Picnic is a good way of getting the family together and spending some time enjoying. But there are many things which can make your picnic a boring occasion. These things can be choosing a wrong place, cooking food that consumes a lot of time and also needs a lot of effort and not playing around with the family. Many people know where to go for picnic such as beach, park, hilly are or any. But the main problem arises due to factors. People spend all the time on cooking and then do not have to enjoy or they get so much tired that they are unable to play games. People don’t even know what to play. Games for children are many but sometimes adults also want to play games but they don’t have any. Some picnic games for adults can be:

Murder Mystery Picnic

Make a murder mystery and tell one person to act upon it. The remaining people can guess the act. You can also make two teams and then carry this game. The team which loses can be asked to make food for the entire family. This game is very popular in clubs and Hollywood parties so you can try it on your family picnic as well. It is just like a mystery game that is played on board, the only difference is that you have to act in this game and the rest have to guess.

Victim-Detective game

In this game, sit in a circle and make small slips. The number of slips should be same as number of people playing. Except for 2 slips, on every slip write ‘victim’. On one remaining slip write ‘murderer’ and on the other remaining slip write ‘detective’. Then, randomly distribute the slips. What you have to do is that the detective has to find the murderer and the murderer has to kill all the victims. The killing will be secretly winking at any player so no one else gets to know. The person who sees the winks and is a victim will say ‘I am dead’ and get out of the game so it can be continued. The detective has to find the murderer before everyone gets killed. If he finds, he is the winner and if he does, the murderer is the winner. You will really enjoy in this game. The more the players, the more will be the joy.

Act the Part

In this game there are no teams. Every person who is playing can select a celebrity for himself and then act the way the celebrity is. Then, everyone else has to guess him. He can act as many times as he wants so if the other person is unable to guess, he will win and gain points. If the person guesses correctly, then his points will be detected. Moreover, only 15 seconds should be given for the act.

These are some really interesting games which can be played when you are going on a picnic.

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Picnics have always been a very common and excellent source of recreation. A picnic outing requires some food to be cooked at home and taken along with you. Making the decision of what dishes shall be made is not that easy as it might seem to be. The foods that you take along should be suitable to the weather, your taste and to carry. In summers, particularly, such food needs to be made which do not rot quickly and are tasty and fun to eat too. Also, they should be easy to make and should be a source of energy so that you can have maximum fun without getting tired soon. We suggest some of such dishes which keep you going and are very easy to make or bake.

Boiled salad

Ingredients

peas 1 cup

red beans 1 cup

potatoes (medium size) 3

oranges 2

beetroot (medium size) 1

salt to taste

sugar 1 tsp

black pepper ½ tsp

white pepper ¼ tsp

cream ½ cup

Procedure

Wash all the fruits and vegetables properly with water. Cut the potatoes, one orange and beetroot into small pieces. Boil peas, beans, beetroot and potatoes separately and put them in one bowl. Add the orange, peppers, sugar, salt and cream to the bowl. Mix well. Then put in orange juice of the other orange and mix again. Tasty boiled salad is ready. Refrigerate for some time for increased taste. Especially, when you are going outing in summers, you should well refrigerate the salad before packing it. This would keep it fresh for a long time. Salads are a great treat for keeping you fresh and this is one of the best ones.

Cornflake macaroons

Ingredients

egg whites 2

sugar ½ cup

cornflakes 1 ½ cup

dry fruits (cut into ½ cup

small chips)

Procedure

Preheat the oven at 160 degrees. Beat the egg whites for along time until they froth. Then add sugar slowly. Don’t add all the sugar at once. Now add cornflakes using your hands (not a spoon) very gently so that the froth of the egg white does not get settled. Add the dry fruits along with the cornflakes. Oil a baking tray and put the mixture of the cornflakes and egg whites in the tray using a spoon. Take full spoons of the mixture and put it into the tray. Bake for fifteen minutes or until they turn golden brown. You may also add coconut additionally or in place of cornflakes. These macaroons appear very appetizing and taste great too. At a picnic outing, the sugar would provide you with carbohydrates (glucose) to keep you active and the dry fruits contribute in keeping your mind fresh. Cornflakes are a very good source of energy. So, this recipe includes all the factors which need to be taken care of at a picnic.

Both the suggested foods are ideal to take at a picnic. They can be easily made; all the ingredients are easily available and fill in you enough oomph to enjoy a lot of gaiety at your outing trip.

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Picnic is a great place to enjoy but many people might not. This is due to choosing of a wrong place or spending your whole time on cooking something that consumes a lot of time and needs extreme effort. You should search around, ask people and read articles to find the best place for picnic and best food to cook on a picnic. There are many delicious picnic recipes such as burgers, meat loaf and many others. Some of the picnic recipes with meat are as follows:

Meat Loaf

You can cook this at home as it will require an oven to get cooked. And then you can take it along on picnic and enjoy eating it there.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup of evaporated milk

Apple

1/3 cup of diced onion

4 eggs

1/3 cup of bread crumbs

1 teaspoon of thyme

2 pounds of pork

½ pound of chicken

Salt and pepper

Procedure: Spray cooking oil on a pan which you are going to use in your oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Then boil 3 eggs. Now put all the remaining ingredients in one bowl and mix them well. Put half of the mixture in the pan and then the crushed eggs on them. Then again put the remaining half mixture on top of the egg layer. Now put the pan in the oven for 1 and a half hour approximately.

Your meat loaf is ready to be eaten. You can enjoy it with drinks and bread on your picnic.

BBQ Ribs

This is something everyone enjoys on picnic. Cook it and love eating it.

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon of vinegar

1/3 cup of hoisin sauce

1 tablespoon of tomato ketchup

2 cloves of chopped garlic

2 teaspoon o brown sugar

5 tablespoon of soy sauce

Honey (1/4 cup of honey in ½ cup of water)

4lbs of spareribs

Procedure: Except for honey in water and spareribs, put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them well together. Take a dish and place all the ribs separately on it. Pour the mixture on all the ribs in such a way that ribs are completely covered. Marinate the ribs and leave them in refrigerator for one night. Then take it along on the picnic and cook it over there. Put a frying pan on a stove and cook it gently. Add a little water to the frying pan so that the ribs do not burn. Your BBQ ribs are ready.

You can also cook them in a preheated 350 degrees Fahrenheit oven and then take them along on the picnic. In the end, brush honey in water on all the ribs and then enjoy eating them.

These are some delicious picnic recipes of meat which you can enjoy eating and can even serve them with French fries and cold drinks. You will feel energetic and can then play around with your friends and family. These are not time consuming and does not require effort so try them now.

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Armenian Picnic food,Barbeque and Recipes

Armenia is a country with one of the oldest cultures in the Caucasus. Caucasian cuisine has something in common in all countries of the region, however national traditions add special flavor to it. Armenia is bordering with Georgia, Baku, Iran and Turkey. It is the oldest Christian country in the world. The present article is dedicated to Armenian cuisine, picnic traditions; also we will provide a relevant few picnic recipes.

Armenians enjoy spending time in family, among friends and relatives. Picnics and barbeques are an important part of Armenian life. Although in the cities there are numerous restaurants and BBQ spots a picnic in the nature is a special occasion for everybody. Armenians prepare for the picnic barbeque a couple of days in advance. Barbeque has its Armenian equivalent, namely “khorovats”, thus the verb “horovel” would mean “to roast or broil” on natural fire not in the oven or grill. Horovats is prepared on skewers (i.e. stainless metal or wood sticks). There is food that Armenians would surely have at the picnic. The most necessary are: basturma, lavash, vegetables, tan and other. We will explain in detail what does each mean and will give recipes of each of these key meals or products.

As Armenians are gourmand they enjoy preparing food, and make it delicious. A day before leaving for a picnic it is a must that the meat intended for horovats (either pork or beef) will be specially prepared. To make barbeque soft, juicy and very tasty Armenians put the meat in special dressing (or marinade) which Armenians call “basturma” for a day (in case you are short of time a couple of hours will also do). Basturma is prepared the following way: 1 kilogram of meat should be washed, cut in pieces of 30 – 40 g (the size best fit for skewers) and sprinkled with salt and pepper. Add 150 – 200 g of sliced onions and poor 150 – 200 g of vinegar. Keep in fringe ideally for 5 – 10 hours.

Along with meat barbeque Armenians usually roast (or grill) vegetables, namely: eggplant, bell pepper, and tomatoes. Skewer the vegetables and keep them above the coals till rinds on the vegetables become blackish and partially peeling off. Take the vegetables of the skewers and peel them off, cut in small pieces, add salt, pepper, onion, garlic, olive oil and greens: basil, parsley, coriander, and dill.

Armenian traditional bread

is a must during the picnics. It is called lavash and can also be spelled as “lahvash”. Lavash is a thin flatbread and although it is a part of cuisine in different countries it originated in Armenia and only here it is thin as a paper. The flat rolled-out dough is prepared of wheat flour and then slapped to an inward side of the tonir (a wood or clay oven). When lavash is fresh it is soft, when dried it resembles crackers or chips.

The traditional cold non-alcoholic Armenian drink is tan. Besides being healthy it is very refreshing in hot summers. Tan is prepared from a sour milk product much resembling a yogurt. Mix same proportions of sour yogurt and water, add salt. Shake well, drink cold.

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Picnic is a great place for the whole family to enjoy together. People love to make food on picnic but the question arises that what to make. Many people spend the whole picnic on cooking and eating. They cook such things which are really time consuming and require a lot of effort, leaving you tired and then you are not able to enjoy with the family. Sometimes you even get the cooking accessories along and they are so heavy and huge to carry around that, again, you can’t enjoy on the picnic. These are many problems when you are going on a picnic so why don’t you think of having simple snacks? These simple snacks do not require much time and effort to get cooked. You just need a little stuff to carry around and basic cooking accessories to cook it. Also, they are tasty and you can carry on enjoying with your family.

There are many picnic snack recipes that can be used to make delicious food on a picnic. Some of such recipes are trail mix, humas, peanut-butter banana bites, cherry-tomato-mozzarella bites. These snacks for picnic do not require much of your energy to make them and not even much time to cook them. Just bring the simple ingredients from home or market and enjoy making different types of snaks on the picnic.

Trail Mix

Ingredients:

1 cup granola cereal

½ cup salted and roasted soy beans

½ cup raisins

½ cup sunflower kernels

½ cup dates

Procedure: first of all, chop all the dates and mix well. Take a large bowl and mix kernels, resisins, soy beans, dates and cereal in each other properly. Your trail mix is ready and will make around 3 cups of trail mix. You can eat it as a snack or with sandwiches as well. Serve it with juices and enjoy the picnic.

Humas

Ingredients:

1 and a half tablespoon of chopped parsley

2 lemons

2 medium sized clove garlics

1 tablespoon tahini paste

1 cup chick peas

5 tablespoon of liquid from beans

1 cup of olive oil

Salt as much as you require

Procedure: use the food processor to chop the 2 clove garlics. Chop them very finely. Then turn off the food processor and put all the remaining ingredients in it and then turn it on again. Blend then until the mixture becomes creamy. If you feel the mixture is not creamy and is still dry, add more water, olive oil and lemon juice until it becomes really creamy. Then add salt to it. Your humas is ready to be eaten. It is best when cold but as you are on a picnic so enjoy it as it is. The taste will be still marvelous.

Peanut Butter-Banana Bites

Ingredients:

3 teaspoon sunflower seeds

3 bananas

3 teaspoon peanut butter

Procedure: Peel off the skin of the bananas and cut them in long slices and strips. Best would be to cut then half lengthwise. Put peanut butter on every strip of the banana and then sprinkle the sunflower seeds on them. Once you have sprinkled the seeds, and then join two stripes with each other just like a sandwich. After this, cut the banana sandwiches in 4 pieces. Use a tooth pick and pierce it in the center of the each piece of banana to make in stable. Your one bite peanut butter-banana bites are ready to go into your mouth. Enjoy this simple picnic snack recipes.

Cherry-Tomato-Mozzarella Bites

Ingredients:

Around 20 balls of mozzarella cheese which is roughly going to be ½ pound

40 cherry tomatoes

40 basil leaves (from a large bunch and remember to wash them properly)

40 cocktail picks

½ teaspoon of salt

Procedure: Cut the mozzarella cheese ball into half from the center and sprinkle salt on each ball. Take one cocktail pick and pierce one halved mozzarella cheese ball in it. Then pierce one cherry tomato and one leaf in the same cocktail pick. Do this for all 40 cocktail picks and then eat them immediately. You can also cool them in a refrigerator for 3 hours but as you are on a picnic, therefore, enjoy eating it immediately. The taste is heaven loving and can be served with different juices.

You can also make many simple desserts on a picnic and enjoy them with your family. picnic is a place where you should not be just spending your whole day on cooking but should be enjoying and playing around with your family.

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Picnic Snack Recipes :  Energy Lasting Bars,Home-made Potato Chips and Monasses Granola Bars

Picnic is a joy for everyone. No one has enough time to spend with their family. That is why people decide to go on picnics so everyone can take out time from their busy lives and spend it together having fun. There are many questions asked by people going on a picnic that what types of games can they play or what food they can cook on picnic. You can make different snacks at the picnic or can make them at home and eat at the picnic. Always remember that the snacks should not be time consuming because you are going for enjoyment and not for getting tired.

Snacks are best for any picnic. It is better to make vegetarian dishes on a picnic because they consume less time and do not even require much effort. Many different snacks can be made.

Monasses Granola Bars

Ingredients:

½ cup raisins

½ dried cranberries

¼ dried coconut which should be unsweetened

¼ tablespoon sea salt

¼ cup ground cinnamon

1 cup whole wheat flour

¼ ground flax seeds

¼ wheat germ

½ brown sugar

2 cups of rolled sugar

¼ unsalted sunflower seeds

1 beaten egg

2 teaspoon vanilla

Procedure: You can also use any ingredients that are available at the time of picnic. You can use honey in place of brown sugar, apple sauce in place of oil and oat bran in place of wheat germ.

Place all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix them well. Then in another bowl, put molasses, oil, egg and vanilla and mix properly. Stir them well until they mix in each other completely. If you feel that the mixture is becoming very dry, add some drops of water and mix again. Do this until you feel that the mixture is smooth as well as ingredients completely in each other. Then, pour the mixture in a pan and heat it in 350 degree Celsius for 30 minutes. After baking let it cool for 5 minutes and then cut them in small pieces. Your snack for the picnic is ready and you can eat it at any time in your picnic. It can serve up to 36 people.

Home-made Potato Chips

Ingredients:

2 medium potatoes

1 fresh pepper

1 teaspoon olive oil

Salt as per your requirement

Procedure: preheat the oven to 350 degree Celsius and in mean while cut the potatoes in long strips. If you are thinking to make them on the picnic, then take a small stove with yourself and put oil in frying pan so it heats. Cut the potatoes and long strips and round shapes. Dry the potatoes by a paper tissue so when they are ready, they will be really crispy. Fry the potatoes in the frying pain and then sprinkle salt and pepper on them. Serve with tomato or garlic sauce and enjoy the yummy taste of the picnic made or home-made potato chips. If there are many people you can use more potatoes and fry them in a large frying pan.

Energy Lasting Bars

Ingredients:

1 cup sesame seeds

1 cup sunflower seeds

1 cup almonds

40Z of chocolate chips

1 and half cups of dried fruits

2 cup of regular and quick oat cereals

16 teaspoon of brown rice sugar

2 teaspoon of canola oil

Procedure: mix all the above ingredients in same sequence as listed above, one by one. Mix them well until they are completely emerged in it.

Spray oil on a baking pan and use your fingers to spread the oil until the whole pan becomes oily. Then pour the mixture in the pan and bake at 325 degree Celsius for about 30 minutes. Remember to pre heat the oven. Once they are baked, cut them into squares or in different shapes. Store them in a container and eat them at picnic time. This is a good snack which will keep you energetic at picnic so you can enjoy as much as you want.

Enjoy all these simple recipes and use them as your snakes at picnics. You can also make simple yet yummy desserts. Make salad at the picnic and enjoy with your whole family. this will be a memorable moment for you and your family.

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Picnic Food Recipes To Grill

This article is courtesy of Billy Best Food

Barbecue is the name of the device and a special way to prepare food. There are several types of barbecue. In Serbia we prepare barbecue on a special type of charcoal called cumur that provides exceptional flavor and juiciness. And smell that barbecue spread  is story for itself. Serbian people are very social and we like our free time to spend on a qualitative ways. One of those ways is to prepare grill in nature, countryside, parks if it is allowed there, in the company of our family and friends and we just enjoy in those simply things.

In any case grilled meat is recommended as the healthiest. On the surface of meat roasted on the grill is created a protective layer of nutrients.  In meat are preserved all the nutritional juices.  Because of that the meat on the grill should often be in the menu.

In Serbia we often prepare kebabs, ćevapi, Leskovac burgers, sausages, chicken , fish, and often different types of vegetables.

It is the best to use fresh meat. Meat should first sit in the spices well. What spices we use depends on the type of meat we prepare. It is a classics to immerse the meat in the  mixture of oil and pepper and Vegeta.

Barbecue should be well heated in order to the surface of meat would quickly brown and nutritious and aromatic juices would not leak . We should previously coat barbecue with oil. Upon request we can put on a little fresh basil, for additional flavor. To make the meat juicy, we should coat it with oil during baking  Barbecue  prepared in this way will satisfy the greatest gourmets.

We can grill vegetables also, especially that which is firmly like tomato, celery, mushrooms. It is coated with oil first.

It is very yummy potatoes that are grilled after cooking in the wather.Boiled, peeled and coled potatoes we cut up to in length, between half to insert a thicker piece of melted cheese, coat potatoes with oil, sprinkle with dry red pepper and pepper, wrap it in foil and grill it on the barbecue about 20 minutes. We serve potatoes on the table with the foil and eat from it.

We serve barbecue with salads of fresh vegetables. The ideal is a Serbian salad.The recipe you can finde on: Serbian Salad

There are many picnic activities which can be carried on the day of independence. First of all, you should pre-plan with your family about going out on picnic on day of independence. It is best to take the whole family along as well as friends and relatives. Some picnic activities for Independence Day include:

1) Make traditional and easy food at picnic. Try not to get food delivered from a restaurant or get it cooked from home. Enjoying traditional food with your family on such a day is a marvelous moment to enjoy.

2) Now, once you are done with the cooking fun, gather all the children who are with you and make them play games. One interesting game is the marble game. In this game make all the kids stand in a circle. Hand over half kids blue marbles and half kids white marble and one kid a red marble. Now play music and make the children give their marble to the person standing on their left. Everyone will receive a marble from right, this way there marble are rotated in the whole circle. Stop the music and the ones with white marble can get some treat from a bag while the child with red marble will come in the center of the circle and will dance. Keep doing this until every child gets a treat.

3) Another picnic idea is splashing of water balloons. You can divide the whole family in two teams and give red balloons to one team and blue balloons to the other. Fill the balloons with water and through them on the other team.

4) Another interesting thing to do is to make your own fireworks. This is fun for children. Make them color different crayons on a paper with any design they want. Once they are done with it, make them color the whole page with a black crayon. You should make sure that they color the black crayon really hard. In the end, scratch out the black color with a paper clip and see fireworks for yourself.

5) You can also make torches for yourself on a picnic for Independence Day. All you have to need is an old newspaper, some paints and yellow and red tissue papers. Tell the children to give newspaper the shape of a cone and paint it any way they want. Then when it gets dry, put the yellow and red tissue papers inside the cone, which will give the look of flames. The torch is ready for children to play around. They can move and run around with any danger of real fire in a real torch.

These are some things you can do as picnic activities on Independence Day. Independence Day is a real significance in everyone’s life so it should be celebrated the full. Picnics on such days get a real fun for everyone because the whole family takes out time from their busy life and spend it together with real joy.

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Picnic Activities for Adults #1: Card Games

One great way to entertain a group of adults at a picnic is to bring a deck of cards. There are plenty of games you can play with a deck of cards – everything from Go Fish, hearts, spades, gin, and bridge to Texas Hold ‘Em – one of the most popular picnic card games today. You can even impress each other and children with magic tricks – but remember, practice makes perfect!

Picnic Activities for Adults #2: Horseshoes

The game of horseshoes has been a staple of outdoor fun for a very long time, especially at picnics. The next time you have a picnic and need something to keep adults occupied, bring along a horseshoe set. You can find these sets – either made of plastic, wood, or metal – at your local sporting goods, hobby, or lawn stores. Just set up a stake, mark a line on the ground, and let the shoe-heaving begin.

Picnic Activities for Adults #3: Croquet

If you have ever played croquet, then you know just how much of a good time it can be. This game involves hitting colored balls with mallets through arches on the ground, called wickets. The goal is to navigate your ball through the wicket course and be the first to hit the stake at the end of the course. Along the way, you have to try and knock out other players’ balls by hitting them with your own, all while trying to avoid the same from your competition.

You can buy inexpensive backyard croquet sets that take very little time to set up. Once the wickets and stakes are up, get ready to have a lot of fun!

Picnic Activities for Adults #4: Beachball Volleyball

This is a blast whenever it is played at a picnic – and no sand is required! To play, simply set up a volleyball net (these can be purchased inexpensively; you can even use a badminton net). Then, instead of a regular volleyball, bring out a beachball. The rules are the same for volleyball – create two teams and have at it! The beachball means that you don’t have to be an athlete to have fun, and no one is going to get hot and sweaty or possibly injured by playing.

In the end, the best picnic activities for adults are ones that are fun and creative. Feel free to expand your horizons and branch out. For example, I’ve heard of adults participating in murder mysteries at picnics. How cool is that? Whatever you can imagine that is fun, you can – and should – do.

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Company Picnic Activities

Pan-grilling is also a good alternative when an electric grill is not available. This method is so simple, even a non-cook can produce a presentable and delectable fish dishes for the picnic meal.

The tricky part would be the making of different sauces that would enhance the taste of pan-grilled fish fillets and slices. Fortunately, you can buy lots of commercially-prepared sauces in jars and bottles. Although homemade concoctions would still taste best.

Like grilled fish, pan-grilled fish also goes well when served with vegetables: sauteed, parboiled, pan-grilled along with the fish, and just fresh. Cook green peas, corn kernels, and carrot bits in butter. Or just blanch baby carrots and baby corns along with strips of cabbage. White onion rings will look and taste great when cooked inside and around the whole fish. For something crunchy and crispy, serve pan-grilled fish with slices of cucumber and shreds of lettuce.

If you like it very, very simple, just drizzle you’re pan-grilled fish with creamy cheese and sprinkle finely ground white pepper or garlic powder. Don’t like cream or cheese? Dip your fish in apple cider or wine vinegar.

Tips on Pan-Grilled Cooking Method

Heat pan until smoke appears on the surface. Brush olive oil on the pan before placing the fish steaks on the center.
Do not move fish while cooking. Using a spatula, nudge the fish gently. If it moves easily, it is ready to flip over.
Frozen fish should be thawed properly. Pat dry before grilling to minimize release of excess juice.
Do not use butter when cooking because it tends to darken. Use olive oil or grape seed oil so that it will not burn at medium-high temperature.

If fillet has skin, start cooking with it on the pan. Lower heat to avoid burning.

Pan Grilled Fish Fillet for Picnics

You’ll need fillets or slices of any kind of lean fish, fresh or frozen. Marinate fish in lemon, rice vinegar, crush garlic, ginger juice, sugar, salt and pepper for 1 to 2 hours. Drain well. Pat dry.

Heat the pan. Spray olive oil on hot surface. Place fish on the hottest part. Lower heat to medium to give fish time to cook. Flip fish when it is easily moved. Moving fish when still cooking will cause sticking and crumbling.

Serve with salads and dips. For pan-grilled tuna, peach salsa and parboiled green beans will make a marvelous picnic food idea.

Ingredients for Peach Salsa:

1 cup peaches, peeled and diced
½ cup tomato, diced
¼ cup green onion, minced
2 Tbsp red bell pepper, diced
1 Tbsp lime juice, freshly squeezed
Ginger and garlic powder, to taste
Chili pepper and cilantro, to taste
Honey or sugar, to sweeten taste

How To: Combine all ingredients. If sweet salsa is desired, add more honey or sugar. Refrigerate for a few hours to allow flavors to blend. An hour before serving, bring salsa to room temperature. Serve with pan-grilled tuna, steamed rice, and some green vegetables.

Picnic Carp Fish Grilled on Griddle Pan

Impromptu picnics are often done during fishing outings. A griddle pan can be used to pan-grill the freshly-caught fish. Just heat the pan until very hot before applying oil. Drain the fish after cleaning. Cut a long line on each side to let flavors seep into the tender flesh while cooking. Sprinkle salt and pepper and let sit for 10 to 30 minutes.

Chop some onions and crush several cloves of garlic. Saute the garlic in oil until brown then scoop out. Arrange whole fish at the center of the pan. Make sure the pan is slightly elevated from the fire or the source of heat to avoid burning.

Do not force-flip fish or the skin will stick and the flesh will break. The fish will ‘tell’ you when it is ready to be flipped. Grill the onion rings along the sides when fish is almost cooked. Serve hot with rice or bread.

Picnic Pan-Grilled Salmon Steak with Veggies

Pan-grilling is the least messy method of cooking picnic foods. You just put the fish steaks inside the marinade bag the night before and transfer it in the ice chest the next morning. Bring the grill pan, preferably the non-stick one, and a portable stove. Pack all your favorite vegetables, a small jar of olive oil, some condiments like salt and pepper, and a bottle of white wine.

Ingredients for Marinade:

1 piece lemon, squeezed to get juice
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp vinegar, rice or wine
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp ginger juice, freshly squeezed
¼ cup green onions, minced
1 tsp honey or sugar

How To: Mix all ingredients in a small bowl. Put marinade and fish steaks inside a sturdy food bag. Let sit inside the refrigerator. Flip over from time to time to make sure all sides are coated with marinade.

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