Recipes

What makes these muffins extra special is the abundance of berries and the sweet lemon glaze drizzled on top. Read on for a delicious breakfast treat that's sure to please your entire family.

Chunks of onion, tomato and jalapeño peppers add so much zing to this zesty dip, your mouth will sing! Low-fat yogurt and nonfat sour cream lighten the mix and stretch two avocados to feed a horde of hungry dunkers.

Fresh asparagus was once just a springtime vegetable, but these days it is available year-round. When it's sprinkled with a light and colourful vinaigrette, its uniquely sweet flavour shines through.

Warm-from-the-oven corn bread is always a treat, and somehow the pleasure's doubled when you've made it yourself. Read on for a delicious recipe that will quickly become a family favourite.

A steaming-hot baked potato makes a perfect comfort food. This tasty vegetarian filling combines marinated mushrooms and zucchini — or try an alternate filling of roasted garlic and tomato.

Scallops are infinitely adaptable, pairing well with many vegetables and herbs, spices and sauces. Here, these succulent shellfish are sautéed with cherry tomatoes, seasoned with garlic and basil and enlivened with a vermouth-based sauce.

In the 19th century, when no place seemed more exotic than India, this "foreign" chicken dish offered a welcome change from plain old chicken stew.

That old-fashioned chicken salad has adopted a new-fashioned Asian accent. Grilled chicken is tossed with a healthy mix of oranges, scallions, snow peas, and lychees and is then crowned with a drizzle of creamy peanut dressing.

This is a lovely, crunchy salad for winter, full of contrasting tastes and tossed with an unusual dressing made from cranberry sauce and walnut oil. Red cabbage tends to stain the other ingredients, so serve the salad as soon as it's made.

When chiffon cakes first appeared in the 1940s, the focus was on how easy they were to mix. Today, we still value that they are easy to make, even in healthier variations such as this one.

Here's the surprise of the season: Crab and grapefruit are the perfect partners for a quick, no-cook salad. The sweetness of the crabmeat and dressing contrast with the tartness of the grapefruit and the slight bitterness of the greens.

Kasha, or toasted buckwheat grains, makes a pleasant change from rice and pasta. Add in seafood and raw vegetables and you have an unusual — and unusually good-tasting — main-dish salad.

Wraps are a quick way to roll tasty fillings into a fun-to-eat package. Take a wrap and cut it crosswise and you get a different spin — bite-size spiraled pinwheel sandwiches equally at home in a lunchbox or on a holiday buffet.

This mildly spiced mix of crunchy nuts, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, tangy dried cranberries and sweet raisins is great for nibbling as a healthy snack or with drinks. Children love it, too!

Adding orzo, a rice-shaped pasta, instantly ups the interest of this tasty and filling soup. Read on for a delicious recipe that's sure to impress.

Shaped pasta trap an herby yogurt and tomato dressing so that each one is full of flavour. A refreshing vegetable and fruit salsa brings extra nutritional value as well as exciting taste and texture contrast.

Revive the tradition of homemade bread in your house with these fast and easy fresh-baked biscuits. There's no rolling or cutting required, so they go from flour bin to oven in just 15 minutes.

Hearty but not too heavy, this is a wonderful dish for summer and autumn, when so many vegetables are at the peak of flavour. You can use all sorts of greens — simply adjust the cooking time accordingly. Get creative!

Fruit pureed with a little fizzy ginger ale makes a wonderfully refreshing drink that also offers a healthy serving of fruit. Choose perfectly ripe, fragrant fruit for the smoothest fizz.

This salad is a real treat when globe artichokes are in season. The large outer leaves are removed and the succulent, meaty bottom part, or heart, is cooked, then served with fresh crabmeat in a lemony dressing. This recipe is a heart healthy and del