Easy Summer Food: Simple Recipes For Sunny Days

by Maxine Clark

Summer is about enjoying the outdoors and relaxing over good food with good company, not slaving away in the kitchen. It's the time for crisp salads, fruit bursting with flavor, and fresh, young vegetables. Easy Summer Food takes the best of these ingredients and creates simple recipes to inspire you to make the most of what this fabulous season has to offer. There are Appetizers, Salads, Picnic ideas, and Dips and Breads for light summer fare, as well as Barbecue treats, Vegetables, and Sweet Things & Drinks. For a more filling meal, try something from the Pasta, Pizza, & Rice or Fish, Meat, & Poultry chapters. Pack some Toasted Ciabatta Pizzas in your picnic basket, grill some Jerk Chicken Wings with Avocado Salsa on the barbecue or kick off your shoes and relax with an Iced Long Vodka. Bring some sunshine to your plate with these delicious recipes for every occasion.

Genres: Cooking

238 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2005

About the author

Maxine Clark is a leading food writer and a gifted cooking teacher. She has taught in well-known cooking schools, such as Leith's in London, and has taught at Alistair Little's Tasting Places in Sicily and Tuscany. While in Italy, she has collected recipes that best display its strong and sunny flavors, and teaches them to students from all over the world. Her work regularly appears in magazines and newspapers such as 'BBC Good Food' and 'Food and Travel.'

Reviews

[Mariah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is, hands down, one of my favorite cookbooks of all time. No matter what you make, it looks fancy and tastes fabulous-- but it's actually easy, and you can find almost everything you need at a regular old grocery store.

The chicken pesto pasta and bruschetta have become staples of my existence-- I don't know where I'd be without them.

[Chandra Jordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great photographs and great recipes.