Picnic Food

My supper club got together to prepare a picnic lunch on Saturday. We had curried fried chicken, baked figs with brie, deviled eggs with bacon and spinach, fruit kabobs and three different kinds of free-form tarts: apple, mixed berry with mint and peach. I made my usual picnic fare, black bean and corn salsa, but I made it finger food by putting it in tortilla Scoops and topping it with some diced avocado.

I also made a couple of drinks, Watermelon-Lime Agua Fresca and strawberry lemonade. The watermelon drink was fantastic and refreshing. I used a spoon to scoop a quarter of a big watermelon into a blender (it was seedless, but I tried to get rid of most of those little white seeds as I scooped). Then you puree it, then add 1/4 cup lime juice, a pinch of salt and some sugar water to taste (3 tablespoons sugar dissolved over low heat into 1/2 cup water). Serve it cold, cold, cold on a muggy day. Yum!

The strawberry lemonade was a recipe from Real Simple, so it was . . .well, you know. Puree a few strawberries (the recipe said 6 to 8, but I used about 10 because mine were small), then add a can of frozen lemonade concentrate and 24 ounces seltzer. Was not such a big hit at the picnic (could be because someone spilled most of it before a lot of people got a taste, but it was just a filler drink anyway, in case the watermelon drink was not enough).