Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

NZ Herald film reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to discuss Despicable Me 3, and This Beautiful Fantastic.

Should kids follow their dreams with respect to their careers?  
Hannah McQueen from EnableMe joins Jack Tame to discuss that and more.
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Shania Twain says New Zealand is "definitely going to be my future home" - but she's not settling down anytime soon.
The country superstar is making her comeback to music after 15 years away, including a struggle with dysphonia (a difficulty in speaking), a very public divorce and a rocky road to recovery.
The Man, I Feel Like a Woman hitmaker has spent a decade battling Lyme disease and the resulting damage affected her ability to sing.
Speaking to Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB, Twain revealed: "When I realised that I may never sing again, I was devastated by the thought of that, I was grieving the loss of my voice...I did just feel that I was never going to have it again.

"It's really been a struggle for me, it took a while to, first of all, find a solution and then to slowly build up the confidence to start this all over again...to get where I felt like I could get back on the saddle."
Twain went through extensive therapy to get her voice back and, in 2012 took up a Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace for two years, following that up with her Rock This Country Tour in 2015-2016.
She recently released a new single called Life's About to Get Good, a pop country hit about moving on from dark times and, it seems, her extremely public divorce from her then-husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange, who had an affair with Twain's best friend Marie-Ann Thiebaud in 2008.


Twain sings: "It killed me that you'd give your life to be with her / I had to believe that things would get better / It was time to forget you, forever."
And the chorus is ultimately about forgiving, forgetting and living life to the fullest, and that's what Twain's doing now.
She's currently gearing up to release her first album since 2002's Up! this September and a tour may well be on the cards - though whether it'll bring her back to New Zealand is still up in the air.
Twain became something of an honorary Kiwi after she and her ex-husband bought 24,731ha of land between Wanaka and Arrowtown in 2004.
She's spent several years visiting New Zealand and told Tame she has "all kinds of wonderful memories from there", saying "It's definitely going to be my future home, so I do miss it a lot".
"I was just so taken with the colours...it's just stunning. And just the remoteness of some of these high country stations was attractive to me, I really love being isolated and I love nature," she gushes.
Whether she'll return for work though, is a different question, the answer to which is dependant on whether she's able to put an international tour together, but if she does, she promises: "I would absolutely make it to New Zealand" saying, "a piece of my heart is still there."

Kevin Milne was alarmed to hear some Lions fans are basing themselves in Australia for the tour, given the high price of accommodation in New Zealand. 
He told Jack Tame that it would be a tragedy for New Zealand if the hotel industry putting prices up too high cost the rest of the tourist industry from cashing in. 
Milne says we need to look at a better approach to big events than just "everyone making as much money as they can," in order to generate more goodwill and tourism in between big events.

Resident book reviewer Catherine Raynes joins Jack Tame to discuss the latest releases, including The Alice Network by Kate Quinn and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy.

US correspondent, Paul Stenhouse joins Jack Tame to talk about what's making news in the States.
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Four time America's Cup winning Sailors, Brad Butterworth joins Jack Tame from Bermuda this morning to discuss the mood ahead of the Oracle Team USA versus Emirates Team New Zealand race on Sunday morning.
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Green goodness  - spinach & hazelnut soup
This soup is as good for you as it is glorious to slurp and it is fabulously fast to make. The roasted hazelnuts pair wonderfully with the spinach and they, like spinach, are high in iron.
Serves 2
½ leek, roughly chopped 
 1 celery stick, roughly chopped 
2 tbsps olive oil 
 2 cups vegetable stock 
 400g spinach, rinsed and drained 
 ½ cup hazelnuts, roasted & skins removed (see note)
 ½ tsp salt
Pinch nutmeg 
Small handful of basil or parsley
2 slices GF bread, cubed
2 tbsps olive oil
¼ tsp chilli flakes (optional)
¼ tsp salt & grind of pepper
 

Heat oil in a large saucepan and sauté the leek and celery until softened –about 5 minutes. Add chopped spinach and stock and cover. Simmer for a couple of minutes to soften the spinach slightly.
Add hazelnuts, salt, nutmeg and basil or parsley and cook for 1-2 minutes. Process in a blender or food processor until smooth. A high-powered blender works best here – I use my Vitamix. Pour back into saucepan, adding more salt or nutmeg if necessary, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Toss bread cubes in oil, chilli flakes if using, salt & pepper. Fry in a pan, stirring often, until golden and crispy.
Serve bowls of soup topped with croutons.

 
Nici’s note: I find the best way to skin hazelnuts is to roast them at 180 C for 10-15 minutes, cool until you can scrunch them in your hands to release the skins, then take tray outside and gently blow on them. The skins will flutter away on the breeze!  
Find more of Nici's recipes on her Facebook page.

NZ Herald movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to talk about My Cousin Rachael and Transformers: The Last Knight.

Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame this morning to talk about which major sporting event is the best to place a bet on.
The Lions versus the All Blacks at Eden Park or the America's Cup race between Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA.