Author: Stovel, DeeDee

Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Illustrated

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 192

Release Date: 01-04-2001

Details: Product Description Create delicious and portable feasts for any occasion. Whether you’re headed to a neighborhood park, an elegant music festival, or the top of a mountain, DeeDee Stovel shows you how to create a tasty outdoor dining experience. With 125 recipes that include dishes like cucumber soup, lobster rolls, fried chicken, and apple cake, you’ll be amazed at the variety of foods that are well-suited for outdoor eating. Call up your friends, grab a blanket, and fill up your picnic basket! From Booklist Drawing on her New England upbringing, Stovel presents a host of foods that make ideal fare for a Picnic. In addtion to expected recipes for cucumber sandwiches, peach ice cream, and chocolate cake, Stovel has corn pudding, grilled salmon or tuna, and several home-baked breads. Stovel has created some warming ski picnics with appropriately hearty dishes such as sausage and bean casserole. To goad those still unmotivated by her recipes, she puts together a number of menus to cover a host of picnic opportunities. Mark Knoblauch Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review “For great ideas on serving the tastiest outdoor meals, pick up Picnic!” – Country Accents   “… a useful compilation of 125 recipes fit for outdoor eating … they can also be used as potluck fare.” – St. Petersburg (FL) Times   “Not just for summer, by the way ― [Stovel’s] subtitle tells you she offers ‘125 recipes with 29 seasonal menus,’ i.e. year-round picnics.” ― Associated Press   “… provides readers with imaginative menus for many settings and seasons.” – Kansas City Star    “After flipping through the informal repasts in Picnic, you’ll see that life can indeed be the proverbial you-know-what.” ― Cookbook Digest   “Check out Stovel’s ‘After the Wedding Brunch Picnic’ for a delicious post-matrimonial menu.” – WeddingChannel.com   “This colorful book just puts you in the mood for a warm-weather outing.” ― Birmingham (AL) News   “With good humor and creative flair, Stovel offers 125 recipes to be enjoyed indoors or out, rain or shine.” ― Carolina Parent  From the Back Cover Pack the Perfect Portable Feast! Picnics are casual, they're fun, and somehow the food just tastes better outdoors. Enjoy 29 great picnic events with more than 125 recipes - packable repasts for every occasion and season, such as a Summer Canoe Picnic, A Fall Foliage Picnic, an Apres Ski Picnic, and a Spring Breakfast on the Beach. You'll find all of your traditional picnic favorites, from informal to elegant, plus recipes for soups, entrees, salads, and desserts that are a cut above the ordinary. Wine and beer suggestions accompany each menu. About the Author DeeDee Stovel is the author of numerous cookbooks, including the bestseller Picnic. A caterer, longtime teacher of cooking and nutrition, and passionate advocate of fresh, homemade food, she lives in northern California. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. SPRING FLINGS There is little sweeter than the first gentle breezes of spring. The crocuses start peeking out, a green haze covers the willows, tiny spears of green poke through the tangle of grasses and twigs in gardens and woodlands, and streams, unlocked from blankets of ice, gurgle happily down mountainsides. People slough off winter coziness and eagerly take to the outdoors. Any excuse will do to get outside, whether it is for a walk or a spring cleanup project, or - best of all - to have a picnic! Spring Day-Hike Picnic Menu: Grilled chicken fillets in a spinach wrap* Artichoke salad* Carrot sticks Gingerbread* and fruit Herbal iced tea* *Recipe included in this chapter Tiny, early spring violets, wild lily of the valley, and bunchberry poke their blossoms through the dense leaf cover along the trail and, with luck, a trillium or lady's slipper appears beneath the trees. Find yourself a glade of these miniature beauties and look through the leafless trees to find a view that would

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Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English