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Roast to coax flavour from cauliflower

Drenching it with cheese sauce ignores its natural nutty taste

Separate meetings needed for different strata sections

Dear Condo Smarts: Our strata corporation is made up of the 188 strata units - a commercial retail section of 37 units, a commercial office section of 42 units and a residential section of 109 units.

Inside Einstein's Brain

New iPad app offers peek at Nobel prize-winner's grey matter

Cure sweet potatoes before storing them

Dear Helen: What should I do with my sweet potato planting? The vines have grown well, but I don't know when to dig them up and (hopefully) harvest the tubers. S.V. Dear S.V.

Reese Witherspoon ditching her ranch

Reese Witherspoon is banking on her own brand. The Oscar-winning actress listed her Libbey Ranch in Ojai, northwest of Los Angeles, for sale this week at $10 million and lent her name to the marketing materials.
Tasty take on pot stickers

Tasty take on pot stickers

This take on the traditional dumpling uses mushrooms, black beans, ginger and scallions topped with creamy almond butter.

Speeding zucchinis signal summer's end

Last Sunday, I went to a picnic with about 150 of my fellow Galiano Islanders, ranging from babes-in-arms to wobblies like me. We were there to celebrate summer.

Women born as preemies see risks

Study finds they have more complications when expecting

Patient balks at doctor's vitamin D order

Dear Dr. Donohue: On my last three annual physicals, my doctor ordered vitamin D levels. The first two were normal. This year, my level was 27 ng/ml (normal is greater than 30). She wanted me to take a 50,000IU capsule of vitamin D for 12 weeks.

Exercise may have prolonged effect on stress

New research points to physical activity as an emotional buffer