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"French comfort food - perfect for the cold weather. This is my favourite onion soup recipe because it's EASY!"

Ingredients: dry white wine, garlic...

"This dish should be prepared at least one day before serving which puts it high on my list of dishes to prepare for company. All of the work is done before hand. The recipe is from a restaurant in Julienas France, "Le Coq au Vin" and I found it in Bon Appetit."

Ingredients: fresh parsley, beaujolais wine...

"From "The Cook and the Gardener" , a wonderful recipe that doesn't remotely resemble the -soggy raft of bread tied to a bowl with bad cheese-that many people call Onion Soup."

Ingredients: coarse salt, coriander seeds...

"From the Culinary Communion charcuterie class. Delicious! Recipe courtesy of Gabriel Claycamp, posted with permission. Makes approximately 10 pounds sausage."

Ingredients: casings, dry red wine...

"By Patricia Wells and from the Provence Cookbook."

Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, dry red wine...

"Serves four people as a main course, or six to eight people as an accompaniment or starter.
A Tian is a traditional ovenproof terracotta clay dish - usually oval - which is used extensively in the south of France. Many dishes are named after this dish in which they are cooked, and this is one of them.
This wonderful dish with the essence..."

Ingredients: cottage cheese, creme fraiche...

"We found this recipe torn from an old Sunday insert called "The American Weekly," dated August 31, 1952. (Online, I learned that this Sunday newspaper supplement was published by Hearst from 1896 to 1963, when it became "Pictorial Living" until its demise in 1966). The 5"x6" scrap had somehow gotten stuffed in between..."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, egg whites...

"I have been to New Orleans twice and one of the things that keeps me coming back are the wonderful beignets that we had most mornings for breakfast (along with a hurricane cocktail) at Cafe Du Monde. Here's a recipe from Paula Deen that is about as close to Cafe Du Monde as I can get without a plane ticket."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"This came from a 1987 Better Homes and Gardens Cajun cooking. Why the funny name? Because as you fry these sweat treats, you twist them to look like a pigs ears."

Ingredients: cooking oil, cane syrup, eggs...

"The combination of snowy whipped cream, eggy custard and crisp puff pastry is divine. An easy dessert that must be made fairly close to serving time to be enjoyed at its optimum. That is easy to do, as you can have all the different components ready and assemble shortly before eating."

Ingredients: cornflour, egg yolks...

"Recipe from an old magazine article and is from the Cramond Inn, near Edinburgh, Scotland, an ancient inn built in 1670."

Ingredients: dry vermouth, onions, parsley...