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Almost every fall since I began writing this column, I鈥檝e offered recipes using canned pumpkin. On some occasions, readers have written to tell me that, despite the labelling, canned pumpkin is not pumpkin at all; it鈥檚 squash.

Ladies and gentlemen, roll up your sleeves and get ready to dunk! Today I have a couple of tasty dips for you to try that will require you to grab some tortilla chips and happily dunk away.

When I make a stir-fry it sometimes takes me back to my culinary school days where my instructors drilled into me the importance of 鈥渕ise en place.

If you鈥檙e roasting a turkey for Thanksgiving and have leftovers, making sandwiches with sliced turkey on your favourite type of bread is a common way to use them up.

If you enjoy the taste of pumpkin you鈥檙e in luck, because today I鈥檓 offering a sweet way and a hot and foamy way to enjoy it. The sweet way is a recipe for pumpkin squares that tastes similar to pumpkin pie.

If you鈥檙e downsizing Thanksgiving this year and not roasting a large turkey, what else could you serve if you still want to enjoy a whole bird? Well, if taste, juiciness and aroma all matter to you, a stuffed roasting chicken would be a tasty option.

Two foods that work marvelously together are broccoli and aged cheddar cheese. The flavour of mildly mustardy, earthy tasting broccoli is always brought to a finer place when combined in some way with that rich and tangy cheese.

If you like pancakes, but want or need to make them gluten-free, brown rice flour is a good alternative to all-purpose flour. Today鈥檚 recipe yields light and tender pancakes that contain all the nutrition brown rice brings to the table.

When my wife and I visit my sister-in-law Cindy in Thunder Bay, she often makes Jamaican-style patties. She was inspired by a trip to Jamaica years ago and the fact that she and everyone else in the family, including us, love eating them.

COVID-19 has caused planners to cancel, reschedule or rethink how they鈥檒l hold events around the world. I got firsthand knowledge of how one group in Europe took the latter approach.