Lifestyle - Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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A simple flour-and-water dough instantly upgrades this brothy egg and tomato soup into something substantial.

Plus the salsa verde that takes it over the top. The post The Bright, Herby Grilled Fish That Makes Summer Cooking Effortless appeared first on Camille Styles .

Cryptic crossword setters are still finding new ways to celebrate April Fools’ Day It’s April, so it’s time to continue our tracking of the ebb and flow of April foolery in crossword puzzles . In brief, the good times continue. I haven’t yet found any cryptics of the rule-bending variety, but, avoiding spoilers, would like to recommend the Financial Times puzzle by the setter known locally as Harpo , navigating to Independent 12,318 by the solver known locally as Enigmatist and our own Paul here at the Guardian . QUICK START YOUNG AT HEART SECOND LINE PAY UP FRONT SUM TO FINAL Blend cryptic wordplay with Japanese verse to form a delectable haiklu (patent pending) he made The Third Man once oddly go missing with endless avarice (6) Continue reading...

While fig season is at its fullest, Alice Zaslavsky seeks out the sweetest specimens to squish over a layer of labneh Check out more Alice Zaslavsky recipes There are few fruits more evocative than the fig; heavy-bottomed, velvet-skinned, bursting at the seams with life. It’s also one of the oldest fruit tree cultivars, and rates mentions in the Torah, the New Testament, the Qur’an and the Bhagavad Gita. Depictions of figs appear in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and reliefs, Indus Valley stone seals and other ancient artwork across the Mediterranean, Middle East and South Asia. Indeed, while other fruits require quality control through a close whiff or a keen eye, figs need to be fondled for a full assessment. Weigh them in your palm to choose the heaviest specimens, then turn them bottoms-up to inspect their ostioles (the orifice through which pollinators penetrate the fruit) for juiciness – a little leakage is preferable, with an aroma that’s sappy or sweet rather than sour. Continue reading...

Letter writer doesn’t have a specific problem – but needs help staying engaged with life.

Letter writer is confused about how to treat housekeeper – especially when guests are around.

Letter writer with terminal cancer wants to throw a “before I kick the bucket” celebration, but wonders what people will think.