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Lemon Potatoes

 Ingredients 3 New Potatoes 1 tbsp salt 2-3 sprigs of mint The juice of 3 lemons 4 spoon butter 1 bunch of spring onion Method Scrape the new potatoes and put them into boiling salted water with sprigs of mint. Boil them for about 7 minutes. Then drain them and cut with larger ones in half. Leaving the smaller ones whole. Heat the lemon juice and butter in large frying pan.  Add the potatoes and cook them, gently turning them frequently until they are lightly browned. When the potatoes are cold, arrange them on a dish. Remove any discoloured leaves from the spring onions. Clip smaller slices with a pair of scissors and arrange them down one side of the potato dish.  Serving suggestion If you are serving two salads on the same dish, the onions make a good dividing line.
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Potato Donuts

 Ingredients Mash potato - 1 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Ghee - 3 tbsp Eggs - 3 Baking powder - 3 tsp Maida - 4 cups Salt - 1 tsp Method Mix together butter, sugar and one egg and beat well. Add baking powder and maida. Now add mashed potato. Make a nice dough. Shape the dough into donuts. Fry it and turn only one time till golden brown. Sprinkle sugar. It will make about 30 donuts.

Strange Pictures by Uketsu Review: A viral Japanese Mystery That Feels More Bizarre than terrifying

Strange Pictures by Uketsu is one of those books that arrives with huge hype, eerie visuals, and a reputation for being unsettling, only to leave you asking a very fair question: is this horror, mystery, or just gloriously odd drama? This review begins at the start, with the author, the book’s rise, and the first reasons it divides readers so sharply. What kind of book is Strange Pictures ? Have you ever picked up a wildly hyped novel and felt, only a few chapters in, that the marketing team had promised one thing while the book itself was calmly doing another? That is the first trap Strange Pictures sets for you. Uketsu’s novel first appeared in Japan in 2022, published by Futabasha, and later arrived in English in 2025 through HarperVia, translated by Jim Rion. The book became a runaway hit, reportedly selling more than 1.5 million copies and being translated into more than 30 languages. On paper, that sounds like catnip for mystery lovers. The premise is unusual enough to hook alm...