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.

Most people follow a pattern with three more substantial meals and two or three small snacks in between. The number of snacks and which meal, lunch or dinner, will be the main one, depends on habits, preferences and lifestyle. Feel free to organize your meals to your convenience. It is more common that one could think to follow a pattern on week days and a different one on the week end.

Nutritious, versatile, eggs are for all seasons

Snack or cooking ingredient, there is a whole world of cheeses.

Rice is versatile and it can be flavored in many, many ways. Rice is base to both sweet and savory dishes. Rice is always nice, not matter the season.

Pasta is the ultimate convenience food. Turn over for quick and easy recipes with pasta and noodles, ideal recipes for any occasion. Use pasta for warm wither courses or cool summer salads, main course, side dish or dessert.

The ultimate seasonal food and super-food to boot. Most vegetables are super-foods. Why? They do much more than supplying vitamins and minerals. Vegetables are packed with phyto-chemicals, biologically active substances which scientific evidence suggest may help protect against a vast array of diseases.

Cook your way into health by adding plenty of vegetables to your diet.

Fruit is a refreshing finish for a meal, as they do in the Mediterranean countries, excuse for decadent desserts, from simple to elaborate pies, drinkable health, in juice of smoothie way, flavor and moisture for baked goods, or, in modern cooking, fundamental ingredient for savory courses that stand out.

Pies, tarts, muffins, cookies. Probably some of the most attractive recipes.

Snacking is part of a healthy diet. It is only natural to need a little something to keep going until the next main meal. There are healthy choices for a snack.

A sandwich can be a perfect snack or a perfect fast meal. Sandwich making offers infinite possibilities from the kind of bread to use to fillings and complements.

Jams, jellies and food preserves are here to stay. Preserving food was once a life skill and now is considered and step beyond cooking.

Marinades, rubs and spice mixes are often the making of a dish, but the recipes are not considered. Their contribution the success of a dish might go unnoticed but not untasted.

We need liquid as much as we need food, if not more. Since water was not always safe to drink, we have perfected the art of quenching our thirst in many ways. From ale, wine, and simple infusions to tea and coffee with their gourmet blends, the array of infusions, fruit or vegetable juices, smoothies, milkshakes, cocktails. We can even prepare a meal in a cup.