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I鈥檓 an avid walker and try to聽go for a brisk, seaside walk almost every day. But the recent spate of wintry weather has curtailed that routine of late. Truth is, the last while I鈥檝e felt like hunkering down in my cosy home.

If you routinely buy the style of pita you can stuff, you may have wondered how this pocketed bread is made. One way to find out is to make your own. Today, I鈥檒l show you how.

I don鈥檛 usually recommend snacky foods for Sunday dinner, but the Oscars are on today and that鈥檚 exactly what my wife and I聽will be enjoying while watching the show.

With my surname being Akis, some readers over the years have assumed my heritage is Greek. Understandable, as聽Akis is a suffix for several Greek surnames. But I鈥檓 not Greek. As I鈥檝e noted in past columns, my father was Latvian.

More than 60 restaurants and 14 hotels have rejigged their menus and cut their prices for the next two weeks, as the annual Dine Around and Stay in Town event takes hold of the city鈥檚 hospitality sector.

When researching recent stories on muesli and granola, I was not surprised to learn the people who invented these filled-with-good-things foods were healthy eating advocates.

Last Wednesday鈥檚 article on Bircher muesli caused several readers to ask me if there was a聽connection between it聽and another breakfast food: Granola.

Valentine鈥檚 Day is Tuesday and when thinking about what to serve for dinner I, as I often do on this occasion, reminisced about the night I proposed to my wife.

If you routinely rush in the morning and leave little time聽for breakfast before scurrying to work, you should make and聽eat muesli. And I鈥檓 not聽referring to the dried, just-add-milk kind sold in a box at聽supermarkets.

Some of my best Sunday dinners begin with two humble ingredients in my grocery-store shopping cart that I build a meal around.