This grilling menu has all the essential ingredients: meat, vegetables, and a delicious chocolate dessert. Make the salad and dessert a day or two ahead, and grill the rest on the day of the barbecue!
Gouda oozes from a crisp, buttery sandwich, thick with summer tomatoes and basil and cooked on the grill. Each sandwich is served with corn on the cob and cold cucumber and red-onion pickled salad.
Grilled sausage, topped with arugula pesto, is served alongside cool pasta that borrows flavors and ingredients -- green beans, cannellini beans, zucchini, tomatoes, and carrots -- from minestrone soup.
In this tribute to the season, grilled pork chops are enhanced by rosemary and lemon, sweet corn is enveloped in a creamy Parmesan sauce, and sliced tomatoes are strewn with thyme for a simple salad.
A rub of the spice blend garam masala and freshly ground pepper coats lamb shoulder chops in this Indian-inspired menu. Garden-fresh corn, okra, and tomatoes star in the side dishes, while papaya makes a light, tropical dessert.
A meal with the taste of the Southwest is perfect on a late-summer night: Salmon is seasoned with chile powder, beans are tossed with corn, and crisp vegetables are wrapped in tortillas.