Do You Like Picnics?
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Do You Like Picnics?
| 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.
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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Not good for my heart
When I was little, we'd drive to the beach and go swimming
all day with a picnic lunch...hot dogs,potato salad koolade
watermelon.Yum!
Then fall asleep on the way home!
When my boys were young, we'd go the the shore and they
would run around finding twigs and dried seaweed so we
could build a bonfire to cook our dogs and marshmallows.
Fun!
they are sooo much fun!!! if we get to go this year , i will have to take pictures and show everyone!!!
glenda
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suzan was there??(twig)...what did she do to start the fire lol
glenda
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