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Carrot, Parsnip and Thyme Soup.
Food, Recipe Tara Gladstone Food, Recipe Tara Gladstone

Carrot, Parsnip and Thyme Soup.

The secret to this is having a really delicious rich vegetable stock. This will give the soup a deep textured flavour. The ideal is to make your own, but if you can’t, be sure to choose a good quality one. Carrots and parsnips go beautifully together as roast vegetables and they work equally well as complimentary flavours in this soup.

This serves four, but you can double up the quantities and freeze the rest.

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Ten Things You Need To Make Winter Good.
Outdoors, Recommendations Tara Gladstone Outdoors, Recommendations Tara Gladstone

Ten Things You Need To Make Winter Good.

Our thoughts this winter, across our businesses, are focused on getting our guests and customers outdoors. I believe that winter is every bit as good as summer and that our relationship with the colder and darker months has become weirdly soured.

Autumn and winter last for about half the year, so we might as well try to make the best of them.

So here’s a short piece on my favourite kit -indoor and outdoor- for winter.

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My Weekend Managing The Some Good Ideas Stage At Camp Good Life.
Culture, Short Reads Tara Gladstone Culture, Short Reads Tara Gladstone

My Weekend Managing The Some Good Ideas Stage At Camp Good Life.

The Some Good Ideas stage at Camp Good Life was a melting pot of, well, good ideas, and it was my job all weekend to manage the stage.

It’s a great job. I have done it for a number of years now and I think I am starting to get the hang of it - I'd call myself a semi-professional at this point on the basis that there is still about half I don’t know.

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