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Look What’s Number One With A Baby Bullet

August 24, 2011/0 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

If this product doesn’t persuade mothers to make their own baby food, nothing will.

MONEY WELL SPENT | The number one reason for buying store-bought baby food is convenience, no small thing when you’re a newbie, have multiple offspring to attend to and/or juggle motherhood and a job. I used jar food when my kids were babies because I worked full time. I just never could get it together in the evenings to assemble the ingredients and equipment necessary to cook, purée and freeze multiple mini meals for my growing tribe, though I’m pretty sure if the Baby Bullet had been available back in my day, I’d be writing a different story now. Read more

Repro Paintings - Photo By Calvin Whitehurst

Throw A Fab Party With Dollar Store Supplies

August 22, 2011/0 Comments/in Culture & Leisure, Entertaining, FOOD, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Here’s how to throw a fabulous end-of-summer “arty party” with supplies from your friendly Dollar Giant.

DOLLAR STORE DAYS | I believe there’s an artist in everyone and I’m throwing an end-of-summer party to prove it. I’m inviting a close group of friends —many of whom have never picked up a paintbrush —to my first “arty party.” We’ll gather in a room with a raft of art supplies and let our imaginations take a walk on the wild side. We may unleash our inner Picassos, our native Carrs, our chaotic Pollocks (well, maybe paint-throwing Pollocks will get to create on the back lawn). Read more

Serious Cooks Prefer Flour Sack Towels

August 12, 2011/0 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Serious cooks say there is no better vehicle for hand drying dishes or mopping up spills than the humble flour sack towel.

CULT PRODUCT ALERT | Don’t you just love it when you discover a product that is beautiful, useful—and inexpensive? If you haven’t already replaced the fancy cotton or terrycloth tea towels in your kitchen with ones made of flour sack material, here a few good reasons to make the switch. Read more

The Dukan, The Duchess & Me: Diet Like Royalty

July 22, 2011/0 Comments/in Diet, FITNESS, Fitness & Health, FOOD, HEALTH, Nutrition, View All Fitness Stories, View All Food Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

Kate Middleton followed the Dukan diet before her wedding. Now the book is also reduced.

LOSING IT | Losing weight wasn’t at the top of my To Do list. It hovered somewhere between sorting out the basement and organizing the family photos, promising to be just as much of a chore. Then recently, I looking around on Abebooks.com and I noticed that they are practically giving away copies of the The Dukan Diet. Read more

Dorie Greenspan’s Apple Cake Is Easy

July 7, 2011/1 Comment/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Taking over from Julia Child, Dorie Greenspan offers contemporary French cooking for those with more taste than time.

EASY & DELISH | In a world awash in cookbooks filled with pretty pictures and recipes that come up flat, Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan, published last fall, reads and eats like a classic—a book that will do for contemporary French cooking what Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking did for Cordon Bleu. Read more

Great Gifts For Grads & Starting-Out Cooks

June 14, 2011/0 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, View All Food Stories /by Editor

These two how-to recipe books make thoughtful gifts for grads or other young starting-out cooks.

COOK THESE BOOKS | Given the frenetic lifestyle of working parents who spend every spare moment shuttling multiple kids to extra- curricular activities and almost no time sitting down with them for dinner, it’s no wonder young adults have gotten into the habit of grabbing snacks on the fly, relying on prepared meals (even good-quality ones) and watching pros whip up real food on the cooking channel rather than attempting to do it themselves.

In an effort to reverse this state of affairs and encourage twentysomethings to discover the joy of cooking, we recommend the following cookbooks, which make perfect starting-out gifts. Read more

Make Bal Arneson’s Yummy Beet Salad

June 2, 2011/4 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Celebrity chef and “Spice Goddess” Bal Arneson whips up an adventurous summer salad — plus fresh cheese in under 20 minutes!

DINNER IN A MINUTE | Quick and healthy may not be the first words most of us would use to describe Indian cuisine, but “healthy, aromatic and delicious meals that are quickly and easily prepared” were the mainstay of Vancouver bestselling cookbook author Bal Arneson’s childhood diet in India, and they are the focus of her recently released second cookbook Bal’s Quick & Healthy Indian. Read more

Classic Whoopie Pies With Sprinkles - Antonis Achilleos

Make Whoopie Pies

May 19, 2011/1 Comment/in FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, View All Food Stories /by Editor

After overwrought cupcakes and posh macaroons, the next big sweet thing has just got to be humble {whoopie} pie.

SIMPLE TO MAKE | This past week, my favourite francophile foodie/writer Dorie Greenspan reported on her entertaining blog that while the cupcake craze is alive and well in Paris, “the cupcake’s American cousin, the whoopie pie, is squeezing in on its territory.” What she didn’t mention is that in North America, the whoopie pie is also squeezing in on the territory currently occupied by its French cousin, the chi-chi macaroon. Read more

Have You Tried Non-Medicated Meat?

April 26, 2011/9 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, FOOD, Food & Drink, HEALTH, Nutrition, View All Food Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

Beef, pork and chicken from “naturally” raised animals are purer than conventionally produced meats—and way less expensive than organic.

MONEY WELL SPENT | We’re fast coming up on barbecue season when everyone eats more beef burgers, lamb chops and chicken parts than usual. It’s no lie that meat is expensive and that organic meats, much as I would prefer to eat them, are even more so. So I was happy to learn about a less-expensive but solid alternative to the hormone-laden conventional meats in most grocery stores and many butcher shops. Read more

Get Your Grill On: Win A Weber Cookbook

April 6, 2011/2 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

How one bad day with a gas-fired barbecue turned us into charcoal lovers for good—plus enter to win A Time To Grill, a hot, new BBQ cookbook.

BACK TO BASICS | My searing romance began a few summers ago after an unexpected breakdown. The collapse occurred on that first sunny weekend in May that signals the beginning of barbecue season. My husband, who claims zero finesse when it comes to cooking indoors, turns into K-Paul the instant he slips on an chef’s apron and grill mitts. On this particular Sunday, he was suited up and ready to go when he ran into problems with the barbie.

(Instructions on how to WIN YOUR OWN COPY of the book at the bottom.) Read more