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Laura Calder’s Best Bread Stuffing

For the best stuffing, make good-quality bread crumbs. Break up dried bread slices and pulse in the food processor.

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Triple Ginger Cookies

“This cookie recipe — one of my favorites — comes from Canadian opera singer Wendy Nielsen. Now head of voice at the University of Toronto, Wendy is a member of our Sunday Roast Club. Whenever she and her husband are hosting, these gingery cookies are the signature dessert.” – Laura Calder…

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Laura Calder’s Quick Pumpkin Ice Cream

After a big feast, I like to keep dessert light. This simple ice cream has all the expected festive flavors without the heaviness of pumpkin pie.

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The Alfonso

“This recipe comes from our friend John Bunner, the head barman at Toronto’s Alo restaurant. He’s always getting us to try new things (especially me because I usually just have champagne!).” – Laura Calder…

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Berkshire Pork Loin Roast With Crackling

There are three musts for making delicious pork with crackling: a properly scored roast, a good rub down of salt and oil, and high heat. The oven starts off very hot; once the crackling has begun to crisp up and turn golden, the heat is reduced so the interior of…

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Fried Steamer Clams

Try this recipe for Fried Steamer Clams from John Bil’s cookbook, Ship to Shore. Outside of lobster rolls, the number-one menu item people look for when they visit the Maritimes is fried clams. Sadly, nowadays, most places serve a pre-battered catastrophe called a “slam strip,” which consists of surf clams, breaded and…

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Chrissy Teigen’s Banana Bread

Try this recipe for Twitter’s (and Uncle Mike’s) Banana Bread from Chrissy Teigen’s new cookbook, Cravings: Hungry For More. Yes. This is THE banana bread. Perfecting this single recipe took me nearly a year. I tried a million different things. But! It turned out that putting the coconut inside left it…

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Yotam Ottolenghi’s Charred Cherry Tomatoes With Cold Yogurt

Try this recipe for Charred Cherry Tomatoes With Cold Yogurt from Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Ottolenghi Simple. One of the beauties of this dish lies in the exciting contrast between the hot, juicy tomatoes and fridge-cold yogurt, so make sure the tomatoes are straight out of the oven and the yogurt is…

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Jamie Oliver’s Lasagne

Try this Lasagne recipe from Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook, Jamie Cooks Italy. Being really single-minded in our commitment to drag out all the sweet deliciousness from fennel and leeks, this lasagne is an absolute cracker. Made and layered up with love, it’s a confident and classy centerpiece.

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Caramelized Plum Upside-Down Cake

Try this Caramelized Plum Upside-Down Cake recipe from Meghan Markle’s favorite new cookbook, Together: Our Community Cookbook. “As soon as I heard about the Kitchen, I volunteered to help, cooking recipes from my homeland, Algeria. This cake is one my mum used to make. She always said plums are an…

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Beef & Eggplant Casserole

Try this Beef & Eggplant Casserole, or Tepsi Baytinijan, recipe from Meghan Markle’s favorite new cookbook, Together: Our Community Cookbook. “Tepsi translates as ‘casserole’ and this is a traditional Persian dish of meatballs in a tomato sauce with eggplant. It’s quite rich. You could make it with less oil, I suppose, but…

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Salad Shirazi

Try this Salad Shirazi recipe from Meghan Markle’s favorite new cookbook, Together: Our Community Cookbook. “This is a simple salad, with just a few ingredients, from the south of Iran. The fresh flavors go well with chicken or with lamb dishes such as Ghormeh Sabzi” — Sanna Mirza, recipe developer  …

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How To Make Crispy Brussels Sprouts

See how we used the new T-fal® ActiFry® Genius to make crispy brussels sprouts, plus get our smoky paprika dip recipe. 

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Rib Roast

Try this Rib Roast recipe from the cookbook The Last Schmaltz. My mom hates a rib steak (too fatty), but the rest of the family loves it (so fatty). Steaks are one thing, but slow-roasting a whole or even a half bone-in roast to rare is the best. Cut it into huge…

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Patty Melt

Try this Patty Melt recipe from the cookbook The Last Schmaltz. Not quite a hamburger and not quite a grilled cheese, this is a grilled cheese sandwich with a hamburger patty inside. It’s the best non-hamburger in Toronto, as voted unanimously by me. The grilled cheese is fried in butter and…