Fast Easy Recipes

Cooking conversions, owl cake pops and fried chicken top Tumblr food posts
A poster on volume conversions for precision cooks that includes the number of dashes and drops which go into a teaspoon is the most popular food post on Tumblr this week.    

RECIPE: Make sweet and light Valentine treats for all the people you love
Whether you traditionally celebrate Valentine’s Day or not, everyone loves a sweet treat now and then. I thought it would be nice to try some recipes that promised sweetness and a pretty presentation without an overindulgence in the calorie count.

RECIPE: Chocolate Souffle Omelette with Berries & Yoghurt
Fancy a sweet home-made treat that will delight your Valentine on February 14?

Food: Cheap eats: How to save money but not sacrifice health
This winter, struggling Greeks found space in their economy-trashed budgets for a little book called “Starvation Recipes” by Eleni Nikolaidou.

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.[...]

Ketchup caviar? Hostesses are experimenting with dry ice, frozen foams and exotic jellies
Lydia Slater prefers the Jamie Oliver ‘bish, bash, bosh’ school of instinctive cuisine. But armed with some chemicals, syringes and tubing, she set out to channel her inner Heston.

Slow-cooker recipe: breakfasts fit for National Oatmeal Month and beyond
John Wiley & SonsOvernight Apple-Cinnamon Oatmeal from "Better Homes & Gardens The Ultimate Low-Calorie Book" National Oatmeal Month is coming to a close, but there's still time to reflect on the health-promoting benefits of the many forms of oats. From...

New show captures local restaurants, flavors
It’s Monday morning, and the dining room at Michael’s Fine Food & Spirits is quiet and empty. But in the kitchen, Chef Michael Latreille is busy preparing one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes — an artichoke-crusted salmon on lemon sweet pea risotto. “We get asked all the time how we make (this dish),” Latreille says, emptying previously prepared ingredients into a bowl of quartered ...

Supping on sunshine
This time of year has me pining for sunshine and a trip to Florida.

In winter, pick fruit from the freezer
Dead of winter. It’s an apt description for this time of year, when even apples are out of season and virtually every other fruit comes from another time zone, if not another hemisphere.