Fourth Of July Side Dishes: A New Look At Some Old Favorites

Everyone fires up the grill over the holiday weekend with burgers and sausages, hot dogs and BBQ chicken. But what to serve with your grilled foods? Coleslaw, macaroni and cucumber salads, and a slice of watermelon are considered standards. But I decided to take a new look at some of these classics and rethink them.

Here are four summer favorites with several new twists.

Grilled Cabbage Salad With Caper-Yogurt Dressing

Think of this dish as a hybrid of two favorites: coleslaw and wedge salad. Here the cabbage is cut into wedges, brushed with olive oil and grilled until almost blackened and softened. It's then plated with a yogurt-caper dressing and topped with grated carrots. The cabbage can be grilled several hours ahead of time and the dressing can be made a day ahead of time.