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RECIPE
GRILLED STEAK SALAD WITH PESTO & CROSTINI
This classic Italian recipe by Jamie Oliver is bursting with fresh herb flavour. Below is the standard way to make but you can also add pine nuts and parmesan cheese if desired.
Cooking time: 20 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
(makes 2 portions)
• 2 x 200g matured rib-eye steaks • olive oil, sea salt freshly ground black pepper • 1 sprig fresh rosemary, leaves picked and chopped • ½ tablespoon dried oregano • 2 slices ciabatta bread • 2 tablespoons green pesto • 1 clove garlic, cut in half • 100 g mixed salad leaves • Juice of 1 lemon
1. Lay the steaks on a chopping board and rub with olive oil. Season and sprinkle with the rosemary and oregano. Cover with greaseproof paper and bash lightly with a rolling pin until the steaks are slightly flattened out and the herbs and seasoning are pressed into the meat. 2. Put a large griddle pan on a high heat and as it’s heating up, toast the ciabatta on both sides. Keep the toast warm. Shake any crumbs out of the griddle pan, then return to the heat and lay the steaks in it, side by side. 3. Cook for about 8 minutes, turning every minute, for a medium steak, or a little longer if you like your meat more cooked. Lift the steaks out of the pan and leave to rest somewhere warm. 4. Spoon a tablespoon of pesto onto each plate and smear out across the plate with the back of a spoon. 5. Place a steak on each plate and rub the toasted ciabatta with the garlic, drizzle with a little olive oil and put a piece on top of each steak. 6. Toss the salad leaves with the lemon juice, a lug of olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Divide the salad between the plates and serve.
WINE MATCH
We would recommend a red wine with herbal flavours like Cabernet Franc to go with this Jamie Oliver dish. This French classic offers enough green notes to complement the pesto sauce’s strong green flavours without being too overbearing. Two other good wines matches are Chianti Classico and Beaujolais as they offer ample herbaceous flavours to complement the Pesto when served with steak.
MOVIE REVIEW ALBUM REVIEW BOOK REVIEW
THE BATMAN
Robert Pattinson, star of ‘Twilight’ and ‘Tenet’ stars as DC Comics vigilante Batman alongside an all-star cast in this Warner Bros action movie reboot, out in cinemas nationwide on March 4th.
His evil nemesises, The Riddler and The Penguin, played by ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ actor Paul Danno and ‘In Bruges’ Colin Farrell, are back causing havoc in Gotham City, set to avenge past wrongdoings and take down Batman.
Joining Pattinson in his quest for justice against these evil villains are Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Andy Serkis (Golam in ‘Lord of the Rings’) as his loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth. ‘The Hunger Games’ actor Jeffrey Wright plays Gotham Lieutenant James Gordon.
Directed and written by ‘Cloverfield’s’ Matt Reeves, this latest instalment of ‘Batman’ is the first we’ve seen in a standalone movie since ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in 2012 and according to trailers and reviews it shows a more funny side to the character with a lot of sarcasm and wit intwined in the script.
Director Reeves has compared his version of Batman to the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, saying: “Rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse, I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days,’ and the idea of this fictionalised version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.”
Everything we have seen and heard about the new Batman is getting us more hyped for a blockbuster. Something that is backed up by early box office projections.
BACK TO THE BOOZER
Folk in the industry often refer to pub bands with derogation.
However, Surrey favourites’ Ransom are determined to defy this misplaced perception with the release of their debut album ‘Back to the Boozer’ and one finger firmly raised towards the established order.
Rarely, have we put on an album in our car and felt 39 minutes of our lives simply evaporated with such euphoric, fist punching joy!
From their opening salvo ‘Vindication’ you go on a tour de force ‘Lockdown’ journey through political, racial and gender, issues, all given total ‘Ransomization.’
There’s even a song about a Louisiana Outlaw and another about Go Karting. Bemused you will be.... but happily.
The choruses are big, the lyrics clever, guitar riffs and licks huge.
With a thunderous bass so powerful we wondered if we might lose the car roof, all this to a thumping drum beat that made us want to put our foot hard to the floor.
If this band are not swapping pub floors for concert halls by the end of the year, then there really is something seriously wrong.
Surrey Rocks have secured Ransom as one of their three acts for their upcoming Awards ceremony.
You can check out Ransom Rocks at a local pub near you soon. They play regularly in Reigate, Dorking, Guildford and Farnham at weekends.
THE LEVIATHAN
A heady mix of historical fiction, myth and spooky realism, ‘The Leviathan’ is set in seventeenth century Norfolk during England’s bloody civil war.
When Thomas Treadwater returns home from battle summoned by a troubling letter from his sister, he finds his family and farm in disarray and his mother and two of their servants accused of witchcraft and subsequently put behind bars by the local witch finder.
Thomas is a level-headed sort of chap however - who doesn’t believe in witchery and superstition, but there are fantastical, impossible things going on that makes him question everything he believes.
As Thomas unravels the mystery of what has happened, he uncovers not a tale of superstition but something dark and ancient, linked to a shipwreck years before.
Something has awoken in England, and now it will not rest, the book teases. A dark and eery page turner you won’t be able to put down.
The Leviathan is the debut novel from Rosie Andrews and has already made it to the top of The Sunday Times best seller list where its tipped to stay. A huge accolade for such a young novelist on her first outing.
A dark and eery page turner you won’t be able to put down.
More than just an entertaining fantasy read the book covers war, death, witchcraft, honour, love and betrayal.
OXTED
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