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: 09-12-2003
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 12:59pm
Oh those trips to the deserted towns sound so adventurous Glenda....
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Registered: 09-12-2003
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 1:00pm
How about a drive up (where you are served by "maidens on wheels"?) rollerskates... that is....
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 1:09pm
LOL , No & I better not,
Not good for my heart


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Registered: 04-21-2006
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 2:07pm

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!

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Registered: 03-08-2005
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 5:27pm

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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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 5:28pm
I like turkey on whole wheat rolls or ham

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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 6:38pm
Oh, dh is fine with camping and eating outdoors!

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Registered: 03-08-2005
Fri, 05-12-2006 - 7:07pm

suzan was there??(twig)...what did she do to start the fire lol

glenda

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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 9:04pm
i like any kind of picnic...from the simple sandwich, chips & snacks at the lake to big backyard barbeques!!! of course plenty of iced tea or lemonade to go around!!!
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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 9:06pm
that sounds like alot of fun!!