Casual Outdoor Entertaining

Try these recipes for a perfect, easy outdoor meal.

The first rule for entertaining outdoors is that there are no rules. No orderly courses, no seating arrangements, no salad fork. This summertime menu is perfect for your next alfresco meal. It uses lots of fresh summery herbs, can be eaten in whatever order you wish, with beer or wine, hot or cold, at the table or . . . barefoot in the park for that matter.

By Marge Perry, a food writer in Tenafly, N.J. Spring 2006 supplement.