Recipes

Recipe: RIGATONI ALLA VESUVIANA

This Recipe: RIGATONI ALLA VESUVIANA – With A Name Like This, Direct From Vesuvius, It Can Only Be Hot And Fiery! It Will Warm Up A Winter Evening. SERVES 4 350g rigatoni extra virgin olive oil 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced 4 tomatoes, diced 2 red chillies, finely chopped 3 tbsp capers, drained 24 whole small black olives 2 tbsp sliced green olives 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp caster…
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Fitness & Health

Eating disorder - how to recognise and prevent it

This week (11 – 17 February 2013) is Eating Disorder Awareness week. Dr Nihara Krause, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer as well as founder of the charity STEM4 that raises awareness and offer early intervention in four areas of teenage mental health through workshops in schools, talks to London Mums about eating disorders and prevention. What are eating disorders? Eating…
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Schooling

Top Tips for your School Application

Getting your school application form right and providing the necessary information can be an important part in securing the school of your choice. Even those parents that have previously applied for older children can make basic mistakes or errors of judgment which affect not only the manner in which the application is dealt with, but also chances, some months later, when conducting a school…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

60 seconds with Duncan Bannatyne

I recently met Duncan Bannatyne at the First Aid Awards and asked him a few questions. If you were Mayor of London for the day, what would you do to improve things for entrepreneurs? I wouldn’t do anything. If you are a entrepreneur you will find a way through, you will find a way to be great. Who inspired you as a boy? I used to see trucks driving past with people’s names on them…
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Recipes

Recipe: Crostata di Frutta Fresca - FRESH FRUIT TART

This Italian Recipe: Crostata di Frutta Fresca – FRESH FRUIT TART reminds me of the cakes that my Italian Grandmother used to make me when I visited. Really delicious! Just try it. SERVES 8 Definitely one of my five a day! This is a great tart for dinner parties as the arrangement of fruits can always be changed depending on what’s available. For example, grapes and melon work well…
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Fashion & Beauty

Beauty Hall & The Beast

The other day whilst applying my foundation I was surprised to see that it is no longer a good match. My skin is now so pale & sun-deprived that even the palest Dior foundation is leaving me slightly orange-looking…”Easy fix” I hear you cry, just take trip to the Beauty Hall! photo credit: Darwin Bell via photopin cc Er. No. Please tell me that I am not the only person for whom a…
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Parenting Skills

Top tips for keeping your family safe online

To celebrate SAFER INTERNET DAY today, we publish here a guide on what you need to know to keep your family safe online. Our top tips for keeping your family safe online have been prepared by David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. There’s no doubt about it, the internet is taking over the world and, despite the wonderful social and developmental opportunities it offers your…
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Recipes

Recipe for your Valentine Menu - Lobster Bisque

This Lobster Bisque Recipe for your Valentine Menu is really unique! Anyone who has lovingly prepared food for another knows its potential power. Silky-smooth and sensually-satisfying is the way to go for a hot Valentines night this year and Lobster Bisque is hard to beat, say nutritionist and author, Fiona Kirk. As far back as the late 1800s, the aphrodisiac powers of seafood were championed…
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Fitness & Health

CLARE BALDING kick-starts an initiative to support young people's careers in the football industry

Last year’s sporting success had a real impact on young people’s perceptions of female athletes. So Clare Balding has now kick-started npower What’s Your Goal?, an initiative that offers young people once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in the football industry. Clare is leading an exclusively female line up of 11 inspirational and successful women currently working within the football industry…
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Recipes

Recipe: Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies

This amazing Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies Recipe was kindly donated by Dean and Sarah Gough, authors of the book ‘Recipes For Life – Fighting Back With Food’, a recipe book with a difference. Each individual recipe was eaten by their two-year-old son Alfie when he was battling Stage 4 Neuroblastoma. Sadly, little Alfie died in 2010, however, Dean and Sarah believe the nutritional diet…
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