The Summer House Cookbook: Easy Recipes for When You Have Better Things to Do with Your Time
by Debra Ponzek, Geralyn Delaney Graham

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Book Review: Lightening Up Summer Cuisine
Summary: 5 Stars

They do, but here is a specialty cookbook which centers only on this aspect: light summer cusine.

These two experienced chefs achieve their stated purpose by providing lots of recipes both of the standard recipe fare and some unique ones as well. They begin with a superb section on "Getting Ready to Go" which provides hints that truly prepare one to get all the gear and chef tools and ingredients ready to take or find and purchase whether to stock the summer abode or take to a rental or one's own backyard cooking. There is also a "Make Ahead" section with oils and marinades, etc. which is truly a neat idea to achieve the desired: "summer state of mind."

The recipe groupings are around meals, i.e. breakfast, picnics, dinners, parties, rainy days and then around source: farm stand, dock, grill, and desserts.

My two favorites thus far are "From the Dock" and "Rainy Day Dinners." Feast your eyes and appetites on such as: Sea Bright Striped Bass" with peach, nectarine, and plum balsamic vinegar sauce; Malibu Soft-Shell Crab Salad with watermelon, fennel, arugala and orange salad; Sweet Corn Pudding; Lobster, Mushroom and Sweet Pea Risotto; Chilled White Peach Soup with Red Wine Ice; Fig and Raspbery Fool.

Well done with delightful text bolstered with superb color photos. Also, not thick, heavy book it packs and travels well.

Summary of The Summer House Cookbook: Easy Recipes for When You Have Better Things to Do with Your Time

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