Festive Picnics: Recipes, Crafts and Decorations for Outdoor Occasions
Author: Pamela Sheldon Johns
PAMELA SHELDON JOHNS is the author of more than 26 cookbooks. A former cooking school director, she now travels and lectures to groups and conducts food and wine workshops at her Tuscan villa in Montepulciano, Italy.
JENNIFER BARRY is the creator and designer of several award-winning cookbook series. She has won James Beard and Julia Child cookbook awards and the Literary Market Place Publishing Designer of the Year award. Her book packaging and design firm is based in Fairfax, California.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Introduction | 9 |
| Thinking Outside the Lunch Box | ||
| Getting Ready | ||
| Setting the Table (or Blanket) | ||
| Keeping it Cool or Hot: Food Safety | ||
| Cooking Away from Home | ||
| Cooking on a Grill | ||
| Cleanup | ||
| Before You Go | ||
| A Picnic Packing List | ||
| Grilling Checklist | ||
| Festive Picnic Menus | ||
| 2 | Soups, salads, & sandwiches: recipes | 15 |
| Cold Avocado and Cucumber Soup | ||
| Gazpacho | ||
| Chili | ||
| Roasted New Potato Salad with Pancetta-Rosemary Dressing | ||
| Corn, Roasted Pepper, and Arugula Salad | ||
| Creamy Tarragon Chicken Salad | ||
| Old-Fashioned Coleslaw | ||
| Asian Coleslaw | ||
| Couscous Salad | ||
| Enoki Cucumber Rolls | ||
| Goat Cheese, Arugula, and Tapenade Tea Sandwiches | ||
| Grilled Sesame Chicken Sandwiches with Wasabi Mayonnaise and Radish Sprouts | ||
| Shrimp and Fennel Salad in Mini Pita Pockets | ||
| Avocado, Pecorino, and Watercress Baguettes | ||
| Hummus and Pickled Onion Sandwich Wraps | ||
| 3 | Picnic baskets & boxes: crafts | 37 |
| Picnic Bento Boxes | ||
| Decorative Picnic Takeout Containers | ||
| Picnic Sand Pails | ||
| Mother's Day Picnic Tea Baskets | ||
| Hand-Stamped Picnic Boxes | ||
| 4 | Picnic Barbecued: recipes | 49 |
| Grilled Prosciutto-Wrapped Figs on Gorgonzola Crostini | ||
| Garlicky Barbecued Corn | ||
| Grilled Salmon Fillets with Pepper-Papaya Chutney | ||
| Mediterranean Marinated Swordfs and Shrimp Kabobs | ||
| Grilled Halibut Packets with Tomato, Feta, and Olive Salsa | ||
| Grilled Italian Sausage Skewers with Onion and Sweet Pepper | ||
| Grilled Hamburgers | ||
| Split and Skewered Grilled Game He with Chili-Orange Glaze | ||
| 5 | Picnic tables: crafts | 65 |
| Decorative Tablecloth Weights | ||
| Flag Place Mats and Star-Folded Napkins | ||
| Sand Shovel Napkin Rings | ||
| Beach Bottle Place Cards | ||
| 6 | Picnic desserts: recipes | 75 |
| Minted Orange and Mango Salad | ||
| Meyer Lemon Squares | ||
| Black and White Chocolate Brownies | ||
| Raspberry Scones | ||
| Banana Cake with Blueberry Sauce | ||
| Apple-Zucchini Cake | ||
| Red, White, and Blue Tartlets | ||
| Cheesecake with Brandied Cherries | ||
| 7 | Picnic decorations: crafts | 89 |
| Fourth of July Centerpiece | ||
| Picnic Party Fans | ||
| Father's Day Party Ties | ||
| Rice Paper Candle Holders | ||
| 8 | Picnic drinks: recipes | 99 |
| Iced Green Tea Spritzers | ||
| Honey-Orange Sun Tea | ||
| Strawberry-Mint Lemonade | ||
| Prosecco-Cassis Spritzers | ||
| Sangria | ||
| Lime-Cooler Margaritas | ||
| Metric Conversions | ||
| Craft Resources | ||
| Index |
Interesting book: Interactive Computer Graphics or Rick Steves Italys Countryside DVD 2000 2007
Taste for Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey Around the World
Author: Anik Se
One of the most accessible entrees into another culture is through its food, as Anik See aptly demonstrates through these tales of place and community and the cuisines that shape them. See describes in loving detail the meals and memories shared on journeys through eleven beautiful and diverse countries. On bicycle, See travels the breathtaking mountains of Argentina's Patagonia and partakes in a spontaneous roadside asado -- the region's mouthwatering rendition of American barbecue -- with two gracious and gregarious vacationing butchers. Riding into post-Soviet Georgia, See, a "victim" of incredible Georgian hospitality, lunches with a former mercenary-turned-cop, then continues on to a wine harvest feast in the mountains, the morning after matching her hosts glass for vodka-filled glass (and eating tripe soup as a hangover cure).
Relayed in gorgeous, detailed prose, A Taste for Adventure includes almost forty selected recipes sure to make every reader run to the kitchen to re-create roti, a flaky Malaysian flatbread; Rosita's pozole from Mexico; or adzhapsandali, a luscious Georgian ratatouille.
Publishers Weekly
Canadian cyclist See travels off the beaten path and returns with exotic recipes in this tale of adventure and exploration. As she bikes, often solo, through Malaysia, Georgia (Russia), Patagonia, Argentina, Iran and half a dozen other countries, she does so with the belief that one can come to know a culture through its food. Her respectful and forthright approach to travel in different lands pays off in the eating department. Charmed by the lone cyclist, people around the globe press local delicacies upon her, sharing glimpses of their ways of life along with their meals. Each chapter finishes with a selection of recipes for dishes See has eaten along the way: Rosita's Pozole from Mexico, a creamy hominy dish; Tkemali, a pungent sour plum sauce from Georgia; Bubur Injin, a rich Balinese black rice pudding. Although some recipes include somewhat exotic and perhaps difficult-to-find ingredients, the preparations are straightforward and the results delicious. When See writes that "realizing in places where culture is celebrated vivaciously, fear simply dissipates the world is much more opened-armed than we think," it may be hard for the reader to hold back a wistful, rather melancholy smile. Yet it's equally difficult not to be charmed by her sunny and disarming narrative, which is full of vivid details and telling moments. This is a hopeful and fascinating book for armchair travelers with a taste for exotic adventure. (Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
A Canadian best seller last year as A Fork in the Road, this installment in the publisher's series is finally available in the United States. See, a cycling editor for Canada's Big World magazine, has worked in television as a food researcher and traveled around the world, investigating the food and culture of 11 countries. In this delicious book, which will whet the appetite of every traveler and everyone who loves to cook, she encourages readers to expand their worlds both by traveling to exotic places and by experimenting with exotic foods. With a sharp eye for detail, she describes the taste and texture of each morsel of food that passes her lips. Moving from Mexico, through the Middle East, and into British Columbia, she shares her many culinary experiences and provides thorough insight into each culture. In Georgia she joins a wine harvest festival; in Argentina she stumbles upon and is invited into a wedding celebration; in Patagonia she feasts grandly at an asado, or barbecue. Each chapter ends with a few recipes of native dishes that See has personally tasted. A joy to read, this book is highly recommended. Stephanie Papa, Baltimore Cty. Circuit Court Lib. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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