Hot weather calls for cold shrimp, here in a "creamy" dill sauce that tastes much richer than the light mayonnaise and buttermilk sauce it really is. It takes just 10 minutes to make, so invite someone for lunch, give it a try! ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a special collection of easy summer recipes published every summer since 2009. Watch for new "summer easy" recipes all summer long! With a free e-mail subscription , you'll never miss a one! COMPLIMENTS! "The shrimp salad was great ... " ~ Inkograph Collector Invite a Friend for Lunch! My friend Kathy invited me to lunch last week. We could have gone out, sure, but catching up in her sunny kitchen was so relaxed: no parking hassle, no menu decisions, no interruptions. It made me wonder why I don’t ever say to a friend, “Come for lunch.” "Lunch" that day was a light salad, just fresh shrimp

You scream, I scream, we'll all be screaming for ... the recipe for Spiced Banana Ice Cream, a rich-tasting banana ice cream, made slightly exotic and especially memorable with a trio of pantry spices. Cross-eyed. So go my eyes when a store shelf battles with my brain. It’s a confrontation of choice versus convenience, niche versus necessary, extravagance versus enough. A hundred toothpastes? mustards? light bulbs? dog food? Do we really need so many choices? Y’know, wouldn’t just a few be enough? In fact, research shows that when confronted with more than five options, people just pick one, almost blindly, ignoring labels and price differences – or they walk away empty-handed, unable to make any decision. So it’s been with me and the ‘gallon-size’ ice cream cookbook The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments by pastry chef, cookbook author, food blogger and Paris bon vivant, David Lebovitz. Please don’t take this wrong. I’ve lusted

Such a quick and simple recipe, this dip for raw vegetables, just a few often-on-hand pantry ingredients and a few minutes to stir together It's a " veggie evangelist's " secret weapon! ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a special collection of easy summer recipes published every summer since 2009. Watch for new "summer easy" recipes all summer long! With a free e-mail subscription , you'll never miss a one! Sneaking In a Serving of Vegetables Call me sneaky but come summer, an hour or so before supper, out comes a plate of fresh veggies – who can spell crudités? who can pronounce CROO-dee-tay? But the real secret weapon, the super-secret one, is the creamy vegetable dip alongside. Within minutes, hungry folk start to snack, a stick of carrot here, a slice of red pepper there. Without ever “serving” a vegetable, I’ve managed to sneak in one of the day’s vegetable servings.