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Ingredients : 200g brussels sprouts 800g tinned cannellini beans 4 cloves garlic 4 tbsp olive oil 1 chicken stock cube 4 pork sausages 4 rashers smoked streaky bacon 50g dried cranberries Method : 1. Preheat the oven to 200C – this will be for the tray bake later. Fill the kettle with water and get it on to boil – this will be for the cranberries. 2. Thinly shred 200g of Brussels sprouts. 3. Tip 2 undrained 400g tins of cannellini beans into a large roasting tray. Peel, then finely grate in 4 cloves of garlic, crumble in 1 stock cube, drizzle in 3 tbsp of oil, and season with a pinch of salt. Add the shredded sprouts and fold everything together. 4. Wrap 4 sausages in 1 rasher of bacon each. 5. Lay the wrapped sausages on top of the beans and drizzle over 1 more tbsp of oil. 6. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until the sausages are golden and cooked throughout. Crack on with the rest of the dish in the next steps while you wait. 7. Add 50g of cranberries into a small bowl and cover with boiling water from the kettle. Allow them to soften while you crack on with a bit of washing up. 8. Once the tray bake is ready, drain the now soft cranberries, squeeze out any excess moisture, and scatter them over everything. Take the tray to the table and tuck in! Serves : 2 Tip : Feel free to use your favourite cut of steak for this recipe, or mix things up and use pork chops. Ingredients : 650g loose white potatoes 200g echalion shallots 2 cloves garlic 10g fresh sage 12 tbsp vegetable oil 2 sirloin steaks 187ml red wine 20g dried cranberries 150ml double/heavy cream 1 beef stock cube 0.25 tsp ground cinnamon Method : 1. Preheat the oven to 200C, then fill the kettle with water and put it on to boil – this will be for the potatoes later. 2. Peel, then quarter 650g of white potatoes. Add them to a medium saucepan, season heavily with salt, and cover with boiling water from the kettle. 3. Place the pan over a high heat and boil for 6-8 minutes, until nearly softened throughout. Get on with the rest of the dish in the next steps while you wait. 4. Halve, peel, and finely chop 200g of shallots, then peel and thinly slice 2 cloves of garlic. Finely chop the leaves from 10g of sage. 5. Preheat 10 tbsp of oil in a large roasting tray in the oven for 4-5 minutes, until hot. Once the potatoes have cooked, drain them through a colander and allow them to “steam dry” in the colander while the oil heats up – this will make them more crispy later. 6. Once the oil is hot, shake the colander to ruffle up the potatoes a little, then carefully tip them into the tray. Turn them in the oil, then roast for 20-25 minutes, until crisp and golden all over. Get on with the rest of the dish in the next steps while you wait. 7. Rub 1 tbsp of oil and a generous pinch of salt over 2 steaks in their packaging or on a small plate. Remember to wash your hands after handling raw meat. 8. Place a large frying pan over a high heat – this will be for the steaks in the next step. 9. Once the pan starts to smoke, lay in the oiled steaks. Fry for 1-2 minutes on each side, until golden all over and light pink (medium) throughout. Cooking times will vary here depending on the thickness of your steaks. 10. Once the steaks are ready, transfer them to a chopping board ready for slicing later. Place the empty pan back over a medium heat. 11. Add 1 tbsp of oil, the shallots, garlic, and 3⁄4 of the sage to the pan. Fry for 3-4 minutes, until softened slightly. Crack on with a bit of washing up while you wait. 12. Once the shallots are ready, add 187ml of red wine. Whack the heat up to high and reduce by 3⁄4 – this should take 2-3 minutes. 13. Once the wine has reduced, add 20g of dried cranberries, 150ml of cream and crumble in 1 stock cube. Simmer for a further 3-4 minutes, until the sauce has the consistency of double cream. Get on with the rest of the dish in the next steps while you wait. 14. Slice the steaks crossways at 1cm intervals. If they are a little cold, you can heat the slices up quickly in the simmering sauce if you so wish! 15. Season the sauce to taste with salt and a pinch of cinnamon, then divide it between plates and lay a sliced steak over each puddle. Pile on the roast potatoes, scatter over the remaining chopped sage and serve! This stuffing mix also tastes great baked flat in a tray and served as a side for a festive meal! Serves : 2 Ingredients : 70g dried panko breadcrumbs 150ml double/heavy cream 200g echalion shallots 10g fresh sage 2 rashers smoked streaky bacon 4 pork sausages 75g coarse dried polenta/coarse cornmeal 375ml milk 2 cloves 0.25 tsp ground cinnamon 200g brussels sprouts 50g hard Italian cheese Method : 1. Preheat the oven to 200C and line a small tray with baking paper – this will be for the stuffing balls later. 2. Add 70g of breadcrumbs, 100ml of the cream and a generous pinch of salt to a large mixing bowl. Mix, then set aside to soak while you crack on with the rest of the dish in the next steps. 3. Halve, peel and finely chop 200g of shallots, then chop the leaves from 10g of sage and mince 2 rashers of bacon. 4. Add the shallots, sage and bacon to the bowl with the breadcrumbs, then squeeze in the meat from the casings of 4 sausages. 5. Mix to combine, then shape into 6 even-sized balls straight onto the lined tray with moistened hands. 6. Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes, until golden all over and cooked throughout. Get on with the rest of the dish in the next steps while you wait. 7. Add 75g of polenta, 375ml of milk, 50ml of cream, 2 cloves, 1⁄4 tsp of cinnamon, and a generous pinch of salt to a medium saucepan. Place over a medium heat. 8. Bring everything up to a boil, whisking all the while, then reduce the heat to low. Simmer for a further 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the polenta is smooth and has the consistency of loose mashed potato. Get on with the rest of the dish in the next steps while you wait. 9. Thinly shred 200g of sprouts. 10. Once the polenta is ready, take the pan off the heat and fold through the sprouts. Finely grate in 50g of cheese, fold it through too, then season to taste with salt and pepper. 11. Divide the spiced polenta between plates, top with the stuffing balls and get involved! In response to the rising cost of living , we have teamed up with Sorted Food to bring you easy, affordable, quick and (most importantly) tasty recipes once a month. Find out more about Sorted and their nifty meal-planning app Sidekick at sortedfood.com/sidekick .The move could usher in an end to a protracted political crisis in the European Union country following the annulment of a presidential election by a top court. Parliament approved the new administration in a 240-143 vote in Romania’s 466-seat legislature. The new coalition is made up of the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD) the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the small ethnic Hungarian UDMR party and national minorities. It caps a month-long period of turmoil in which far-right nationalists made significant gains in a parliamentary election on December 1 a week after a first-round presidential race saw the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu emerge as the front-runner. “It will not be an easy mandate for the future government,” Mr Ciolacu, whose PSD party topped the polls in the parliamentary election, said in a statement. “We are aware that we are in the midst of a deep political crisis,” he said. “It is also a crisis of trust, and this coalition aims to regain the trust of citizens, the trust of the people.” Romania’s 16 ministerial positions will be shared among the parties, which will hold a slim majority in the legislature. It is widely seen as a tactical partnership to shut out far-right nationalists whose voices found fertile ground amid high living costs and a sluggish economy. Mr Ciolacu, who came third in the first-round presidential ballot despite polls indicating he would win the most votes, has served as prime minister since June 2023. After parliament’s approval, President Klaus Iohannis swore in the new government and warned the new Cabinet that it is entering a “difficult new period” in which “for many Romanians, there are major concerns”. Romania was plunged into turmoil after Mr Georgescu’s surprise success in the presidential race, after allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged. Days before the December 8 run-off, the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the presidential race. “We go through complicated times, but I think we all learned from mistakes of the past,” Mr Ciolacu said. “I hope that together with my colleagues in the coalition, we’ll find the best solutions to get past the challenges we have in front of us.” Mr Ciolacu said that the new government would aim to quickly organise the rerun of the presidential election in which the new coalition has agreed to put forward an agreed common pro-European candidate. Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said that the new government made up of the same political parties will likely embrace “soft populist” rhetoric such as economic patriotism, anti-austerity, and a peace solution in neighbouring Ukraine to counter the rise of far-right populism. “This will be a way to answer the concerns of many Romanians who voted for populists... but will not solve the fundamental problem of trust,” he said. “The only decisive factor now will be who and how convincing the pro-European candidates will be against this popular revolt.” George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, which came second in the parliamentary election, said that all politicians from his party on Monday would vote against the Ciolacu government. In 2021, the PSD and the PNL also formed an unlikely but increasingly strained coalition together with UDMR, which exited the Cabinet last year after a power-sharing dispute.

Got $1,500? Buy Iovance Biotherapeutics Now and Don't Look BackPresident-elect Donald Trump's repeated support for TikTok has sparked speculation about potential solutions to prevent the app's impending ban in the United States, though the path forward remains unclear. "We got to keep this sucker around for a little while," Trump told supporters on Sunday, just days after meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Florida. Trump, who credits the wildly popular platform with delivering him a large young user base, opposes banning TikTok partly because he believes it would primarily benefit Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company behind Instagram and Facebook. The situation is complex, according to University of Richmond School of Law professor Carl Tobias, given the various potential solutions and Trump's unpredictable nature. Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation, signed by President Joe Biden in April, that would block TikTok from US app stores and web hosting services unless Beijing-based ByteDance sells its stake by January 19. US officials and lawmakers grew wary of the potential for the Chinese government to influence ByteDance or access the data of TikTok's American users. Even with Trump's decisive election victory and incoming Republican-led Congress, acquiescing to the president-elect's desire and preventing the ban faces significant hurdles. The law enjoyed rare bipartisan support in a divided Washington, making its outright repeal through a vote in Congress politically unlikely even with Trump's influence over Republicans. The Supreme Court may offer the clearest path forward. TikTok has appealed to the nation's highest court, arguing the law violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The court, which is dominated by Trump-aligned conservatives, will hear the case on January 10, just nine days before the ban takes effect. This follows a lower appeals court's unanimous decision to uphold the law in December. Another possibility, according to Tobias, is that a Trump-led Department of Justice could determine ByteDance has addressed the law's national security concerns. However, such a move would likely be seen as caving to China by Congress and others. The final option is ByteDance selling to a non-Chinese buyer, though the company has consistently refused this possibility. With 170 million monthly active users, acquiring TikTok's US operations would require substantial resources. As president, Trump could extend the ban deadline by 90 days to facilitate a transaction. - 'Deal of the Century' - Few potential buyers have emerged, with major tech companies likely deterred by antitrust concerns. Former Trump Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, who runs a private equity fund backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala sovereign wealth fund, has expressed interest. During a recent event with Trump, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son pledged to invest $100 billion in the US economy, though specific investments weren't detailed. Other contenders include US real estate billionaire Frank McCourt, who aims to make social media safer through his Project Liberty organization. Elon Musk, given his proximity to Trump and ownership of X, could also have a role to play, as he has expressed plans to transform the text-focused platform into something more like TikTok. A senior Republican lawmaker recently suggested Trump might orchestrate a "deal of the century" satisfying both US concerns and ByteDance's interests. The chairman of the US House committee on China, John Moolenaar, told Fox News Digital that once ByteDance accepts it must comply with US law, the situation could progress rapidly. Any agreement would need Beijing's approval, with US-China relations expected to remain tense during Trump's upcoming term. This isn't the first attempt to resolve TikTok's US status. In 2020, Trump also threatened a ban unless ByteDance sold its US operations. While Oracle and Walmart reached a preliminary agreement with ByteDance for ownership stakes, legal challenges and the transition to the Biden administration prevented the deal's completion. arp/mlm

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