If I were to ask you about how well your company pays you, (and you were to trust me enough to tell me), what kind of information might you give? Assuming the trust existed, you might well tell me the annual, monthly or weekly figure and then wait for me to say something. This is the normal, everyday response we would be inclined to give. In reality though, you are likely to have more or less than you think – a hidden salary.

What do you do with the income that you are currently aware of? Where does it go? What do you spend it on? It is more than likely, that with proper review and tight budgeting, you could save money or make payment arrangements so that you could begin to save money sooner than you think, but this article is not really about the money you make from your job, it is about the pay you get from your job. What do I mean? Read on… click here

Being Cornish by birth, I cringe when I walk into a store or shop that supposedly sells the famous Cornish Pasty. More times than not, I pick it up, read the ingredients and toss it down in disgust! Strange things appear within the ingredients such as peas and carrots. Then when you read on a bit further, you get a hint of why they have got it so wrong. These Cornish Pasty forgeries are often made anywhere other than Cornwall!

Then there’s the pastry itself. Now I am not that brilliant at making pastry, but even I know the Cornish pasty has an outer layer of shortcrust and not puff pastry which is all air and nonsense!

Before we get into the recipe itself let’s talk about size. Have you seen those apologetic things in the store or shop? Some of them should come with a magnifying glass so they can be seen! In my youth my mother would often make genuine Cornish pasties for us. By today’s commercial standards they were huge! They would overlap the edges of a dinner plate and be around four to five inches across at their widest point! Now THAT was a pasty!

Okay, so how do you make a genuine Cornish pasty? What do you put in it? Let’s go for it…it uses old style weights and measures sorry about that, but that’s my history… click here for more

Welcome to this the first posting of "Better Articles".  Why did I choose "Better Articles"?  It's quite simple really.  As I tumble through life I like to think my article writing improves with each attempt.

I am a life coach so you can expect a number of these articles to provide thought provoking self-development material, but not always!  Sometimes I might throw in a topic that could be considered quite bizarre!  For example, in a minute I am going to introduce you to a recipe for a genuine Cornish pasty!  The reason for that is I have a thing about those misrepresentations that appear in our shops/stores bearing the label of "Cornish Pasty" but are nothing of the sort.  How do I know?  I`m Cornish and proud of it!  Actually I`ve done enough waffling here.  Let's get on with it and start with the Cornish Pasty!