A nice picnic not in the park

The venue with all of the things one needs for a Picnic

Saturday had been planned to do a picnic in the park out at Stocksee listening to music from one of the Schleschwig Holstein Music festival concerts (a yearly event at various locations.), Due to the immobility of one of our members, as well as the threat of inclement weather, we decided to re-venue it, so we sat out on the balcony of one of our members!

The gardens where in full bloom

I made a gazpacho soup, there where salads and chicken meat balls, and a refreshing summer fruit salad, all washed down with a bottle or three of Rosé.

The ingredients for the Gazpacho

2 slices of old bread, cubed and soaked

A cucumber half peeled and chopped

1 red & 1 yellow pepper de-seeded and chopped

600g of ripe tomatoes core and seeds removed

6 shallots, 2 large cloves of garlic all diced

1/2 l of  cold vegetable stock

1l of tomato passata 

2 table spoons of olive oil

2 table spoons of red wine vinegar

good pinch of cayenne pepper

1 tea spoon of smoked sweet paprika

Sea  Salt and pepper to taste

Wring the bread out, add together with shallot, garlic, cayenne , smoked paprika, oil and salt. Blend to a pulp. Now add all the chopped vegetables, blend, add the tomato passata and thin down with cold stock.

Adjust seasoning and refrigerate (I put it in the freezer for half an hour)

For garnish, cube some bread heat Olive oil and fry a garlic clove until it just starts to colour, discard and fry your croutons. dice a red pepper and a yellow pepper also a couple of  shallots or a red onion.

Serve with home made crusty bread 

We had a nice relaxing afternoon, classical music waffting over us as we ate and chatted the afternoon away.

When we got home after a relax on the couch, Linda made us a nice Supper of Fish in chips, the fish was done in a Panko crumb crust, it is slowly but surely taking over from batter or normal bread crumbing for me!

Oh! forgot to say the cod was from my angling trip of about a month ago and was really tasty!


Sunday saw us out in a small fishing village on the Kiel Förde called Möltenort, we had plaice and brat kartofeln with a small side salad, only one fisherman and his inshore boat selling fish (well at least his wife was doing the selling!

The catcher and the caught

Cutter Scholle with bratkartofeln