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Sassy advice and easy, tasty recipes with a generous dollop of humour
and a drizzle of wickedness. We loved it.
Jeremy & Jacqui Mansfeld, authors oZhoozsh!and Zhoozsh! Faking It
Chf
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SAY IT AGAIN, DEAR
Dear Delilah
Ive come o dread our own dinner paries. My wife insiss on elling
he same sories over and over again. Teyre good sories and she ellshem well, bu my God! Weve been married 14 years! I don hink I
can go anoher 14 hearing abou he ime she was an au pair in Spain
and her employer leap from her bedroom close in a maador outi,
shouing Ol, ol. Really, I can. How can I pu a sop o i?
Ben
Id love o hear your wie ell me all abou ha, Ben; i sounds hilarious.
Curiously, I had a no dissimilar experience mysel, excep he was
wearing lederhosen and I was he one jumping ou o he close. Bu
I digress
I can see why you would preer o be spared he wenieh
rendiion o his and oher ales, bu heres he big quesion
is she boring oher people wih her sories, or only you?Because I have o say, Ben, ha his is one o he many rials o
marriage. You hear he same ales over and over again. Yes, you
wan o scream wih boredom. Yes, you conemplae divorce
or perhaps murder. Bu you gaze upon your beloved
wih a ascinaed and amused air, or all he world
as i his is he very frs ime youve heard ha
remarkable ale abou when he 18-year-old
Mark Zuckerberg asked your signifcan oher
o lend him $1 000 or a cerain ineresing
programming opporuniy: Can you
imagine wha Id be worh oday? In
reurn, when you ell your avourie
sory say, he one abou when you
me Mick Jagger in he loo a CapeTown airpor and didn recognise
him unil i was oo lae Even wih
INGREDIENTS
a large rump
olive oilsprig o hyme
sufcien rocke o cover anappropriaely large plater
big wedge o Parmesancheese
Maldon sal
black pepper
olive oil
1 lemon
IALIAN SEAK
So heres wha you do. You willhave your own preerred
mehod o cooking a largeseak. For my money, you can
do beter han rubbing i wih
olive oil and resh hyme, andsearing i quickly on he braai
so ha i is deliciously browned
on he ouside, wih he middlea ew clicks his side o some-
hing Lady Gaga migh wear.Allow your seak o si or fve
minues while you arrange
well, no sooss he
large plate
hinly and he arrang
slices on hNex, shav
ogeher w
sal, black good olive
o lemon m
By his imhave fnish
hose lips, can you believe i? she will appear suia
amazed.
I is simply no possible or a person o generae
o he calibre o he maador-oui-wearing-Spaniar
o enerain a spouse. I presume you are now in your
is probably helping a child wih geography homewor
backpacking hrough he Amazon eaing guinea pigs
herbs in he company o a shaman. (A sory ha, sad
permi me o share wih you here.)
So, when your wie sars on an anecdoe youve
excuse yoursel and slip ou o make he dish below.
ree main course, bu does require a litle las-minu
giving you an opporuniy or escape.
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her faceappears to havebeen donatedby a younger,tauter woman.
ABOUT FACE
Dear Delilah
My riend Sally is coming or lunch or he rs ime since her acelif
(Im having my girlriends round or a summery Saurday lunch). Shedidn specically ell me she was having he op, alhough i is prety
much an open secre and shes known o be surgery-happy. Wha is he
preerred eiquete in his siuaion? Do I acknowledge he new ace?
Ask abou he op? Or simply skip he whole hing?
Harrie
My bes advice, Harrie, is o go or somehing generic such as, You look
grea. Cerainly, don broach he subjec i here are oher people around
and do ry no o peer behind her ears looking or saples and scars. Shell
give you he deails i she wans o. I she does, and she looks good, ry o
nd ou who did i, jus in case. A good plasic surgeon is hard o nd.
A successul acelif is one ha makes he wearer look as i shes
been on a long and restul holiday, perhaps wih a young and vigorous
lover (no so vigorous or invenive as o leave her wide-eyed wih
asonishmen). Teres a well-known socialie around own who has been
so horoughly lifed ha her ace appears o have been donaed by a
younger, auer woman. I always wonder i here is, in some dusy village
somewhere, a lihe young woman wih he wrinkled visage o a sun-
damaged old lady.
My poin, digressions aside, is ha he newly lifed does no wan o
hear, Oh my God, wha a brillian acelif, I barely recognised you!
Incidenally, i you are having he ladies round or lunch, ry his
delicious salmon. I is low-a, and i doesn require oo much gnawing
and chewing, which migh exacerbae any enderness Sally may be
experiencing around he jaw area. Te salmon is grilled and served on op
o a salsa/salad. Couldn be easier or more delicious.
SALMON WITH CITRUS SALSA
Mix up he ingrediens or hemarinade, pour over he
salmon and leave or an hour.
Hea he oven o 180 C. Place
he salmon on an oiled bakingray, base i wih any remainingmarinade and pu i in he
oven. Check i afer 10 minues.
Yes, i really is ha quick i you likei rare in he middle as I do. You
may wan o sick i back in or
anoher 5 minues, bu donoverdo i.
Mix all he saogeher a
our plaes
remaining
salmon ondrizzle he
he op.Serve wih re
simple boichopped m
buter.
INGREDIENS
pppy zpc
or the marinadeN u, buugy:
1 Tb v 1 Tb gg, g
1 Tb y uc
1 p y
1 Tb juc
or the salsa cup cucub, c
cup , fycpp
cup ppp, c
cup yw ppp, c
c, fy cpp,
u c,cpp
juc z 1 2
1 cv gc, fy cpp
gg, fy cpp
ppp
BURNING CALORIES
Dear Delilah
Ive heard here are oods ha acually burn los
Wha are hey?
Jacqui
Te bes way o burn l os o calories,
Jacqui, is o se a doughnu on re.