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    Home โ€ข Recipes โ€ข Picnic Recipes

    Picnic Recipes

    • fresh peach and nectarine slices arranged on puff pastry and an almond paste
      Easiest Peach Tart Recipe with Puff Pastry
    • simple fig tart made with puff pastry with sliced fresh figs on an almond and honey mixture and topped with flaked almonds
      French Fig Tart with Almonds and Honey
    • roasted sliced tomatoes with mozzarella stacked together
      Oven Roasted Tomatoes and Mozzarella
    • slice of French blueberry tart, baked in the oven with a crisp pรขte sucrรฉe pastry and dusted with powdered sugar
      French Blueberry Tart - The Easiest Recipe
    • French tuiles cookies made with almonds and rounded like tiles
      How to Make Tuiles - The Easiest French Almond Cookie
    • moist banana nut bread made with ripe bananas, chestnut flour and walnuts
      Moist Banana Nut Bread - Low in Sugar
    • plate of gooey gluten free brownies made with almond flour and melted chocolate, topped with almonds
      Gluten Free Brownies - Fudgiest Ever
    • juicy chicken drumsticks being baked and brushed with a tomato BBQ sauce
      Baked BBQ Chicken Drumsticks (with a homemade sauce)
    • spooning almond cream into unbaked jam tarts
      Macaroon Jam Tarts
    • close up of a buttery cookie with chocolate chips
      Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • bowl of creamy chickpea spread with extra garlic the French way, served with raw vegetables
      Poichichade: Provenรงal Garlic Chickpea Spread
    • beetroot salad with apple, leaves, nuts, seeds, orange and smoked mackerel
      Roast Beetroot Salad with Apple and Smoked Mackerel
    • asparagus lemon clafoutis slice
      White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
    • moist fluffy muffins with two topped with a spiral of cream cheese frosting with orange zest
      Carrot Cake Muffins
    • oat crumble squares with a date paste sandwiched in middle, cut on plate with old recipe book and tartan in background
      Matrimonial Cake (Date Squares)
    • bowl of broccoli hummus spread with a baguette
      Broccoli Hummus - The Easiest of Broccoli Recipes
    • Kir Royal cocktail in front of a French chateau
      Kir Royal (French Cocktail)
    • slice of fiadone cheesecake
      Corsican Ricotta Cheesecake (Fiadone)
    • Chocolate Brownie Cookie Crumbles

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