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• 1 Kitchen tip: brine – not just for olives
  Just before Christmas, our resident food blogger mentioned that he had brined his turkey this year, a technique traditional in Scandinavia that has recently found popularity once again. The reason is obvious...

• 2 OTT Oven
  How often have you been cooking in the oven, overloaded a tray or tipped it the wrong way? The usual trick is to push the tin too far back into the oven and up at an angle onto the back of the rack - or...

• 3 Ingredient of the week: Sprouts
  Is there any vegetable which epitomises Christmas like the humble Brussels sprout? Done well, it is a delight, and deserves better than being relegated to appearing on the table once a year. Boiled for...