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Recipes for the best picnic ever
Total time: 55 minutes, plus overnight brining and drying time
Total time: 25 minutes
Former Test Kitchen director Donna Deane, who retired this year, was one of the best bakers we've ever known. Pies with flaky crusts, cakes with delicate crumb, she could do it all. Few recipes have better demonstrated that than these fabulous chocolate brownies, which she developed for a story about classic summer picnic food. Start with a deliciously dense combination of bittersweet chocolate, dark cocoa and mini chocolate chips, and add a bright flash of citrus from orange liqueur and peel. Simply amazing, whether you eat them indoors or out.
And there's always a country ham
PINK, smoky, deeply flavorful ham -- a few slices sandwiched in a biscuit make for summer-in-the-sun picnic deliciousness. Of course, we're talking ham of the dry-cured country variety -- cured, dried, aged, then smoked (not soaked in brine).
DISH TO GO
Classic or gourmet, vegan or not, these salads bring it home, thanks to Porta Via, Nijiya Market, M Café de Chaya, Gus's Barbecue, Joan's on Third,
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