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Let’s be honest: Without dressing, salad is little more than rabbit food. But a great salad dressing can elevate even the most humble ingredients, and there are no dressings easier to create and with more potential variations than vinaigrettes.

When it comes to school lunches, variety is important to keep kids from getting bored. A healthy mix also provides different nutrients.

With the start of school right around the corner, now is the time to brainstorm with your kids to line up some new recipes and fun ideas for lunches.

If you’re having a few friends over for a late summer lunch or dinner, why not have some tasty fun and serve what I call, not a Tex-Mex, but a West-Mex meal? In this fusion of Mexican and West Coast flavours, tacos are made with Mexican-style soft, w

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.