Herald - Issue 389

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Valid until 24th June 2020 v FOLLOW US ON : F @HeraldThe v 4th June 2020 • The HERALD • Page 19 FOOD FOR THOUGHT The Blackfield Baker Ltd Traditional Quality Bakery Bread, Cakes, Savouries and Take-away Birthday Cakes Tel: 023 8089 8688 • 139 Hampton Lane, Blackfield ‘The Blackfield Baker’ Makes & Bakes the best Bread & Cakes ULTIMATE SUPERFOOD SALAD (Vegan) Serves 2 Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Ingredients • 85g watercress • 100g quinoa • 1 pomegranate • 1 ripe avocado • 100g roasted sweet potato • 1 small punnet alfalfa sprouts or mixed sprouts • 1 clove garlic • 1 head broccoli, cut int small orets • 25g mixed nuts, toasted • Sea salt and black pepper • Pinch chilli akes • Juice of 1 lime • 75ml olive oil • 25g chopped coriander Method 1 Preheat the oven to 200°C, then chop the sweet potatoes into inch cubes with the skin on. Place into a roasting tray, season with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil and roast in the oven for 15-20 minutes. 2 Cook the quinoa in salted boiling water according the packet instructions. Place the broccoli into a metal colander and set over the boiling quinoa. Cover and steam the broccoli for three minutes. 3 Once cooked, drain and rinse the quinoa and broccoli under cold running water. Remove the sweet potato from the oven. 4 Cu t t h e pomegranate in half and squeeze the juice from one half into a large bowl. Add the olive oil, chilli akes and lime juice, whisk together and season to taste. Add in the coriander, alfalfa, quinoa and sweet potato and toss well. 5 Peel the avocado, remove the stone and roughly chop. Spread the quinoa and sweet potato mixture onto a serving plate and dot the avocado over the top. 6 Finally, bash the second half of the pomegranate with a wooden spoon to knock the seeds out and scatter these over the plate along with the toasted nuts. Note: For a meat version - why not add a roasted salmon fillet or chicken breast on top for an extra protein hit? HOUGHTON LODGE GARDENS CELEBRATES CHAMPION TREE Located in the Test Valley, Hampshire, Houghton Lodge Gardens are set on the banks of the famous River Test and can now proudly state that they are home to Britain’s widest pear tree. e gardens are overlooked by a Grade II* listed historic house - a wonderful example of a ‘Cottage Orné’ - and boasts a fantastic walled kitchen garden, home to a heritage orchard with many historic apple and pear trees that were grown over a hundred years ago and bearing fruit that you will no longer nd in your local supermarket. One of the many hidden treasures at Houghton Lodge, and newly recognised for its grandeur, is the espalier Pear Beurre Diel located to the right of the walled garden gate. Spanning the west-facing wall, this magni cent pear tree has an incredible width of 53.6” long (16.33 meters). e impressive fruit tree has been recognised by the Champion Tree Register and awarded its status as a Champion Tree. As such it will join the register as the widest of its species in Britain. Champion Trees are, according to the Royal Forestry Society, ‘individual trees which are exceptional examples of their species because of their enormous size, great age, rarity or historical signi cance’. Houghton Lodge owner, Sophie Busk said, “As part of my quest to get the pear tree into the Guinness Book of Records, a visitor suggested I contact the Champion Tree Register. When they inspected the tree last August, they stated they had never seen such a wide pear and I was delighted that they made it a Champion Tree. I decided given its new status to have the tree DNA tested, which revealed it was a Buerre Diel, and not Uvedale St Germaine as we had first thought. This old species of pear loves growing as an espalier, hence why it’s succeeded so well growing against our wall” e glorious pear tree was not the only recognised tree in the gardens. e Champion Tree Register also discovered an Acer Cappadocicum ‘Aureum’ (Golden Cappadocian Maple), found in the plantings behind the summer house, which at 15m x 182cm at 0.7m has been awarded the new Hampshire County champion for height and girth. ey also identi ed the lovely Gingko in the yard by the house as being the 4th tallest in Hampshire. Houghton Lodge Gardens look forward to being able to open their doors to visitors again when it is safe to do so, where they can immerse themselves in this beautiful setting and appreciate the newly awarded status of these glorious trees. For more information about Houghton Lodge Gardens visit www.houghtonlodge.co.uk For more information about the Test Valley visit www.testvalley.gov.uk/communityand leisure/tourism/ Fire ghters have begun to drive ambulances to support South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) with their response to the coronavirus pandemic. e rst re ghters from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) o cially began their new roles last month, forming response teams with clinicians from SCAS who will lead on all medical decisions and actions. Training and familiarisation have been carried out to prepare re ghters to support with these additional activities. Assistant Director of Operations Rob Cole said: “Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service stand ready and able to help and support our partners across the Local Resilience Forum and communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This partnership approach makes use of the firefighters’ professional capabilities around driving vehicles, usually fire appliances, on blue lights, and their existing immediate emergency care medical skills. We are proud of the hard work and professionalism of our amazing crews and staff helping to make life safer in any way we can. We already work closely with partners and unions and we welcome this agreement needed to deal with these unprecedented circumstances.” Head of Operations for Community Engagement & Training at South Central Ambulance Service Nic Dunbar said: “The skills that firefighters bring with them and their experiences of dealing with emergency services make them ideal to support us during the response to COVID-19.The two services are used to working together and this support enables us to maintain the best possible service during a peak in demand and staff sickness levels.” is agreement builds on the successful co-responder partnership between HFRS and SCAS which has been running for over 14 years, seeing Fire ghters operate in dedicated emergency medical response vehicles. Firefighters Drive Ambulances To Support Coronavirus Response