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I love any excuse for a picnic. Tomorrow my son and I are driving 5 hours to RI to visit friends. Now we could just not eat lunch or we could stop at a restaurant, but I love picnics.
I have made:
Curried brown rice salad with roast chicken, veggies and grapes. Curry dressing is mayo and greek yogurt with curry paste, curry powder, honey and OJ.
Roast beet, orange and red onion salad with this fantastic local blue cheese and vinaigrette.
French Bread
Asparagus Gribiche
Grapes and cherries
Homemade Iced Tea with lots of garden mint and honey
Vermont Union Bars (yeast crust, almond maple syrup filling)
It will all be packed in my wonderful old wicker picnic basket and small cooler with cloth napkins and nice plates.
My son will roll his eyes... and eat everything.
Hmm. should I pack a table cloth?
NJCher
(35,342 posts)That sounds divine, and I share your love for a picnic except I can never get anyone to go with me.
What a lucky son you have!
Take a mosquito coil, for sure. And yes, I think a plastic table cloth because if you stop at a public park, you don't know what shape the tables will be in.
If you have those screen covers for the dishes, that would help with the wasps, which I always find around public picnic areas.
If I were going, I'd help myself to that brown rice-curry dish first!
Have a great time enjoying the trip itself, getting out your old wicker basket, and visiting with your friends!
Cher
cali
(114,904 posts)I only have regular cloth tablecloths, but I'll definitely bring one- and my screen covers. We can pick up a mosquito coil on the way.
And the brown rice curried salad is delicious and so easy to make.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Depending on where you stop, some of those tables can be quite nasty.
Your picnic sounds wonderful. I also love a picnic.
I hope you find a beautiful place to stop and have a great time with your son.
cali
(114,904 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Also napkins, a paring knife and a dish towel.
I always do.
I have a big stash of vintage table cloths that are perfect for such an occasion.
My mother's idea of a road trip involved deviled ham sandwiches, bananas, fig newtons, and a thermos of coffee. Even though she was a professional chef!
cali
(114,904 posts)S ome people are afraid of deviled ham. Hey, there's nothing weird about it from the can. Underwood has been making it for 150 years, right there in New England. Ham and spices.
japple
(9,769 posts)would take any kind of food out for a picnic, plus a bottle or two of libation that the US Forest/Park Service didn't allow.