
1 litre quality cider
For The Jerk Salsa
1-2 fresh Scotch bonnet chillies, to taste
2 bunches spring onions, trimmed
1 level teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 level teaspoon ground cloves
2 level teaspoons ground allspice
3 limes
1 thumb-sized piece fresh ginger, peeled
a few fresh bay leaves
2 cloves garlic, peeled
a few fresh bay leaves
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1 large bunch fresh coriander
Method
Preheat the oven to full whack (about 240°C/475°F/gas 9). Carefully score the skin and fat on the shoulder into zigzags about 1cm deep, using a very sharp knife or a clean Stanley knife. Sprinkle and rub in a good pinch of salt, pepper, dried rosemary, thyme, and a few good gratings of nutmeg. Add a lug of olive oil, then rub those flavours all over the meat and into the scores. Place the pork, skin side up, in your largest roasting pan. Pour one of the bottles of cider into the bottom of the tray, put into the hot oven for 30 minutes so the crackling gets going, then turn the heat down to 130°C/250°F/gas ½.
After the pork has been in for an hour, add the rest of the cider and cook for a further 6 to 7 hours, or until the meat pulls apart easily. Halfway through the cooking time cover with a double layer of tin foil.
Once the pork is perfectly cooked, move it to a large serving board or platter. Carefully pour any fat from the roasting tray into a Kilner jar for some lucky roast potato some day, but leave the wonderful flavourful cooking juices in the pan. Then add the Scotch bonnets to a liquidizer with the spring onions, spices, the juice from the limes, ginger, bay leaves, garlic, a squeeze of honey and 2 lugs of extra virgin olive oil. Pulse together until you get a salsa consistency, then mix the salsa into the juices in the roasting tray, have a taste and balance out the salt and acid if needed. It should have attitude and loads of personality. Pour that salsa on to a platter, then pull the crispy crackling off the shoulder, get rid of any flobbery fat underneath, and use two forks to roughly pull the meat apart. Pile the meat on top of the salsa and toss together quickly.
Tear over any coriander leaves and snap those wonderful zigzags of crackling on top of the meat and serve with good quality apple sauce. Rock 'n' roll!Cancelled
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Please PM questions for claification of any functions.I'm the first to admit that my fitness levels yo-yo. One week I'm loving it, eating super healthily, exercising a lot and the next I have no motivation and am eating my body weight in pizza and sweet treats.
My main problem is food, I'm a huge foodie, I love to cook, bake and have an insatiable sweet tooth. However one thing that keeps me going is other bloggers and instagrammers whom I look to for fitspiration. They're constantly inspiring me, be it with their abs, recipes or workouts so I thought I would share them with you if you're stuck in a fitness rut.
First up is my fellow blogger and all round lovely lady Katie from Mummy Daddy Me. Katie set herself a fitness mission last year to start running and she's done amazingly well. I'm always in awe of mums who not only have their children to look after but also work and still find the time to excercise and look amazing for it. I often think of Katie when I've hit a slump and can't be bothered to go to the gym. I want those abs!
Another mummy blogger who inspires me is Kerry from Lived with Love. I'd never thought of doing home workouts before but Kerry does them regularly. I've started the Kayla Itsines bikini guide and although it's hard I love the fact that I can do it at home once Ava is in bed. Kerry also eats very healthily and I'm often getting smoothie & snack ideas from her.
One of the first fitness bloggers I started following was Lydia, she seamlessly mixes fashion and fitness and is constantly giving me wardrobe & ab envy. I particularly enjoyed her last post about confidence. It really motivated me and gave me the boost I needed to head to the gym last night.
I'm a big fan of Instagram, I'd even go as far as saying that it's my favourite form of social media. I'm a very visual person and I love "pretty" accounts. One of the accounts I follow it's Mikela's. I love the photographs of her beautiful son Issac and the daily snippets of life that she posts. I've recently discovered that she has a second account dedicated to fitness which I was so happy about. Mikela has a killer figure which is totally admirable when she has a baby.
I also follow Alice on Instagram. If you're into fitness you will have heard of her. She's LDM's latest recruit and her instagram feed is full of amazing healthy dishes. Alice gives me so much food inspiration and always makes me feel extremely hungry!
I am trying my hardest to get in shape for our holiday in September, I need to tone up and the ladies above always manage to give me that little extra push without them even knowing about it!Image courtesy of Caneel Bay on St. John.
How much more scary news can we take? Immersing yourself in the downer of the day is only going to depress you, so find a more soothing voice to listen to. In my world, it’s Kerstin Sjoquist, who has created beautiful meditation CDs and downloads on her site.
You’ll also find a little something on her site that she worked on with me, so check it out!
Oh, and I’m newly on Twitter, so follow me at @sharonnaylorwed.Found out this week that I've been chosen as one of the recipients of a research grant(!!). I'm still quite in disbelief, honestly. I'm extremely grateful but at the same time I'm all the more pressured to finish my thesis asap and produce an exceptional work of some sort. But really I just want to graduate and move on to bigger things, like traveling overseas to try out new cafes and to watch the shows of my favorite artists. That type of stuff.

On a semi-unrelated note, so thankful for music. It's the only thing keeping me sane these days.By Syful Islam,.
But Akhter is now one of 43 families in her village living in a newly constructed house - one that has been built to withstand the increasingly strong storms that experts say may be linked to climate change.
“When the warning about Aila was given, we didn’t understand how devastating the storm would be. We were not even sure whether the cyclone would hit or not. So we stayed at home. Within a few minutes of the cyclone hitting, a water surge washed out our house,” Akhter said.
The home that Akhter lost was made of iron sheets. Following the cyclone, her family had to live in a hut made of bamboo, straw and plastic sheets.
ELEVATED HOUSES
But her new house is built of wood, with brick roof tiles. Most important, it stands on four concrete pillars two metres tall to protect it from rising waters.
“The height offered is enough to deal with the expected rise in sea level and growing storm surges,” said Aminul Islam, assistant director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh, which built the new houses in partnership with BRAC, a Bangladesh-based non-governmental development organisation.
The 170 square foot (15 square metre) homes are designed to withstand winds of up to 240 kph (150 mph).
Akhter and one of her daughters survived the 2009 cyclone by grabbing hold of a piece of iron roof sheeting that was floating past. She believes that if her family had been living in a sturdier elevated house, like her new one, they would not have been washed out and their lives endangered.
The Disaster Resilient Habitat (DRH) project aims to build safer settlements in Bangladesh coastal villages affected by cyclones or tidal surges, so that families can survive future cyclones.
COMMUNITY DESIGN
Community participation was an important element in designing the houses, and architects from BRAC University consulted with villagers before coming up with a design.
“The project’s innovative approach ensured that solutions came from within the community rather than being imposed from the outside,” Islam said.
One villager, Fatema, said that community members had originally asked that the walls and roofs of the houses be built with brick and iron rods to make them more resilient, because they feared the wooden walls and brick-tile roofs would be less strong.
But Ainun Nishat, vice chancellor of BRAC University and a climate change expert, said that even as built the new houses should be able to withstand 150 mph winds, and that using