The sweetish juicy middle and the salty bitter coat makes cheese balls a perfect picnic food for real gourmands. A glass of good wine will be a must for such a special picnic food. Ideally a proper pairing with salty bitter food would be a semi-hard sweetish type wine. Thus if using Dorblu, Roquefort, Gorgonzola, or other blue cheese you will need Cabernet Sauvignon, Port, Gruner Veltliner, or Merlot type of wine.

Grape Cheese Balls

Gourmand Cheese Balls
Preparation time: 20 minutes, cooking time: no, yield: 6-7 cheese balls. In this recipe I am using the red globe grapes.

Ingredients:
6-7 medium large round and sweet grapes (like globe grapes) or 10 olives
100g soft cheese, cream cheese, or processed (process) cheese
100g blue cheese (like Dorblu, Roquefort, or Gorgonzola)
150g pistachios or roasted (could be also salted) pumpkin seed kernels

Note: If you are using olives better to have the pitted ones. It would be also interesting to experiment with the stuffed olives. Use olives of the Spanish table type.

Instructions:
If using grapes then rinse and dry them using a paper towel. If using olives, no need to rinse them just, likewise, dry them with a paper towel.
If using pistachios, remove the shells and any unnecessary pieces. You will need only the green kernels. If using pumpkin seeds, remove the shells, pan-fry on a skillet shortly if needed. Nowadays you can easily find a great variety of seed kernels that are packed peeled and fried. Crush the kernels into small pieces.

Pistachios and Grapes

Mash the blue cheese. Then combine it with soft cheese (cream cheese, or process cheese). Mix well. You may not need a food processor for that, a folk may be quite handy to mash and make the cheese mix.

Cheese Mix

Take one grape (or an olive) and about a teaspoonful of the cheese mix. With your fingers cover the cheese mix over the fruit and then allow it coat evenly as you roll the fruit between your palms.

Olive Cheese Balls

You will see how a cheese ball forms itself quite fast. Make as many cheese balls as the cheese mix allows you to.

Cheese Balls

When done coat the cheese balls plentifully in the pistachios crumbs (slightly pressing them) .

Pistachio Coated Cheese Ball

Note: if you like, you can use sesame seeds with grapes.

Assorted Cheese Balls

The picnic food – a romantic picnic snack is ready. Now all you need is a good company and a bottle of semi-hard wine. Bon Appetite!

Useful information about the blue cheese:
Not many people often eat blue cheese. Some of them don’t find the look of the blue-green mold appetizing; the others fear the mold may have negative side-effects on health. If you find yourself in one of this group then the facts below may come very useful to you.

Blue cheese has wonderful benefits on health! The cheese mold in Latin is called “Penicillium roqueforti” – just like Roquefort cheese. Penicillium perfectly fights different harmful bacteria in the human body and organism. Also blue cheese is made from the goat’s milk. Thus this cheese will help young organism grow (as it has much calcium), others – to remain slim (as it is low in calories), and prevent cavities (due to calcium and milk protein). Goat cheese is rich in calcium, A and B vitamins, phosphorus, and iron. Besides it has less cholesterol and saturated fats.

Have you ever had the desire to woo the girl of your dreams? Thought of asking the girl out on an expensive five star restaurant for a date and then end it with a grand firework display? This kind of date is expensive and would probably make a hole out of your pocket. However, there is a cheaper way but certainly still as romantic, or even more so, than a date in an expensive restaurant. This kind of date is a picnic date. You can go to a nice place, bring delicious foods, enjoy fun activities, and end it with a sweet simple gesture.

Candlelight dinner with mellow background music at a famous restaurant is such a cliché. People bring their dates to restaurants all the time that it gets boring. People spend a huge amount of money just to impress a girl or make a girl feel loved without remembering that cost is not the matter. These dates are expensive and surreal. The cost of a date is not the main reason why a girl is impressed or feels loved; it is the thought that counts. If you are looking for a way to make the girl you want feel important to you, bring her on a romantic picnic date.

A picnic date does not necessarily have to be expensive, and it does not cost like a date in a restaurant. In fact, the cost of a picnic date is so small that you can repeat it everyday. Even though it is cheap, it is no less than romantic than the cliché dates. With the right kind of food, a good weather, the right place, and the appropriate picnic date activities, you can certainly impress a girl. If you happen to watch modern television shows, romantic comedy movies, or read teen novels; you will know that a simple sincere date makes the heart of a girl flutter like crazy.

If you decide that a good picnic date is what you will do, the first thing to do is to find a good venue for the event. There are several good places where you can bring the girl of your dreams. For one, there is the usual park where there is a field for the two of you to enjoy. Another good place to go is to a beach. A beach picnic can be a double purpose date; you can have a good picnic bonding time and also you can head to the water and swim all you want. For people who are so busy that they do not have the time to drive to somewhere else; go have a picnic at your backyard or a rooftop of a building. Most people deem it ugly and unromantic to go have a date at a rooftop. However, a good scenery, a nice pick of food, and add to that your sincerity; a rooftop date would certainly be a hit. Take this note; no matter where you choose to have the date, just be sure that you will really have a good time together.

Of course, a picnic date is not a date without the savoury food that the two of you will enjoy together. You can opt to have a unique selection of food and come up with your own recipes or prepare the food that is already proven and tested. Prepare a delicious Asian Pork Barbeque for a heavy snack. A simple ham and cheese sandwich just to have something to bite. You can also bring a hotdog on a stick for you to eat after some tiring field activity. Chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, muffins, and other sweet pastries are also a good addition to the menu. Lastly, if you do not know how to bake or prepare a barbeque, prepare a homemade pizza. Just remember to keep it edible. However, to make the picnic date a romantic date, you can share the food that you are biting with one another. Feed each other like you do when you are married.

The last bit to complete your date is a good activity to keep you from getting bored. Play a Truth or dare game, fly a kite together, have a walk around the place, or lie down and watch the different cloud formations together.

A date does not have to be expensive, it just have to be from the heart. Always remember that to woo a girl, your intentions must be sincere. A personalized picnic date would mean much more to a girl than an insincere five-star restaurant date.

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Romantic Picnic Food Ideas For Your Romantic Date

Jennifer Allen

Gone seem to be the days when a man and a woman would idle away a lazy afternoon, dancing the slow courtship dance under the canopy of green foliage above them. Gone are the checkered cloths laid out on the lawn and gone too is the wicker basket filled with treats meant to both impress and sustain. These days have been replaced by cyber chatting and hurried cups of coffee over sugary treats that have been made with neither love nor attention. The courtship ritual has been tossed aside for efficiency and convenience, and I for one find this a shame.

Bring back the picnic! Take the time to organize and prepare a basket full of delights to show your chosen one that you really do care. Not only is the picnic the quintessential expression of romance, but it allows one to relax, unwind and express your self away from behind a computer screen or iPhone.

There is no lack of recipes out there that will both appeal and charm your date, but there are some things that you should keep in mind while planning your picnic. First of all, consider that you’ll be eating perhaps without cutlery, and likely without a table. Therefore, finger foods or foods eaten only with a fork are a must. Don’t serve your guest spaghetti dripping in sauce for goodness sake!

Secondly, consider that your foods need to be portable. Abstain from using highly temperature sensitive meats like raw fish or mayonnaise heavy dishes. Opt instead for cooked meats and befriend the humble citrus. Avoid gloppy dressings and instead choose light and fresh flavors.

Finally, be aware of what kind of sweets you pack. Many kinds of chocolate or whipping cream are heat sensitive and will wilt, droop, bloom (not a good thing) or otherwise turn nasty if not being held in the right kind of humidity and temperature. Better yet, pack up the basket when you’re finished and walk off, hand in hand, in search of a local ice cream parlor.

The times may change and things always come and go, but the art of the picnic is one of those nostalgic feel-good moments that you will always cherish. Take a moment out of your hectic schedule and plan a date from the heart, with slow food and easy conversation; you’re sure to impress.

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Romantic Picnic Food Ideas for

Your Romantic Date

Ah, romance. Love is the fuel that drives the world, and enhancing romance just keeps that engine going. When we start dating it is wonderful. Life seems better and brighter than it was before you met your special someone; flowers smell brighter; the colors are more vibrant; and food tastes even more magnificent. Thus, it is easy to see why someone would want to keep this going. To help you with this quest, and with giving your relationship that continued romantic spark that you need, here are three romantic picnic food ideas for you.

Picnic Food Idea #1: Chocolate Makes the World Go Round

In a relationship chocolate makes everything better. Whether its a bad day, an argument, or an illness, chocolate that is appropriately used can brighten anyone’s bad mood. And when things are going great, it can make them even better. Try this out the next time you go on a picnic with your special someone. Take fresh strawberries. Melt some chocolate in a pan, then dip the strawberries in them. Let them cool in the refrigerator. This will let the chocolate set. When you go on your picnic, take these out and feed them to your date. It will make his or her mouth melt.

For better results, use multiple coats of chocolate, like white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate.

Picnic Food Idea #2: Romantic Fruit Smoothies

The next time you go on a picnic during the day – especially to the beach! – then pack a cold fruit smoothie with you. You can mix and match fruits for your smoothie, and you can’t really go wrong, but just to be sure, try these combinations. For a sweet, smooth drink, use strawberries, peaches, and bananas. For a more tangy, exotic combination, throw in pineapple, mango, and kiwi. For something truly wild and different, put in pomegranate, grapefruit, orange, and lime. Just pop these in, blend them with ice, and there you have it.

To add more romance to this picnic food idea, put whipped cream on top in the shape of a heart. They will love that!

Picnic Food Idea #3: Delicious Strawberry Shortcake

There are many fun and romantic desserts to serve as romantic picnic food ideas, and strawberry shortcake is but one. But what a dessert! These are sweet because they are small enough to feed your significant other with them – which can be very intimate. The best way to make these is to take premade shortcake cups that you can find at a supermarket. Fill them with fresh, cut strawberries mixed with a light strawberry glaze. Top it off with Reddi-wip or some other whipped cream. You can also drizzle thin chocolate syrup over your dessert, or even put a little powdered sugar around the edges.

To enhance this picnic food idea, try cutting two thin strawberry slices and placing them together on top of your strawberry shortcake in the shape of a heart.

Well, the above romantic food ideas should give you a good start as to what you can prepare and bring to a romantic picnic. Be it at a moonlit lake, or at a hot and sultry beach, or even a sweet foray into the forest, these romantic picnic food ideas will really enhance your date.

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What is the perfect date? Some would say it is taking a nice, romantic stroll under a moonlit sky. Others would say it is a boating trip to the lake. Still others would say a perfect date is a movie snuggled up together on a couch. I would say that while all of these are great ideas, a romantic picnic is the best all-around date. You get food, togetherness, great conversation, laughter, and romance, all in one. If you have never taken a romantic picnic, and need some picnic food ideas, then this article is for you. I will give you a few outstanding picnic food ideas for your trip down Lover’s Lane.

Using Finger Foods as Picnic Food Ideas

There are few things more intimate and touching than feeding small, bite-sized pieces of food to your significant other. Some of the best picnic food ideas involving bringing these foods to your picnic so you and your partner can take turns sharing a sweet moment with each other. Most people think of chocolates and other candies when you mention this, but you can actually have the same romantic effect with real food. Try chicken nuggets with dipping sauces, like ranch, honey mustard, BBQ, and the like. Spiral finger sandwiches have also become quite popular, like the kind you find at weddings and other events. The point is to use any food that you can offer to your special someone – and them to you.

Sweet Messages with Candy

If you and your partner love candy or chocolates (and who doesn’t?), then you can make them into sweet tokens of your affection and appreciation. You do not even have to cook these yourself. If you do not want to prepare these desserts yourself, then take pre-wrapped candy and write a sweet little note inside the wrapper. Or, draw hearts on the inside of the wrapper. If you want to make candy and chocolate, then wrap them in love notes that you have written and decorated yourself. When your partner unwraps these, they can see your love right there in front of them.

Making Your Sandwich Special: A Creative Picnic Food Idea

This picnic food idea does not have anything to do with cooking, actually, but in how you prepare the sandwich. Ordinary sandwiches can be boring. There is nothing romantic about them. But, you can make your sandwich a bit more intimate and cute for your lover. The first way is to cut your sandwich into the shape of a heart. This works better if you use sliced sandwich bread. Another cute thing you can do with your sandwich is to carve “I Love You” in the meat or bread. You can also surprise your loved one by bringing the ingredients of their favorite sandwich to the picnic – and then making it together.

All of these tips and picnic ideas can help make your romantic picnic special, but really, all you need is love, care, affection, and a little creativity. I hope your picnic outings are made special by the tips in this article, and that you get to have your perfect date soon.

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