For those of us who love to cook, there can be few pleasures in life greater than having friends over for dinner. "Dinner with Friends" takes a thematic approach to entertaining, from casual summer fare to warming winter meals, great Mediterranean and Asian food, and those more lavish recipes for when you really want to impress. Each chapter offers a wide range of simple and more complex recipes such as creamy baked scallops, rack of lamb with herb crust, roast duck with olives, Thai lemongrass prawns and sables with berries and cream. "Dinner with Friends" has plenty of starters, salads, sides, mains and desserts so that readers can mix and match to create their own enticing menus.