fitness and lifestyle

I’m not a fan of huge portions at dinner time. Lunch and midnight snacks…not a problem. But I don’t enjoy eating a big meal at the end of the day (mostly because I thoroughly look forward to my glass of beer/bubbly and don’t like fill up before hand!) And according to most health researchers, the largest meal of the day should never be at dinner time. So what’s the solution? Sides for supper. Call it tapas, call it grazing, call it sophisticated snacking…it’s all about tastin

I love this time of year. Actually from Labour Day to New Year’s Day is my most favourite period (I could definitely do without January-March though!) I love everything about it: schedules, new programs, cool weather, jeans and sweaters, holidays, eating, new recipes, more eating! What I don’t love is that it is cold and flu season –and the time of year when most people start getting sick. Here at the Daily Apple household, we do everything in our power not to succumb to seas

Okay, okay – I know it has been a ridiculously long time since I have posted…but there is good reason. Daily Apple had a baby! That’s right….our little Apple Dumpling was born just before Christmas and it’s been tough finding the time to sit down and write – Tweets and Facebook updates are about all I can squeeze in these days between diaper changes and feedings! But this new recipe we created last night was just too good not to post. So it’ll be short and sweet today…with mo

I first encountered this strange vegetable at my friend Kathleen’s grocery store, Culinarium, which carries only produce and products from our native Ontario. It was a feature in the weekly farmers’ box – and, like me, many of the customers who encountered this alien-like member of the Brassica family, didn’t know where it came from, what it tasted like and more importantly what to do with it. Thanks to Wikipedia, here is all you ever wanted to know about the weird and wonder

Okay – so we’re a bit biased – we know….but shopping at a fresh farmers’ market on a sunny Saturday morning is the perfect way to kick off your weekend. And no one in the city of Toronto can use the excuse of ” I don’t have time”. With a market on every corner, of every day of the week, there is no excuse to not buying local this fall. It’s the best way to support your farmers, your food supply and your future! Check out what’s fresh in the city right now: kale, cauliflower,