Daytrips to eat - pretty ancient tradition that is unlikely to ever disappear. Refreshments for a picnic is usually different from the snacks supplied to the home dinner: they have well-kept, not dirty, attractive look and, of course, be delicious. Familiar dishes can be supplemented with, for example, spicy sauces and Spreads.

Important features

Eating outdoors always seems appealing and palatable than in a stuffy apartment. But with the variety of dishes for a picnic can be problems, because not all dishes are suitable for eating in the "camp" conditions. For example, in nature it can not be too convenient to have liquid meals. Meals that are heavily soiled or crumble - is not the best choice. Finally, it is not always possible to take a picnic some special dishes or specific cutlery, and therefore better not to take on a picnic dishes that are "demanding" to such things.

As you know, the food should be not only delicious, but also beautiful, and the dishes for a picnic is also true. However, aesthetics dinner in nature is very different from the aesthetics of, say, a dinner party. Excessive décor, plenty of decorations dishes may look somewhat out of place on a picnic. Do not get involved embellishment, even the food looks natural, as natural, too, can be very beautiful. Raznotsvete fruits and vegetables, kebabs golden crust and rosy buns attract attention even without deliberate decor.

It should give up the snacks, which can not withstand the long journey to the site of a picnic in the heat. The summer heat is generally better to abandon the perishable products - heat ordinary sandwich Sandwiches. Pros and cons   Sausage can be really dangerous. To a picnic on the left only good memories, should pay special attention to the purity of the products and their storage.

Delicious and varied

The most common outdoor cook skewers of meat, fish, poultry, shrimp or vegetables. As an accompaniment to kebab good variety of salads (vegetables easier to cut at home and mix already in place), as well as side dishes of baked vegetables. It can be baked potatoes, or grilled peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and squash, sprinkle with lemon juice and flavored with garlic.

To wait the main course, which is prepared on the barbecue, it was not too boring, you can invite participants to a picnic snack. Thinking over the menu for a holiday in nature, it is desirable to give preference to dishes that have convenient. Wield a knife and fork, and even more so, for example, forceps lobster picnic may not be too comfortable. So, better to choose a small a la carte meals, which if necessary can be eaten with your hands or a fork only. It is desirable that these snacks do not crumble and does not get dirty.

Perfect as a snack small sandwiches on toasted slices of bread with a paste of olives and roasted eggplant, small cakes Patties. Hospitable dish   and vegetable snacks, such as aubergine rolls. A good choice would be and French baguettes stuffed with garlic and herbs (to prepare better so small baguettes). Suit and various sharp toast and rolls of pita stuffed with vegetables, pieces of pita bread rolls, miniature cakes, small sandwiches, snack baskets with salad (to be filled just before serving, and it is desirable not to store salad dressed with long). All these dishes are perfect for a picnic, they are not only satisfied, but also create a great mood.

The original solution

Picnic menu can vary by means of original dishes. For example, a good solution will be different sandwich spreads. Slice of crispy wheat baguette with a paste - the original, useful and very tasty snack Low calorie snacks . And if you take a few jars Spreads and a sufficient number of different varieties of bread, it is possible to abandon the rest of the meals snack table. Preparation of the pastes is effortless if the farm, of course, there is a blender.

In Mediterranean countries, tasty sandwich spreads made from olives, crushed and mixed with spices to taste. This paste is darker with a very rich aroma and a very specific taste goes well with Italian breads such as ciabatta.

For lovers of spicy tastes suitable paste of roasted peppers. Cook it very simple: sweet peppers must be baked in the oven, then briefly put in a plastic bag, and then remove seeds and skins. Peppers are crushed, flavored with garlic, vinegar, salt and butter. Cooked sweet pepper, this snack will have a delicate taste, and if you add the chili pepper, will become much more acute.

You can make a paste of dried tomatoes. In Italy, tomatoes vyalyat directly at the sun in the northern regions often used to prepare this delicacy oven. Dried tomato slices pour oil with spices and garlic. A couple of minutes - and turn the blender such tomatoes in gentle Spreads, which ennoble the taste of any type of bread.

Pesto of basil or arugula - a great option for a picnic. The sauce can be prepared independently of green basil, olive oil, pine nuts, hard cheese and olive oil. And you can just buy a jar of the workpiece in the nearest supermarket. The sauce perfectly complements the taste of white bread.

Also great sandwich "spreads" can be obtained from cheese or feta cheese, ham, cheese, canned beans, paste, fried onions, stewed mushrooms. It is enough to show imagination and can offer guests a myriad of unusual and very tasty snacks.

Maria Bykov

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