Gourmet's Casual Entertaining: Easy Year-Round Menus for Family and Friends

In this newest book from Gourmet, the editors have put together 34 menus, filled with quick and "make-ahead" recipes, for the busy cook. There are five different categories of menus -- "Easy Saturday Nights, " "Easy Sundays, " "Easy Celebrations, " "Easy Grills, " and "Easy Picnics" -- and each category contains widely varied, seasonal menus. "Easy Saturday Nights, " for example, includes Dinner on the Porch, Come for Cocktails, Mexican Dinner, A Simple Summer Buffet, Dinner by the Fire, An Autumn Vegetaria Dinner, and Last-Minute Dinner.The menu for Dinner on the Porch, as further example, includes Chilled Yellow Bell Pepper Soup, Pasta with Tomatoes and Goat Cheese, and a decadent Coffee Ice Cream Chocolate Stack with Caramel Sauce. "Easy Sundays" includes a Beach House Brunch with Honeydew Mimosas and Pecan Rolls. The book includes more than 200 recipes in all -- 90 of them never published before -- and 85 full color photographs. There are exceptional recipes here to please any home cook, whether novice or experienced

This book guides you through everyday foods and menus. It is easy to follow and food that is not hard to make yet it is delicious and pleasing. Helps in a pinch for those last minute get-togethers when you aren't sure of what to have or to do. For my husband and myself it is an easy guide. It is an easy read. The pictures help with what the end presentaion is to look like. Pretty much a helpful book.