Picnic Recipes, 2014

Hi,

Corn came from Von Bergens in Hebron, IL.

Polar Bitter Lemon drink was from Garden Fresh in Northbrook on sale for 79 cents.

Boston Baked Beans and steamed brown bread was from LostRecipesFound.com. I steamed my bread in a loaf pan and not a can. It took just over an hour, which is far shorter than using the can.

Burmese ginger salad was influenced from a visit to Fort Wayne, Indiana. I used this recipe as a base: http://www.chow.com/recipes/30710-ginge ... in-burmese

I did not fry all the crunchy bits, I bought a container of mixed crispy bits in Indianapolis. I might in the future do all the prep individually, then again that container was a real time saver.

I thought this would be a fresh ginger preparation and was surprised by the 48-hour ginger prep. I only learned this about 24-hours before the picnic. I selected long ginger pieces, shaved off the skin and used a vegetable peeler to make long thin ribbons the width of the ginger. These were salted for 15 hours, drained, rinsed and allowed to drip dry. I then put them in to ziploc bags with lime juice.

When it was closer to serving, I sliced the ginger thinly along the narrow side. This created fine small threads of ginger. I cut roughly a similar volume of Napa cabbage very thinly. This was mixed into a serving bowl along with a pinch of sugar, very little fish sauce and rice wine. This was allow to sit for a while.

Once serving began, I sprinkled in a heavy dose of the crunch bits. Later, I added some lime leaves from JoelF.

Thanks Cathy for the link for that salad.

Foodie1 - was the duck fried rice purchased? If not, would love the know the details.

Eating While Walking - source for chicken boti recipe?

And Turkob, Snap123 & Gastro Gnome, would like some more details on the stuffed grape leaves - loved those.

BR - I made the duck fried rice at home. I used duck from Sun Wah (Uptown) and pineapple bacon sausage with the usual suspects of rice, garlic, onion, soy, rice, egg, green onions.

foodie1 wrote:BR - I made the duck fried rice at home. I used duck from Sun Wah (Uptown) and pineapple bacon sausage with the usual suspects of rice, garlic, onion, soy, rice, egg, green onions.

It was excellent - very well fried and composed. Any thick soy or just thin?

BR wrote:

foodie1 wrote:BR - I made the duck fried rice at home. I used duck from Sun Wah (Uptown) and pineapple bacon sausage with the usual suspects of rice, garlic, onion, soy, rice, egg, green onions.

It was excellent - very well fried and composed. Any thick soy or just thin?

Thank you! Just regular soy {Silver Swan brand}