Canadian Food Focus

Pizza night and gluten-free eating can absolutely go together. This Gluten-free Oat Crust pizza recipe delivers that classic pizzeria experience: chewy, flavourful crust, bubbling cheese, and your favourite toppings, without any wheat flour. The dough starts with warm water, honey, and active dry yeast for proper rise and chew, then brings in

If you love the idea of fresh cookies but don’t always have time to scoop tray after tray, this Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie is your shortcut to dessert happiness. It has everything people love about classic chocolate chip cookies: golden edges, soft centre, gooey chocolate, but baked as one giant, sharable cookie in a cast iron skillet.

Rolled oats add a c...

These Oat Flour Animal Crackers are a playful, from-scratch upgrade to the classic box snack and they’re surprisingly simple to make. A buttery dough sweetened with maple syrup and balanced with vanilla and a pinch of salt bakes up into crisp, lightly sweet...

These Italian Chicken & Veggie Meatballs are the kind of weeknight win that makes everyone happy at the table. They deliver all the cozy, familiar flavour of classic Italian meatballs, but with a lighter, more modern twist thanks to lean ground chicken, quick oats, and a generous hit of hidden veggies.

The mixture comes together in one bowl: ground chicken for p...

These Individual Chickpea & Oat Salads are the definition of “ready when you are” lunch prep. Colourful grilled vegetables, chickpeas and tender steel-cut oats are layered into glass jars so you get a balanced, high-fibre, high-protein meal that’s as practical as it is pretty.

The recipe starts by toasting steel-cut oats in a skillet to deepen their nutty flavou...