Monday night we had our (semi-) regular girls’ dinner, and the
hostess made shrimp and veggie kebabs. My
biggest entertaining hurdle is finding recipes that I can make ahead, and
kebabs are ingenious. Even cleverer, my friend
enlisted her husband to do the actually grilling. So her hostessing wasn’t interrupted for even
five minutes.

Here are a few effortless kebab combinations. Another entertaining bonus to the meal-on-a-stick
approach is that guests can easily avoid any food they don’t like by plucking
it off the skewer and setting it aside (for me to eat later!).

• Cilantro-Lime
  Shrimp and Plum Kebabs
• Surf
  ‘n’ Turf Kebabs
• Red
  Hot Marinated Shrimp Skewers
• Tuna
  and Potato Kebabs