Fast Easy Recipes

Winter foods to help you get, or stay, slim
Is the cold weather starting to get you down? After long and busy days, it’s so easy to pick up comfort food on the way home. Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, hot Mexican food, fried chicken and pizza hit the spot — but what happens the next day?

In Your Kitchen: Pomegranate Shrimp Saute with Frisee
In the past year, I have been inundated with cookbooks dedicated to special diets. Some of these are for people who choose to eat a certain way – like vegetarians and vegans — others for those who must follow a special diet because they get sick if they don’t. Most of the latter variety were not distinguished enough to feature in this column, either because the recipes didn’t seem especially ...

Fan Fare
Give your game-day buffet a Mexican accent with recipes from the Cantina Beach chef

Get back on track with 3 seriously delicious salads
As January comes to a close and February is on the horizon, some of you might be feeling a little defeated in your New Year's resolution to eat healthy. Let’s face it.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

A simple plan
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — It is said that we often complicate the simplest of things. I, myself, am guilty on all counts when it comes to making a home-cooked meal, especially for my loved ones.   A "simple" breakfast at home often includes toast with a side of grilled bananas and roasted almond flakes or scrambled eggs with a tomato and herb salad; ...

Saving the Twinkie
After 82 years of cupboard dominance the Twinkie, a snack most likely to survive a nuclear attack, could be relegated to the dustbin of culinary history as their maker Hostess has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Matt Preston cooks Middle Eastern lamb chops
All purpose spice mix: Baharat lamb chops and roast carrot salad. Subtle flavours: Maha chef Shane Delia.

Be Merry / Good stuff
Stuffed dishes evidently have been cooked in every culture, region, and era.

Bulgur an old, healthy grain
This is the second of four quick meals featuring ancient grains, from cookbook author Maria Speck. She calls bulgur, made from durum wheat, "ancient fast food." It is now widely available at grocery stores as well as at Middle Eastern markets and health foodorganic stores.

Tamarind brings London to Newport
A great American restaurant that happens to serve Indian food. That's the philosophy of Tamarind of London.The