what food would be in your ideal picnic

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Hmm

Lovely quiche
Champagne or prosescco
Cheese and onion rolls
Lobster in mayonnaise
Strawberries
Nice crisps
Pimms with trims
Potato salad
Pasta salad
Fritatta
Nice crips
Cheese straws

I hungry now :( My lunch looks nothing like that little list. Nor is it likely to any time soon

Ooh, roast chicken rillette sounds delish, sourdrawers

Cold roast chicken
Bacon, tomato and avocado salad
Roast veg cous cous
Mini sausages
Carrot and cheddar scones
Maybe some nice bread
Salt and vinegar crisps

Rocky road pieces
Banoffee pie

Pimms

Scones
Victoria sandwich
Home made pies
Crisps
Chocolates
Creme brulee
Homemade lemonade
Ginger ale

Naice mini pork pies, the flavoured kind
Waitrose's pork and apple sausage rolls (RIP the Tolouse sausage rolls though!)
Naice ham
Selection of smoked fish
Fruit salad
Selection of cheeses
Very cold rosé
Cloudy lemonade or similar 'grown-up' soft drinks
Eton mess
Naice scotch eggs
Salami?

Mine is so meat heavy!

Home made sorrel spinach and gruyere tart
Lambs lettuce rocket herb sugar snap salad with ex v oo and balsamic on the side
A really good tomato salad with red onion and basil
Very good bread
Cambozola, walnuts and celery
Very cold Prosecco - many bottles
Raspberries
Nigel Slater brownies

Cambozola Cheese
Smoked salmon
Green Salad
Olives
Griddled tomatoes (just a little bit black)
Rye bread and proper butter
Rhubarb and custard tarts
Pineapple juice and tonic water mixed in equal measure and very cold.

Cold roast chicken.
Good crusty white bread.
Mayonnaise.
Good butter.
Hard-boiled eggs with a twist of salt.
Pork pies.
Token salad (some whole tomatoes, maybe).
Crisps.
Olives (mixed).
Oodles of tea in a flask.
A good solid fruit or cherry cake.

I'm salivating reading this, and getting my picnic shopping list together ;)

This all sounds so good.. Whenever I actually have a picnic none of these things feature

Some kind of chicken pieces eg lemon,thyme and garlic
Chicken liver pate
Shropshire blue cheese
Slices of roast beef
French stick

Strong cheddar and beetroot in bloomer bread

Greek salad
Tomato and mozzarella with basil
Potato salad poss with egg, spring onion and gherkin

Tiffin
Mars bar cake
Pineapple

Elderflower cordial
Pimms
Prosecco
Coffee

A nice garlicky chicken salad,or a Thai duck salad or one of the following sandwiches

Lovely wholemeal bread with chicken,pesto mayo and roast peppers.
Chicken pâté with oatcakes orcrispbreads with red onion chutney
A nice roll with venison pâté and red currant jelly
Or ciabatta with roasted vegetables and a drizzle of chili or basil oil,or a little hummus.

Fresh scones with butter and bramble jelly or strawberry and cracked black pepper jam. Or lavender and honey shortbread.

Another cake would be nice,perhaps a brownie, or Victoria sandwich,or very dark ginger cake,or parsnip ginger and lime cake.Banana bread also works.

Some chopped fruit. A mixture of some of the following,Strawberries,blackberries,mango,apple,Anjou pear,grapes,and lychees.

A small savoury snack such as spiced roasted chickpeas,garlic and rosemary cashews or similar for later.

And one of the following drinks...
Rose lemonade
Ginger beer
Sparkling elderflower and pear
Cream soda with rhubarb
Strawberry lemonade
Iced mint tea

If someone was to bring along some mini pork,pickle and cheese pies I wouldn't complain.

I have spent wayyyy too much time thinking about this.

Actually can I add some borettane onions in balsamic vinegar to my already extensive list?

And a perfectly ripe peach or two.

How many hampers worth is that?
Anyone thought of glassware or plastic?
Blankets or chairs?

One's servants will take care of such details.

Well it is my dream picnic.

Send a couple ahead to reserve the perfect spot.

Prawns sprinkled with chilli and lime juice then whipped round mayonnaise..
Tiger bread [ prawns would go in that]
Sausage rolls
Chicken legs in a sticky honey and soy dressing.
Extra mature cheese and some damn good pickles.
Pringles
Almonds.
Crackers.

Ice cold Prosecco.
Beer.

Raspberries and cream, chuck in a couple of ready made meringue shells and I'm ready to go.

Prosecco
Sparkling water with lemon and ice

Houmous with crudités
Green salad
Strawberries, rasberries and blueberries
Avocado, tomatoe and mozzarella and basil

Crusty bread

A china plate and a real glass and a perfectly ironed napkin.

not rtft yet, but here's mine:
french stick
goats cheese
chilli jam
rocket
nice tomatoes
Quorn scotch eggs
potato salad - the 'finest' type with chunky new potatoes and thick dressing
prosecco
strawberries
extra thick double cream
chocolate cake

a proper glass for the wine

oh and having read the thread how could I have missed olives, and salt and vinegar kettle chips. Nom!

Baked aubergine halves
Baba Ghanoush or home made houmous
Crudites (inc cucumber, carrots, raw broccoli, excl celery)
Baby tomatoes
Rocket with balsamic vinegar on hand
A flan (pref smoked haddock and mushroom excl any cheese)
Orzo with black olives, sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, lemon zest, fresh mint….
Couscous with pieces of orange, cumin and mint
Quails eggs medium boiled and rolled in Roman spices (cumin, turmeric, cayenne, paprika, pepper, salt)
Home made breadsticks (fat and rolled in olive oil and salt)
Sardine pate (with lots of lemon juice, cayenne and a little cream cheese)
Home made baby wholemeal pitta breads
Home made half and half ciabatta rolls
Home made focaccia
Salami
Hot chorizo
Oatcakes
Cubes of No 4 Waitrose cheddar
Tuna with spring onions
Chocolate Brownies (G&B recipe, but with even darker chocolate and gluten free flour)
Ginger beer
Pimms and Tonic
Champagne
Cabernet sauvignon
Espresso
A poem or two
Dogs to eat up the crumbs
Flanders and Swan or Tom Lehrer (in person of course)
Some Afro-Cuban salsa playing somehow, somewhere
A lovely clean river so the children can have a jolly dip
A jolly good set of chairs and a table - can't bear eating on the ground outside.
China and glass - not keen on eating and drinking from plastic or paper.
Oh and since we are talking about ideal circumstances rather than reality - how about someone to drive me there and back?

Oh and of course salted almonds and fresh strawberries with black pepper...

Ginger beer
Hummus, avocado and salad wraps with lots of chilli
Posh crisps
Salsa for dipping
Stuffed vine leaves
Sparkling water
Salted peanuts

I want a picnic :(

Agree that an antipasti assortment is lovely - especially grilled artichokes, olives, peppers etc. I once went on a lovely pre-show picnic with my godmother in one of the London parks and she rustled up something along those lines. A perfect godmotherly treat all round!
Then something to drink that's summery and mildly alcoholic, such as Pimms.