primitives discuss picnics

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

And in other news, dear old sweet Lu was back on the job again today.

cali (93,769 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 01:37 PM

Picnics!

I love any excuse for a picnic. Tomorrow my son and I are driving 5 hours to RI to visit friends. Now we could just not eat lunch or we could stop at a restaurant, but I love picnics.
 
I have made:

Curried brown rice salad with roast chicken, veggies and grapes. Curry dressing is mayo and greek yogurt with curry paste, curry powder, honey and OJ.
 
Roast beet, orange and red onion salad with this fantastic local blue cheese and vinaigrette.
 
French Bread

Asparagus Gribiche

Grapes and cherries

Homemade Iced Tea with lots of garden mint and honey

Vermont Union Bars (yeast crust, almond maple syrup filling)

It will all be packed in my wonderful old wicker picnic basket and small cooler with cloth napkins and nice plates.
 
My son will roll his eyes... and eat everything.

Hmm. should I pack a table cloth?

<<<doesn't bother picnicking on road trips.

Easier, cheaper, cleaner, just to stop at a restaurant.

NJCher (16,673 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:37 PM

1. loves me a picnic

That sounds divine, and I share your love for a picnic except I can never get anyone to go with me.
 
What a lucky son you have!

Take a mosquito coil, for sure. And yes, I think a plastic table cloth because if you stop at a public park, you don't know what shape the tables will be in.
 
If you have those screen covers for the dishes, that would help with the wasps, which I always find around public picnic areas.
 
If I were going, I'd help myself to that brown rice-curry dish first!

Have a great time enjoying the trip itself, getting out your old wicker basket, and visiting with your friends!

cali (93,769 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:03 PM

3. Good advice. Thank you!

I only have regular cloth tablecloths, but I'll definitely bring one- and my screen covers. We can pick up a mosquito coil on the way.
 
And the brown rice curried salad is delicious and so easy to make.

cbayer (132,119 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:55 PM

2. Definitely pack a table cloth.

Depending on where you stop, some of those tables can be quite nasty.

Your picnic sounds wonderful. I also love a picnic.

I hope you find a beautiful place to stop and have a great time with your son.

grasswire (40,868 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:16 PM

5. of course pack a table cloth

Also napkins, a paring knife and a dish towel.

I always do.

I have a big stash of vintage table cloths that are perfect for such an occasion.
 
My mother's idea of a road trip involved deviled ham sandwiches, bananas, fig newtons, and a thermos of coffee. Even though she was a professional chef!

cali (93,769 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:51 PM

6. I actually love everything your mother packed for picnics. Particularly fig newtons.

grasswire (40,868 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:54 PM

7. I do too.

Some people are afraid of deviled ham. Hey, there's nothing weird about it from the can. Underwood has been making it for 150 years, right there in New England. Ham and spices.

[Carl]

cali (93,769 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 01:37 PM

Picnics!

I love any excuse for a picnic. Tomorrow my son and I are driving 5 hours to RI to visit friends. Now we could just not eat lunch or we could stop at a restaurant, but I love picnics.
 
I have made:

Curried brown rice salad with roast chicken, veggies and grapes. Curry dressing is mayo and greek yogurt with curry paste, curry powder, honey and OJ.
 
Roast beet, orange and red onion salad with this fantastic local blue cheese and vinaigrette.
 
French Bread

Asparagus Gribiche

Grapes and cherries

Homemade Iced Tea with lots of garden mint and honey

Vermont Union Bars (yeast crust, almond maple syrup filling)

It will all be packed in my wonderful old wicker picnic basket and small cooler with cloth napkins and nice plates.
 
My son will roll his eyes... and eat everything.

Hmm. should I pack a table cloth?

Eva,the stoned out carny whore of long ago,would be doing good to buy a box of store brand snack crackers. 

[franksolich]

Eva,the stoned out carny whore of long ago,would be doing good to buy a box of store brand snack crackers. 

What freaks me is that there seems to be some mother-son bonding going on now.

In the past, the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive used to describe her now-adult, probably mixed-race, son as a bother, a nuisance, an irritant; that she'd rather not he stop by to see her.

Poor kid.

[Chris_]

I despise picnics.  Room-temperature food, warm drinks, bugs.  Forget it.

[Carl]

What freaks me is that there seems to be some mother-son bonding going on now.

In the past, the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive used to describe her now-adult, probably mixed-race, son as a bother, a nuisance, an irritant; that she'd rather not he stop by to see her.

Poor kid.

Well,at her age and and in useless destitution she is probably in need of support from a likely bastard son from an unknown father thanks to a stoned out haze from long ago.

[thundley4]

Grab some KFC and find the nearest park=picnic.

The closest I've been to picnic in years is a family reunion held in a small town park.  They have electricity in the pavillion so hot food is hot, and cold food is kept in coolers until it's time to eat.

It's not really so much a picnic as an all-you-can-eat buffet/potluck.

[GOBUCKS]

Curried brown rice salad
Greek yogurt with curry paste, curry powder, honey and OJ.
Asparagus Gribiche (!!)
Roast beet, orange and red onion salad

Bitch is trolling us.
Big time.

[BattleHymn]

grasswire (40,868 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:16 PM

I have a big stash of vintage table cloths that are perfect for such an occasion.

Take your pick from moth-eaten, random stains,  still soiled, or all three.

[Tess Anderson]

I think Judy has a big stash of everything.

More odd behaviour from old Cali - now she's going on a picnic with Tommy? And packing some strange food to boot . . . she has changed, maybe these notes helped her:


 

[fatboy]

NJCher (16,673 posts)    Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:37 PM

Take a mosquito coil, for sure. And yes, I think a plastic table cloth because if you stop at a public park, you don't know what shape the tables will be in.
 
If you have those screen covers for the dishes, that would help with the wasps, which I always find around public picnic areas.

And don't forget to invite Yogi. Yogi loves him a picinic and bears got to eat too.

[Big Dog]

Crazy old Eva's idea of road food: three complex salads, bread, fruit AND dessert, and sweet tea.

Curried brown rice salad with roast chicken, veggies and grapes. 
Roast beet, orange and red onion salad with blue cheese and vinaigrette.
French Bread
Asparagus Gribiche
Grapes and cherries
Homemade Iced Tea with lots of garden mint and honey
Vermont Union Bars

 

Curry, brown rice, chicken, vegetables, grapes, beet, oranges, onions, blue cheese, vinegar, bread, asparagus, eggs, cherries, tea, mint, honey, almonds, maple syrup. Twenty tastes that don't go great together.

That mess would gag a goat. Somebody in that car is going to throw up.

[Big Dog]

And don't forget to invite Yogi. Yogi loves him a picinic and bears got to eat too.

Yogi wouldn't touch that mess. He'd report Eva to Ranger Smith for cruelty to animals.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbokHCIsBc[/youtube]

[DumbAss Tanker]

Crazy old Eva's idea of road food: three complex salads, bread, fruit AND dessert, and sweet tea.
 

Curry, brown rice, chicken, vegetables, grapes, beet, oranges, onions, blue cheese, vinegar, bread, asparagus, eggs, cherries, tea, mint, honey, almonds, maple syrup. Twenty tastes that don't go great together.

That mess would gag a goat. Somebody in that car is going to throw up.

I was thinking the only thing that sounded edible was the roast chicken and plain fruit (Grapes and cherries).  But then I re-read her list, and it wasn't clear that the chicken was actually separate from the pseudo-Indian goo.

[Big Dog]

I was thinking the only thing that sounded edible was the roast chicken and plain fruit (Grapes and cherries).  But then I re-read her list, and it wasn't clear that the chicken was actually separate from the pseudo-Indian goo.

The way I read it, the chicken was part of the cold vomitous stew.

Vinegar, mayonnaise, and sugar. Eva's going to give herself and her loinfruit a raging yeast infection, if the food poisoning doesn't get them first.

[Karin]

pseudo-Indian goo.

  And she makes this mess a lot.  Big Dog is exactly right, 20 flavors that don't go together.  Sounds awful.  There's the French bread though.  And the grapes. 

[franksolich]

.....the pseudo-Indian goo.

I had to nadin "curry," as it's just always only been a word to me.

I guess I have seen "curry" before, many times.

But I always just called it "glop."

<<<if not sure the name of something in real life (which happens because I've never actually heard the word), invents a word that looks like the object.

[GOBUCKS]

Picnic = Biggest tub of Kentucky Fried Chicken (all dark) + the sides that come with it + biscuits + sweet iced tea.

And it's much nicer to eat indoors where there are no bugs and you can see the game on TV.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I think Judy has a big stash of everything.

More odd behaviour from old Cali - now she's going on a picnic with Tommy? And packing some strange food to boot . . . she has changed, maybe these notes helped her:


 

Is that pic something she posted from her own home?  Whoever owns that has some real issues. 

[njpines]

Crazy old Eva's idea of road food: three complex salads, bread, fruit AND dessert, and sweet tea.
 

Curry, brown rice, chicken, vegetables, grapes, beet, oranges, onions, blue cheese, vinegar, bread, asparagus, eggs, cherries, tea, mint, honey, almonds, maple syrup. Twenty tastes that don't go great together.

That mess would gag a goat. Somebody in that car is going to throw up.

Even your sig pic looks nauseated at that mess! (and I've had 2 German Shepherds who would eat ANYTHING!  )

[njpines]

Holy crap, cali, WHERE'S THE KALE?????????   

[GOBUCKS]

Holy crap, cali, WHERE'S THE KALE?????????

That's right!

And she forgot the quinoa!

[BlueStateSaint]

That's right!

And she forgot the quinoa!

You can't forget the quinoa!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TobvW77tuwQ[/youtube]

[BattleHymn]

Picnic = Biggest tub of Kentucky Fried Chicken (all dark) + the sides that come with it + biscuits + sweet iced tea.

[franksolich]

Bitch is trolling us.
Big time.

From cali's town:

In 2011, the manager of the municipal electric department was accused of embezzling $1.6 million over a period of 12 years. The FBI investigated, and she was charged in federal court and found guilty.

This sort of thing probably never used to happen when Vermont was one of the most reliably-red states in the union.

[Tess Anderson]

Is that pic something she posted from her own home?  Whoever owns that has some real issues.

It's from her house and it's not the only odd thing she posted - I was way off on her tastes, her home is full of odds and ends. I thought she has probably started some kind of therapy (needs a lifetime of it).