Summer Foods Make Perfect Picnic Foods
Summer at some time will hopefully mean a picnic, but beware, not all summer foods make perfect picnic food, though do some work really well. It's a good idea to check out what does and doesn't and make sure your picnic is a safe picnic.
I have put together this recipe collection of summer foods to make a perfect picnic, now all we need is for the sun to shine.
If you are about to plan a picnic there are a few tips that it may be worth bearing in mind before you set off. Always better to be safe than sorry.
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Summer soup recipes are wonderful but on a warm,summers' day what could be lovelier than a bowl of cold soup. Cold souprecipes make perfect and elegant starters for a dinner or for outdooreating, picnics and barbecues. as they can easily be carried in a flaskand drunk from a glass.
The hotter the temperature, the cooler the soup, so add ice cubes orserve in chilled bowls. Not too, too hot then serve at room temperaturewhich also gives the maximum flavour to the soup
Salads are always great picnic food. Pack them in an airtight box, a couple of forks and away you go. Perfect.
This colorful and nutritious salad is so, so easy to make. The salad isgood served alongside cold meats, quiche or simply on its own. If youcan't find fresh thyme, don't worry. Try fresh basil instead.
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A warm asparagus salad is suitable for a simple, lunch and great for a picnic. Use fresh Britishasparagus when in season or whenever fresh asparagus is available. This asparagus salad recipe is filled with the best of summer vegetables,peas, beans and rocket. If you can't find any of these just use any thattake your fancy.
Pastry based tarts are a lovelt picnic food. Wrap them carefully in foil or place into a platic box and you're away.
This Summer Tomato Tart is the perfect tomato tart recipe when you havelots of fresh, fragrant tomatoes in the garden. The tomato tart recipeis one of my most requested dishes from family and friends. Served warm with a salad it is a perfect supper dish or a light lunch.Cold it goes really well in a lunch box, or a party or picnic food. Ilike to decorate the tart with salty, canned anchovies and a few blackolives, but that's optional.
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Cold, cooked chicken is always a great ingredient for the picnic basket. Hot or cold chicken keeps it flavour so what could be better. There are many recipes but this Lemon Roast Chicken recipe is perfect cooked, cooled and then jointed and packed for the basket. Yummy
If I am cooking a whole chicken, my favorite is this Lemon Roast Chickenrecipe. It is one of the best I have ever cooked. The chicken remainsmoist and succulent with soft flavors of lemon and garlic.
It is simple to make and makes a great roast for a Sunday lunch or cold for a summer lunch or picnic.
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Coronation Chocken is a totally traditional British food and its creamy, spicy flavour plus that it packs easily into a plastic box make is a perfect picnic food.
Coronation chicken was designed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth IIas a representation of the, then, colonial nature of the British Empireso includes fruit, curry and mayonnaise. There may no longer be aBritish empire but this recipes remains a firm favourite all over theBritish Isles.
Coronation Chicken is a great way to use up leftover chicken. CoronationChicken is lovely served with a rice salad, as a jacket potato filling,and great for lunch boxes, picnics and buffets. How versatile!
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As the story goes: Eton Mess was traditionally served at Eton College but how it came tohave the name is not clear but the story is a Labrador dog sat on a picnicbasket in the back of a car and squashed a strawberry and meringuedessert. So as this dessert is already squashed it is great for a picnic, no-one has to worry about the dish being messed up.
The dessert is quick and easy to make and makes great use of ripestrawberries at the height of summer when they are plentiful. Frozen orcanned strawberries don't work.
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Jam tarts are one of the first things my mum ever taught me to bakeprobably because a jam tart recipe is just so easy just a little pastyand jam or, for lemon tarts, using lemon curd. Packed into a little box they are such a great picnic snack or after picnic treat.
Another great sweet food is a box of tasty flapjack. Traditional Flapjack is one of the quickest, easiest and importantly cheap baked goods to make. This is a traditional flapjack recipe anddelicious.
Taking something to drink of course is most important. You choose if those drinks are non, or, alcoholic. It will depend on the time, occasion and who is present.
One of the most refreshing drinks for the summer is an ElderflowerCordial. An Elderflower Cordial Recipe is quick and easy to make and agreat excuse for a long walk collecting flowers, it also a non-alcoholic drink.
Pimm's is the quintessentially summer drink in the UK, it brinsg the scents of summer, parties, picnics and Wimbledon together.
And, if it is a beer you fancy, check out how to match the two together.
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I have put together this recipe collection of summer foods to make a perfect picnic, now all we need is for the sun to shine.
1. Tips for a Perfect Picnic
If you are about to plan a picnic there are a few tips that it may be worth bearing in mind before you set off. Always better to be safe than sorry.
More »
2. Cold Soups - Perfect Picnic Food
Summer soup recipes are wonderful but on a warm,summers' day what could be lovelier than a bowl of cold soup. Cold souprecipes make perfect and elegant starters for a dinner or for outdooreating, picnics and barbecues. as they can easily be carried in a flaskand drunk from a glass.
The hotter the temperature, the cooler the soup, so add ice cubes orserve in chilled bowls. Not too, too hot then serve at room temperaturewhich also gives the maximum flavour to the soup
- Cold Soups for Summer Picnics and Parties
3. Salad: Runner Bean and Slow Roasted Tomatoes
Salads are always great picnic food. Pack them in an airtight box, a couple of forks and away you go. Perfect.
This colorful and nutritious salad is so, so easy to make. The salad isgood served alongside cold meats, quiche or simply on its own. If youcan't find fresh thyme, don't worry. Try fresh basil instead.
More »
4. Salad: Warm Asparagus, Rocket, Pea and Bean Salad
A warm asparagus salad is suitable for a simple, lunch and great for a picnic. Use fresh Britishasparagus when in season or whenever fresh asparagus is available. This asparagus salad recipe is filled with the best of summer vegetables,peas, beans and rocket. If you can't find any of these just use any thattake your fancy.
- Warm Asparagus, Pea and Bean and Salad
5. Tarts: The Best Tomato Tart
Pastry based tarts are a lovelt picnic food. Wrap them carefully in foil or place into a platic box and you're away.
This Summer Tomato Tart is the perfect tomato tart recipe when you havelots of fresh, fragrant tomatoes in the garden. The tomato tart recipeis one of my most requested dishes from family and friends. Served warm with a salad it is a perfect supper dish or a light lunch.Cold it goes really well in a lunch box, or a party or picnic food. Ilike to decorate the tart with salty, canned anchovies and a few blackolives, but that's optional.
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6. Chicken: Lemon Roast Chicken
Cold, cooked chicken is always a great ingredient for the picnic basket. Hot or cold chicken keeps it flavour so what could be better. There are many recipes but this Lemon Roast Chicken recipe is perfect cooked, cooled and then jointed and packed for the basket. Yummy
If I am cooking a whole chicken, my favorite is this Lemon Roast Chickenrecipe. It is one of the best I have ever cooked. The chicken remainsmoist and succulent with soft flavors of lemon and garlic.
It is simple to make and makes a great roast for a Sunday lunch or cold for a summer lunch or picnic.
More »
7. Chicken: Coronation Chicken
Coronation Chocken is a totally traditional British food and its creamy, spicy flavour plus that it packs easily into a plastic box make is a perfect picnic food.
Coronation chicken was designed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth IIas a representation of the, then, colonial nature of the British Empireso includes fruit, curry and mayonnaise. There may no longer be aBritish empire but this recipes remains a firm favourite all over theBritish Isles.
Coronation Chicken is a great way to use up leftover chicken. CoronationChicken is lovely served with a rice salad, as a jacket potato filling,and great for lunch boxes, picnics and buffets. How versatile!
More »
8. Sweet Things: Eton Mess Recipe
As the story goes: Eton Mess was traditionally served at Eton College but how it came tohave the name is not clear but the story is a Labrador dog sat on a picnicbasket in the back of a car and squashed a strawberry and meringuedessert. So as this dessert is already squashed it is great for a picnic, no-one has to worry about the dish being messed up.
The dessert is quick and easy to make and makes great use of ripestrawberries at the height of summer when they are plentiful. Frozen orcanned strawberries don't work.
More »
9. Sweet Things: Traditional Jam Tarts or Flapjack
Jam tarts are one of the first things my mum ever taught me to bakeprobably because a jam tart recipe is just so easy just a little pastyand jam or, for lemon tarts, using lemon curd. Packed into a little box they are such a great picnic snack or after picnic treat.
Another great sweet food is a box of tasty flapjack. Traditional Flapjack is one of the quickest, easiest and importantly cheap baked goods to make. This is a traditional flapjack recipe anddelicious.
- Traditional Jam Tarts Recipe
- Flapjack Recipe
10. And to Drink: Elderflower, a Beer or a Pimm's, You Choose
Taking something to drink of course is most important. You choose if those drinks are non, or, alcoholic. It will depend on the time, occasion and who is present.
One of the most refreshing drinks for the summer is an ElderflowerCordial. An Elderflower Cordial Recipe is quick and easy to make and agreat excuse for a long walk collecting flowers, it also a non-alcoholic drink.
Pimm's is the quintessentially summer drink in the UK, it brinsg the scents of summer, parties, picnics and Wimbledon together.
And, if it is a beer you fancy, check out how to match the two together.
More »