Question of the Week - What are some of your favorite picnic's menu's to make

August 7, 2008

Question of the Week - It's summer time and time to enjoy the outdoors

more.

What are some of your favorite picnic's to make and take on outings to the

park, ball game, outdoor music concert, backyard, road trip(love rest area

picnic tables), boating?

It will be fun and inspiring, for us all, to see different menus with

recipes and hear how you and where you enjoy your outdoor picnic's.

Looking forward to your answers.

Judy

August 7, 2008

This salad has always been a hit, you can double it too.

I also make potato salad. Thos two salads travel well.

Donna

" Summer Sunshine Pasta Salad "

8 oz. wagon wheel or bow tie shaped pasta

1/4 tsp. turmeric

8 oz. small pasta shells

1/3 cup olive oil (1 tblsp. extra)

2 cups broccoli florets blanched

juice and zest of one orange

2 Tblsp. fresh lemon juice

salt to taste

Cayenne pepper to taste

1 yellow bell pepper cut into thin strips

1 sm. red onion chopped

1 cup cherry tomatoes halved

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

1 cup canned kidney beans or chickpeas

Cook wagon wheels or bow tie pasta in salt water, while pasta is

cooking add the turmeric to the water to turn pasta bright yellow.

Cook tiny shell pasta in another pot until done. Make sure both

pastas are al dente and drain and rinse. Now place them both in

large bowl with broccoli and toss with 1 Tblsp. olive oil.

To make dressing combine orange juice and zest, lemon juice, salt and

cayenne pepper to taste. Whisk in the remaining 1/3 cup olive oil

until blended then pour over pasta and broccoli. Add the bell

pepper, onion and tomatoes and toss. Chill. When ready to serve toss

once and sprinkle sunflower seeds over top.

This serves about 5

August 7, 2008

On the road, I often take sliced up veggies for sub sandwiches. I put them in a

plastic container, that way they don't make the bread soggy. Put the Veganaise

in a small glass container( I save my pimento jars).

Take some frozen Worthington vegetarian luncheon slices. They are usually

thawed out by the time we stop to eat at a rest area picnic table. I like to

put chips in my sandwiches. We like to use either Whole Wheat Sub Rolls or

Ciabatta Bread. Sprinkle veggie with Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning.

Pasta salads, marinated cucumbers, Vegetarian Baked beans with Vega-Links

sliced up.

Sandwich spreads made with either Fri-Chik into a " chik*en " salad or one I make

out of Veggie Hot Dogs. I'll send the recipes.

We love to take seedless watermellon, honey dew or Cantalope, that I cut up

ahead of time. Sometimes I make up a nice fresh fruit salad. Or we take fruit

like banana, plums, peaches just washed and ready to eat.

Necterines are wonderful to slice up ahead of time, and stir in a little sugar

and lemon juice(keeps them from changing color) and chill in the refrigerator.

They release some of their juice by adding in the sugar and that makes it extra

good. So good. Great on a slice of vanilla cake or angel food cake.

If we are eating on our patio at the table, we often end our meals with a fruit

smoothie, that we make in our Vita-Mix.

We almost always take a jar of whole (small) or sliced sweet or dill pickles.

Or we make my Hot, Sweet and Sour Pickles.

Take a pitcher full mint or fruit flavored tea, lightly sweetened. Or some

lemonade with lemon or lime slices in it.

Whole Grain Bagels, spread with strawberry cream cheese that I make from slicing

fresh strawberries and sweetening with sugar. Let sit a few minutes until it

starts makes a juice in the bowl. Then using your hand mixer, blend it with

cream cheese. Or you can make a herb flavored cream cheese, by using your hand

mixer to add in some dill weed, minced dried onions, lemon pepper, rosemary, and

chives.

Celery stuffed with crunchy peanut butter or cream cheese is yummy.

Fruit crisps are also good to bake ahead of time and take.

Develed eggs are really good.

All the stuff to set out for making Mexican Haystacks.

I love trail mix.

BBQ hot dogs over rice I'll send my recipe

potato salad, tossed salad with a nice selection of toppings, lemony coleslaw,

and other salad

Sweet breads, like zucchini bread or banana nut bread.

Enjoy,

Judy

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wwjd

Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:21 PM

Question of the Week - What are some of your

favorite picnic's menu's to make

Question of the Week - It's summer time and time to enjoy the outdoors

more.

What are some of your favorite picnic's to make and take on outings to the

park, ball game, outdoor music concert, backyard, road trip(love rest area

picnic tables), boating?

It will be fun and inspiring, for us all, to see different menus with

recipes and hear how you and where you enjoy your outdoor picnic's.

Looking forward to your answers.

Judy

August 7, 2008

I think I'm coming to live with you.

Thanks so much for all the great inspiration! I'm still new to all of this,

but oh yum!

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Claudia in RI

Mesmereyes at Ravelry

http://mesmereyed.blogspot.com/

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wwjd

8/7/2008 9:56:10 PM

Re: Question of the Week - What are some of your

favorite picnic's menu's to make

On the road, I often take sliced up veggies for sub sandwiches. I put them

in a plastic container, that way they don't make the bread soggy. Put the

Veganaise in a small glass container( I save my pimento jars).

Take some frozen Worthington vegetarian luncheon slices. They are usually

thawed out by the time we stop to eat at a rest area picnic table. I like

to put chips in my sandwiches. We like to use either Whole Wheat Sub Rolls

or Ciabatta Bread. Sprinkle veggie with Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning.

Pasta salads, marinated cucumbers, Vegetarian Baked beans with Vega-Links

sliced up.

Sandwich spreads made with either Fri-Chik into a " chik*en " salad or one I

make out of Veggie Hot Dogs. I'll send the recipes.

We love to take seedless watermellon, honey dew or Cantalope, that I cut up

ahead of time. Sometimes I make up a nice fresh fruit salad. Or we take

fruit like banana, plums, peaches just washed and ready to eat.

Necterines are wonderful to slice up ahead of time, and stir in a little

sugar and lemon juice(keeps them from changing color) and chill in the

refrigerator. They release some of their juice by adding in the sugar and

that makes it extra good. So good. Great on a slice of vanilla cake or

angel food cake.

If we are eating on our patio at the table, we often end our meals with a

fruit smoothie, that we make in our Vita-Mix.

We almost always take a jar of whole (small) or sliced sweet or dill

pickles. Or we make my Hot, Sweet and Sour Pickles.

Take a pitcher full mint or fruit flavored tea, lightly sweetened. Or some

lemonade with lemon or lime slices in it.

Whole Grain Bagels, spread with strawberry cream cheese that I make from

slicing fresh strawberries and sweetening with sugar. Let sit a few minutes

until it starts makes a juice in the bowl. Then using your hand mixer,

blend it with cream cheese. Or you can make a herb flavored cream cheese,

by using your hand mixer to add in some dill weed, minced dried onions,

lemon pepper, rosemary, and chives.

Celery stuffed with crunchy peanut butter or cream cheese is yummy.

Fruit crisps are also good to bake ahead of time and take.

Develed eggs are really good.

All the stuff to set out for making Mexican Haystacks.

I love trail mix.

BBQ hot dogs over rice I'll send my recipe

potato salad, tossed salad with a nice selection of toppings, lemony

coleslaw, and other salad

Sweet breads, like zucchini bread or banana nut bread.

Enjoy,

Judy

-

wwjd

Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:21 PM

Question of the Week - What are some of your

favorite picnic's menu's to make

Question of the Week - It's summer time and time to enjoy the outdoors

more.

What are some of your favorite picnic's to make and take on outings to the

park, ball game, outdoor music concert, backyard, road trip(love rest area

picnic tables), boating?

It will be fun and inspiring, for us all, to see different menus with

recipes and hear how you and where you enjoy your outdoor picnic's.

Looking forward to your answers.

Judy

August 7, 2008

Thank you. Come on over and well have a nice picnic together. We all inspire

each other here. I just love it when we share our ideas.

Judy in AL

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Claudia

Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:12 PM