Alex - Here have what I know

Ingredients (Serves 2)
- 6 scallops
- 50g grated parmesan
- 1 tablespoon creme fraiche (or sour cream)

For the salad
- 4 vine tomatoes
- 14 asparagus spears
- 6 chopped basil leaves
- 1 teaspoon chopped red onions
- 2 stalks chives

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Ceviche ingredients (Serves 4)
- 200g of Kingfish (per pax)
- 1 orange
- 1 lemon
- 1 green apple
- 1 mango
- 1 red chilli
- 100ml olive oil

Tapenade ingredients (Serves 4)
- 50ml olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of seedless black olives
- 2 pieces of salted anchovies
- 1 garlic
- 1 dried apricot
- Rock salt
- Pepper
- French baguette

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Ingredients (serves 2)
- 1 whole chicken
- 3 lemons
- 2 whole garlic knobs
- 1 onion
- 50g ginger
- 1 packet of parsley
- 1 packet of thyme
- 125g soft butter
- 2 tablespoons of paprika
- 1 tablespoon of garlic powder
- 50ml extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
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Ingredients (Serves 4)

- 2 Momotaro tomatoes (peeled)

- 50g mizuna lettuce (can be placed with rocket)

- 50g Parmesan cheese

- 50g Iberico ham (replace with Parma ham), very thinly sliced

- 1 black winter truffle, thinly sliced

- 1 teaspoon Fleur de Sel

- Freshly cracked black pepper to taste

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When it comes to bad luck, it doesn’t just rain; it buckets down. Luckily, we have an umbrella.

Ever feel like the world’s closing in on you? Like nothing seems to be going your way? Bet Jessica Simpson can relate. It might look like the biggest dilemma in her life is which designer handbag to carry to lunch at The Ivy but, the truth is, she’s going through a rough patch and the cracks are starting to show.

Since giving ex-hubby Nick Lachey the flick, Jess has struggled to make a splash in the dating pool while Nick’s been moving at lightning speed with new squeeze Vanessa Minnillo. She’s also reportedly fallen out with her best friend and her singing career is headed south foster than a duck in winter. Her latest album sold just 200,000 copies while her first blitzed the charts, selling 2.9 million copies. Throw in a family feud and a fired publicist and it doesn’t make for a very happy mix.

So how do you deal when you luck has packed its bags and taken a one-way trip to Alaska just like Miss Simpson’s? You “roll with the punches and not wallow,” as the singer said recently. “My life is chaos right now. But you can let the chaos consume you or you can just walk along with it.”

If you’re prepared to fight setback instead of losing the plot, you’re already on the fast lane to feeling better. But if you want to speed up that 180-degree life makeover, you need a little insider info. The goal news? We’ve plenty to go around.
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