Saturday, June 26, 2010

Picnic By The Pond

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Today was a perfect day for a picnic down by the pond. The breeze was blowing and the fields of hay were rustling around us as we enjoyed lunch :)

A couple of days ago we got rained out just before we were ready to head outside but today despite the cloud cover the rain held off and we had a great afternoon. With the tables and chairs on the back of the pick up truck and the picnic baskets loaded we headed down to set up.

Strawberry Peach Pear Pie

Preparations started early as we peeled peaches and pears to slice along with strawberries for a deliciously fruity pie tucked inside my whole wheat oat pastry and topped with a streusel crumble :) We mashed eggs for egg sandwiches, tossed salads and packed our picnic basket!

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Have I told you how much I love my picnic basket *grin*. My mom and I found them a couple of years ago and they came with real plates, glassware and silverware. You've got to love that it's not packed with plastic and the bottom of it has a zippered cooler pouch for keeping everything from overheating :)

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My daughter is crazy about using all the fancy dishes when we have little parties so we brought out the best treasures from the china cabinet to dress the table with :) No sense keeping them hidden away most of the year, we really should enjoy them more!

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Boys!! Our tea party etiquette mustn't have rubbed off on my oldest. We're definitely going to have to work on this *grin*.

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The kids' favorite salad. A combination of napa cabbage, carrot & noodle tossed in rice vinegar, mirin and sesame oil. I think it's just the sweetness of the dressing that they really like the most but if they're eating all that cabbage and carrot along with it I'm all for it :)

Strawberry Peach Pear Pie

While the kids played badminton, watched water skeeters and tried to catch some of the fish in the pond the rest of us read the weekend paper, sipped on our coffee and savored the fresh pie :) Now if only we could do this every day!

How is your weekend shaping up? I'd love to hear about what is keeping you busy or ultra relaxed :)

~ Rosina

6 comments:

Kristy said...

I wanna come to your house!

Anonymous said...

Looks lovely Rosina.

We spent yesterday morning at the farmers market and running a few errands (more yarn for me) and today we visited with my in-laws and watched the world cup.
This afternoon Fred and Isaac played in the kiddie pool - and they had a blast - while I did a bunch of gardening. Does it ever end? :)

Anonymous said...

Lovely, lovely, lovely!! The first photo is just so picture perfect. I love tea and fancy china and pretty food. I was just telling my cousin I didn't have room for the china set but she said if I was going to just give them away then start using them and stop worrying about breaking them. Which is so true. It's not a complete set anyway. =) You post is timely because I am in purge mode. Now I think I will keep my pretties. ~Cori

Jennifer Hoots said...

Oh my. You do know how to picnic!

Crystal @ Semi-Crunchy Mama said...

I love that picnic basket! The food looks and sounds heavenly, and it looks like you had a wonderful time with great company!

Unknown said...

this looks absolutely divine! Everything is so pretty, you almost don't wanna eat those perfect egg salad sandwiches!Love your picnic basket too! Hugs, Mica