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B.C. sockeye salmon is in season and I have a very cool, perfect way to serve it in summer. Simply season the fillets, and then bake, chill and serve with a cool, creamy, tasty cucumber potato salad.

If you having a craving for a fast-food-chain burger, you know the type, with two patties, cheese, a middle layer of bun, sauce, pickles and onions, drive past the drive-thru.

If your partner and you are in the mood for a deluxe seafood dinner, I have a plan. Buy a fine selection of seafood, arrange them in a skillet, flavour them with a buttery mixture, set that skillet on a hot barbecue and start cooking.

One of Canada鈥檚 most popular salads, and one of our favourite cocktails, have at least four things in common. Both are named Caesar, both have an Italian connection, both are highly seasoned, and both have a key ingredient made from a sea creature.

If you need a cake for a summer gathering, but don鈥檛 want to fire up the stove, make sure your freezer is functioning correctly. That鈥檚 because you鈥檒l need it to make a dessert that requires no baking at all, an ice cream cake.

When dining on a very hot summer day, flavourful food served very cold is obviously well suited for that kind of weather.

If you鈥檙e planning to have friends over for tea, why not turn it into a summer meal by serving sandwiches. Tea sandwiches, of course. Daintily prepared bites you artfully arrange on plates or a platter.

Beef on a bun with jus for dipping is a popular dish served in pubs and diners. But I like to make it at home and when I do that in the summer, I take the cooking outdoors. I start by choosing my beef roast.

Sometimes when I鈥檓 selecting items for dinner my eyes do the shopping, as they did the other day at my corner food store. Not long after walking in, I spied some plump 91原创 Island-raised chicken and B.C.

If you have an herb garden, or buy fresh herbs, these things are often true: You鈥檒l have leftover herbs after using some for a recipe. Or, you鈥檒l have so many herbs growing in your garden you only use a fraction of them during the growing season.