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Dear Neighbours, Happy New Year, and welcome to your January / February issue of My Kings Heath.

In this issue Riverford Organics’ recipe of the month

New Year, new you

Our review of Veggielicious

Kings Heath Specsavers

Don’t mention the ‘d’ word (death)

Happy reading,

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A sneaky peak upstairs at Winterbourne House

In this issue we bring you a sneak preview upstairs at Winterbourne House, and some advice on getting your weight back in line after the season of indulgence. Also introducing a new vegetarian pizza parlour on our doorstep in Hall Green.

Weight loss advice from LighterLife the new, local, 100% vegetarian pizza take-away out and about in the local community Meet local wills and probate solicitor

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Riverford Organic's recipe of the month Jerusalem artichokes and mushrooms in a bag with goat’s cheese (serves 4) By Jane Baxter, Riverford Field Kitchen Taken from the Riverford Farm Cook Book When in doubt, put it in a bag. These earthy flavours work so well together and look quite rustic when served in their parchment bags. As always with Jerusalem artichokes – and mushrooms – a drizzle of truffle oil would make a fabulous addition.

Ingredients: • 4 large Jerusalem artichokes, scrubbed and cut into rounds 1cm thick • juice of 1 lemon • 4 tbsp olive oil • 1 tsp thyme leaves • 200g mushrooms, sliced • 10g dried porcini mushrooms, soaked in 400ml boiling water for 30 mins • 2 garlic cloves, chopped • 75g goat’s cheese, crumbled • 1 tbsp chopped chives • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method Mix the artichokes with half the lemon juice, a tablespoon of oil and the thyme leaves, then set aside. Sauté the fresh mushrooms quickly in 2 tbsp of the remaining oil until they are just tender. Season well and remove from the pan. Drain the porcini, reserving the soaking water. Chop roughly and cook in the remaining tbsp of oil with the garlic for 2 mins. Add the reserved soaking liquor and simmer until reduced and quite syrupy. Add the fresh mushrooms and the remaining lemon juice and season to taste. Spread out a large square of baking parchment. Tip the artichokes over one half of it, sprinkle the mushrooms on top and then fold over the parchment. Seal the 3 open sides by folding them over tightly, or simply use a stapler. Place the parcel on a baking tray and bake in an oven preheated to 200°C/Gas Mark 6 for about 45 mins, until the artichokes are tender. Open the bag and sprinkle the contents with the crumbled goat’s cheese and chives.

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Friday night, pizza night Being a vegetarian is sometimes a bit limiting when it comes to pizza, but no more! Veggielicious is a new pizza parlour which serves only vegetarian food. Located on Robin Hood Island, Stratford Rd on the left as you drive south, Veggielicious has a couple of tables inside but in essence it is a take-away. It also has forecourt parking out the front but offers free delivery for orders over ÂŁ12 if you live within 3 miles. Being a nearly vegetarian (I just eat chicken and fish and there is no word for people 14

like me yet) I was quite excited to be doing a cheating meat pizza review. Veggielicious does have your usual vegetarian pizzas but it also has cheating chicken, cheating pepperoni, cheating king prawn and loads more. They have a fabulous range of flavours including piri piri, tandoori, pesto, chilli, BBQ and coriander so I had

the rare experience of finding it difficult to choose what to have. Usually I can discount 80% of the menu before I start choosing because of the meaty ingredients.

Veggielicious premises are clean, smart and you can see them cooking your food which is always reassuring. The staff are polite and the service is fast.

As well as pizza, Veggielicious offers the side dishes you would expect like garlic bread, salad and chips but also has yummy dishes like spicy hummus with pitta strips, stuffed jalepenos with cream cheese and onion bhajis. And they have some unusual paninis, wraps and sandwiches if it’s lunch you’re after. The menu also includes delicious sounding desserts, hot drinks and soft drinks.

Veggielicious has a whole load of special offers on at the moment. You can either get ‘buy one get one half price’ on the large pizza or claim a 10% discount on pizza orders exceeding £12 when collecting by quoting code: MDDEC. They can cater for children’s parties and have lunch time meal deals and family meal deals.

I timed my review for Friday night so that all the family could enjoy it together. We shared the Cheating Pepperoni Pizza, Cheating Meatfeast Pizza and the Tandoori Paneer Pizza with some garlic bread and salad. It took all my self control not to start eating them in the car on the way home they smelled so good. The pizzas were deep crust, with the dough cooked perfectly; they had a generous amount of cheese and the cheating meat was really tasty. The whole lot was gone in minutes!

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Helping you cope with loss In our first of the ‘meet the team at Tyndallwoods’ series we meet Clare Martin (formerly Sillery) Associate Solicitor who specialises in wills and probate, powers of attorney and trusts. No one likes to mention the d word (death) but this is what Clare’s work is all about. She helps people get their affairs in order to make life easier for their loved ones after they have gone and she helps people pick up the pieces for those left behind. Clare gets an immense amount of satisfaction from working in this area. Having suffered bereavement herself she feels she can really empathise with her clients and help them through the toughest time of their lives.

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kind of thing that is put on the back burner for some time. But there comes a time when making a will becomes more urgent, like when you start a family or a business.

Wills, When visiting a lawyer we allTrusts expect&a Probate level of professionalism and efficiency. Residential Conveyancing Clare offers this and more. She takes time to listen and getCommercial to know her clients, Property even to the point of remembering their Services to Landlords birthdays and the names of their dogs.

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Two Carls for the price of one One of the great local fundraising successes here in Birmingham is TLC Lottery which last year celebrated the 15th Anniversary of its first draw. The Lottery is a joint fundraising venture between Three Local Charities (TLC) – Acorns Children’s Hospice, Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and Focus Birmingham.

and day care for 60 visually impaired people at Focus Birmingham.

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Carl Bayliss responded by saying “it’s just £1 a week, you have a chance to win £1,000 but win or lose you know that the money is going to three great good causes making a real difference to people in our community”

In 2012, TLC raised over £120,000 for each of the three charities and Carl Chinn asked “what difference has this made for the charities?” Carl Bayliss explained that the money raised was enough to provide 4,500 hours of hospice care at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice, all the food and catering staff at Acorns plus transport 20

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Spiritual inspired exhibition Don’t miss the chance to put some colour into your life at the darkest time of the year. Moseley Exchange is hosting a solo exhibition of new work by D’Arrelle Harrison. This is the second solo show of the artist’s work in Birmingham. The exhibition will open with a public reception on Tuesday 8 January, from 7 to 9 pm. And will remain at Moseley Exchange until 8 March. D’Arrelle has a really strong relationship with the natural and spiritual world. His new series of work has taken his knowledge of the concept of 24

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A sneaky peek upstairs at Winterbourne Fans of Winterbourne House and Garden at the University of Birmingham will soon have even more to enjoy during their visit, with a whole new floor of Edwardian exhibition rooms to explore. The new set of rooms complement those on the ground floor, revealing more about the lives of the family who lived there: a nursery with beautiful turn of the century toys and information about the Nettlefold children, an Edwardian teenage bedroom (not an iPod in sight!) and a comparatively sparse bedroom belonging to the householdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governess. Whilst photos of the rooms themselves are strictly forbidden until the big reveal at the end of January, you can see some close up views as a taster. 28

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