Plumluvfoods on WICC Ep 51 Summer Picnics!

On this episode we discuss some summer picnic tips from food, gear, places and recipes! 

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Oh Saturday, Everybody, welcome to Plumb Love Food's right here
on WYICC, the Voice of Connecticut. It's your boys, Chef
Plumb and Chef Jeff hanging out with you, talking food,
talking flavors, talking recipes, talking all things that you might
want to use to stifle that craving you might have
for something to eat. Yes, that we're here to help
you do that. Maybe come with a great idea or
maybe come up with this particular show today, Jeffy with

(01:21):
a great idea of something fun to do tomorrow on
a Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
That's right, you could go on a picnic, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
How often is it you talk about picnics. Well, this program,
the entire show, we're talking about picnics, where to go,
what to bring, what to eat, and you know some
of those little tips that we might want to have
to particularly when it comes to what to drink. Jeffy,
you suggested a picnic show, and I said, I don't
really know if there's enough material to talk about a
picnic show. And then you said, oh no, don't worry,

(01:50):
Chef Plum, there's a lot, a lot to talk about
with a picnic. Are you a picnic guy?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I've been on many picnics. That was like one of
my favorite things to do when I was in college, going.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
On like cheap day Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm
not playing a bad way like a yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah. Well, it's like something you know, you go someplace cool,
hang out in nature, eat a little food. Because I'm
a chef, I could always ask somebody with a couple
off the day food while we're out there, and then
you know, so what is.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
A picnic for me? I think of as like a
couple of people, almost like a date more than anything
else in the world, as opposed to like a group
of people. But you can go with a group of people,
but definitely more of a date situation. I don't know
if i'd recommend a picnic as the best first date,
but it's a great second date in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
What do you think, Jeff? Yeah, or even third. It's
definitely a date that usually requires a little bit more
planning and forthwork into it than just kind of going
out and picking up a drink or getting to meet somebody.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Or get sure them. But if you are going to
have a picnic, you know, and you are going to
go on a picnic, then maybe you should think about
some of the things we're gonna talk about today.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, absolutely, you should.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Talk about the things we're gonna talk about today.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
But you also go on a picnic with a group
of people you can go on well yeah, so I
mean let's talk about that.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
What's the difference between a picnic and a barbecue?

Speaker 6 (03:05):
Like?

Speaker 3 (03:05):
What do you think is like the difference between like,
like is it is it.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Ak the barbecue you're cooking at generally and grilling at
where a picnic you brought prepared food?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Ah to see. I agree.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I think it's more like things coming from home to
a place. You're going to a place with the food
for the destination.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Or for the you know, like the the but you
could bring you could prepare food there as well.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
You could, But then I feel like then you're getting
into a cookout.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Mm hmm, right, that's interesting. That's interesting. What if it's
only two people though, I guess you're still bringing things
to cook, but I mean maybe you bring everything but
one but you to cook one protein there or something. See.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
I think it's more about planning the food, bringing it,
enjoying it, and then you know, leaving, you know, you
know what I mean, like like just like no cooking,
no building a fire or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
It's just like, well, what do you think of the
things that generally constitute this is now a picnic? I mean,
I'm not going to say this dumb things like oh
yeah I have a basket, we're not talking about that,
but like, ha.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, but I think it is usually a blanket, a
basket of some sort, or a bag with food in it.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
And if you bring chairs, is it now a barbecue?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I don't know if chairs making a barbecue because I
think geared, I think being comfortable and the picnic's important.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, I think so I think so too. All right,
so we've established a difference between a picnic and a barbecue. Right,
what about the origin of the word picnic? Where did
this thing come from? Because Jeffy, you're an intelligent human being,
and I know you're working hard to to make sure
you get smarter and smarter every day. I have a
feeling you know the answer to this question, sir, Well.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, and I'm gonna butcher probably the French pronunciation of it,
but originally try It's a seventeenth century French word peak
like a pic qu nique and i and I qu ok.
So it's meaning was similar to the to what it
is today. It's like a gathering or attending to share

(04:58):
some food. But the word it meant like to pick,
and the other was, uh, each little bit, So it
was like to pick a little bit, So it's like
little bits of food, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
To like to like have like to pick a little bit.
It was kind of the meaning of it, basically.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
And you just knows off the top of your head.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
You're not reading this or research, you just know this.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, this is just right off my dome.
This is just like some uh some knowledge I have
from deep down.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Okay, So what else you got for? This is where
it comes from. This is the origin of the word, right.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, and uh.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, this is the origin of the word.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's a French word.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
It's what happened? Your wires fellus on me?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
There? What happened? Did something something shiny show up?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
No, nothing shiny showed up. But I was I you
were like, what else about it? I'm like, well, no,
that's that's that's what I know about.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
That's all you got.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, it's a you know, it's it's got it.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
So it it literally means like like to pick a
little bit sixteen seventy two or sixteen ninety two, the
addition of the origin de la r Frost des Monage. Yeah,
it's it's like an early book mentions it. And so
it's been mentioned as early as sixteen ninety two, right.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yes, but it didn't end up in the English leguage
to the eighteen hundreds. All right, interesting, So okay, so
so what do we call it then?

Speaker 5 (06:26):
Before that?

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Which like, hey, you're eating outside like an animal or.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
We're just on a walk with food. Right, Well, so
what does a picnic mean to you then, Jeffrey, Well,
I think a picnic.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Means for me, I think it's it's packing up food,
packing up a blanket, packing up a bottle of wine
or something like that, and going somewhere, usually.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Maybe to like a river.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
That was my favorite place to go on picnics was
to go down by like a river when I was
in college in Washington. That was really beautiful place to
like sit and just kind of like hang out people
like other people.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
There's a good place that people watch.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
There's always like trails around there, other people who are
always kind of like going around. Yeah, we would like
post up and just like sit in park. The kind
of park is a great place to go. Yeah, I
think any park is a good place to go.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
I mean, I do think that you want to go
someplace that you have access to, know, restrooms or stuff
like that, particularly on a date situation. But like you know,
you want to have i don't know, easy ways to
get to, you know, amenities that you might need in life. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Absolutely, And if you're in the city, you know there
might not be a lot of like greenery, so you
definitely want to go to just a park. Sometimes you
just want to experience some grass, like I know in
New York City, there's like just patches of grass and
parks around places. So you'll go by and there's just
people out there with their blankets and a little bit
of food and sandwiches and like hanging out in a
circle with like three or four people, just like playing

(07:49):
cards and hanging out in the sun and just like
enjoying the sun and.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Food in nature. If you're planning a picnic, do you
think not only have to planing the food, you're to
plan some sort of activity to do during stead picnic.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I think it's nice to have something to do.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
I mean, otherwise it gets kind of boring unless you're
just like like if you're on a date, maybe not
because you can just talk and kind of get to always.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Bringing an Uno deck and I'm like very very serious
and m listen, we're not gonna we're playing right now.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Are you a serious Uno player? I didn't realize that. Yeah,
oh wow, I have girls. Yeah, I play.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
We have it.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
You know, we have like the double decker, you know.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
You know, the special take on the date though, first
second date. If we're playing, you know, I don't want
to talk about our history and our past and learn
that we're playing.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, And I almost stop a muddle and you walk
a dry. I think backgammon's a good date game too.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
No one knows how to play backgammon.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
That's why it's a.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Good date game.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
You get to teach somebody something and then like you
learn how to play.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
And we're getting off track. I guess it's my fault.
I'll tell Loan that one.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah, you you are the conductor when you derail us.
I'm the next I'm just the next car.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Well, so a picnic to me means a small group
of people getting together to go enjoy food and eto's
company outside somewhere.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
That's probably about it. That's probably the best way I'll
describe it, right, Yeah, outside of nature, I think, yeah,
you kind of Usually it's outside in like you said,
at a park. Yeah, uh, you know a place where
the river a river, you know, a pond or a lake.
But you got a picnic on a beach.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
The beach is a great place for a picnic, you know.
Bringing food to the beach.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Usually you can't have an open fire at the beach,
so you can't cook.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
So it's it's you know, you have to kind of
pack your food up, but it doesn't have to necessarily
be and you could also have a picnic inside of
a car.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, I guess you could if you just pulled up
and just say in your car called.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
I'm just thinking, like my wife, I've done that before
where we've got tacos and we went and like sat
in a place and had tacos together.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
And see that's interesting.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
So do you have to You don't have to make
food for a picnic either.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
You can just go get sandwiches. As long as it's
easy to eat. It's not.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
It's usually something that doesn't require too much, Like I
don't think you want to like get too involved with
something like that, like too many steps, Like it wouldn't
be a dish that I would make for an event,
but it's definitely a dish that has, you know, easy things,
easy to eat.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's all together.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
We don't want a lot of dishes.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
No, not a lot of dishes.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
You kind of just unwrap it and go or open
up the container with your fork and get in there.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, you're talking about the picnics got me kind of excited, Jeffy.
So I started doing a little bit of research, a
little bit of the homework, and I found not only
do we love picnics. But the Food Network most picnics, Jeffy,
they put out their essential picnic checklist. So I want
to see if we agree with this checklist before we
move on talking about where we're going and what we're
going to eat and all that sort of stuff. All right,
I love this, Let's see where we're at here. So

(10:48):
for toting and for seating, picnic basket or canvas bag,
a cooler of some sort a picnic blanket, it says
preferably waterproof on the bottom. So that's a great thing
to think about, that waterproof bottom part. But the problem
is is that you buy one of these, you use
it twice and just goes in the garage.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Right.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
I just feel like it's not you know, picnic chairs
if anyone in your group is not happy to be
on the ground, and possibly a portable picnic table, okay,
And it says if that's a picnic, you're having a
portable picnic table. I feel like we've gone from just
carrying a little basket of stuff on a blanket, so
now we have like a lot of things. We have chairs,
we have tables. It feels like a little bit much.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Well that's the thing about picnics. It's like, how far
do you want to go? Like do you want to
theme it out? Like I know people when they go
on a picnic, they're like, oh, let's do it like
a tea picnic. Everyone bring a thermos of hot water
and we'll bring more percelin. Oh yeah. Like you get
to the picnic and it's like a whole thing at
the park. You know, everyone's like has their blankets laid out.
They're all sitting around and.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Everybody drinks our own tea. No one drinks somebody else's.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, everyone brings sandwiches to share. It's like it's you know,
it's it feels are very interesting picnics. It's not something
I would plan and want to do. I'm more of
a get some food, go out to someplace. I love
the uno idea. Yeah that's more my speed.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I mean crazy.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
Let's see, what's the Food Network says we should bring
with us when we go. All right, yes, for serving, obviously,
it wants us to bring plates and utensils, including serving utensils,
all right, obviously, napkins, cups, drinks. It says, make sure
you bring lots of water. I think that's a good
idea too, because you can use the water rents things
off as well as drink a bottle a little bitter
A cutting board says. The cutting board is also useful

(12:26):
as a level serving surface and perfect for drinks. Fair,
but you gotta wash that cutting board.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Then.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yep, a good sharp knife, even if you don't plan
to cut things, it's still a good idea to have
a good sharp knife with you. I don't think I
hate that idea, you know. And you could even get
like a like some sort of knife as its own
little sheath that you kind of take just for picnicking. Yeah,
here's what I think. It's a very important salt and pepper,
and I make a little packet up of you know,
a little condiment things like that. I have some olive oil,
like a bottle of a small little bottle olive oil,

(12:52):
salt and pepper, a little bit of you know, if
you want condiment.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
It's like a little mustard mayo that sort of thing.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
That's what I do. Were we bring a few like
packets of stuff from like a takeout place something like that.
Just build a little, uh little container or a little
you can take out to even like a quart container
plastic orcantaner that we all swear by. Yeah, put the
stuff in there and just have it with you.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah. We have like a little rectangle piece of tupperware. Sure,
I'm not sure what it was from. And it's just
a you know, a little little rectangle box that has
exactly what you're saying there to sell peperate it. A
bunch of napkins, a couple extra pieces of what we
keep in ours are just plastic you know, fork knips
and spoons and a handful well.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Sometimes you even get those containers from like a container,
little packets of like use a napkin, fork and knife,
and it's like it's like a little you get it
with like you know when you get takeout food somewhere.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, exactly from takeout food or like whenever we you know,
we go to like pick something up, you know, they
have like a little section of condiments. I'll take like
an extra mayonnaise and a maybe a hot sauce if
they have it, or a soy sauce sometimes.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Right. Yeah, so so far I agree with this isn't
a terrible list. I don't know if I like the
table and chair thing idea, but I guess depends on
what you have going with you, right.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's it's really And where are you going picnicking? You
know that you need to take chair. Are you going
to the beach where you're gonna be there all day
and you're gonna like have a wagon to like pull
through to where you're going to set up? Or is
this u a hiking picnic where you're just going in
with a like a backpack. Maybe a backpack situation that

(14:17):
has you know, like how our chef backpacks have compartments
for everything. I'm sure there's picnic backpacks that have like
compartments for wine and compartments for your utensils, and compartments
for the food, and you know, a place to put
a little freezer pack.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Well, here's the thing I think a lot of people
don't think about when they go on a picnic. They
don't think about the clean up part of it. So
having a roll of paper towels and maybe some wet
wipes is not a bad idea. A couple extra dish
towels according to this list, so that's always handy to
have them and useful to buffer and support dishes and
transport as well. Extra plastic containers or sturdy zip block
backs or packing up dirty utensils, leftover, et cetera. I

(14:54):
think that's a that's a good one right there. That's
an little catering trick. I feel like that we think of,
but not everybody else does. You know, like, definitely bring
some zip block bags. They're very helpful.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
A handful of ziplock bags goes a long way when
when you don't realize it, you never know, wet clothes
can go in them all the way to like, like
you said, leftover food. You know, you name it. It's
it's just a great, a great situation. You can make
a quick cooler out of one.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
With some ice and I mean, well and something else
that people that don't think I probably have pack it up.
They focus so much on the food and that sort
of stuff. Trash bags. Throw a couple of trash bags
in your back and you're in your pack. You might
need to have those. It's helpful to have those.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's super helpful to have those.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
And it depends on when you're going to be camp
or not camp excuse me, but picnicking. You know a
lot of times you have to pack out exactly what
you brought in. You can't there's no place to really
throw things away, and there's no place to just bunch
it up and hope that, you know, someone else picks
it up.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
You have to actually bring it home. So that's something
else to keep in mind.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, I mean, the stuff's got to go back with
you and you gotta travel with it, so be smart
about it. A few of the other things to think
about too. Just maybe if you're going on a picnic,
maybe it's a summer picnic, you know, sunscreen, hats and
sex repellent, that's sort of stuff. I feel like we're
kind of getting a little bit deeper into the whole
picnicking thing. But if the picnic to be the end
all day, yeah, probably a good idea. A flashlight if
you plan on being out in the evening hours, and

(16:06):
like it says, like activity equipment, sports equipment, you know, frisbees, balls, bubbles,
water guns, whatever the crowd likes. Like something to be
entertaining when you're having with a group. I think is
a good idea, particularly if you have kids out there. Look,
kids can have a lot of fun just being outside
running around doing nothing. But if you throw a ball
in the mix or something, you're good to go. They'll
come up with all kinds of games.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Definitely come up with all kinds of games. I mean,
you can play some music. I love bringing a little
bit of music to a picnic.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Everybody can kind of dance and sing along and have
a good time.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I love that kids love music.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
That's one of my favorite things to do is have
a little dance time with everybody.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yeah, And I think one of the things that is
a little underrated here when it talks when talking about
having a picnic like this is we said trash bags
obviously very underrated. You got to have that, for sure.
But I think it's talking about the time of day
that you're gonna go right, like in evening versus an afternoon,
Like I think it's two different picnics then, don't you.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
I definitely think it's two different picnics, Like the sunset
picnic is going to be a lot different from your
lunch picnic. Sure.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
And I think the time of year, which is something
else we haven't touched on yet, because I don't think
summer is the only time you can have a picnic.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Definitely not, definitely not.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
You can have a beautiful fall picnic and just you know,
walking through the woods looking at the leaves changing. I mean,
that's it's a great time to sit and have a
you know, I can think of a few different menus
we can throw together or something like that.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
A snow picnic, Robby isn't a thing though, d well, no,
it's not true. Actually, a little hot coco, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
I mean, I guess you could pack.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
I mean maybe what if you were cross country skiing
into the forest and stopped with your friend and broke
out your your your your waterproof bottom blanket.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah, and you just see where you're going with this.
That's why I'm just letting you go and just sat.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
There and maybe had a bit of hot coffee from
your thermos from your picnicking backpack.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah, all right, Well, I think a springtime picnic is
great too. It's great. It's a great way to get
fired up for the summertime. But us here from the
Food Network, I completely I don't have any objections to
I think it gets a little crazy. We were talking
about tables and things like that. But yeah, I mean,
shot to Katie Workman, who wrote this article, it sounds like, yeah, yeah,
it's easy.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
I think plates are also maybe a toke over the line.
I don't know if I'm gonna bring plates in a bag.
I mean, yeah, I think it's mostly for finger foods
for me, or anything that's going to be eating is
going to be eaten out of the container that it's in.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
So if I.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Could do that, you know, I'm I'm a crazy person.
I would make everybody our gloves. I don't want your
hands over my food.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
That's wild, that's wild, you know.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, what if we're in a different country, could you
handle that? Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Not? Really, that's a whole other staff. We should do
a whole show on on sanitation because I get crazy
about it. Yeah, yeah, I don't need to buy his
hands such or my people's hands are gross. People have
gross hands. Don't touch my food.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
What if we all wash them and sang the Happy
Birthday so twice?

Speaker 5 (19:00):
But still no wear some gloves. Listen, listen, serve safe
is very specific. Ready to eat food should always be
handled by gloved hands.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
That this is true.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
This is very true, And that's what I go by.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Follow those rules.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Yes, that's what I go by.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
So if you come to a picnic with me, I'm
gonna lay down my bottom waterproof blanket. I'm gonna break
out a nice ball and a bubble gun. And then
when it's time to eat, and I have the sandwiches
on the plate, everybody better put their damn.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Gloves on.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
For their own sandwich.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Absolutely, because your hands are getting near a sandwich that
I'm probably gonna touch too. So and trust me, I
wore gloves when I made them. Oh man, Yeah, if
one person serves them, no, well, I guess so that
person should be wearing gloves. What if it's you serving them,
I'll wear gloves. I'll be respectful.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
But what if you had no gloves? Would it be
better if you served everyone? Hm? Great question. I'll have
gloves though.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I have gloves on me right now. Do you to
I'm wearing them right now?

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (19:59):
You have no idea?

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah. So this is just some starting points here. You
can go, you can go talk to you know, do
this in the summertime, do it in the wintertime. We
got some more information all about these things for you're
gonna talk about food for picnics. We're gonna talk about
places to go that are around our state and then
Fairfood County where you can go picnicking and find some
great fun afternoon adventures.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
For yourself.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
So it's not just this, This is just the basics.
This is just the beginning of it, Jeffy, the table
of contents, if you will.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Exactly, This is just the the amuz booge of the
picnicking conversation.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Yeah, and we're just kind of, you know, setting the
tone and letting you guys know, like this is the
word came from a French word which means to pick
a little, which that alone makes me feel like they
should wear gloves. Yeah, we say pick a little, you
should be wearing gloves.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
That's how I feel about it. Is that weird, Jeffrey,
do you know this about me?

Speaker 5 (20:48):
I'm not saying anything.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
You already know.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
What if we have a bowl of guacamole, yeah, and
some chips?

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Okay, do we all have to wear a glove before
gonna eat those chips together?

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Okay? So it's a solid question, and I'm not gonna lie.
I would probably prefer if we did, but I'm willing
to let it go. But the first time someone's finger
touches like walking away and they lick it, I lose
in my mind.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
I want to e aty more.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I won't do it.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
I won't do it.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I won't touch it. Oh man, you're the best at
the barbecue.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
I just need this.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
I won't touch it. I don't want I don't want
your fingers all.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
It just grosses me out. Eh yeah, yeah, it's not good.
When we come back, we're gonna be talking all lout
some fun places to go have your picnic out here
in Fairfield County have some great spots, some really fun locations.
So when we come back, right up, Plumbo Foods. Stay tuned,
Jeff and Ali back with our fun conversation about picnics.
You're checking out Plumbo Foods right on the Voice of
Connecticut WICC. Stay right there, plumb Love Foods. Right here

(22:14):
on WYCC, the Boys of Connecticut's your boy chef plump
Chef Jeff hanging out with you right here on a Saturday,
talking all about picnics across the state and picnics across anywhere.
Because the show, Jeffy is not just a state wide show.
This show is available worldwide. You could probably get the
show on Mars too. I think they got they got
podcasts on Mars right definitely.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, listen, NASA has been on this show.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
So I'm I'm ninety percent sure that anyone in NASA
has heard of us, and then they send it up
with the astronauts. It's a you know, like when you're
on an airplane, there's like a little screen for restaurauts
when they get bored and the for entertainment. They'll probably
have plumber of foods on there. Well, that makes sense.
I like it. They'll be like, you know, oh, you
want to listen to a great podcast, plumb great podcast

(22:58):
in the food world.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
I love that. It's fantastic, And you can get that
podcast anywhere. You get all of your fine digital audio.
You want to go to Amazon, you go want to
go to Apple, you want to go to Spotify, you
want to go to iHeart. We got all of them,
all of them there, Joe, every single one. But you
know where we're not, which is interesting, and this is
a little bit of a dig. We're not on the
WICC website voiceing dot com. We're not on there, and

(23:21):
I should say something about that, because we.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Should be yeah, absolutely there. Yeah, why are you whispering
all this sud You can't.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Really why are we not on there?

Speaker 4 (23:28):
I guess I'm just a little I'm a little taken back.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
I'm like, well, I gotta I gotta figure it out.
I gotta ask him about that. I've got to talk
to our boss, Alan and like, Alan, why are we
not on the website? Hellen, maybe we should bring up
news more. Yeah, we'll talk more food in news Frowland
if you will put.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Us on the website and we'll yell about it too
if you want.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, we can tell you yell about it.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Well, I like roast beef sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
They're amazing.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
It's great Fairfield County roast beef sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Anyway, you can check out the podcast anywhere.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
You know where to get it.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
If you listen to it, you know where to get it.
Who isn't everyone to get podcat Now, it's not a
hard thing to talk about, you know.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll tell you where you get it.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
That's true. We're talking about picnics here today, and we
kind of gave the history of a picnic, kind of
gave some opinions on picnics in that first break. Now
we're going to talk a little bit about gear and
where some cool places are to go. And Jeffy, you're
a shopping machine. You find some of the greatest deals
of all time. And if you've got a couple here,
some great picnic ideas picnic baskets, and you know, I

(24:25):
don't want to step on your on your on your
fire here, so you just kind of run it.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, absolutely, Well, I think the first thing we should
talk about is what you said, picnic baskets. Okay, right,
like like picnic baskets, think of what's a picnic basket
of your mind, plumb, Well, it's like a basketket. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
It's a basket that's kind of lined with some sort
of cloth or something to kind of help keep things
a little bit cleaner in there. And it has a
lid of some capacity to where you can put lid
down or a top on it, so you know, it
just kind of keeps things away from it. You have
to open it up to get to the food.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
And in my mind my mind has a handle on
the top of it.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
You know, you kind of kind of carry it along
on the side of you and it opens from both sides.
So the new way, the new age picnic basket that
I found that I thought was pretty cool is a
all camp insulated cooler bag and it's a portable collapsible basket,
so it it it can get a little bigger and
it or it stays one size.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
So when you're done, when you're done with it, you
can kind of like push it all away flat when
when you're storing it, or when you're done with it,
you kind of pop it up, because, like you said,
a lot of these things get put in the garage
when you're done with it, and they take up a
lot of space. So something like this I thought was great.
It's insulated, so you can put a cooler bag in
there and all your food is going to be nice.
This is a great thing to bring to the beach
because it's easy for me. I like to go camping

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at the beach a lot.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
So this is sounds great, but it sounds expensive.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
No, no, no, no, no no, that's the best part.
I found it on Amazon twenty five bucks.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Oh that's not bad, right, you camp picnic basket.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
That's not bad. Yeah. And they come in all different
sizes and shapes. You know, there's a there's there's a
there's a few different colors too that are shapes you have. Well,
there's there's like a large arge and medium there's the
largest one I think is twenty seven and that's like.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
I mean, yeah, that's a good one. So a great
picnic basket for twenty five bucks from Amazon, insulated does
all the business and collapsible. Okay, it sounds great. Sounds
and you can even find them cheaper on there. I mean,
that's just one one that I found. I find the
Jeffy approved one.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah. Yeah, this is the one that I thought was
really cool. It just it's kind of the one my
wife has. It's similar to the one we have, so
we have a large one. I think it was thirty bucks.
Then what else you find one.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
The other things we have the best? Oh well, this
is one that I think is pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
And that's like it's a cutting board, but it's like
a cutting board that has a lot of stuff built
into it, like your knife is built into it. All
this stuff is built right into the cutting board. But
I think it's like safe for a picnic basket. Could
you either attach it to the top of the picnic
basket or slide it in your auxiliary bag they're going
to be carrying along with you because you know, according
to everything that we've seen. There's not just one. There's

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no way you're going to get there with just one.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah, And I'll tell you what I think. Having a
knife and a cutting board is a good idea always
when you're serving food because you never know what you're
gonna do, if you have kids with you, you want
to cut things up small, or whatever the case may be.
You can't prepare for everything when you go to eat outside,
so having something like this is great. And having little
compartments is also great for you. We talked about earlier
about having like some kind of little condiments with you
or you know, you want to bring salt and pepper
and olive oil, that kind of thing that can fit

(27:21):
in this right.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, and absolutely because it has a lid that snaps
down on top of it, so it's it's a great board.
You can pack so much food on it ahead of time,
so you can kind of like build your charcuterie board.
I did I richer that word again, No, I'm good, Okay,
you can build your board ahead of time. You can
put like your little section of like vegetables, some cheese,

(27:44):
some salamis, some you know.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Some some crackers whatever on there.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Snap it down and then pack it away, and then
when you get there you can just unpack it, open it,
put it on your blanket, and you're ready to go.
Yeah that it comes right off. Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
Okay, And this is probably this is probably expensive since
has a knife and all these things on it.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
No, another twenty five bucks.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
Wow, I'll tell you what this is. I feel like
I feel like we're like Home Shopping Network right now.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
We are a little home shopping five dollars.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
Well, I mean, forget it on flex pay three water
readed flex pay. You're telling out everywhere.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
That's my Don West imitation.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
Only if you remember Don West, he would do the
Baseball card show. I don't know your coffee, are you okay? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:29):
I know I have a little allergy something going on.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
I don't know what's going on. Ah yeah, yeah, I
get it.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
It's that time of year.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Get it on flex pay flex pay. All right, that's great.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
So I like that.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
So a little cutting board situation with a knife sounds good.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Ye.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
What else you got?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Well, we got a picnic blanket.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Oh, well, that's important. A picnic blanket is super important,
and I think getting a large one that's waterproof easily
foldable and easy, easy to.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Pack up to travel.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
You don't want something that's like, you don't just want
to take a comforter, No, no, no, no, you want
something that's Yeah, you want something a little durable already
to be outside, easy to clean that. And this one
is like it's called Za's blanket, and it's a it's
it's it's a it's thin, thin, thin, but so durable
so when it folds up, it doesn't take up a
lot of space, so it packs up. It's almost like

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a space blanket, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
The cool thing about blanket like this is too, is
that you can use it for the beach, like as
opposed to having like just a bunch of towels on
the sand. You get a big blanket like this and
put that down.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, and this thing's huge.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
It's eighty by eighty right, yeah, yeah, eighty feet by
eighty feet. That's a big that's a big blanket.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yeah, that's almost eight feet seven almost seven feet across.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Eighty inches that' said eighty feet.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, eighty feet would be dope.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Get it on flex pay a huge eighty.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Foot blanket that that would be expensive.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
That's expensive, sounds amazing though, Well, this is a great thing.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
So this is how much? Is this is expensive?

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Thirty bucks?

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Oh that's an easy win. I mean you can get
a bunch of good picnic gear for probably one hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
I think if you took a hundred bucks, you can
get I mean, without food, you can definitely get all
the gear you need to go on a great picnic.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
All right, all right, give us a couple more before
we move on. Would you like her, Jeffie, because youve
got a bunch of things. I'm looking at your list
right now, see a bunch of things.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Another thing I think it's kind of cool is like
you want to have some like dinnerware sets, like if
you're kind of be bringing food. Sometimes you want to
if you're going to go on like a romantic picnic,
for instance, I think it is nice to have plates
for that picnic. I think it's nice to set up
the plate, put the little sandwich that was tied beautifully
with the brown paper and a little string, you know,

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on the plate.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know, put out the glass, pour the wine.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
You know, nothing as romantic like a Bolognian cheese sandwich
on a plate.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
So you had to ruin it though.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Cheese sandwich. Yeah, what if it was a girl that
really likes blooney and cheese. What if she was German
and she was like bologny hmm, And I was like, yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I think it sounds great. But here's my issue with
this stuff though. Then we have to worry about cleaning
it up and then carrying it back out. Like I
feel like disposal was the.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Way to go. Yeah, but then you have to throw
it away into a landfill biodegradable. Okay, yeah, we're gonna
send a space that's my idea.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Well, this is great. And how many sets are Like
when you order this set, how many they got in there?
Four servey for four it's twenty nine dollars.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I see. Yep, comes in its own little bag that
so it's like once you once you use it, you
can kind of pack it all back into the bag
so when you get home you can unpack it and
wash it, keep it nice and clean for the next picnic.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
You know, everything, all these things you're talking about here
you found on Amazon, right, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
That's cool. Dig that, I dig that. Look Scott's nice. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
There lots of different colored choices too. Okay, cool what
else you got, Jeffy. I like how you got all
these things organized for us so we can go on
a great picnic.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah, I'm looking to go on a great picnic. So
another great one I have is the cooler backpack. Okay,
the cooler, the cooler back night. All right, so listen,
the cooler backpack obviously sounds like a winner. Tell me
about the cooler backpack, Jeffrey, because I mean, is this
different than the picnic basket thing we talked about earlier,

(32:17):
the folding, Yeah, the all camp picnic basket. It is different,
but in my opinion essential if you want to, like
you have your stuff together when you're on your way
to picnic, because you have the picnic basket, right, that
has a lot of your food in it, that has
a lot of your stuff that you can lay out.
Your board that we just purchased. We have our chartrudery
in there. We have our our chart. So now you're

(32:38):
gonna make me embarrassed.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Charcouterie, charcuterie board.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
That's what I've That's that's what I was gonna say, right,
And I got a little word salad, that's all.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
It was just a tiny bit of words salt.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
You threw a couple letters in the fine We got.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Oar couterie board, our lovely sharcouterie board that we purchased
for twenty nine dollars. We put that in our twenty
nine dollars basket with a little bit of ice in
the bottom, like an ice pack. Or then we're gonna
then we're gonna maybe fold up our blanket and we're
gonna put that over one of the handles of the
of that then we have when we get to our drinks.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
We're gonna get like a little wine maybe.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
But wait, you haven't told me what the backpacks for yet,
so I'm getting there the wine. Oh, so we're using
the backpack for the drinks.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yes, the backpack is great.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
It's vertical.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
It stands up nice, you know, and you're gonna put
things like bottles of wine, or if we're gonna pre
make a couple of cocktails and maybe put them in
a core container or or something to pack to bring out.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Okay, Yeah, I love here as it says here that
this is it can hold thirty to fifty four cans.
That's quite a range there, and it's insulated, soft and leakproof.
I mean thirty to fifty four, Like I guess we're
talking larger sixty outscans versus twelve pound scans or something.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Whether like you can pack them in like a crazy person,
or you can just lay them in there nicely.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yeah, that's all. I mean, fifty four cans is heavy.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
That's a lot.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
That's a lot of in a backpack.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
If you're going on a picnic and fifty four cans
of beverage, I mean that's a picnic. What kind of
data you going on that you're drinking fifty four cans
of beverage.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
If you're on a picnic with fifty four cans of beverage,
you might have a problem, sir.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
Don't worry my date, I brought these fifty four cans rushed.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
To polish off. Do you think it's a red flag
for your date? If she's like, what's the backpack? You're like,
fifty four can, fifty four cans? Yep, yep, why not
fifty five?

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Fifty five? Fifty four does yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Sorted beverages?

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Yeah, just a sorted beverages. That's right, all right, So
this thing sounds great. Let me take a pic. Look
at this thing. It sounds awesome, it's expensive. What's the
price on this? It actually looks great. It's a great backpack.
It's got a little pouches and stuff.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
This is awesome. Yeah, no, it's just it's a it's
a really great backpack. I mean it would double for
a great shopping backpack as a chef, you know private
chefs's over here, we would it's a great thing to
have in your back Oh but the backpack great for drinks,
great for packing stuff up that's going to be leak
like that might be leaky, and I have on the

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other stuff. I think it's a great thing to have.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
And then you can also put your your little packs.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Of the silver Wath that you bought in your backpack,
those little pouches on the outside, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
These things all sound great and great idea is Jeffy
for Jeffey's shopping minute. We should have probably put like
a little stinger in there. It's Jeffie shopping. Something like
that would have been great. But these are the great things.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
You can get them. You get them off Amazon.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
It's awesome. Go back and check the lists out. It's fantastic.
Maybe we'll try to put it out on social media
so you can see it as well with some links
or something like that. These things all are great idea
is to take when you go shopping, no doubt about it.
Now we got a few minutes up here in this break,
so I want to talk about some places that are
great to go to in Fairford County for picnicking, and
and one of them wrap the bat for me. It's
going to be short What Island State Park. It's kind

(35:49):
of it's first state park, has little beaches, picnic areas,
walking trails that you can go there for the afternoon
and have a nice, nice afternoon for yourself out there.
Short Island's fantastic. It's gorgeous and a beautiful place. Doesn't
cost any thing. It's just it's great to go there.
Another one is Jennings Beach as a marina, so there's
like boats and stuff that you can see there. You
can see the ocean. It's a beautiful spot to go.

(36:10):
Jennings Beach is it's a great spot. I've never been
here though. Lake Mohegan, I've never been there. I just
maybe haven't been there. I think there's picnic tables there. Yeah,
and you just go outside and kind of enjoy the lake.
Have you ever been in the Lake Mohegan, Jeffrey. I've
never been to the Lake Mohigan. I mean I've seen it.
I've driven by it. It's definitely a gorgeous space. Yeah,
I gotta go there and check that out. Yeah, it's

(36:32):
in Fairfield, so and I'm just looking right now. It
is free. But if he is charged at the gate
to enter the swimming area from a World Data Labor day,
so you want to swim, does cost you a little
bit of money, But that's fine, right, it's not gonna
hurt anything.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Oh, that's not crazy. A couple of bucks, right.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah, another great spot here on the list that you've
got for us here, Jeffy, is awesome. Cranberry Park. One
of the fun things about Cranberry Park is a disc off.
I was a big discoff fan back in the day.
I played a lot disc golf.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
I was just gonna say that that park is really
appealing to me because of the disc GoF.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Like, that's a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
So I think that's a great thing to do for
a picnic, Like, you know, yeah, bring some food, play
around a disc GoF sit down and have a bite.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's that's a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
It's a norm walk, so it's obviously there's lots of
great stuff already going on down there, not too far
from anything. It's a fun place to go. It's dog friendly,
you know, go down a place some disc go off
and have a picnic, which is fun, you know, I
think I think that's a great place to go. Check
out too. If you've ever been there, should go check
cran By Park. That's really fun.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
A bunch of wooded trails. I love that.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yeah. Winslow Park. I'm not familiar with this one either,
but I'm gonna seehe I can learn and tell you
about it. It's a tranquil setting for picnics. It's an
open space with natural beauty. I'm not as familiar with
with this park. Do you really think about this? It's
it's open every day eight eight at eight am to
thirty minutes after sunset. It's kind of it's on the water,
so that's cool. It has a tidal beach, picnic area, trails,

(37:52):
you know, playground. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, Well, we have
a lot of great parks on the water here in
the state, which I don't know if people you know,
my wife grew up a Brookie and when I was
talking about going to beaches, she was like, what what
are you talking about.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
It's not a beach.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
There's tons of beaches and tons of parks to go to.
So but yeah, I guess some parts of the state
they just don't look at it that way. I guess
she never did. But she also said that Maryor Parklay
wasn't a real road, so whatever.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
You know. There's a park down the list that I
think is really cool.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
It has a covered bridge. It's called twin Brooks Park.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Twin Brooks. Yeah, I'm familiar. I'm familiar. Yeah, yeah, give
us that one. Jeffrey that's up.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
In Trumble, Yeah, says it's a.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Big park. Vietnam Memorial Park has the dog friendly. There's
a farmers market there too, which is kind of fun. Yeah,
brillion covered bridge, big walking trails.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Yeah, this is a great place to go. And the
covered bridge thing is a really cool part of it too,
which I think that's kind of a.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Yeah, that's what I mean, Like those are really cool
to me. You just don't see covered bridges anymore.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Right. It doesn't cost anything to go check that place
out too. Norwalk Heritage Park is a great place for
a picnic as well. You know it's uh, it's it's
kind of in the same area as Cranberry, but it's
a great spot to check out for a great one.
One of my favorites also down the same area, calf
Pasture Beach is a fun place to go to. It's

(39:21):
it's you know, tons of recreational things going on down
there as a large guarded beach, a fishing pier, volleyball courts,
skate park. Yeah, calf Pasture Beach is a fun place
to go.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
They do a.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Little concerts and stuff happened on there too, so it's
it's fun. Calf past is a great spot to go to.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
Part you can park there too. I mean you have
to pay for parking, but it's not too bad. So yeah,
calf past is a great spot to go to for sure. Uh.
The next one, I haven't seen this one yet, Southport Park.
I'm familiar with South Pork, not Southport Park. I haven't
been there yet. Looks great though, I'm looking at it
online right now. Uh Park part of the aspatuck Land US.
That's why it's so pretty. It has a natural playscape

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for kids, so you can go there and do what,
hang out with kids. It's dog friendly, you know. I
think it's a very very simple park to go hang
out at and have a nice playground, a nice picnic.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
They do have picnic tables.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
There's a railroad overlook and some fun natural structures there. Jeffrey,
what's a natural structure. I think like, uh, you know,
big big rocks and boulder rocks that are like piled
up the kids can like climb on and things like that.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
All right.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Uh, And finally Earthplace is on here, which is pretty cool.
Earthplace is also in Westport. It's a nonprofit science education place,
which is kind of cool. We can go there and
hang out and see some fun science these things that
you know, particularly dealing with nature and stuff. Yeah, it's
it's a it's a it's a fun way. You haven't
been there yet, you go. It's it's great for kids too.
It's like a discovery museum situation.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
It's really cool looking.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
Yeah, it's great. It's it's I've been here. But it's
a nature preserve too, which is pretty cool. So, but
the hours are a little bit weird. So just call
ahead and you know, depends on what you want to
go do about just call ahead and check with them that.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
They're opening stuff.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
It seems I think you can rent it too for events.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Oh real, really cool. Yeah, it's a beautiful space.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Yes, that's a few places you can go to in
Fairfield County that kind of offer not just a place
to have a great picnic, but maybe a few other
things going on as well. You know, calf Pash, like
I said, is probably my favorite. Going down there, check
out when they have a concert going on. Make it
kind of an afternoon and have some food and hang
out for the evening or whatever. Do be careful with
open containers a lot of times, you know, particularly comes
to beverages of the adult variety. Some of the people

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don't like to have open containers. So you might want
to call ahead of time or just talk to your
local parks people and see what the rules with that,
because I'm not sure what the rules.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
Is that anymore. I think it changed. I'm not sure either.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
We got to be careful with that part of it,
for sure, But yeah, go have a picnic. Come on,
you got We gave you a great list of things
to get to make it easy to carry stuff with you,
some great places to go. So we've got the history
of picnics. We got places to go, we had great gear. Next,
we're gonna talk about some food, aren't we. Jeffy is right, Yeah,
what were you going to eat on these picnics? It's
very important. That's the whole point of eating. Is that

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the whole point of going to pick at? That's right?
And plus our friends the Flames have written us. Of course,
I'm kind of blown away by this, a song about
me and Jeffy going on a picnic.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
How do we get these songs? How do they write
these songs? How do they know?

Speaker 4 (42:18):
They love us? They love us? I just tell they're like, hey,
what are you doing this week? Because I think they
just they get bored when they're practicing. They just want
to do something awesome and with their muse, and so.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
They just write some crazy song about whatever we're talking about. Yeah,
it's hilarious. Like quick they turned over to It's amazing.
Are they robots? They're not robots, aren't they?

Speaker 4 (42:35):
No?

Speaker 3 (42:36):
The sweet guys.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Yeah, it's just yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:38):
Well it's a big band and they have like revolving
group of members too, which is fun. I think it's interesting.
When we come back, we'll talk a little bit more
about some of the food things, and Jeffy, I have
a question for you before we go to break go ahead,
an important question. Please, can we bring hot food on
a picnic?

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Oh? Well, yes, if it's easy to eat and it's
already packed up.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
So it has to be easy to eat and already
packed up. And I think, for instance, a corn dog.
If we bring a corn dog, could you keep it warm? Yes?
Or do you mind eating it at room temperature? I
can keep it warm, Okay, we can keep it warm
then yes, I can't keep it crispy, but I can
keep it warm.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Also if you don't if like if you make it
warm and you don't mind eeding, get room temperature like
flame and young sometimes if you slice it, you know,
sure warm, it's okay. That room temperature is still really delicious,
you know. If you're gonna have like a little bored
and we're getting really picky, now I think that works.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
I'm not picky. We're getting very non picky out making
things work. But I'll tell you something. You shouldn't bring popsicles.
It never works out. Like your hope, it's going to
keep them the freezer and keep them in the cool.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Can't bring ice cream? No ice cream?

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yeh, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
We come back. We're talking about some of our favorite
foods to bring on a picnic. You're checking out plumba
foods right here on the Voice of connect A WICC.
Stay right there, Chef Jeffee and Chef Plumb will be
right back with plumb of foods.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa?

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Were going on a.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
Picnic on Chef Bumb and Jeffey getting too it. Let's
go yeah, simple whiskey eating old gays, the Ford lowly
for lo Yeah, drinking beers, double fistish double Day's.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
A guy twisted twisted.

Speaker 7 (44:44):
It's a picnic getting twisted twist with ship Bumb and Jeffy.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah, whoa whoa, oh woo. We got out of food.
We got out of boom. We got out of boo.
So what we gonna do?

Speaker 7 (45:18):
We go in on the big name and sham plumbing
Jamfy getting to it. Let's go yeah, sipping whiskey eating no.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Games for the load.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
Plumb love foods right here, WYCC, the Voice of Connecticut
hanging out with you. That's the flames come as hard
with the perfect picnic. Jeffy, that's that's a good song
right there, that's on my favorites.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
That was I'm telling you that's the new summer jam
right there for the flame Sarah is.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
We're talking all about picnics on this episode of Plumblove
Foods right on w CC, Getting you prepared. Maybe you
want to go on a summer picnic. Maybe you're looking
to find some new gear. Maybe you want to find
some recipe ideas. Maybe it's been a long time since
you've been on a picnic and you want to go
try it again. I'm telling you it's worth some great places.
We covered our last break, Jeffy. If you missed that
here on the live programs, we've just tuned in. Now
you can get this show everywhere you get any podcasts

(46:13):
that you get, you can go download it, listen to
it for free. We don't try to dime, we don't
trye to die, Jeffy. We give everybody this content for free.
They can have it, listen to it, use it, go
make food, Go make yourself a better cook. Hopefully if
we can help them be a part of that, feel
like we've done something. So make sure you just search
Plumb Low Foods anywhere you get your fine digital audio
content now, Jeffy, before we moved on with the actual
food part, you and I were talking off break a

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little bit here, yep, and I said we should find
a menu from like the fifties or sixties, from when
a picnic used to be, and talk about that for
a minute before we get into the food we want
to bring. And I've got some interesting information here for you,
so I want to run through. It's just a few
of these options. I see what you think from a
from a nineteen sixties picnic recipes, you know, like classic
picnic recipes.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
I can't wait to hear this.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
Some people think, dude, some people think that this has
ever comeback. So one of the ones on here I
liked a lot was the Aloha on Rye when Hawaii
met Ham in a sandwich paradise. Long before celebrity chefs
discovered contrasting flavor profiles, Jeffy, middle class mothers mastered the
tropical meat savory ham in the pineapple sandwich, wow ham
in pineapple sandwich. That is, this wasn't merely food. It

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was an affordable luxury during an era where Hawaii had
just become the fiftieth state. Now we're talking about ham
and pineapple sandwiches. Now, I don't have a problem but
that sometimes they would even toast the bread over like
a little bit of charcoal, caramelize of pineapple a little bit,
just kind of given something a little bit different on there.
And of course they put a little miracle whip on there,

(47:37):
because the sandwich and a sandwich at the great taste
of miracle whip.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Oh man, you just ruined it with the miracle whip.
You could have put any other mayonnaise on there, it'd
have been thrilled. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (47:45):
I don't know if I cripped mayonnaise and miracle working
in the same category, but yes, I mean they're both white. Yeah,
that's true. They are made the same way. Ham and
pineapple sandwich. Jeffy, a little caramelization on there, what do
you think?

Speaker 4 (47:57):
I definitely think caramelization goes a long way on anything.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
All right, Yep, I kind of agree with that too.
That sounds pretty delicious. I think I would be a
fan of that. The next one on the list here
that thinks you come back is the Dill. They call
it a delicious roll up, but dill delicious roll up.
It's a finger food, so immediately, we better have some gloves.
If you remember, in the first break I talked about
you have to have gloves you have finger food.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Yeah, it's very, very simple.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
So we talked about the French influence over American cuisine. Jeffy,
we haven't seen anything quite like that until you've had
a pickle and balooney roll up. It's a very Midwestern
sort of situation apparently. But it's a blooney slice with
your France. Yeah, a little baloney with a cream cheese
and then some pickles in the bed of it, and
you roll it and you roll it tight and you

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slice it and what it's a perfect harmony of textures,
it says, and the snap of the pickle against the
cream cheese and the soft meat.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
This is apparently a winner.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
I mean I wouldn't send it back. If you send
it to my table, I would have a bite.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I can't lie.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
I love pickles, I love boloney, I love cream cheese.
I mean all these three things together, I can't. I
can't see how it wouldn't be so good.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
Okay, all right, yeah, I kind of sounds delicious.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
I'm with it.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
Just wear gloves and you eat it. Yeah, because your hands.
It's just it's not good.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
Here's something that I think is interesting when it's on
this list, too, cold fried chicken. Yeah, cold fried chicken
is delicious. Just I kind of forgot about cold fried chicken.
It's delicious and easy to take on a picnic.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
Who doesn't love that? Right? Oh? Man, I love cold
fried chicken.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
I mean you fried up the seasoned flour. It's just
it's amazing because that sits overnight. It just gets I
feel like it's even better, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Ah, those crunchy like extra breaded little parts.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
Yeah, but what a great thing to have on there.
I think that's great. I couldn't agree more. And then
they talk about beans, like bringing a crock of beans
to a party. Yeah, like a crock of beans. I
just just bringing a crock of beans to a part
of beans.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Yeah, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
Who brought the beans and molasses ketchup works the share
sauce kind of crash sugar my last baked beans. Yeah
that's big.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
That's barbecue food.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
Potato salad, I mean kind of hard to grow on
p tato salad, right, I hope be mad at potato salad.
They talked oh oh boy. Uh, tongue sandwiches with pickles. Okay,
you know, I think that's that. I'm okay with that,
but I think a lot of people probably would not
be here for that. But apparently it was a very
normal thing on a sixties picnic menu.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
It depends on where you go and what coat are
you're talking to.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
But yeah, I mean, tone is delicious, all right?

Speaker 5 (50:31):
Uh Jello yellow salads, how do you feel about that?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Like ambrosia?

Speaker 5 (50:36):
I mean, I guess so it's uh, you know, the
jello with suspended fruit inside of it. I don't know.
I mean it seems like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Sure, anything it would melt.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
I mean, no, you're putting it in that beautiful value
just got from our last break.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
It also talks about left over dinner using meatloaf and
things like that, meat lift slices that sort of thing
from dinner before.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Listen, a meatloaf sandwich and white right with some ketchup.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
I'm here for this a couple more and we'll move
on to our modern day stuff. But prepackaged snacks weren't
quite a thing, but they would still have canned meat
products and serve it on top of ritz crackers. I'll
tell you what. I grew up having caned chicken. There's
worse things in the world. What do you think, Jeff?

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Yeah, canned chicken is it?

Speaker 4 (51:21):
You know? It's the one with the whole chicken that
comes out like the gelatinous whole chicken.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
Yeah, I gelatin This is not appropriate word for people
that are listening.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
I'm sorry. The jelly encased.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Okay, Yes, they talk about taking canned ham, blending it
with mayo and to use a foundation on a cracker
and then adding hot sauce or a pickle.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
I don't know, but I gotta be honest with you.
Crackers in like a canned ham product or canned ham salad.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
I thought you switched up and gave me a beauty tip.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
I thought you were like, take a little canned ham
and sameo. It's a great foundation. I was like, Hey,
where are we going with this? Just smear it all
over your face, son, It's fantastic. How about the wonderbread
wedding cake? H Yeah, I can't stop laughing about these
wonderbread wedding cake plump. What's a wonderbread wedding cake?

Speaker 5 (52:10):
That's a great question, Jeff, I'm so glad you asked.
Precision engineering was required. Horizontally sliced white bread, forming structural
layers Jeffy, each one supporting distinct fillings tuna salad, egg salad,
ham salad, and olive pimento spread. The exterior received a
sub a sculptural treatment of whipped cream. Whipped cream cheese,

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sometimes tinted a festive color with a dye that would
terrify modern natural food advocates. So you basically make all
of your favorite slice salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, all
that stuff, and you make different layers us in white bread,
and you spread cream cheese all over it, and you
can slice it so that each bite has a different
little salad on top of you follow me in between

(52:51):
the layers.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yes, I'm following you. And I love this idea.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
I've always wanted savory cake, and now you've just told
me where we can do.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
This is it?

Speaker 4 (53:00):
This is the new This is gonna be the new
summer salad I make.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
It's not bad. It kind of I don't know, like
you can slight some like, oh there's lopster salad in there,
chicken salad, tuna, that kind of sounds great.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Could you just use like spray cheese, like spray cheddar
on top, like the cat right out of the can.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
I don't think I think this is your world, Jeffy.
I'm just living in it. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean
you could do like some eggs salad in there.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Come on, Oh, I'm in ex Avier.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Let's do a cavear layers crazy.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
I think egg sounds underrated though, that's my thing.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Eggs Sole's definitely underrated. Yeah, but all the time.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
So that's I mean, you can see when you read
it off and listen to things like this and hear
things like this, you know, it's definitely probably a little
bit different than what we would make.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Now.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
You know, we think sandwiches and wraps and salads and
finger foods and desserts and that sort of stuff. Here, well,
we would go on a picnic, jeff, So let's talk
about what we would put. So you're going on a picnic.
You're gonna make some sandwiches, some wraps.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
What are you doing? Yeah, so listen, if I'm gonna
make a sandwich for a picnic, right off the bat,
just as a throwback, I would probably make.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
A delish chicken salad like wrap or sandwich.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
Sure, just like something that's like easy, it's all together,
everything's inside there, you know, the little chopped onion, a
little celery, maybe a little pickle again, a little throwback
some mao definitely not a miracle whip real mayonnaise. And
then I would throw a little crispy lettuce in there
in that wrap a little bit to try to like
put a layer of a of a vegetable in between

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the salad and the and the wrap. Sure, and then
I would wrap it up. I'd wrap it twice though
I do once with paper and then I finish.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
It with foil.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
Oh, nicely done there. Kind of helps insulate a little bit, I'll.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Insulate a little bit, makes it a little bit cleaner
of a situation when you go to unwrap it, and
keeps the foil from kind of touching your food, which
is like one of those things I don't like.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
So well, you know what I like for something like this,
it's a kind of crap. Please, it's very simple. Sandwich.
Get some really thin chicken cutlets from the grocery store.
You even can buy them pre slice. Now clean them nicely,
get all the stuff off the outside the fat parts.
You know, any kind of like things that you might
think look gross. Seas them up nice, you know, the
little salt, pepper, olive oil, lemon juice, that sort of thing,

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and then we're gonna grill them. Just have grilled chicken
cutlets like that, let them cool off for the you know,
overnight in the fridge, and then dude putting them on
a piece of bread or even a wrap with some
mayo and some crunchy lettuce and heavy black pepper and
just slicing that up. It's such a delicious, easy sandwich.
And it can be served room temperature or cold, and
it has the protein, it has the savory flavors you're

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getting from it. The black pepper is kind of key.
Black pepper and mayo are best friends. I think we're
gonna have black pepper. You have to you have maybe
you have to have black pepper. But yeah, a very simple,
easy sandwich. It you almost prey the night before.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
I love this.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
I love this, you know one of the other again
with the salads. I love egg salad. You said, egg
salad one of my favorite sandwiches. That it's like a
super like just savory and delicious, filling sandwich, egg salad, bacon,
and I like to put olives in my egg salad.
Whoa wow, Yeah, I like, I like chopped, really briny

(55:58):
green olives in the in the egg salad, and just
give us a little bit.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Of kick with the bacon too.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
It okay, okay, So I'm not afraid of that, I guess.
I mean, I'm just not a giant olive. I guess
I do like, Oh it's now two more than I
like to admit I do. I also think that a
great thing you can do with this too is we
can always go with the more fried chicken stuff. But
I love the cold fried chickens. Really got my brain turned.
That's a great idea to bring cold fried chicken, and
I forgot how much I.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Love that for sure.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
But I think having different sandwiches is kind of key.
So making raps and slicing them and putting toothpicks in them.
Any kind of sandwich you want to do with the
ham and cheese, you want to do a turkey and
cheese or something like that, Just different sandwiches. If you
take two raps or three raps, make them like a
turkey a ham, and you call the other one even
a blooney, right, keep it simple, and then you make
your sandwiches and them toothpick them. Then you can slice

(56:48):
them too smaller pieces with a toothpick through them, almost
like a pinwheel type situation. I think it just looks
classy on a picnic, especially if you going out there
on a date or something. You break that out as
opposed to like a sandwich or something or a crock
of beans, I think you'd be in much better shape.
It just looks better and it's not too hard to make.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
No, it's easy to make.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
You know. Another thing that comes to mind that I
think would be a great thing to take on a
picnic is to take pewa bread, you know, cut off
the top third, open it up a little bit. I
would just take a little bit of hummus and build
that Israeli salad we've talked about on this show before,
with a little bit of sumac, onions, tomatoes and cucumbers,
with a little bit of crispy lettuce. I'd build the
whole thing together, and then I would just roll those

(57:25):
up and pack them up so you can, oh yeah,
it's just be like a nice little vegetarian option when.

Speaker 5 (57:31):
Even if you don't build the sandwich. You just bring
a little hummus. You bring a little that, you know,
tomato salad, you bring some peda. You kind of have
your own like little set up there. You can kind
of people can put what they want on there.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Yeah, listen, I.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Think dips and chips and dips and vegetables like or
crud de tae some of my favorite things to have
yea for for for date night, like a date snack,
like being able.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
To share and talk and crunch together. It's just a
lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
If you just wear gloves, each of you MESSI gross
hands getting in their get your hands back, hands back,
get your hands in my food. It's disgusting.

Speaker 5 (58:05):
What about salads, I mean, I think you obviously can
go the easy route and talk about a nice green
salad of some sort. But I think there's a lot
of ways to make a really easy vegetable salad or
something like that to go with it as well, depending
on the time of year, and here in the summertime
right now. You know, I always talk about zucchini's and
how everybody always brings zucchini to each other's houses. We've
all got zucchini. We got to squash. Right, you take
a peeler to those and just take your peel or

(58:27):
just peel them lengthwise or whatever, long strips like ribbon strips.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
YEA.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
Toss those with a simple just Italian dressing or a
vinagrette of some sort, and add a little shallots and
salt and pepper and let it sit overnight. That's a
really easy salad. And plus it looks very like you're
thoughtful about it when you bring it. I love the easy.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
That's a super easy salad. You know.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
One of my favorite salads in the summer.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
It's a it's a little out of the box, but
it's like a it's you take egg plants, you don't
peel and meally the skin on them, and you cut
them in half down long ways, and then in half again,
and in a half again, so that you have like
big fat quarters. I grill those and then I put
them right into a marinade of you know, the sweet
chili sauce like the end, a little bit of soy,

(59:14):
ginger and garlic, and I just and sesame oil soak
them in that overnight from hot.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
I take it hot, put it right into that marinade.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Put it in the fridge and I take that and
put some fresh scallions on it the next day and
serve that, and it's just such a yummy, like sweet, spicy,
salty mommy, and it's it's it's.

Speaker 5 (59:32):
I think skallions should get more credit to your skyons
and really brighten things up.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Oh. They take it to the next level and it
hits It's not just like a bright vegetable flavor. It
hits you with that onion new mommy punch that you
totally you know, it's like not a powering though.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Yeah, No, it's great.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
I agree scallions can make and break a dish sometimes.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
Yeah, And if you want to make something like a
little bit more hardy, kind of either one of the
styles we just talked about there, you know, having some
cold rice and tossing a rice or a farrow in
with either one of those and then hitting with a
little bit more of the dressing makes a really nice
salad a little bit more filling too. I think that
that's a great one. I also think that a lot
of people they contend to overthink pasta salad. You know,

(01:00:11):
for me, pasta salad was always great. When I would
mix a little I'd use a little mayo, a little
red wine vinegar, and it was almost like a mayo
based salad, you know, kept it simple. You can then
put a little you want to get crazy, do a
BLT pasta salad with some chopped tomatoes, a little bit
of crunchy bacon in there, and have some chopped up
lettuce in there. Mix it all together. Not even a
BLT salad. That's delicious. Just remember you got mayo. You
need black pepper, very important. Oh I love that though.

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It sounds so good.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
You know, one of the things that I really really
liked eat. That's a hand food that it's a little again,
a little outside of the box. But easily you get
a little nori, a little rice like is in case
it don't know, or you get a little a seaweed
sheet from like sushi making.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
You get a little a little rice.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
You take a little leftover piece of fried chicken, you
slice it up, you put it on there, find a
little kimchi out of your fridge, put it on there,
square it a little mayonnaise, and then you roll the
whole thing into a triangle. Oh yeah, and then you
pack those You just wrap those up really tight and
and pack those and those are I can't remember what
they call them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
For them, but they're absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Kaiwanee and Westport does some of those and they're so delicious. Yeah, yeah,
it's a great one right there. I like that one too,
because I think when you you kind of take that
different route of doing a different type of cuisine on
your picnic is always a kind of a bit of
a show stoppers, particular if you're trying to show off
to somebody or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
So that's a really good idea.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
Right there, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
I like that one a lot, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
I think that Uh, we talked a little bit too
about finger foods. Just going back to that. I think
fruit is kind of a must, you know, some sort
of chopped fruit. But I think you can make it
and put in little cups and everybody it's a little
fruit cupending on me. People you have that way when
I has to put their hands everybody else's fruit, you know.
I think slice watermelon is always beautiful to a party,
but just think of a little hands touching it, you know,
come on, dude, does that mean that's me? I'm weird?

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I know, I don't know. I mean I grew a
box of gloves next to the water mountain plate.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
I grew up getting handed the bar nuts as a kid,
you know, and told to go play the pinball machine.

Speaker 5 (01:02:04):
And he's never freaked me out. What do you think
about fruit at a picnic?

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
I'm all in. I would eat fruit salad at a
picnic with with toothpicks. Okay, okay, I don't hate that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
But some people reuse the same toothpick though.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
That's what I'm saying. Everybody gets one toothpick.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
They only get one big bowl of fruit salad.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
Okay, huge, six people, big bowl of fruit salad. And
you can also for fun, everybody comes, they bring a
box off, bring a bag of candy. You can do
a candy salad, which is something my kids like to
do now. They all all their friends will bring a
bag of candy. They put all in a big bowl
and make a candy salad.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
It's that kind of body a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
They call it a salad. They're like a little bit
of candy salad.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
I showed up and I threw a bag threw a
bag of lettuce in a candy salad. Once sounds like
I thought would make a salad.

Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
I think you just dump a bag of hot beef
jerkey in there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
Enjoy kids, mix it up, enjoy. How about desserts. Let's
talk to about desserts for before we had to break
here in a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
Yeah, let's got a dessert for me to take. Cookies,
just delicious home baked chocolate chip cookies.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Knock it out of the park.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Hard not to love that. Chocolate cookies are one of
my favorites. I think a lot of people think it's
a good idea of like, oh, I'm going on a picnic,
I'll bring ice cream, We'll bring this. It's never going
to work out. Even though you have a great cooler bag,
it's still never going to quite work out.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Like you want.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
And I think it gets messy. Cookies are a big
win there. I like that you want to take it
to another level. Bring some cookies in a small jar
of peanut butter and nutella and have that and place
your ice cream on top of your cookies, and then
it kind of goes to a different level.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Whoa, here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
Here we go, see chef plums mixing it up. So
now he's going to make me get it get a
little crazy. I would take a little fluff. Then oh,
they bring out a little fluff. Then I'd probably bring
a little Harry's berries with me and we try to.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Harry's berries are a very expensive, beautiful strawberry.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Yeah, Gavola strawberry.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
It's very it's almost like a strawberry Starburst and a
real strawberry got together and decided what they're supposed to taste.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Like, and they're great, and put them together.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
I put that with a little fluff, make a little
spread for my that's great. Yeah, that's chocolate chip cookie.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
Yeah, I think that's great.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
I think things like that.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Things like brownies are a great one to bring. You know,
bring brownies and then you can actually bake cookies on
top of the brownie, so you have a cookie brownie.
My daughter makes that. It's crazy. It's a cookie brown
it's like a it's like a weird amalgamation. That's not
a word, but you know, it's just yeah, no, my
my my daughter's made him. It's like chocolate chip cookie
on top, brownie on the bottom, and then there's oreo

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stuffed in there somewhere. Oh my gosh, that's good. It's
like layer lay them in there like in the middle.
It's like real wild. It's like, that's that's great though,
that sounds delicious. Let's just bring that to cut them up,
have them all prepackage ready to go, and I like
a plate with some you know, plastic wrap or foil.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
That's a great one right there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
But I think our biggest tip is keep it simple
when it comes to dessert, right, keep it something you
don't overthink it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
I was gonna say, you want to think like fruit
bar lemon bar uh easy. You know, I wouldn't bring
a layer cake or cupcakes.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
Cupcakes never worked to a picnic because they're gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
And it's gonna take you think about how the cupcake
you gotta bring it or how you're going to package them.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
That's the other important thing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Whenever you're on a picnic, what are we putting all
this stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Yeah that's important.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
You know, you got to make sure you have the
right stuff to pack it so it gets there and
gets home.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
The right way.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
Yeah. I couldn't agree more. Like I said, I think
keeping it simple. I think Brownie's cookies that sort of
thing is a great option for sure. Fruit skiwers can
be another one if you hadn't want to get crazy
with it. But I mean, Jeff, I mean hit it
round the head there. Cookies is the way to go.
For sure. You're checking out Plumblove Foods. Right here on
the Voice of connect at WYCC, it's Chef Plumb Chef
jeff hanging out with you on the Saturday afternoon talking
about picnicking. And don't forget if you miss any part

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of this show, you can get the podcast anywhere you
get your find digital audio. When we come back, Jeffie,
what are we talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
We're gonna talk about drinks.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
The best part, the most important part, what to drink
on your picnic? Stay right there, friends, We write back
with more Plumb Love Foods. Plumb of Foods. Right here

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on wys you see the Voice of Connecticut hanging out
with here a Saturday afternoon. I hope you guys are
having a fantastic weekend. I hope you be a fun
plan tonight. It's Saturday in the summer.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Make sure it's something fun or maybe you're planning to
go on a picnic now, because you've been hanging out
with us talking picnics for the entire.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
Afternoon, which is fun. Jeffy, right, it's so fun. Why
do you talk like that?

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Well, because you said it's fun.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
I thought I wanted to, but you made it sound
scentuate the fun. That made it creepy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
The way you said it, my smooth fun voice.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
That was a smooth fun voice. Yeah, so fun.

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
I should be like, yeah, we're going on a picnic. Nut,
we're going on a picnic, going on a picnic. You
made it sound like it was a scene from Final Destination.
What it definitely sounds like that the way you said it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
I don't know, Hey, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:59):
Chef Chef up with you, Plumb Love Foods, WICC. If
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give us a follow, Say what's up? Say hello, Jeffy.

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We've covered a lot of things in this show. We
talked about the history of picnics, We talked about the gear,
talk about places to go. We just got done talking
about some food that we'd like to bring on a picnic.
What we haven't talked about is what I would argue
one of the most important parts the beverages. The beverage
is the very important part, Jeffy.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Very important part. The beverage seals the deal, if you will.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
Yeah, And I want to give a little precursor here,
because like, if you're going to bring an adult beverage
with you wherever you're going to picnicking, find out ahead
of time it's legal, final, ahead of time, it's okay.
Make a phone call, talk to the parks and rec
you know, that sort of thing. Just to be safe
because sometimes open container loss can you know, bite us
in the butt if we're not careful. So just be careful,
make a phone call. They'll tell you, they'll be helpful.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
That's what they do.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
They want to help you. But Jeffy, I want to
talk about non alcoholic beverages and regular and alcoholic beverages,
the whole gamut. What do we bring in, How do
we start this one off? How do we get into it?
I mean, obviously you have to bring water. Everybody wants water, Yeah,
I mean, I think waters a given.

Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
If you're not bringing water being silly, you're out in
the woods, you're out in the forest, you're out by
the beach.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
You need to have good water. You're going to be
in the sun.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
Need agua, I agree, very very important.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
And you can bring a big bottle of it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
You can bring one of those big jugs out the
two of the two gallon ones you get the milk
container ones are great, yep. And it doesn't have to
be cold either. It can just be like a jug of.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Water, exactly, just a jug of water. Keep yourself hydrated.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Important even if you're gonna be drinking some alcoholic beverages
or non alcoholic beverages, or maybe more important if you're
having alcoholic beverages, definitely have some water there.

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
Definitely definitely maybe one and one it, you know exactly
what else? What do you got there, JEFFI, I know
you've got some information about drinks and a list.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
And well, I mean, so I found best picnic drinks
of all time?

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Who is this from? This?

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
This is from Picnic Times.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
That's not a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
It's picnic times dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Okay, I've never heard of Picnic times dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
But I guess what I just sent out there.

Speaker 5 (01:09:16):
I just bookmarked it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Yeah, exactly, everyone's going to be on it. Now you're
welcome Picnic Times for that plumb low foods bump. There
you go, there you go. Here we go. So number
number fifteen on this list, I guess is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
Stop whining. Come on, what's number fifteen? Let's get let's
just run through it. Give me something.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
It's one of those lists that if you touch the thing,
it opened to right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
Here we go. They put an apple cinnamon cooler on
the air.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
What is an apple cinnamon cooler? What are we talking
about here? I thought you were gonna be like soda,
you know, kool aid.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Yeah, well, Picnic Times gives us fifteen great strengths of
all time, greatest.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
Drinks of all time. Okay, that's where we're Okay, that's
the that's the and.

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
They're saying an apple cinnamon cooler is the number fifteen
greatest drink of all time. Yeah. Absolutely, that's exactly what
I'm excited to do. My friend, geez, give me a
second here. So we're gonna make this ahead of time.
We're gonna put it in a jug or something that
can close tightly on top mason jar. If you will,
We're gonna go two cups of apple juice, a half

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teaspoon of cinnamon, one cup of sparkling water non flavored,
some ice cubes, and some apple slices.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Gonna close it up.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
I'm gonna pack it in our backpack with the ice pack.
We're gonna take it to the local. We're gonna open up,
We're gonna enjoy it. It's gonna be refreshing, delicious, a
little sweet.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
It'd be great for that fall picnic to drink.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
This would definitely be good for that leaf that the
leaf gazing picnic.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
Yeah, okay, all right, I'm with you so far. It
sounds delicious, sounds a little like a little bit of work,
But okay.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
I'm gonna say the official Plumb Love Foods Number fifteen
picnic beverage of all time would be.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
Purple juice barrels.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
Oh, the Huggies. Huggies, I remember Huggies.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
You get you get like twelve of.

Speaker 5 (01:11:08):
Them for like two dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
If that they were ninety nine cents for ten or something. Yeah,
it was definitely the cheapest, and it's it was no
juice at all.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
It was just food.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
Coloring sugar and like citric acid and raper chair. No
matter what color it was, they were great and you
always ask for it too.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Let me get a green one. Uh huh. How about
the frozen You ever get them froze? You get them
frozen and you'd smash them up a little bit and
it was like the best slush.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Huggy barrels were good. You
gotta get huggy barls for sure. If you want to picnic,
huggy brows is the way to go. So you got
kids with you.

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
Yeah, the Picnic Times number fifteen, they said apple cinnamon
cool is very respectable choice. But I think plumb love
foods picnic beverage of all time. Huggy barrels, the hugey
barrels shut out. And also for your adults out there
that want to mix it up and aren't afraid to
get wild. I'm worried where you're going here dropping a
little uh a little sidecar and your huggy barrel. You

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got frozen huggy barrel, you know, you smash it up
a little bit. It was a little bit of the vodka. Delicious,
I mean, delicious might be a stretch, but sounds good, okay.
Number fourteen from pu Picnic times dot com Strawberry lime
Agua Fresca. I'm sorry, what is that?

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Strawberry lime Agua Fresca. I'm glad you asked what that is.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
The first when you said that this is, my thought
was what Picnic Times is.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Out there with their picnic beverages of all time?

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
I mean, they must make it. It must be from
a little worldwide picnic search.

Speaker 5 (01:12:42):
But sure.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
Picnic search what they gleaned from the worldwide of picnic
overs said, Uh, you make a strawberry lime Agua Fresca.
It's pretty easy. You're gonna take yourself two cups of
fresh strawberries, hold four cups of cold water, two tablespoons
of fresh lime juice, about two tablespoons of sugar or honey,

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ice cubes, and lime slices, lime slices to garnish lime
slices too.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
There's a lot of work for these drinks from picnic tis.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
Yeah, you're going to mix all these things together. They
saying pure it's not going to stay really that slushy
when it gets to said park. It's going to be
kind of like a strawberry lime aid situation. Yeah, picnic times.
Get with the times. Yeah, I know what number here is,
number fourteen. This is the number fourteen Cotorse number fourteen.

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
We went to skip a few here to keep it moving.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Oh come on, now, come on, what's the number fourteen?
Plumb of foods? One?

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Oh, I'm glad you asked. That's a really easy one
to talk about right there. For me, a number four
on plumb of foods. Picnic beverages of all time is
going to be ourc Cola, our Sea, specifically our c
Cola RC Coil Royal Crown Cola. That's we had that
growing up. It's always a winter It's like a mixtween
coke and pepsi, and it was always the like seventy

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nine cents for a two liter back in the day,
so you can bring a couple of them with you
and Geary boy little Arcy Cola. I don't know, man,
you have Arcy Cola.

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
Yeah, But to me, it was like it was kind
of like the no frills cola, and it was just
like what you just said is what people told you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
So you try it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
They'd be like, no, it's like coke and pepsi and
you were like, yeah, sure, it is and you taste
it and you'd be like, man, this is not like
it's like tab.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
This is not like anything tab. But urci cola was rare.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
Was that growing up? Man? Definitely? It was definitely maybe
where I'm from, but ourcic cola was where it was at.
So yes, and we couldn't afford to boilings and that
good stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
So but we'll see to boilings until I was well
into my thirties.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Yeah, give us a couple more from this list. This
list might be bonk.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
All right, hey, listen, we're gonna go ahead with the
next one on the list that makes absolutely no sense. Nope,
we're gonna skip that because it's a I'm gonna tell
you what it is, all right, Okay, terrific A nutty
banana smoothie. Oh, because that's picnic doesn't say I'm great
picnic times?

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
What is happening here on a picnic?

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
A nutty banana smoothie?

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
I'm just gonna say, I.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Mean, you're gonna call yourself picnic times?

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
Sure? I want to research, research these articles, not mentioninggies.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
Come on, all right, all right, this one.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
I'm into the mohito mocktail. Okay, let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
All right, that's that's number eleven on the list. Now
we're getting into some good stuff picnics, alright, picnic times.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
Give us that one. Say that's in that all right?

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
In this one, we're gonna do a bunch of bunch
of mint, a little bit of lime juice, two tablespoons
of sugar, a cup of sparkling.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Water, ice cubes.

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
Ice cubes you're gonna have to pack in your yetty
backpack cooler and hope that they stay fair. You're gonna
me neither, but you know, good luck?

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
Well, uh, it sounds delicious. I mean you always think
of mohito is very refreshing. An easy way you can
take that and also make that an adult beverage there
as well if you want to.

Speaker 4 (01:15:57):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
But how about the plumbuff foods version of the Listenarge, what.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
Would you have on?

Speaker 7 (01:16:00):
There?

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Is your next one for plumb of foods, next one
for number eleven.

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
Uh, we've jumped, we jumped a few steps there.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
So yeah, I'm gonna go watermelon fresca, you know, like
just pureade watermelon with a little bit of lime in
a in a container to bring with you. Okay, with that,
and then you could also add a rum or vak
into that real quick port tequila, and it becomes all
of a sudden an adult beverage, real quick. But I
think plumb love foods. Number eleven would be watermelon juice.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Fresco cooler. Watermelon juice would like well like ginger ale.

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
Yeah, we could do that too, A little ginger ale
and watermelon juice and a little lime juice together, and
now you're almost to like my seventh grade prom uh
fruit punch Okay, all right, can remember those fruit punches,
the fruit juice and the ginger ale.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
Oh yeah, throw some chop fruit in there too, why not?

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
There we go, And I don't break gloves now they're
make myself a couple of what else you got, Jeffrey
on the picnic times?

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
You've ever used gloves?

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
You just always want gloves? Getting that?

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
I mean, I put a box of gloves next to
the punch bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
Did you ever bob for apples?

Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Oh wow, that's awful. People say that's a good picnic activity. Okay,
keeping a movie?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
All right? Here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
So number nine on our list, well, number ten, we're
not even gonna I don't even know, pineapple ginger fizz
stop sounds a picnic.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
But here we go, and I'm just gonna say this
is We're gonna jump up a bunch. This is number
five overall, and it can be any flavor that you want,
because I'm not going to go through every flavor of
this beverage because it don't aggravate me that you because
we're gonna have to label that all separate.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
But iced tea, oh yeah, iced tea on a picnic,
it's a winner.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
I mean sweet tea, boy, or even not sweetened tea,
just like a little non sweetened tea with a splash
of lemon or a bit of peach in.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
There, daddy, Okay, all right, a little peacht homemade.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
I like that too.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
Slap a mint on there. We call a mint on there.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
We used to call it sun tea. We just do
it out in the sunshine. Let it, let it, let
the tea bag and the water kind of sit in the.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
Sun like God brew it for you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
I like this, okay, God's tea. But I agree. I
think that's a great one. To Jeffrey, I think tea
is always a winner. Uh in my book. I think
tea is a crowd pleaser. It's refreshing, it's delicious, a
little bit of caffeine in there, and there's a lot
you can do with that. So I would definitely agree
with that. I think that's a that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Yeah, man, I yeah, I think that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Uh going to the Plumb Love Foods list, jumping up
a few, it's also iced tea.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:18:41):
I mean, I think Plumb of foods and picnic times,
you're finally lining up a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
Yeah, I agree with that. Iced tya is definitely the
way to go. I mean, iced ty is a winner.
It's just it's hard to go wrong with it. But
you don't have to get crazy too. Just gets some
lipting iced tea bags and throw them in there. You
don't need to put like Earl Gray or camameal or
tea of rose hips or whatever. Just just get some
lipts of tea bags.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
And throw them in there.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
Keep it simple.

Speaker 4 (01:18:59):
Yeah. Yeah, So the next one doesn't make any sense, We'll.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
Take it down just five. Just we'll just go five
four three two one.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Here, let's just do it. Give us on.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
They're all teas, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
It's all tea, give us.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
It's it's all tea.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
Then it's an Armley Palmer, and then it's a leg
which is what tea and lemonade to get.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
L Palmer, Arnold Palmer.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
I don't know what you call this. I think the terminal. Yeah,
tea and lemonade great. I think lemone should definitely be
on the list as well time the list.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
But you know what they're lacking here, Plumb tell me, well,
I mean as a so ya, my friend chef Plumb
here newly elected greatest s on yea on this podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
That he or radio show a little bit of wine.

Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
Dog.

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
Well, I think wine's very important when you go because
I think that uh you know, because for me it's
it's it's definitely sets the tone a little bit like
obviously if you're going on it's there's two different types
of picnics here. We're talking to family friendly kid picnic
versus a date picnic. However, wine fits both of those categories.
In my homemadee thank you, you know, going with a rose,
going with an orange wine, even going with you know,

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a nice white, nice savignon blanc or something like that,
definitely the way to go. I would stay away from
a chardonay, especially particularly like a barrel chardonnay or an
oak chardonnay. Those get too buttery, too heavy. Those are
very wintry type wines to me. But a nice bright
savagon blanc, something from New Zealand, a censire you can
go down and you want to go get French with
it and go like the Water Valley something like that.
Definitely a good choice right there for a.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Picnic.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
And bear in mind too, these wines, guys, it doesn't
have to be ice cold, you know. It almost shouldn't
be as ice cold. You know, it should be chilled
fifty five degrees, forty five degrees the most. It doesn't
have to be, you know, thirty two degrees. It just
the colder it is sometimes you ruin the flavor of it.
But and the key thing I'll tell you too with
your wines when you're taking on a picnic, let it breathe,

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open it up, Let it breathe a little bit first
before you have.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
Any Jeff, absolutely, let it breathe. It's it's wine needs
a tiny bit of air, just a tiny bit to
the oxygen opens up all the flavors. It lets everything
kind of get in there. You mentioned some great whites.
What about like a good red for me, like a
pino noir. Honestly, Yeah, like if I'm gonna have a
little cheese in the summer, it's a nice refreshing red wine.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
Well, so if you picture it like a picture, it
as like a ruler, right, a wine scale, right, and
one side is gonna be acidic and one side is
not gonna be or one side's gonna be heavy reds,
one side's gonna be a light white, right. Pana no
War falls right in the middle. If you're ever ordering
food at a restaurant and don't know what wine to get,
if you order a piano of water, you're probably gonna
it's probably a safe bet. It's gonna be okay. And

(01:21:38):
pianuaa goes on anything pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
Goes a fish, goes with chicken, goes a steak.

Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
It works for sure, Particularly if I get Oregon Piano
no War or something like that would be great. You know, Yeah,
I think it's a great bet for that. I mean
there's a few that a little bit heavier, but yeah,
that's usually a safe bet when ordering food or even
going on a picnic. But again, talking about red wines here.
It doesn't. Red wine is not supposed to be room temperature. Friends,
it should be fifty five degrees cellar temperature they call it.

(01:22:04):
So you know your want red wine should not be
room temperature. It should be a little cooler.

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
Well, it's another uh, like red wine selection my some
friend that you would take on a trip like this,
or like an outdoor picnic, something you might want to
take out like especially in the summer.

Speaker 5 (01:22:20):
For sure, I'm a fan of charas And here's why.
Charaz has a little peppery notes to it, which tend
to help your boy and naturally cool down a little
bit when you're outside. Charaz also really fits the bill
when having sandwiches or any kind of acidic salads. You're
matching the city's here with the acidic charras also with
the acidic salad. So when you're your pairing wines, you

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want to go complete opposite or you want to go
down the same road. So it's very like like like
sweetened and not sweet, or sweet and savory or savory
and savory. You know, you kind of want to go
far apart or right together with it. And so for me,
a Charaz is a great bet for a a h pick,
particularly a Barossa valley from someplace like in Australia. A

(01:23:02):
great Australian cerras, a great, bad, fantastic way to go.
And here's the best thing, they're not expensive. You can
get a great charras for fifteen twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Oh wow, what about I recently had a wine. I
think it was called the Gamet.

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
A Gamet gamey grape is a very very a little
bit fruity, you're a little bit brighter fruit. Think when
people used words to describe wine, they say things like, oh,
I taste like you know, stone fruits and things like that.
It's just more about the flavors in the background of it.
Doesn't mean it's necessarily to taste like a plum, but
that's kind of the idea what you're getting when you
taste it. Yea, and Gamet tends to really really do

(01:23:37):
that for me. It's a very great jam kind of
a grape, very really well with smoked food. We had
smoke that was fantastic. That makes complete sense, makes complete sense.
You think about the smoke, you're thinking, you know that alkaline,
that carbon based, you know, it's kind of on that
food where you have this very jammy type wine going
with it. It's hand in hand. I mean, you're you're

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going complete opposite from each other. So that's why it works.

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
Love that.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
Another great wine to go with is anything late harvest.
So late harvest is a fantastic wine to have on
a picnic. Late harvest means basically, the grapes go through
the first frost, right, and so then they thow and
then they picked them. So it happens is they've already
lost a bunch of their water because they've frozen and
the thought out, so they look almost reasily and wrinkled
when they press them, and that concentrated right, it leads
back all that residual sugar and you get amazing flavors

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like honeysuckle and things like that. It's a little bit heavier,
I don't want to say syrupy, but kind of head
in that direction. There's also something called a buttritis wine.
But tritis means the steve what sounds.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Like something you got to get removed at a podiatrist.

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
No, but you're kind of on the right path. But
Tritas is a fungus that infects the grapevines that takes
away the moisture and leaves back residual sugar. And they
do it on purpose to make a like a sweet wine,
a dessert wine, or a patritis wine. Yeah, and particularly
here in the Northeast, you can find lots of late
harvest wines, so some good stuff out there too. That's
when it comes to a sweeter wine, which is a

(01:24:58):
great thing to have on a picnic too, because here's
the thing. You break that out, you're on a date,
on a picnic or something, you break that out, you're
definitely gonna kind of surprise them. It tastes different, it's
not what they're expecting. Highly recommend you to get me
fired up. Yeah, I know, I see you again.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Fired up.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
I mean, I think we would be remiss if we
didn't mention a few great beers too. You could always
pack a great couple of craft beers, like something that's
really delicious, something that's good to split together. Like you
can get like some great IPAs, some great sours, some
great pills, and there's don't sleep on a guinness.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
Yeah, don't sleep on a guinness.

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
Oh, a guinness is delicious and it's so refreshing ice cold,
and it splits well and it looks fun and it's
a great conversation starter.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
It's actually lower calories and even a bud light, which
is hilarious. So again I love as I haven't had
a Guinness in so long.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
I love.

Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
I don't drink beer anymore, and I really that's what
I really do miss againess, it's so refreshing and delicious.
Againis is a delicious beer. Yeah, but yeah, you're right,
don't sleep on that. That's great, and of course we
have to say it. I don't want to say it,
but any of those sparkling like you know what do
they call them the high noons or things like that,
those are easy to bring as an adult beverage to have,
and you know, some people like to have them a lot,

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so not for me, but I get him.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
Some people like it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
It's fine, you know, it's cool. I had something called
sun Change the other night, which is which is a tea.
It's like a vodka tea, not bad, not bad out
of a can. It wasn't bad. So there's lots of
choices out there, obviously, you can see where my passions.
I go to wine immediately and just go to top
for seven and a half minutes and just start talking.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
Yea, No, that was great though. I learned a little
bit right there. I mean the late Harvest ones. That
sounds like that's right up my alley, a little sweeter,
especially on a pictick. You want something I think that's
really easy to drink. You want a very drinkable whatever,
whatever it is. You don't want it to be like
you know, you don't want a heavy alcoholic drink. That's like, well,
you're trying to get it down. Do you want something
that's going to be nice and smooth and enjoying yourself. Yeah,

(01:26:46):
you need to walk back.

Speaker 5 (01:26:48):
I think sherrys are great too. You get a nice cold,
a Pedro Jimenez or something like that. That's a great
one as well too. You can get a nice and
cold and take them with you. They're come in a
tiny little bottle. It's easy to take carry around. It's
a nice after dinner drink. A little sherry is a
fantastic choice for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
I love a little sharf.

Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
Go on a picnic, Jeffy, look how much we made
this picnic awesome?

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
Going on a picnic?

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
Going on a picnic? This sounds amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
How's our song?

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
Go?

Speaker 4 (01:27:10):
Oh picnic?

Speaker 5 (01:27:12):
Picnic? With Chef Plum and Jeffy I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (01:27:14):
Friends.

Speaker 5 (01:27:15):
We appreciate you joining us here for Plumb Love Foods.
Maybe playing yourself a picnic. Go have a great time friends.
Remember food is one of the most important things we
have in life. Everything important life revolves around food. Let's
make sure we get the time it deserves. For Chef Jeffy,
I'm Chef Plumb. Thanks checking out Plumb Love Foods right
here on WI see the Voice Connecticut. We'll see you
guys next Saturday. Have a great week Go out to eat,
go support our restaurants, go to the parks, go to Amazon,

(01:27:37):
buy some stuff, go camping, go picnic, and do all
these things together. Have a great weekend friends. We'll see
you guys later. Take care, picnicking

Speaker 6 (01:27:56):
And the rest