Before MasterChef, Tour de France and Ashes cricket cook a stir fry Also, if you have time, check out all today's news, videos and pictures that you may have missed. Tonight's television with Dianne Butler Tour de France , SBS One, 10pm 4 stars This is the one. The Alps. Just looking at them makes me want to take drugs. Imagine how Chris Froome feels. Gap to Alpe-D'Huez is a bit over 172km, but it's the two climbs. Not really. It's the two descents. The first one is the one where something bad's going to happen. There's not even a guardrail. Were you watching last night? People couldn't even stay upright and it was just a time trial. I was very sad to see Jean-Christophe Peraud leave, he had by far the most stylish outfit, that blue and brown together, fantastic. Mollem looked like he just went into that barrier for no reason. He said later it was because his brakes weren't working properly. He might need to look at that before he's on careering down a whopping great alpine slope. Interesting that Chris Froome could just change his bike in the middle of it like that, when he was 11 seconds or something behind. And what are those riders listening to? Is it coaching? Music? Sounds? Traffic report? I need to know these things. It's also kind of half great/half crazy that people are allowed to erect, like, lawn furniture right up on the side of the road where the riders go past. Right there. Clearly they want to be on television so they can wave to their relatives who they're talking to on their mobile phone. I can understand that. But some of them are wearing lycra, because the riders are also wearing lycra. Nobody wants to see this and it needs to be stamped out. Now, to Alberto Contador. I want to him win, I've decided. I just don't know when he's going to ATTACK. It has to be tonight and this is his thing, the mountains. On the way up. Froome beat him by nine seconds in the end, after the bike swap, which is a lot. Too much. Froome tightens grip on Tour de France Tour rider undone by road 'roo Dianne Butler's new Tour de France favourite - Spain's Alberto Contador. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) Source: AP MasterChef , Channel 10, 7.30pm The sponge cake is in the microwave - MasterChef's and Taste food critic Matt Preston. I started to think, steady on, you wrote about this yesterday, but then I went blow it, everything's on every night, it's how it is now. Fewer shows, more often. I remember the shock Channel 9 got when they realised if they put The Block every night it was going to be a much bigger hit than if it just on a Sunday night. It was like this major breakthrough. I mean, please, do you reckon Home and Away would have 7, 8, 900,000 people still into it after 25 years if it was on once a week? Plus you'd be irate if you missed Matt Preston's sponge cake - he makes it in a microwave. Genius. You'd think. Obviously none of us has actually tasted it. It might taste like a sponge. A yellow kitchen sink sponge. And not all microwaves are the same, which you'll need to take into account. Our office one, someone heated an obscure fish product in it one time, and I don't know what the half-life of food brought from home is but we're all expecting the smell to go soon. And since Thursday is masterclass night, they have a big guest star. Tonight it's Curtis Stone. I don't know how to say this now, but he cooks salmon. The Ashes: Second Test, Fox Sports 2/GEM, 7.30pm 3 and a half stars Friends or enemies? Australian cricketers Michael Clarke and Shane Watson. Shane Warne says the alleged feud between Michael Clarke and Shane Watson has been blown out of proportion. WELL now I really want to watch the cricket. I was listening to a bewildered cricket writer on the radio yesterday morning saying how Mickey Arthur is just the world's nicest bloke and how could this be? But then to us, outsiders, it looks like a massive a**ehole has just filed suit at a time when it would cause the most damage and unsettle a team he got sacked from coaching. Australia will either play a. better or b. worse. Cancer though. What kind of cancer? Benign? Or is it in the blood? We'll be able to tell straightaway tonight, these people are terrible actors. Plus it'll show on the scoreboard. So, really, Watson and Clarke have already been telling us their relationship's in trouble. I don't think Clarke's the right guy to be captain though. Haven't from day one. And I think this is why Darren Lehmann got the coach's job, to make up some of those deficiencies. But basically I just want to see Swann belted. Those sunglasses. The collar up. What a goose. And I think the weather will help Australia. It's going to be a sweltering 27 degrees. Maybe even - my keyboard's never gone this high - 29. It's not like Australia can't win. I heard Glenn McGrath during the first Test talking about how this was a "very good" England side. Well, they're not. Even England. Ed Cowan and Mitchell Stark axed for Second Ashes Test Last-minute guide to the Second Ashes Test at Lord's Has Dianne Butler picked the best three TV shows tonight? Tell her at dianne.butler@news.com.au What to cook tonight that's fun to make, tasty and quick with Simon Wilkinson A yummy soy and chilli mushroom stir-fry, best with little enokis. ACCORDING to a report on this website today, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has moved on from his fascination with nuclear warheads and wants his country to become a global mushroom superpower. For a country that has long been kept in the dark and fed a regular dose of manure, it should be a natural transition. As for Kim Jong-un, we've always known he's a fun guy (sorry). It's brilliant news for those living in Seoul and other regions within missile range who now have nothing more to fear than an incoming shower of shiitakes. A threat of spore, not war. To celebrate this surprising turn in world affairs, tonight's recipe is a simple stir fry of mixed mushrooms. Use whatever mushies you can find - the little antenna-like enoki are brilliant in a dish like this when added in the last minute of cooking. Soy and chilli mushroom stir fry Cooking time: 15 minutes Skill level: Easy 1/4 cup soy sauce 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 2 tablespoons brown sugar 450g fresh thin Hokkien noodles 2 teaspoons vegetable oil 1 brown onion, cut into thin wedges 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 long red chilli, finely chopped 500g mixed mushrooms (see note), thickly sliced 1 bunch broccolini, trimmed, halved Combine soy sauce, oyster sauce and brown sugar in a small bowl. Place noodles in a heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water. Stand for 1 to 2 minutes or until just tender. Drain. Using a fork, separate noodles. Heat a wok over high heat. Add oil. Swirl to coat. Add onion. Stir-fry for 3 minutes or until just softened. Add garlic and chilli. Stir-fry for 1 minute or until fragrant. Add mushrooms and broccolini. Stir-fry for 3 to 4 minutes or until tender. Add sauce mixture and noodles. Stir-fry for 2 minutes or until heated through.