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Duck pairs well with fruit. French-style preparations that highlight that are duck 脿 l鈥檕range, and duck with cherry sauce. When recently harvesting pears from my backyard tree, I remembered that it鈥檚 another fruit that works well with it.

If you love cooking with fresh garlic, and you鈥檝e not grown your own, now and well into fall is a great time to be buying it, locally grown. Farm stands, farm markets and smaller food stores specializing in local produce will all be selling it.

If you want infuse the flavour of your favourite ale into pork loin chops, get ready to brine. That technique will deliciously do that; while at the same time make those often lean pork chops juicier.

Local corn, shucked, cooked, plated and slathered with butter is a classic, simple and splendid summer dish.

If you鈥檝e grown or bought a bushel of lovely ripe tomatoes, turning some into sauce for pasta or other uses is a flavourful way to use some of them. I did that recently and started by making roasted tomato sauce.

If you鈥檙e in need of a brunch dish that incorporates an in-season fruit you can harvest for free, I have something for you to try.

The word bruschetta is derived from the Italian 鈥渂ruscare,鈥� which means, 鈥渢o roast over coals鈥� or 鈥渢o toast.鈥� When you鈥檙e making bruschetta, what you鈥檙e roasting/charring or toasting is sliced bread.

If you鈥檝e recently visited some Island farm markets or farm stands, or have your own tree, you鈥檒l know figs are in-season. It鈥檚 a splendid fruit with a beguiling look, taste and texture wonderful to eat on its own or with other foods.

I鈥檓 spending part of my summer on Salt Spring Island and most of my dinner plans here have started with me visiting a few of the Island鈥檚 many farm stands to see what鈥檚 available.

If you need a side dish to serve with a Mediterranean-style grilled fish, chicken, pork, lamb or other entr茅e, my deluxe version of caprese salad would work well.