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Robbie Burns Day is Friday and suppers will be held around the world to celebrate this Scottish Bard who died in 1796. His poems will be read, toasts will be made and foods such as haggis will be served as a main dish.

In the winter, for a hearty, stick-to-your-ribs kind of fish dinner, I enjoy roasted salmon fillets with mashed potatoes.

Childhood meal given gourmet flair with homemade mustard, honey-vinegar beets

If you want a hearty, almost meaty-tasting sauce for pasta that contains no meat, dried green lentils are a good substitute.

Today’s recipes stirred to life when, during my holiday break, I took stock of what was in my spice drawer and found numerous items to flavour a meal with, Indian-style.

Sparkling wine adds zest to oysters served up two ways during the festive season: one raw, one baked

Christmas dinner will be served next week and folks will soon decide what side dishes will accompany the main dish. If you’re looking for suggestions, I have four recipes for you to consider.

Beef strip loin served with red-wine sauce is a sumptuous centrepiece to a festive meal

I found time to do holiday baking recently and wanted to make shortbread, but could not decide whether it should be savoury or sweet.

For many years, people from around Canada and the world have flowed west to Tofino to revel in its natural splendours — stunning beaches, craggy shorelines, crashing waves and old-growth forests.