Before you start cooking, remove the chard's stems and clean the chopped leaves by dunking them in two or three changes of water.

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Bar staff are also being asked to wear T-shirts encouraging pub and club goers to have a takeaway rather than start cooking at home.

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In the mid-2000s, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation launched a campaign called "Food Safety: Edible Flowers" to push restaurants to start cooking with flowers and persuade farmers to stop using pesticides.

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What's more you can set it to start cooking at a certain time - and then send a message from your smartphone to delay it turning itself on if you get stuck at work.

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"I really want to be able to get back in the kitchen and start cooking some delicious vegetarian meals for myself, " she said as she used the hands in a demonstration for media outlets this week.

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Start cooking, however, and things change radically.

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While the syrup is cooking, start beating the egg whites.

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