Food and Drink

Dear Eric: Do you have a recipe for a (tomato-based) vegetarian spaghetti sauce? I’ve tried a lot of different ones, but having had so much luck with every one of your recipes that I've made, I’d like to see what you come up with.

Emily Wight insists you don’t have to break the bank to eat well. Her new cookbook, Well Fed, Flat Broke: Recipes for Modest Budgets and Messy Kitchens (Arsenal Pulp Press), stems from a blog she began writing after graduating from university.

Author Emily Wight has long practised frugality, developing cost-effective and easy dishes over time which she shares in Well Fed, Flat Broke: Recipes for Modest Budgets and Messy Kitchens.

Home gardens and farmers’ markets are beginning to fill with a bounty of ripe, aromatic and flavourful tomatoes. That makes this the perfect time to offer two splendid ways to use some of them.

If you like chili-spiced food and fresh corn, combine the two in the next recipe you make. Today, I offer three ways to do that. One is colourful salsa given a pleasing smoky taste by first grilling three of its key ingredients until lightly charred.

Dear Eric: I wonder if you have a recipe for lasagna with meat sauce? I would like one with lots of sauce, as mine sometimes turns out dry.

The August long weekend will soon be here and there will be weddings, family parties and gatherings of friends. Good reasons to pour a bubbly cocktail and make a toast to summer.

Dear Eric: I’m wondering if you have a recipe for rolls made with rice wrappers that are not fried? Would you also have a peanut sauce to serve with them? Diane Dear Diane: You are referring to Vietnamese-style summer rolls, which are also called sal

It’s summer, so we have time off and more occasions to leisurely prepare meals. If you’re looking for inspiration on what to prepare, the five Canadian cookbooks reviewed below will provide many tasty ideas.

Dear Eric: Have you tried clam pizza? Would you have a recipe? Barb Dear Barb: The idea to put clams on a pizza is said to have first occurred at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut.