Leftover cooked pork and bones are essential ingredients in this hearty Asturian winter stew
Fabada Asturiana is classic Spanish cooking at its simplest and best. This stew of creamy white beans cooked slowly with pork and cured meat is traditionally made with fabes de la Granja (or judion beans), morcilla (Spanish black pudding), chorizo and lacón (cured pork shoulder, and similar to pancetta); it’s also the perfect dish for using up leftover roast pork.
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Life drawing hit the headlines when a north London class, which had been running for more than 30 years, was told to cover up its naked models or find a new location. Ellie Heney, 32, from Lancaster, has been a life model for 13 years and hopes to be one for the rest of her life. She explains why
It was my first year of university in Liverpool and it was a typical broke student situation. I saw a poster saying £20 for life modelling and when you’re living on beans on toast you think: ‘Well, I can do that.’ So I gave it a go.
It’s the strangest thing in the world when you do it for the first time. I remember my heart was pounding and the adrenaline was rushing and the back of my head was prickly because I was thinking: ‘What on earth am I doing? This is crazy!’
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My wife has developed an aversion to cooking while becoming increasingly fussy about what she’ll eat. Lucky me …
When the oldest one left home for the second time about six years ago, my wife made an announcement.
“That’s it,” she said. “I’m never cooking again.”
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Gráinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant
What were you hoping for?
A giggle with someone I fancy!
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In the run-up to Sunday’s crucial election, the Guardian took a long journey through Europe’s heartland to talk to voters
Creaking, overcrowded, neglected, Germany’s railways, once a source of national pride, have taken a battering to their image in recent years. Amid wider concerns about the health of Europe’s stagnating largest economy, the state of its trains has become something of a metaphor for a more general sense of malaise.
On Sunday Germans will go to the polls in one of the most important elections in recent times, with an emboldened far right hoping to more than double its share of votes. In the run-up, the Guardian travelled more than 850 miles on trains across Germany to hear what its citizens have to say about the state of their nation.
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Two years ago, transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. The killers had been radicalised on the dark web, while the victim was trapped in an online world of her own. Now her mother has become friends with the parent of one of the murderers. On the second anniversary of Brianna’s death, Esther sits down with Simon Hattenstone to discuss her daughter’s murder and her own extraordinary response.
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Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness
“The frontline here is cold, hard, true war. My comrades and I had more than 40 bombs dropped on us by drones over two hours. You can’t hide from drones in a trench, but you can’t outrun them either. Your only hope to live is to zigzag, to be cleverer than the drone.”
A gaunt 28-year-old former IT worker sits patiently beneath a window barricaded with sandbags, awaiting his turn on the operating table, cloaked in dust. Now an infantryman in the Ukrainian army’s Third Assault Brigade, “Sasha” (not his real name) has shrapnel embedded in his shoulder after the Russian assault on his foxhole. “When you hear a drone, you run as fast as you can and see if you can reach any trees,” he says. “If you’re out in the open, you try to get the drone behind you, so it won’t destroy your face. It’s not panic, this running; it’s a professional response. You know what you have to do to save your life and you do it.”
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Some specialists suspect that constantly filtering out background noise may have unintended consequences
They are prized for making the commute more bearable and shielding against the din of daily life. But noise-cancelling headphones have come under scrutiny after audiologists raised concerns that overuse might impair people’s hearing skills.
While the technology has clear benefits, not least in helping people listen to music at lower volume, some specialists suspect that constantly filtering out background noise may have unintended consequences.
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The best of British athletics will be fighting for medals and the chance to compete at European and World Indoor Championships in the coming weeks on the road to the Tokyo World Championships in September
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Kit changes have been made to make matches easier to watch for colour blind viewers
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Authorities in Israel have reportedly identified the body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, who was likely killed in Hamas captivity with her two children.
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Despite Peaky Blinders comparisons, this tale of crime and debauchery in post First World War Soho doesn’t quite find its voice.
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The actor who terrified us in ‘Breaking Bad’ and the recent ‘Civil War’ talks to Louis Chilton about working with Robert De Niro in Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’, flubbing his audition for ‘Star Wars’, and child acting
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Tom Sellers elevates this nostalgic classic with buttery brioche, orange-scented crème anglaise and a perfectly crisp, caramelised top. Pure comfort in every bite
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We all want to present the best possible version of ourselves when we’re applying for jobs, but when does putting a positive spin on your experiences cross a line into all-out lying, and what might be the consequences? Katie Rosseinsky asks the experts
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Jacob Stolworthy runs through 15 of the awards show’s most ridiculous victors... and what should have won instead
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It might have the look of a car belonging to a moderately successful drug dealer, but Sean O’Grady finds this luxurious model a little too expansive for city streets
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Colorado snowboarder was killed in powerful snow slide near Silverton while a partner skiing with her survived
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The deafening booms of the first airstrikes. Buildings bursting into flames, reduced to rubble. Terrified people hiding in basements. Cries of despair and hugs of support.
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