Picnics and festival films are together one of my favourite activities associated with summer in Perth - and the weekend was to end with with a viewing of Baaria with some friends. Picking out some tasty looking portable food and adapting one my stock standard salads gave me a nice mix on the Sunday afternoon of trying out new foods and making easy classics.
February GT has a whole section on Zucchinis and things to do with them so decided on the zucchini fritters as they looked like perfect picnic food. I don't know how often I need to make things with zucchini in them before I realise that even when the recipe doesn't mention squeezing the excess moisture out of the zucchinis that it is still a good idea. This was probably the major flaw with this recipe in my opinion however even with the excessively runny mixture which I squeezed the liquid out of as I made the fritters they still turned out pretty well. The combo of dill and mint offset the zucchini nicely to give a lovely fresh summery flavour. Recipe can be found here
Zucchini and Dill Fritters.
Chickpea salads are a pretty standard salad in my throw together salad range. They are easy to make and can be varied easily depending on the ingredients in the fridge at the time so I always have a tin of chickpeas in the cupboard to get me half way there to a quick salad. This time I opted for feta, Cherry tomatoes, marinated roasted capsicums which I had made previously, flat leaf parsley, salt and pepper. The marinated capsicum provided all the dressing needed in this case.
To top off the picnic I decided to make a cake - not that common an occurrence for me unless I am on morning tea at work. Belinda Jeffries Mix and Bake has a plethora of amazing looking cakes and one of my girlfriends is a massive advocate of this book. One of her recommended cakes was the
Really Beautiful Orange Cake and this is the cake I opted for being much more of a fruit / citrus in my sweets kind of a girl than a chocolate kind of a girl. Unfortunately I missed the part of the recipe that said it needed concentrated orange juice so had to settle for a
Beautiful Orange Cake instead but it was still great. The dried cranberries (or Craisens) gave little bursts of flavour to the cake so although the recipe states that these are optional I would highly recommend including them.
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It was a tasty picnic and a lovely night catching up with friends I hadn't seen in ages! Love these warm summer nights for outdoor activities.
Chickpea salads are a pretty standard salad in my throw together salad range. They are easy to make and can be varied easily depending on the ingredients in the fridge at the time so I always have a tin of chickpeas in the cupboard to get me half way there to a quick salad. This time I opted for feta, Cherry tomatoes, marinated roasted capsicums which I had made previously, flat leaf parsley, salt and pepper. The marinated capsicum provided all the dressing needed in this case.
To top off the picnic I decided to make a cake - not that common an occurrence for me unless I am on morning tea at work. Belinda Jeffries Mix and Bake has a plethora of amazing looking cakes and one of my girlfriends is a massive advocate of this book. One of her recommended cakes was the Really Beautiful Orange Cake and this is the cake I opted for being much more of a fruit / citrus in my sweets kind of a girl than a chocolate kind of a girl. Unfortunately I missed the part of the recipe that said it needed concentrated orange juice so had to settle for a Beautiful Orange Cake instead but it was still great. The dried cranberries (or Craisens) gave little bursts of flavour to the cake so although the recipe states that these are optional I would highly recommend including them.
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