Fresh ingredients and exotic flavors taste even better alfresco, so these recipes for lobster and melon summer rolls and charred eggplant risotto are must-tries for your next summertime get-together.

Charred Eggplant (Baba Ghanoush) Risotto

Lobster and Melon Summer Rolls with Nuóc Châm Dipping Sauce

Recipes reprinted from © Silver Oak Cookbook: Life in a Cabernet Kitchen by Dominic Orsini. Rizzoli New York, 2016. Images © Ed Anderson, Sara Sanger, Damion Hamilton.