Tips for Late Summer Entertaining

Cooking magazines that offer great summer recipes are Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, Better Homes and Gardens and Good Housekeeping. Here is a round-up of some recent easy and delicious recipes.

Cooking Light’s July issue features tips and recipes on cooking and preparing one of summer’s most abundant veggies: squash. From fried zucchini sticks, squash with shrimp and summer squash pizza, find mouthwatering recipes here.

In the August issue of Bon Appetit the magazine highlights summer desserts with special attention to crowd-pleasing favorite ice cream. The magazine offers up recipes on homemade sauces, syrups and pies to accompany ice cream.

In the July issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine there are several recipes like butter lettuce salad, blackberry sangria and shrimp and sausage boil that incorporate seasonal fare and are easy to prepare.

Good Housekeeping magazine’s July issue highlights a cookbook bonus of the “Easiest-Ever Grilling.” The section features a grill buying guide and recipes and instructions on how to grill foods like sweet potatoes, pizza, peaches and veggies.

Home magazines like Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset and House Beautiful offer a lot of entertaining and decorating tips for late summer. Whether you want to throw a backyard barbecue or an indoor fete, there are many options.

Better Homes and Gardens also features tips on creating an instant outdoor room for entertaining. The story suggests using an inexpensive tent gazebo decorated with outdoor fabric, furniture and plants.

In its June issue Sunset magazine has an entire special section devoted to making your backyard a paradise. The section features tips on how to transform or make-over your patio and garden. It also features tips on setting an outdoor scene for entertaining including accessorizing with foliage and flowers and defining the space with an outdoor rug.

House Beautiful magazine takes outdoor living style to a whole new level featuring an entire outside house in its current August issue. The house, located in Southern California, has a kitchen, living room and dining room.
No matter what resource you use, be sure to plan ahead; otherwise entertaining for guests can be overwhelming and stressful. Also, enlist the help of friends to manage the stress of entertaining whenever possible. A stress-free host means more fun for everyone.