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    Home • Recipes • Picnic Recipes

    Picnic Recipes

    • 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: Provençal Garlic Chickpea Spread
    • french green beans sauteed in a salad with a fresh peach
      How to Jazz up French Beans: Add a White Peach
    • French tarts with pistachio pastry cream and stawberries
      Strawberry and Pistachio Tart - with Pistachio Pastry Cream
    • land and sea salad with a savoury beet macaron
      French Charcuterie Plate Land and Sea (Salade Terre et Mer)
    • 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)
    • pink macarons on white plate and pink pansy with lemon verbena plant
      Vegan Macarons (Using Aquafaba French Meringue)
    • Chocolate Brownie Cookie Crumbles

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