Friday September 03 , 2010

Seasonal

Daily menus and recipes most suited to every season: light cooking, usually grilling, baking or steaming, in the warmer season; rich sauces, baking or stewing, when it is cold.

Although modern agriculture and grocery shops make produce available for the most part of the year, food has a seasonal best, when it peaks in flavor and nutritional value.

Seasonal eating not only caters for the four seasons, but alsot for traditional seasonal celebrations.

  • Spring ( 5 Articles )

    Spring is the season for renewal. Not only it is full of new, tender vegetables, but as the days war up, it calls for a lighter fare than the previous season.

  • Summer ( 21 Articles )

    Summer is the season for outdoor grilling and recipes to eat cold.

  • Autumn ( 8 Articles )

    Autumn, the Fall season.

  • Winter ( 3 Articles )

    The cold outside makes to favor warm food, warming drinks and full meals.

  • Holiday Season ( 11 Articles )

    The Holiday Season opens with the run up to Thanksgiving, and goes on to the Christmas celebrations. It does not end with it. There are many other celebrations around -Hannukah or Kwanza, to name some- and the festive mood is impossible to escape.

  • Halloween ( 3 Articles )

    Halloween has its own food code.

  • Valentine Day ( 3 Articles )

    Celebrating Valentine's Day has become a established tradition.

Hint of Herbs

Chives grow usually in clusters; for that reason, they are usually referred to only in plural. Their taste reminds of onions or garlic, this last one is the case of Chinese chives.

Read more... Chives  

Choice Tidbits

Picnics and summer garden parties are great ways to enjoy life outdoors, but in the summer time, barbecue and grill reign supreme, as Erin M. Phelan will explain, though this time she took the route of the community BBQ.

Read more... Community BBQ  

Full of Flavor

Pungent, bittersweet flavor reminiscent of pine.

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