Fast Easy Recipes

RECIPE: Tofu Stir-fry
This is a great recipe for the night before a big run this week, or as a tasty and powerful vegetarian dinner the evening before the HBF Run for a Reason.

FEAST column: Cook without following the book
FEAST students learn how to use a recipe as a guide in cooking. The exact ingredients are rarely on hand for a meal, so everyone is comfortable with finding substitutions for the missing foods.

Dinner recipe: Roasted chicken
A great mainstay recipe is a whole roasted chicken. You can easily pop two chickens in the oven to roast at once. They take the same amount of time, and you'll have enough for two meals or leftovers for several meals. You can even roast a chicken on the grill.

Recipe: Vegetable Noodle Soup with Tofu
A tasty vegetarian egg noodle soup!

Mom's cooking inspires top kitchens -- and yours
When he was about 12, Hugh Acheson's mom went through a cooking phase: recipes from magazines, nice pots and pans, and exciting new dishes, like her signature chicken piccata.

Queen's diamond jubilee recipes: meat
Angela Hartnett's barbecue chicken and Ashley Palmer-Watts' lamb chops will ensure your jubilee party is fit for the Queen

Oriental fried rice
Indian and Chinese flavours meld to make a scrumptious rice dish

Cooking on deadline: Recipe for weeknight mole chicken enchiladas
The goal was simple — a recipe for mole chicken enchiladas that tastes authentic, but doesn't take an authentic amount of time to prepare. And thanks to two easy time-saving tricks, it turned out to be easier than I expected.

Recipe: Chicken Piccata
“My mother went on a cooking spree around 1983 to 1986. It was a brief spell of subscriptions to Bon Appetit and Gourmet, with a sudden interest in nice cookware, better ingredients and a dedication to sustenance that had never really been a high priority in our household,” Hugh Acheson said.

How to cook the perfect spaghetti carbonara
Garlic or onion, pecorino or parmesan, bacon or ham, cream or butter how do you like your carbonara, and what's the secret to getting that perfect consistency?