Grilling

This is like a steak dinner with onion rings, steak fries, and salad with blue cheese dressing, all chopped up in a bowl together. If you skipped lunch, this is your payoff.

This is the at-home version of another perfect meal from France. To make this more of a meal, serve with sliced French sausages and ham.

You won’t find this at the drive-thru! Serve with a mixed green or spinach salad.

The fried asparagus is a perfect use for the thick stalks that you find from time to time in the market.

I imagine eating this meal on a farm table, outside, in Tuscany—maybe it’s early fall. I have a glass of Rosso di Montalcino. Where will you be for your first bite?

This one is especially good at summer’s end.

Brad is one of my husband John’s closest friends and fast becoming one of mine. He makes any situation into a party. He also claims to make the best burgers. Being Queen of burgers, I have taken him to task on this, but he never gives up the recipe. This is a tribute burger, for Brad. Brad loves to make burgers with condiments mixed into them. This one tastes like it’s made with spicy barbecue sauce and it’s topped with beefy steak sauce. It’s very Brad. Serve with fancy flavored potato chips, any brand.

Serve with barbecue chips and oil-and-vinegar dressed slaw. So much better for you than wings, you could eat two!

If you don’t groove on the shrimp, use 1 1/2 pounds of chicken tenders, 20 large sea scallops, or even 8 pieces of calamari, 2 per person, and grill in the shrimps’ place.