A Coming Home Dinner!

A screams-summer Saturday night menu to celebrate the girls' return

Phoebe comes home from college this weekend, which means the band will be back together again…or well, it will be at least until both of the girls take off again for their summer jobs in a few days. (Repeat to self: This is the way it’s supposed to work. This is the way it’s supposed to work.) It also means that I need to make sure the Coming Home Dinner is an A-plus situation — one of the things I’m already missing so much about my house (even though we don’t move for a few months!) are the long-and-lingering string-lighted summer dinners on the patio. I do not want to waste a single one. So after some serious back-and-forth on the family group chat, here’s the line-up (+ shopping list) we came up with…