Indholdsfortegnelse for 1 May 2017 i New Idea

My husband isn’t the greatest cook in the world (fingers crossed he doesn’t mind me outing him like that!), and he believes that if you can’t chuck everything into one saucepan and cook it, then it isn’t worth the hassle. This means he’s been the creator of some amazing culinary delights over the years. My favourite is probably his ‘Chicken in a Big Old Pot’, where he just throws everything he can find in the fridge into the slow cooker with some chicken legs and then just hopes that it all works out. One time that included sweet potato, parmesan and grapes. Try selling that dish to the kids! So I shall be cutting out this week’s food special on One-Pan Dinners (page 43) and leaving it somewhere he’ll see…

In an emotional interview, Harry opened up about his two decades of deep depression after his mother Princess Diana’s tragic death. The moving tell-all – which has been praised by his sister-in-law Kate – details how the prince came close to suffering ‘a complete breakdown’ until his brother William encouraged him to seek help. ‘I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life, but my work as well,’ he told The Telegraph. ‘My way of dealing with it was sticking my head in the sand, refusing to ever think about my mum, because why would that help? ‘So I was a…

Seven Year Switch isn’t for the faint-hearted and for Felicity, things were difficult from the very start. ‘It was hard, I tried to leave [the show] twice,’ the mother-of-two admits. ‘By the third day I was like: “I can’t do this!” It was so hard, I missed my kids.’ Sharing two children with her partner of five years Michael, Felicity reveals she hadn’t spent a night away from her kids before the show. ‘For Michael and I, our kids are our everything. We live and breathe our kids, we’re so obsessed with them,’ Felicity explains, revealing that the separation anxiety got to her. ‘Going away for the show was the first time we’ve ever been away from our kids. That was massive.’ In this week’s episodes, audiences will see…

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen reveals He’s the larger-than-life interior designer who has been touted as a cross between Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsay. And despite counting them as close mates, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen says the two famously gruff celebrity judges are puppy dogs compared to him. ‘They’re very meek,’ he tells New Idea. ‘They are very straightforward, middle-aged fellows with families.’ Renowned around the world for his starring roles on shows such as Changing Rooms and The Apartment – alongside Aussie Jamie Durie – the outrageous, funny, flamboyant judge is bringing some serious scandal to the fifth season of House Rules. ‘I feel I know the contestants like family and they know me like their worst nightmare, like their scary uncle,’ he says, laughing. Alongside original judge Wendy Moore and fellow newcomer, NSW…

Happily ever after couldn’t be further from the truth for Phoebe and Justin. Next week, just as the loved-up couple begin to celebrate the young singer’s impending US tour, a major spanner is thrown in the works In the middle of the night, Buddy starts barking and Justin (James Stewart) goes to investigate. He swings the door open, and standing there is his long-lost daughter Ava (Grace Thomas). ‘Are you my daddy?’ she asks a bewildered Justin. When he’s forced to introduce the little girl to Phoebe (Isabella Giovinazzo), Justin must also admit that he’s Ava’s father. Desperate to know why he disappeared when Ava was a baby, Justin diplomatically tries to explain he had no choice but to leave her and her mum – yet it never meant he…

Veal Involtini with Mash and Greens Serves 4, Prep 15 mins, Cook 6 mins ¼ cup sundried tomato pesto 4 x 150g uncrumbed veal schnitzel steaks 4 slices prosciutto, folded in half crossways 8 thin slices mozzarella cheese 1 tblsp olive oil Steamed snow peas and green beans, to serve MASH 1kg Sebago potatoes, peeled, chopped 50g butter, chopped ¼ cup milk Salt and pepper, to taste 1 To make mash, cook potatoes in a large saucepan of boiling water for about 10 minutes, or until tender. Drain. Return to pan. Mash until smooth. Add butter and milk. Season with salt and pepper. Stir until combined. Cover to keep warm. 2 Meanwhile, spread about 3 tsps pesto evenly over each steak. Top half of each steak with prosciutto and two…

• The Monday Morning Cooking Club is a group of passionate Jewish home cooks who’ve been meeting and cooking together every week for more than 10 years. Monday Morning Cooking Club (HarperCollins, $39.99) is full of wonderful recipes for the family as well as entertaining a crowd. • Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion Cooking (Penguin Random House Australia, $49.99) is the ideal gift for mums who love to cook – and garden! With more than 250 fabulous recipes, the cookbook has personal anecdotes from Stephanie on how to use fresh ingredients from the garden.…

Her top tips for healthier hair and skin Singer/songwriter Ricki-Lee Coulter reckons she has seen her fair share of bad hair days, so who better to team up with than Pantene and its #StrongFromTheCore campaign. We chat to the 31-year-old beauty to get her top hair and skincare tips... 1 What’s your idea of a perfect hair day? It’s when my hair feels silky-smooth and strong. I love a slight wave through the mid-lengths and volume at the root. 2 How do you keep your hair looking so good? I use Pantene Pro-V Daily Moisture Renewal Shampoo (b) and Conditioner (a, $6.99 each). If I’m working, I will generally only wash my hair two to three times a week. If not, I will only style my hair once a week…

TAURUS APR 21 – MAY 21 It will be full steam ahead this week with plans that have been on the drawing board. Discoveries along the way will alert you to things it’s now time to consider. A drawn-out issue or waiting situation will come to an end – your patience will be rewarded. A conversation that’s been a long time coming will bring revelations, while a financial loose end will need urgent attention. LUCKY NUMBERS: 10, 11, 21 GEMINI MAY 22 – JUN 21 It will take discipline to follow through with an unresolved matter, unfinished task or special goal, but you’ll achieve wonders. A family or domestic project could suddenly escalate – there’ll be hidden costs to investigate as you go. A fun opportunity or invitation from out…

TIME OUT QI love my family dearly, but as they live quite close they often pressure me to have family time with them. I really love it, but it’s almost every evening and every weekend, and then I have absolutely no time left for myself. It’s driving me a bit mad, but I don’t want to seem ungrateful or unappreciative. I just want a weekend off! Alicia, via email. A Expecting you to be with them every night and every weekend is overkill. You are a big girl – tell them you want some ‘me’ time. Surely they would not think you were unappreciative or ungrateful. Forget the guilts and come to an arrangement that also suits you. MONEY WORRIES QI’m struggling to make ends meet since I had to…

‘He is the most affectionate, warm, funny, happy, amazing person who lights up my world’ Walk past Ada Nicodemou’s house and you might glimpse her dancing madly under a mirrored disco ball with her little boy Johnas. ‘I think I’m a cool mum in some respects, because we do it all the time,’ laughs the popular Home And Away star, who has played bubbly Leah Patterson-Baker for the past 17 years. ‘We have big windows at home, so people passing by can see us quite clearly, just bopping away at our own little dance party, just the two of us. ‘They must think we’re mad, but we don’t care!’ Counting down to her 40th birthday on May 14 – this year it falls on Mothers’ Day – Ada is opening…

Eaten too many Easter eggs? Well, we have just the diet for you! The eight-hour or 16:8 diet is the hottest new weight-loss sensation taking Hollywood by storm – and it promises to help you lose 10kg in 20 days! The eating plan encourages participants to only eat during an eight-hour window – such as between 9am and 5pm, or 11am and 7pm. Recent studies show that this ‘intermittent fasting’ will ultimately boost your body’s metabolism and fend off weight gain, with experts claiming that reducing your available meal times will cut calorie intake. ‘This is the huge new diet that all of Hollywood is doing,’ a leading LA trainer tells New Idea. ‘Intermittent fasting have become the hottest new words in showbiz fitness. ‘Nicole Kidman, Pink, Reese Witherspoon and…

DICKO It’s a dog-eat-dog world in corporate life. Dicko is a master of strategy. He comes from that background, where I have always been an outsider. He outplayed me... He made me look bad and painted me as Mr Bonkers. MARCIA She’s a total professional and what you see is what you get. But she won’t take any b*******. Once we were shooting stills to promote Idol and it just went on and on. In the end, Marcia lost it and walked off [and said:] ‘Enough is enough!’ KYLE He was the one I liked most. He never got involved in the vitriol behind the scenes. He’s an extremely hard-working dude, but one of the most unhealthy people I have met in my life. He just eats the crappest food.…

Following in her famous beau’s footsteps, Dan Ewing’s girlfriend Kat Risteska is set to hit The Voice blind audition stage in a bid to kick-start her own career. The petite 26-year-old will show off her vocal chops with the hopes of making coaches Seal, Delta Goodrem, Kelly Rowland and Boy George turn their chairs. The dancer, who previously dated Dan’s fellow Home And Away alumnus Lincoln Lewis, is no stranger to reality TV – she was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance in 2009. While it’s not confirmed if the former River Boy attended her audition, there’s no doubt Dan is proud of his girlfriend of less than 12 months. The couple regularly post loved-up photos on social media. ‘I thank God everyday for the gift that…

PACKHAMS have a green skin that turns a paler colour as it ripens. The flesh is juicy and white. They’re great for lunchboxes. JOSEPHINES are a squat shape with a shiny green skin. They can be eaten while still firm and crisp, or left to soften until juicy and sweet. Perfect in salads and slaws. CORELLAS have a beautiful pink to red blush on the skin, with a dense, white flesh. They range in small to medium size, making them handy for lunchboxes, cheese platters and salads. BEURRE BOSCS are brown, rough-skinned pears that are great for cooking. The cooked flesh is very sweet and tender.…

Carrot and Walnut Bites Makes 20, Prep 20 mins 2 cups pitted dried dates 1 carrot, peeled, grated 1 tsp finely grated orange rind ¾ cup desiccated coconut 1 cup walnuts 100g Granita biscuits, broken ½ tsp mixed spice 1 Place dates, carrot and rind in a food processor. Process until finely chopped. 2 Add ¼ cup of the coconut, walnuts, biscuits and mixed spice. Pulse until mixture starts to come together. Transfer to a bowl. 3 Using clean hands, roll tablespoons of mixture into balls. Toss in remaining coconut. Place on a tray lined with baking paper. Refrigerate, covered, for about 2 hours, or until firm. TIP Try replacing walnuts with pecans. Bites can be made up to five days ahead. Keep in an airtight container in the fridge.…

Moving your skincare into winter mode takes effort, but if you don’t transform your routine now, your skin will show it. Soula-Marie Perdis (above), CEO of Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics, reveals her cold-weather routine. ‘In winter, my skin is prone to dehydration due to heating and spending more time indoors,’ she says. ‘I feel as though my skin becomes stripped of its natural oils and can sometimes feel a little tight and even more sensitive.’ Soula-Marie admits the way she chooses products has changed over the years. ‘Now I use products which do more than just look great. I’m a huge advocate of products that contain antioxidants, ingredients that boost collagen production and are paraben-free.’ Soula-Marie also wears sunscreen every day. ‘As well as the face, I also ensure I don’t…

Imagine waking up every morning to the sound of your alarm, excited and happy to be starting a new day. When you look in the mirror you admire your body. Everyone tells you how great you’re looking and asks what your secret is. Sound too good to be true? If you, like many other women, don’t feel this way, you may have a hormonal imbalance. Research has documented that over 40 per cent of women have an undiagnosed underactive thyroid gland. If you feel tired all the time, crave sugar, use alcohol and coffee to lift yourself, retain weight around your middle and feel the cold, you could be suffering from this problem. What Does Your Thyroid Do, and What Does This Mean For You? The thyroid gland is the…

Q I feel like my family don’t have much luck. Bad things are always happening to us whether it be related to work, health, our house or something else. My daughters aren’t married and are still living at home, which has left me with the lost dream of grandchildren. Are things ever going to change? Will I ever get any grandchildren? Will my daughters finally get jobs? Worried Mum, via email. A Some things in life are in our control and others are not. Your daughters getting a job is in their control. My sense is that they just want you to take care of them. People who are hard workers would be pounding the pavement every day for a job because their ambition wouldn’t allow them to sit around…

FITNESS GOALS ‘How I’ve Lost 25kg’ was an inspirational read (NI April 24). I admire Australian Idol star Casey Donovan for her big effort to lose weight and her success in doing so. It takes a lot of will and determination, as it is hard work. Good on her for realising she needed to address her health issues and deciding to get fit. May her story inspire others – it is possible to lose the unwanted kilos if you focus your mind and just do it! F. Havord, Otago, NZ. NATIONAL TREASURE Irrespective of whether you like her music, Kylie Minogue has been a tremendous ambassador for Australia. After dating all sorts of studs and being so unlucky in love, perhaps Prince Andrew is exactly the right gentleman for a…

Beat that ‘That was a busy month!’ said Warren Beatty, jokingly responding to claims that he has slept with more than 13,000 women. We’re not great at maths but surely that’s impossible. Just like walking 13,000 steps in a month, right? Calm before the storm ‘I’ve always been a fairly tightly wound person and the second I got pregnant I took a deep breath and stayed there,’ said Anne Hathaway on being mum to 13-month-old Jonathan. Er, we’re guessing nobody’s told Anne about the terrible twos then… Fev’s Homer run ‘Gee I’m in good nick,’ Brendan Fevola said before going on to blame ‘bloody Easter’ for his lack of shape. Luckily, Brendan didn’t put a yellow filter on his pic or we’d have mistaken the former footy star for Homer…

They’re the much-loved mother-daughter team taking My Kitchen Rules by storm – but Valerie and Courtney reveal their relationship was put to the test on the hit cooking show. While the powerhouse Brisbane team say they are ‘very close’, they admit they found the pressures of filming and having to live with each other incredibly demanding. ‘I moved out of home years ago, and after doing MKR, I now remember why,’ 30-year-old Courtney tells New Idea. ‘Mum can be direct – direct with respect is what I call it. She sometimes just thinks I’m still 12. ‘But spending every waking second with Mum, even sleeping in the same hotel room... it was tough.’ Valerie agrees there were some conflicts between the pair, but says she’s learnt…

At just 14 years old, Khloe Heidemann should be laughing with her friends, daydreaming about her latest crush and hanging out at the beach. But instead she is lying in a hospital bed – her body broken and her brain swollen – her aunt Belinda Hartigan reveals. After two tragedies devastated her family, poor Khloe faces the grim reality that her parents and little brother are dead. ‘It’s a miracle Khloe survived at all,’ Belinda tells New Idea. ‘Each day is a blessing.’ Khloe was in the car with her mother Jane Towers and brother Jay Jay, 12, travelling from their home in Queensland for a fresh start on the NSW south coast, when they collided with a semitrailer near Berry on April 4. Witnesses said their car was completely…

THE THING THAT KILLED HER FAMILY HAS HEALED THIS BRAVE AUSSIE 30 YEARS LATER The water surrounded her. As she felt it move under her, she shivered in fear. The noise, the smell... it was all coming back to her. Putting her head down and trying to swim, the gasps of air caught in her throat and she spluttered to the surface, heart racing. As she scrambled to the edge of the swimming pool, Susan Berg felt like a fool for thinking she could ever face the horrors that had kept her out of the water for the past 30 years. On October 27, 1985, aged just 15, Susan lost her mum, dad, and 16-year-old brother Bill in a terrifying boating accident. ‘I was driving when the acceleration suddenly cut,’…

Lamb and Sweet Potato Korma Serves 4, Prep 20 mins, Cook 30 mins 700g diced lamb 1 tsp bottled garlic paste 1 tsp bottled ginger paste 1 large onion, sliced 1 tblsp olive oil 1/3 cup korma curry paste 1½ cups beef stock 500g small sweet potatoes, cut into 2cm-thick pieces 400g can chickpeas, rinsed, drained 270ml can coconut cream Fresh coriander sprigs and naan bread, to serve 1 Toss lamb with pastes, onion and oil in a large bowl. 2 Heat a flameproof casserole dish (16 cup-capacity) over a medium to high heat. Add lamb and onion in two batches. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 4 minutes, or until lamb is browned. Return all lamb and onion to pan. 3 Add curry paste. Cook, stirring, until fragrant. Stir in…

Pepperonata with Zucchini and Ricotta Serves 4, Prep 5 mins, Cook 20 mins 1 tblsp olive oil 1 red onion, halved, thinly sliced 1 red capsicum, cut into thin strips 1 yellow capsicum, cut into thin strips 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes 2 tsps balsamic vinegar 2 tsps brown sugar Salt and pepper, to taste 3 zucchini, thickly sliced 300g fresh ricotta 2 tblsps chopped fresh parsley Crusty bread, to serve 1 Heat oil in a large, deep frying pan over a medium to high heat. Add onion and capsicums. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 8 minutes, or until browned and tender. 2 Add tomatoes with ½ cup water. Simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for about 12 minutes, or until slightly thickened. Stir in vinegar and sugar. Season. 3 Meanwhile,…

Chia and Mango Yoghurt Pots with Apricots Makes 2, Prep 5 mins, Cook 5 mins 2 x 125g tubs Danone Activia Mango yoghurt ¼ cup water 2 tblsps black chia seeds 1/3 cup dried apricots ¼ cup orange juice 2 tblsps maple syrup 1 Combine yoghurt, water and chia seeds in a bowl. Divide between two serving glasses (1-cup capacity). Cover. Refrigerate overnight. 2 Combine apricots, juice and syrup in a medium saucepan. Bring to boil. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, or until slightly thickened. Remove from heat. Cool. 3 To serve, spoon apricot mixture over yoghurt pots. TIP Pots and apricots can be made up to three days ahead. Keep, covered, in the fridge. We used Australian apricots in this recipe.…

For years now we’ve been urged to hurry up and get on with having kids, but new research shows there may be benefits to having them later in life. As women have left it later to have babies due to their career or finding a partner, they’ve been constantly warned about their declining fertility. But a new study has found that the children of older mothers have fewer behavioural, social and emotional problems than those of younger mums. What’s more, older mothers resorted less to verbal and physical punishment than younger mums. According to the study of 4741 mothers and kids in Denmark, children of older mums were faring better at both age seven and 11, with older women having greater patience and steadiness. The research follows a 2016 study…

WARDROBE MALFUNCTION My old uncle telephoned me one morning in a state, saying he had great trouble walking to his kitchen and he felt his legs were giving in. I contacted an ambulance and met them at his house, asking what the trouble was with his legs. I was told all was fine as my MM uncle had simply put both legs into one leg of his shorts! R. Jack, Armadale, Vic. TOTAL RECALL I was telling my MM about the large amount of defective cars being recalled. He replied: ‘They should recall all the defective drivers as well!’ M. Clayton, Wyndham Vale, Vic. TECH TROUBLE My MM husband of 24 years has no idea how to use the landline phone. It was ringing one day and he hurried but…

With unforgettable baby blues and a hunger for success, Alden Ehrenreich is one to watch. Starring in Warren Beatty’s latest romantic comedy Rules Don’t Apply, set against the backdrop of 1950s Hollywood, Alden, 27, makes his mark alongside up-and-comer Lily Collins. Also set to play a young Han Solo in an upcoming Star Wars spin-off, the Los Angeles native has a lot on his plate, as New Idea finds out... What’s your character Frank Forbes like? Frank is a very ambitious guy who gets a job at the [Howard] Hughes Corporation. He starts off as a driver and gains the trust of Howard Hughes, and ends up in a more privileged position in the company. I fall in love with Marla Mabrey [Lily Collins], who’s a contract actress, and the…