Do You Like Picnics?

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Do You Like Picnics?
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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 7:57am

I do!  I love to eat outdoors in the summer.... it doesn't matter if it's in my own back yard or we pack up someting delicious and take off to the lakeside.  Main thing : eating out in the fresh  air! 


What do you like to pack in your picnic basket..?


 







Country Kitchen:
Enjoy Backyard Picnics This Time of Year
By Mary Emma Allen For those picnics in the backyard, when you want to entertain informally in a pleasant outdoor setting, you can serve eary-to-prepare meals that you make beforehand.

Meats, cooked the previous day, make excellent picnic platters. Cold baked ham, meat loaf, roast beef, roast pork, sliced chicken, cold cuts, and cheese can be arranged attractively around potato, macaroni or molded vegetable and jello salads.

Slices of rosy tomatoes, sweet onion, crisp cucumber on a bed of lettuce leaves are always tasty. Don’t forget the pickles, carrot curls, and celery sticks as crunchies.
Picnic Fruit DessertsFruit bowl or fruit salad are successful endings to outdoor meals. These are easy to make, simple to serve, and delicious.

*Scoop out the red portion from half a watermelon with ice cream scoop. Mix melon balls with other fruits - pineapple cubes, peach slices, fresh berries, banana slices.

Pile into watermelon half, sprinkle with lemon juice and honey; chill before serving.

*Cut out center of a fresh pineapple and mix with fresh strawberries and bananas; refill pineapple with fruit mixture and chill.

*Arrange a layer of sliced oranges in a glass bowl, spread with shredded coconut, and top with layer of sliced bananas. Repeat until bowl is filled. Garnish with maraschino cherry halves and chill.

*Place chunk of ice in punch bowl; fill half full of mixed fruits - cherries, grapes, orange slices, melon balls, bananas, peach slices, etc. Drizzle with raspberry syrup; serve in 30 minutes when chilled.
(C) 2002 Mary Emma Allen

About the Author
Mary Emma Allen has been writing her "Cooking Column" for newspapers and online publications for 30 years and has compiled a family cookbook. She’s currently compiling a cookbook/story book, "Tales From a Country Kitchen."

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Registered: 04-24-2000
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 8:12am
I don't mind a picnic- ya mean on a blanket with the flys & ants & bugs! I would rather be at a table & chair ! But when the skitters & flying things start buzzing around my food & face & landing in my drink----I am outta there !!! My DH absolutely dislike eating outside. I don't mind a BBQ in the backyard, eating by the pool on the deck- that way I can buzz right inside- when the unwanted visitors arrive !! lol
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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 8:56am

Y'know, I'm not a big fan of eating outdoors.


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Registered: 06-30-2004
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 9:59am

Love them !!


I like fruit, sandswiches and cookies !!!!

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 10:04am
Have to say feel exactly like Bunny,
Will BBQ/eat out by the pool so I can run when needed quick inside :)


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Registered: 03-08-2005
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 10:10am

all summer long we bbq. seldom do i cook anything on the stove.

we love to go for picnics in the summer. we will hop in the car/truck and just drive. we will build a fire and cook hot dogs;pack sandwiches;or stop and get something.

one of our fav summer things is to find an old map and look for old town sites.there have been a lot of coal mining towns here, pluss a lot of abandoned towns...great fun!!

some times we will take the camper and go away for the weekend. that is the BEST picnic!

glenda

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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 12:46pm
My idea of a picnic is sitting in the car in the park with the windows down while eating something someone else made.

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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 12:54pm
Well no I didn't mean on a blanket or anything,,,
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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 12:56pm
Oh I agree, watermelon is a must on a picnic!
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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 12:56pm
What type of
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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 12:58pm

Well if I lived at your place with those "mother of all bees", I would be sitting closest to the door too! LOL


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