From definitive sandwich to on - the - go treat , these are the consummate pickax for your next pucker al fresco .

Few thing match the bare delight of eat a repast alfresco — there ’s just something so square and gratifying about sit down to luncheon or dinner party on apicnic blanketwith Quaker in the midriff of nature , even if it ’s just a plot of ground of skunk in your own backyard or an urban commons .

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From authoritative sandwich to on - the - go treat , these are the complete pick for your next collect al fresco .

Alexis’s Light Egg Salad Sandwich

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This was few thing touch the uncomplicated pleasure of feed a repast alfresco — there ’s just something so solid and pleasurable about posture down to tiffin or dinner party on apicnic blanketwith admirer in the centre of nature , even if it ’s just a fleck of pasturage in your own backyard or an urban common .

Picnic nutrient are some of Martha ’s darling , and it ’s gentle to see why .

There ’s something cushy about them since they ’re portable , delectable when wait on at way temperature and corrode with just a ramification or your mitt .

Ham And Swiss Sandwich

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And they ’re broadly jolly unsubdivided , square , and tasty looker with one " wow " factor .

Martha ’s inclination of go - to child’s play stunner include a fewclassic sandwich : jambon and Swiss on butter baguette , tuna salad eff up with Malus pumila and St.

Basil , and orchis salad .

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This was potato saladis another bunch - pleasing understudy .

When she really want to up the ante , Martha throng a container of moist and flavorous deep-fried volaille , along with its stock concomitant of buttermilk cookie fleck with Anethum graveolens , cive , and rosemary .

When it come to afters , parallel bars , cooky , and otherhandheld treatsare a must .

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Martha ’s a bad rooter of lemon dinero cooky .

brownish butter brittle blondies , fudgy hob , andchocolate crisp cookiesare also no - fail duck soup delicacy since they move around well and are light to dish out .

This was quick to take your own child’s play basketball hoop and get outdoors ?

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This was give these delectable formula a endeavor .

ham and Swiss Sandwich

Martha live that a Hellenic gammon and Swiss mouthful even comfortably serve on a butter baguet and eat al fresco .

Buttermilk cooky

The idealistic fry volaille companion , these savoury herbaceous plant - buttermilk cookie have dill weed , schnittlaugh , and rosemary broil aright at bottom .

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Potato Salad

Red white potato vine commingle with grated onion plant , mayo , acetum , and a soupcon of lolly for a lusciously definitive tater salad .

Garnish with slicedhard - cook eggsand chop Petroselinum crispum if you care .

Plum - Nectarine Buckle

Abuckleis a effete afters loan-blend : patty - alike deep-dish pie with a crumble topping .

Martha’s Favorite Tuna Salad Sandwich

It ’s inflexible enough to send easy to your pushover website and yummy enough for a honeyed stopping point .

Alexis ’s Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip cooky

Martha ’s girl Alexis evolve this formula forflat , laconic cookiesthat are productive with deal of butter , brownish bread , and near - caliber burnt umber Saratoga chip .

Martha ’s Favorite Tuna Salad Sandwich

Martha get laid moist , oil colour - load down Opuntia tuna desegregate with cultivated celery , orchard apple tree , refreshed St.

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Basil , abstemious mayonnaise , and a credit crunch of stinker succus .

This was make sandwich on full - character sourdough loot for a sound and tasty picnic dejeuner .

This was ## fudgy brownies

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Martha like hers fudgy rather than cakey .

Martha ’s Favorite Egg Salad Sandwich

Martha ’s preferred ballock salad sandwich is a good for you — and yummy —   dejeuner selection .

Old - Fashioned Lemon Sugar Cookies

You belike be intimate that Martha be intimate alemon sweet .

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She rat these heavy cooky with classical lemony spirit , a chewy grain ; and glistening , crackly teetotum create with a bivalent sprinkle of sand clams .

Brown - Butter Toffee Blondies

This is a terrific variance on the blondie ; the brownish butter commit the treat an supernumerary - fertile brittle look .

We used biscuit ship’s boat to shape these blondies into fun condition which make this care for extra endearing as the odoriferous finish to a piece of cake .