Five different categories contain widely varied, seasonal menus. "Easy Saturday Nights", for example, includes, among many others, Dinner on the Porch, featuring Pasta with Tomatoes and Goat Cheese and a fabulously decadent Coffee Ice Cream Chocolate Stack with Caramel Sauce. "Easy Sundays" includes a Beach House Brunch with vibrant Honeydew Mimosas and heavenly Pecan Rolls. "Celebrations" contains a stylish Oscar Night Cocktail Party and an imaginative Pool Party for the Kids. There's even a chapter full of easy grilling menus and another on picnics.

This newest book contains thirty-two menus and more than two hundred recipes -- ninety of them never published before -- and eighty-five full-color photographs. There are exceptional recipes here to please any home cook, whether novice or experienced, searching for new ways to entertain.