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Your microwave can do a lot more than reheat leftovers.

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What’s not to love about banana bread? Quick to make and always tasty, it goes easily from breakfast table, to lunch box, to after dinner treat with tea. And many of us have a family recipe we’ve been making for so long we could do it with our eyes closed. So why not give your go-to recipe a break and give our chocolate-walnut banana bread a try? With all the familiar flavour you expect from this potassium-rich treat, our version ups the healthy factor with the addition of flax seeds and whole-wheat flour. Plus, we’ve added enough chocolate chips to make sure it appeals to those with a sweet tooth, and the protein-packed walnuts balance the sweetness.

In the Muffin Olympics, my favourite—bran muffins—would never even make the team. I get that gritty brown masses hardly have the appeal of blueberry-buttermilk, sweet-cornmeal, banana- walnut, and pumpkin-spice, but I’ve always enjoyed their quiet, nutty complexity—plus, it’s kind of adorable, the way I convince myself that they’re healthier, right? So I decided that they needed a makeover, and I reformatted them as scones, and pretty ones at that. Preloading the scones with jam makes them self-contained packets of breakfast luxury. Yes, like a jelly donut but still craggy and wholesome enough that we get to enjoy them way more often.

When I first met the 26-month-old boy I would adopt, my heart sank — the level of neglect he had faced was overwhelming.

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The longing looks, the lusty lifts and the almost-NSFW.

Instructions A lesson on butter Soft butter: when butter and sugar are creamed together, air is incorporated evenly in the base of...

Anne Kingston: A rightly ridiculed column telling women what to wear reflects the deeply seated casual sexism rampant in mainstream media.

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