pistachio

With only 10 minutes of prep required, these festive, sweet-salty pistachio and cranberry icebox cookies will be the hit of your holiday party.

These buttery shortbread-like bites from 2005 are the ideal make-ahead cookie, and they travel beautifully. Prepare and bake the dough, then fill with colourful jam or lemon curd just before serving.

No need for an ice cream maker: Turns out all that's required to make incredible homemade ice cream is three ingredients and a freezer.

We’re all cleaning up our diets to get ready for shorts and flip-flops weather. Say so long to soups and stews, and hello to veggies, grains and tofu!

Let me begin with the end: while cleaning up after our delicious dinner of Pistachio-crusted salmon, I was elated to discover what looked like slender sheets of toffee attached to the foil that was used to bake the salmon. It wasn’t toffee, but rather the runoff from the sauce that was brushed onto the salmon. "Dare I try it?" I asked myself. I like to eat chocolate flavoured with cayenne pepper, so why not try maple curry Dijon toffee? As you can probably guess, I tried it. Let me just say that I really enjoyed cleaning up this dinner. And that the foil had very little residue on it once I (finally) disposed of it.