Most of us do associate a good salad with the greens at play, however, so recipe developer Kara Barrett chooses crispy romaine hearts to be, well, the heart of her spicy charred Creole salad recipe.

All the rodents - nine males and six females - survived, although the females had singed fur and badly charred whiskers, with just the very tips remaining. The RSPCA, which attended the scene to ...