Kardea Brown fires up the grill for an old-fashioned backyard barbecue and invites her family over to enjoy some of her charbroiled dishes. On the grill are Pimento Cheese-Stuffed Burgers and Grilled Sea Island Wings, and she whips up quick Southern Pickles and Okra to have on the side. For dessert, there's nothing better in the summer than a Grilled Peach Crumble.

Kardea Brown picnics in the park with friends and her favorite one-hand wonders like rotisserie chicken salad sandwiches with homemade bacon jam and chilled black-eyed pea salad; the relaxing summer lunch finishes with delicious blackberry hand pies.

It's Kardea Brown's favorite time of the year, shrimp season in Charleston; This year she's making Fried Shrimp Baskets, and her mom helps out with her Famous Hand Cut Fries and a fresh Grilled Shrimp Cobb Salad.