Kitchen Essential

Barbecues Parties

These are the ideal occasions for using some of the extremely attractive disposable tableware now available — plates, napkins, throw-away glasses or cups and even brightly-coloured plastic cutlery. A barbecue is by nature an informal, family affair, where children can help cook and serve the food, so don’t use precious dishes or plates that might get broken. Stick to very practical, hard-wearing dishes and kitchen utensils. For a large number of guests arrange chairs and small tables around the garden and cover with very brightly coloured paper table-cloths, and use plates, napkins, cutlery, cups or plastic glasses in the same bright colours. For evening barbecues, place garden flares around the garden to give plenty of light. Set up a sturdy table near the barbecue where sauces, mustards, dips, bread and suitable drinks for both adults and children can be placed. Have a pile of plates ready so that food can be served as soon as it is ready.

Outdoor Picnics

Picnics don’t need to just be made up of a few sandwiches, cold sausages and pies, etc. They can be quite elaborate meals, beautifully set out and all the more tasty for being eaten in the open air.

For a summer picnic, take salads, mixed ready in air-tight plastic boxes or even china bowls, if there is room for these to travel safely; barbecued chicken legs, ham wrapped around asparagus spears; fresh crusty bread or pitta bread ready to fill with mayonnaise; cheese; cold meats; vegetable mixes; and sauces.

If you have a good sturdy picnic basket or hamper, pack it with china plates and either metal or disposable cutlery, real or throw-away glasses, pretty napkins and essentials such as salt and pepper, a corkscrew, butter knives, a tin opener, bread knife, spreading knives and serving spoons.

You will need either a picnic table and folding chairs, or a waterproof cover for the ground and a rug or thick cloth to go over it. Lay the food out on a pretty table-cloth and let people help themselves.

For a winter picnic, you might want to have a small camp-fire burning (if you are allowed to) and some of the food could be cooked — you could fry sausages, toast bread, cook baked potatoes in the embers, toast marshmallows and even boil the kettle for tea!

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