Fast Easy Recipes

Valentine's Day Brings Meals With Flavors Of Love
What do we in the Taste section consider our mission? To tell you, of course, what's new in the world of food and restaurants and what's good to cook right now and how to do it, and to inform you about nutrition and food safety and lots of related topics.

Cicero: Lose the fat, keep the crunch with healthier granola recipe
I would like to make my own granola trail mix. I have found some recipes from the 1960s, but they all call for a lot of oil.

Recipe: Chipotle Barbecue Porky Pappardelle
A look at what chipotle peppers in adobo sauce is and a recipe that uses it.

From chipotles in adobo, gusts of smoky flavor
Barbecue pork -- smoky spicy from chipotle chiles -- tops a bed of pappardelle. To finish, dollop sour cream and sprinkle chives. / Matthew Mead/AP Chef Elizabeth Karmel created this chipotle chicken dish to capture the essence of food she cooked and ate during a two-week culinary exploration of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Festive eggnog served three ways
Eggnog Loaf with Cranberries and Orange-Eggnog, cranberries and orange festively flavour this loaf in Victoria, B.C. December 1, 2009.

Back to Baking
Essentials Food Network Canada TV personality and Queen’s University grad Anna Olson has written a new cookbook called Back to Baking. It sells for $40 at Chapters, Indigo Books and The Novel Idea. Anna Olson’s first cooking love was baking.[...]

Hot cereal add-ons
Think of this list as a working plan for mixing and matching ingredients in a saucepan of hot cereal — see the accompanying recipe — or for topping a steaming bowl.

Vegan diet may help diabetic patients
Nutritionist Susan Levin has challenged Southern cooking diva Paula Deen to change her diet to improve her health. Last week Deen confirmed rumors that she had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Levin and other nutritionists and doctors at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine want Deen to join their 21-day Vegan Kickstart program.

Recipe: French Toast with Cranberry Orange Maple Syrup and Toasted Pecans
Real maple syrup with a orange cranberry twist!

A Warm Bowl of Cereal? You Can Top That
Special to The Washington Post