wedges on the side.
SERVESSERVES24Prawn and avocado salad 17 September 2022 • WAR CRY • 15 Ingredients 400g Lemonchopped,Freshtomatoes400gchopped1crushed2pepperGround242tbsppenneoliveoilrawkingprawnsblackgarliccloves,redchilli,finelycanchoppedbasilleaves,togarnishwedges, Prawn and chilli pasta Recipes provided by Seafish. For more information visit seafish.org Ingredients 1 small bag mixed salad leaves 1 ripe avocado, 4slicedpieces roasted yellow peppers from a jar, drained 4tbsp vegetablesmarinatedfrom a jar (eg blackSalt1tspolive2tbsp1or220g½halvedCherryartichoke),auberginecourgette,anddrainedtomatoes,lemon,juicecookedkingjumboprawnslime,juiceextravirginoilgarlicpureeandgroundpepper
Divide the salad leaves between 2 dishes. Add an even portion of the avocado, peppers, marinated vegetables and a handful of tomatoes to each. Squeeze the lemon juice over and top with the prawns.
Meanwhile,instructions.heat the oil in a large non-stick pan over a medium heat and add the prawns. Season with black pepper and cook for 1 minute.
Recipes reprinted, with permission, from the Vegetarian Society website vegsoc.org
Add the garlic and chilli and cook for another minute before adding the tomatoes. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
To make the dressing, whisk together the lime juice, olive oil and garlic puree and season with salt and pepper. Pour over the salad and serve immediately.
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Cook the pasta according to the packet
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