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Braised Pork Chops with Creamy Savoy Cabbage, fall comfort food

This easy Asparagus Prosciutto Gratin works equally well as a first course or vegetable side dish.

Summer Salad Season - start with this easy Chicken Salad with Potatoes and Asparagus, then start making your own easy dressings.

Use purchased phyllo to make easy samosas and cigars.

Easy salad for Sunday Supper - Chicken Teriyaki Salad with Peanut Vinaigrette, and another lost weekend.

Spring salads with Asparagus, Spinach and Shrimp - easy dinner to end the week

Grilled Duck Breast à l'Orange, Magret de Canard, one of summer's true treats from the barbecue - just mind your eyebrows

Chicken and White Bean Salad with Crispy Red Onions - the crisp onions add a nice, crunchy finish - think crouton without bread.

Brined, Barbecued Pork Tenderloin, with home-made barbecue sauce.

Salad with Warm Mustard Beets and Goat Cheese, either as a first course of light lunch

Warm Barley and Chard Salad, using both the leaves and the stems of Swiss chard.

Ham, Asparagus and Mozzarella Salad - perfect easy salad supper for a hot summer night

Mock Spinach Soufflé; La Félibrée - the 94th annual celebration of all the Occitan

Grilled Salmon with Red Onion Confit, the salmon is slightly smoked and grilled with a cover of dill and salt

Grilled Pork Tenderloin, Shallot Sage Marinade with Home-Made Barbecue Sauce - perfect for a cold summer supper

Do you use a Béchamel sauce when you make lasagne? Back in my younger days, when I lived in the US, I made lasagne with ground beef, cottage cheese and tomato sauce.

When one has one’s own garden one can grow a variety of interesting produce.