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Instant Pot® Zuppa Toscana
Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®) and select Saute function. • Heat oil in the cooker. Add sausage and cook until no longer pink, about 3 minutes. Stir in onion and garlic; cook until softened and translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir in Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Add potatoes and chicken broth. Close and lock the lid. Select high pressure and set timer for 5 minutes. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for pressure to build.
Six new and upcoming summer travel books that inspire wonder Original
From a nine-month trek to a 20,000-mile motorcycle odyssey, these books will transport you across continents encourage you to see the world differently. Like travel itself, great travel writing can expand our understanding of the world – and of ourselves. It introduces us to places we've never visited and people we've never met. It expands our idea of the planet, and when done well, it can leave us permanently changed. The first book that did this for me was Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard.
Where you must catch your meal with chopsticks
It’s a sunny July day on a mountainside restaurant terrace on the island of Kyushu, Japan. A polo-shirted, 40-something Japanese businessman, a long-time friend of mine, is holding a clump of somen – thin, white wheat noodles – aloft in one hand, and beaming at me and his two foodie colleagues, who have joined us for this feast. “Ii desu ka?” Are you ready?
The scarecrow master of Shikoku, Japan
I had set out to explore the heart of Shikoku, the smallest and least visited of Japan’s four main islands, and was white-knuckledly navigating my rental car along a one-lane road through a mountain valley toward a storied vine bridge. I drove through a seemingly deserted village of a dozen homes perched precariously on metal stilts over a river, turned a corner and saw in the distance three figures slumped against an electricity pole.
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Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia
As Mr Kim navigated his car onto the puddled, potholed road that led to Banteay Chhmar, he turned to me. “Where are you staying?” he asked. He looked at me out of the corner of his eye. “There are no hotels in Banteay Chhmar.” “I know,” I said. “I arranged a homestay. On my computer.” “OK. Where is the home?” He swivelled to face me. “Where should I take you?” This moment seemed to symbolise my entire Cambodia trip: Where was I going? Why was I here?
Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia
He looked at me out of the corner of his eye. “There are no hotels in Banteay Chhmar.” “I know,” I said. “I arranged a homestay. On my computer.” “OK. Where is the home?” He swivelled to face me. “Where should I take you?” This moment seemed to symbolise my entire Cambodia trip: Where was I going? Why was I here? I had arrived in Cambodia after a week-long tour consisting of lectures, book readings and writing workshops in Melbourne and Singapore.
Rafting the Salmon River and the Restorative Power of Wilderness
The Cure of the Wild Every once in a while I have a William Wordsworth moment. Wordsworth is the immortal English poet who penned, among many masterpieces, a sonnet entitled “The World Is Too Much With Us,” which begins: I was having that kind of a moment in June of 2008. The world of deadlines and dishes and car repairs and computer meltdowns and endless emails and soul-sucking meetings was too much with me. Like WW, I had lost my connection with nature, the sea, the moon; I was out of tune.
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