When it comes to picnic fare, I love the idea of handhelds — the fewer bowls and silverware needed, the better. But salads need a bowl, right? Wrong. Not if you make a chef salad on a stick, the perfect way to serve a salad when you’re sitting on a blanket.
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They have all the ingredients of a traditional chef salad, but they are skewered on a stick and served either individually with a little drizzle of ranch dressing or you can place several on a platter and drizzle all of them with ranch.
The beauty of this salad is that ingredients may be switched out, as needed. If you don’t like olives, leave them out and add another block of cheese or meat. If you have vegetarians at your picnic party, leave out the meat entirely and add more cheese, tomatoes and green peppers. Olives, too.
International Picnic Day is June 18, so be sure to mark it down on your calendar so you can have your picnic ready to go. It falls on a Tuesday this year, and the weather allows us to have picnics in the evenings, either in your backyard or at your favorite park.