Recipe for warm double chocolate cakes with raspberry sauce
Love is always sweeter when expressed with chocolate! Especially on Valentine’s Day. Yes, chocolate… And the more ooey-gooey deeply chocolaty, the better. Still, there’s no sense overdoing it. I’ve...
View ArticleSeasonal Sips: Alhambra Royale
Warm up with the Alhambra Royale. Homemade hot cocoa is the base for this winter sipper, which features the fruit and oak flavours of Cognac. Related – more Seasonal Sips The Alhambra Royale would make...
View ArticleNadia G’s recipes for Valentine’s Day party: ribs, bacon chocolate, drinks
Here are some recipes for Valentine’s Day entertaining from bad-girl chef Nadia Giosia, host of “Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen” on Food Network Canada. “Shkiaffing” is Giosia’s word for slapping your...
View ArticleSix variations of Valentine’s Day chocolate bark
Looking for an easy way to impress this Valentine’s Day? Consider a simple — but still sensational — chocolate bark. As treats go, it doesn’t get much easier than this. And the best part is that there...
View ArticleCanadian Valentine’s gifts as cliché as Cupid
They say it’s the thought that counts on Valentine’s Day – and Canadians seem to share a hive mind when it comes to the romantic occasion. A Wednesday report by BMO Economics finds the gift-giving...
View ArticleA woman’s craving for chocolate may start in the womb: female fetuses more...
New research may explain why some women would choose chocolate over sex: a woman’s passion for chocolate appears to begin before she is even born. Italian researchers who set out to test whether female...
View Article‘La Tartine Gourmande': blogger Béatrice Peltre shares her favourite recipes,...
Spring is the perfect time to cook from Béatrice Peltre’s cookbook ‘La Tartine Gourmande: Recipes for an Inspired Life‘ (Roost Books, 2012). Her French-influenced recipes and stories are fresh and...
View Article‘Healthy Starts Here': Mairlyn Smith offers up the tastiest, healthy version...
If you’ve been searching for a healthy and delicious version of the two-bite brownie, look no further. Mairlyn Smith, PHEc, cookbook author, teacher and Second City comedy troupe alumna, has done the...
View ArticleFall Baking Season: Recipe for chocolate banana ginger quick bread
The great thing about quick breads also is the most obvious. They’re quick. Stir together some ingredients, pop it in a pan, throw it in the oven. Your house will be filled with the fantastic smells of...
View ArticleThis video will make you think twice about eating Nutella
“Breakfast loves Nutella,” according to makers of the chocolate hazelnut spread — but should you love Nutella? A Canadian physician who looked at the ingredients doesn’t think so. Dr. Yoni Freedhoff,...
View ArticleHalloween recipes for goblet graves, candied apple skulls, vampire doughnuts,...
Whipping up a batch of Halloween-inspired treats shouldn’t require a scary amount of time or energy. Because by the time you’ve carved an army of pumpkins, costumed your pint-sized ghouls, purchased...
View Article‘The Vegetarian’s Complete Quinoa Cookbook': Mairlyn Smith shares...
Mairlyn Smith’s latest cookbook and Taste Canada/CBC People’s Choice Award winner is for “vegetarian virgins or full-blown converts.” The Professional Home Economist (PHEc), teacher and actor jumped at...
View Article14 sweet nominees for Canada’s Best New Chocolate Bar of the Year award
Now that the Canadian chocolate bar industry has started to put a price-fixing scandal behind it, a celebration of the newest ways of selling the stuff is due, as the 2013 Convenience Innovation Awards...
View Article‘Eating Italy': Chef Jeff Michaud’s three years in northern Italy
Eating Italy is equal parts cookbook, love story and travel inspiration. Chef Jeff Michaud tells tales of white truffles in Alba, licorice gelato in Manarola, hay-roasted lamb in Piedmont, and corzetti...
View ArticleQuinoa: The versatile superfood
Sisters Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming had an early start on healthy eating. “When our mom would make homemade yogurt my sister and I would stamp our feet going, ‘Why are we having homemade yogurt?...
View ArticleBest of food and drink this week
A round-up of some of our favourite recipes and food-related features this week including chocolaty recipes for celebrating Valentine’s Day, an ingredient spotlight on Meyer lemons, and waking up to...
View ArticleBunner’s: Gluten-free, vegan recipes from the Toronto bakery
Holidays and get-togethers can be tough for those with food allergies, sensitivities or dietary restrictions. As vegans, Ashley Wittig and Kevin MacAllister understand firsthand the importance of...
View ArticleBest of food and drink this week
A round-up of some of our favourite recipes and food-related features this week including an ingredient spotlight on peas, a feature on cult bourbons, and three recipes from Beth Moncel’s Budget Bytes...
View ArticleIngredient of the week: Avocado
We’ve put together a collection of sweet, savoury, boozy and smoothie recipes featuring avocados, including Avocado Chocolate Mousse, Guacamole Four Ways, a Pumpkin Spiced Avocado Smoothie, and an...
View ArticleRecipe for frozen chocolate granola bananas
Alison Ladman/The Associated Press The words hungry kids heading home from school hate most? “Have a piece of fruit.” Afterschool snacks are one of the toughest terrains for parents to navigate. The...
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