Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
BERRIES ARE THE little wonders that contain a host of benefits in one small, sweet, package! As well as tasting great, most berries contain antioxidants and important vitamins, which is why they’re often touted as a “superfood”.
Berries are an essential part of my weekly food shop and while they usually don’t last long in the fridge (I tend to gobble them up within 48 hours of purchase!), there are times when they can be forgotten about, and become a bit too far gone to enjoy fresh. Just because those berries at the back of the fridge have become a little sad looking does not mean they need to be binned. Here are a few directions you can take.
Raspberry coulis: Raspberry coulis is one of my favourite quick sauces to make and can really jazz up any dessert. To make, simply press a few handfuls of raspberries through a sieve, add icing sugar to taste, and a small squeeze of lemon for some extra zing. For a dessert that will please any crowd, layer it up with crushed meringue, cream and extra berries. Delicious!
Smoothie bags: Smoothie bags are my new lifesaver and I just can’t get enough of them lately! If I find I have too many berries in the fridge, I fill ziplock bags with a mixture of whatever I have along with a peeled and sliced banana. Blitzed with some oats and milk, they make the perfect on the go breakfast that can be whipped up in a flash!
Chia ‘jam’: Don’t be fooled, you don’t need a crate of berries to make a vibrant home made jam. I like to make a slightly healthier version of the classic jam, which can be quite high in refined sugar. To make, simply blend a punnet of berries (raspberries or blueberries work very well) with 2 heaped spoonfuls of chia seeds and 2 spoonfuls of honey in a food processor. Stir to ensure everything has been well blended and transfer to a jar. This makes a delicious porridge topping.
Cocktail ice cubes: Berry ice cubes make for a refreshing addition to summer lemonades or cocktails. Simply wash the berries, pop them into an ice cube tray, top with water, and freeze. While it’s handy to have cubes with just one type of berry for certain drinks, I like to mix things up and use a mixture of berries along with some mint or basil for that extra herbaceous kick!
Berry ‘nice’ cream: Made with only three ingredients, this recipe almost sounds too good to be true. One of the best things about this is that you don’t need an ice cream churner to make it. Blitz a handful of leftover berries, two bananas and a few spoonfuls of yogurt in a food processor until creamy and transfer to a freezer-proof container. After two or three hours in the freezer, it’s ready to enjoy! The perfect healthy treat that the whole family can enjoy.
All this marvellous science is to be commended! But please could someone come up with a gizzmo that would figure out the Inner Workings of The Female Mind, cos lads I’d buy one .Please…some one…
And mental disorders but wouldn’t a cure for all diseases be a priority?
Oh come on now. You will just have to accept that some things are, and always will be, beyond the bounds of science.
Yeah…women.
Not possible on earth, they are from venus….
Just think of the female mind as like Schroedinger’s cat in a locked box where you have hopelessly lost the key to open it
Well if the cat is anything like his missus leave the #ecker in the box!
Women are like a Web browser with 279 tabs open at the same time, you can expect a question on any of them at any time so be prepared..; ) I believe Google are Woking on an app.
Hot, gaseous, full of acid and thick?
l fooking love science. It may not have all the answers but it sure does have all the questions.
Unless it opens a gateway to hell lol.
where?
Not only are our smart phones more powerful than all the computers used during Apollo 11. The very watch on your hand is also more powerful. Mathematics
You mean that place that only exists in religious mythology?
Science has the only answers.
Bill, like string theory too…
Jake not if the universe is a hologram and then when you dive into Quantum madness reality goes out the window but yet it exists and seems weirder than the idea of a god?
Quantum theory is supported by mountains of mathematical evidence, Michael. Unless God has started writing equations on the night sky, then no, it is not weirder than the idea of a God.
But it is mathematical evidence in agreed theory by those who went to the right universities mainly, most of science seems to be based on who went to the right universities in my view. I am not at all saying they are wrong but science does have a biasness to it based on certain universities and who pays towards certain research.
The faith some put into some of these theories like string and dark matter seem weirder than the idea of God. Evolution seems strange where the physical realities can change the DNA for the biological necessities of life but how as there has to be something to cause the right changes than randomness as well as the speed of evolution that can take place like worms that evolved to survive the tin mines in Cornwall I believe as tin oxide is deadly and they have evolved to survive that poison so quickly?
Another is what existed to cause the big bang as all reactions need a trigger or does physics not work with the big bang, so what was there before that? Is it the word God or the idea that there is an intelligence beyond the physical that scientists hate or is it because they want to be Gods themselves to give them an ego boost in coming up with something that will make them famous and will make them remembered beyond death. What is wrong with the idea of God, what is so terrible about that idea?
Most of reality is space and energy, so big bang, hydrogen, stars, super nova’s, the elements. planets, DNA, Complex life, self awareness and now humanity. Too many accidents to say “here I am” and here is me saying what is wrong saying that a God exists and here in the Western world Jesus where god became man. I can see Darkins face now…
I am not telling people that I am right or they are wrong but debating is good for the soul, lol.
Michael, I’m sorry to say that you have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s clear that you have all these ideas about science and what you *think* it is, but you’ve obviously never been educated on the topics in any detail. I say this not as an insult, you’ve just demonstrated that you don’t understand a lot of what science tells us about the world.
Science does not have ‘biases’. Science is a process of learning about the natural world, it doesn’t take a stance on anything. What you meant to say was that scientists or the scientific community have biases, and though this may be true, ‘going to the right university’ has nothing to do with it. If you have evidence to back up your claims, scientists will listen to you and take you seriously. It doesn’t matter where you graduated from.
I’m not going to pick apart your assertions about physics and biology simply because what you’ve said makes little to no sense. I’d recommend reading up on the subject or talking to an expert on the topic before spewing out all this stuff.
Also, scientists are not opposed to the idea of a God. The problem is that there is no *evidence* for a God, so they don’t take the idea seriously because it is not falsifiable and it is an unsubstantiated claim. If you could provide evidence for a God, you’d win a Nobel Prize and you would be lauded as a genius, and scientists would envy you.
Malachi, I just take in philosophy, religion, science and use them to look at subjects, you can be a scientist without letting science tell you where the full stops are. The first thing we need to understand is that nothing is certain, that people who get things right in the past does not say that they will always be right and that is true with science. People need to question things, step back and enjoy science instead of turning science into a war, ever heard of Locke and Berkeley?
Just because a person knows stuff doesn’t mean that they agree with what they know and just because there is no evidence, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist until people find the evidence either?
People do not know what there is if they disagree with something, people ignore everything they dislike or disagree with and therefore do not search any further into that subject. Sometimes to search for something you need to have the same enthusiasm as a believer and only then you are able to argue your point and to understand it fully if you agree or disagree with it?
Like chess, it doesn’t matter what side you are as the moves are the same?
It is fairer to say that you disagree with my point because… Of what you believe rather than you hoping that I know nothing?
Science does have issues and there is a class system at play especially in the U.S. and this system can be seen in the Art world as well. Take the big bang, have you ever heard any scientist up to recently talk about what caused it or what was before it, this use to be taboo especially in certain universities. As a Horizon program on BBC2 showed last year I believe, as some scientific questions even up to the 80s were career stopping and this isn’t new as Einstein had the same problem for years after he wrote his book Theory of Relativity.
What science is and suppose to be is not always the same?
how advanced would we be if we used the money we spend on war for peaceful scientific research?
Probably not much farther in fairness. The simple reality is we develop technology and knowledge at a much faster rate when at war. It’s estimated that the Second World War developed in 6 years the same amount of technological advances as 30 years worth of peacetime research.
That’s because WWII motivated people to spend money on research. But what if we were motivated to spend those sort of funds all of the time?
No, the advancements came due to strict military requirements as often these needed to be fixed well and on a tight budget. World War Two specifically saw massive developments in aircraft propulsion, metallurgy, rocketry and radar all due to requirements which developed during that war. Most notably the major developments came from countries which could barely afford to keep the lights on due to the scale of the spending on weapons. Tanks needed to be tougher, planes needed to be faster, planes needed to be detected a lot earlier and bombs needed to be delivered without risking what little manpower a strained Air Force had left. The Crimean War saw the birth of what is modern surgery due to the unique brutality of the wounds inflicted in that war.
Also, due to the unique IED-centric warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan we have seen massive developments in the areas of automation, robotics and prosthetics because of the large number of amputees created by that war, the end-goal being to create prosthetics good enough to enable experienced but wounded soldiers to be sent back into a war zone.
The simple fact is war makes humans realise very soon where we are lacking and militaries have tough requirements for how these failings need to be addressed.
Or maybe all those developments would have happened anyway. Id say its more likely that technological development would happen at an increased more constant rate. War might just bring about an overall reduced rate of development but in a sinusoidal fashion, increased during times of need. Since there is almost 2 trillion a year spent of military those funds if they were available would have to increase scientific development. Look at the host of private nuclear fusion companies trying to develop z pinch reactors but have to get private funding to get a few million to fund their projects.
Those developments would of course have happened eventually but it is clear that war significantly advanced their progress. The space programme as a very good example would not be where it is today were it not for the incredible advancements by Nazi engineers during the war. They turned what was only a theory before the war into a weaponised system in only a couple of years and it was these weapons that served as the foundation of the first generation of post-war rockets for the new space agencies. The same goes for modern surgery, were it not for the sheer amount of living test subjects generated by the American Civil War all the way up to WW2 we certainly would not have seen the level of advancements in medical procedures in such a timeframe.
Also the point about money investment is a weak one as it completely ignores the law of diminishing returns. Research especially suffers heavily from this as investing 10x more money is definitely not guaranteed to generate 10x the results. In fact past experience has shown that it would probably generate much closer to a 2x increased return, much lower than the sheer level of progress experienced during wartime.
The headline author doesn’t seem to understand how science works. It’s not a matter of deciding what you want to discover…
@George Salter – Yes you’re right, unless of course one is a member if the climate change cult.
Wow, Dude, you managed to squeeze your little quip in there despite it being completely irrelevant to the original comment! Fantastic stuff.
PlutoFlyby was a massive high for me and there’s more to come.
Still no cure for the hiccups on the horizon?
Lots of ifs,coulds and things that are needed. Better hurry up before we destroy ourselves
And scientists are “on the cusp ” of making which discoveries? As I read it MIT are saying “gee, wouldn’t it be awesome if we cracked these problems “. Headline a little misleading.
What about Jesus!!
Spoiler alert, he dies at the end of the book.
But he came back!!
Kind of like John Snow!
And if they never went to the moon due to all the solar and cosmic radiation???
And not one of the several conspirators involved has said anything in 40 odd years. …
I love it when people declare that they think moon landings never happened. It makes it easy to see who you should avoid at all costs.
If the landings were faked,then why didn’t the Soviets blow the whistle on the whole thing?
The brain dead people will come up with this original thought “Think of all the hospitals we could have built”.
Science is the business, there’s so much left to learn. There’s most likely things that we’ll actually never know as we don’t have the instruments to even comprehend then.
If people want the real answers they should look no further than within our quantum world, there lies the answers to everything.
Left out some of the most important scientific developments that will happen mainly brain computer interfacing and nuclear fusion.
have your say