We are all going on a summer picnic (Picnics - Dave Herbert)

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Product:	Picnics - Dave Herbert
Date:	27/08/08 (131 review reads)
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Summer is the picnic season.

I have had several picnics this summer mostly they are just food at mealtimes when we have been on walks on holiday. The word picnic brings back happy childhood memories or me as my parents would occasionally take is on a picnic we would sometimes go to local woods or picnic on the village green often my birthday teas were picnics. Just recently someone bought me a book picnics by David Herbert photography by David Loftus. This is a cookery book with suggestions for picnics.
This book cost £6.99p it is a square paperback with 96 pages.


This book is divided into chapters for different kinds of picnics they are:-Lunch on the road, Picnic on a boat. Teatime in the park a bile ride picnic a beach barbeque children's picnic posh picnic a romantic picnic and a winters picnic.

Not only are there several suggestions for different sandwhich/bagette fillings and several cake recipes. There are salad ideas recipes for cold drinks.

David has thought about the occasion and given practical ideas for sandwiches for example those for the bike ride are more robust ones which travel well. Hard boiled eggs are one suggestion (I often take hard boiled eggs on a long walk as they are easy to carry) David gives a spiced salt recipe to dip the eggs into at the picnic. He also gives a recipe for dates stuffed with peanut butter to take on the bike ride. (I will often take dried fruit but hate pnut butter)
David has a recipe for a bacon cheese and potato pie as a suggestion for lunch on the road; this is a pasty type pie with pastry. It's a good idea for a picnic easy to eat and substantial.
No packets of crisps for these picnics but there is a recipe for sweet potato crisps and pita bread crisps.
There are recipes for banana bread and fruit cake for that picnic in the park (that's a great thing to do take the kids to the park and take a picnic)
For a posh picnic David suggests prosciuto wrapped bread sticks a chicken Caesar salad and a spiced prawn dip

There are sugestions for hot soup recipies to take on a winter picnic. These sound good for my hubby when he goies winter bird wayching or fishing .

These recipes are clearly written the full page illustration make the food look enticing.

My birthday is the 28th August my husbands and my son in laws the beginning of September we are going to have a family picnic in the woods at the weekend as a joint birthday/ pre school term party/ I shall be using some ideas from this book
I think this book was a good present for me I will dip into it sometimes

Summary: Ideas and recipies for pic nics