Birthday at the cottage. Spring birthday menu. Mushroom skewers

Menu for a picnic in nature for a birthday

A trip to nature is always a long-awaited event for residents of large and stuffy cities, and if there is also a significant reason for this, for example, the birthday of a friend or loved one, then there is no limit to joy.
In nature, each person relaxes, becomes more alive and mobile, and what is also very important, everyone in the fresh air wakes up a good appetite. This is what should be remembered by those who organize a birthday celebration in the form of a picnic.
It is very important to carefully consider the menu and take everything you need so that guests can enjoy freshly prepared dishes with pleasure. The organizers of the holiday can choose two options: either cook all the food at home and just take it with them in containers, or take a barbecue, prepare food and cook all the dishes in front of the guests. So the cooking process will be even more fun, and it may even become part of the entertainment program. But no matter how the food is prepared, it is important that it is convenient to eat it in nature, because often only a bedspread or tablecloth, laid out in a clearing, serves as a table. Here are some ideas for those looking for a birthday picnic menu:

Snacks

After the guests have arrived for the holiday, they should immediately be treated to something. And simple snacks are best for this. It is advisable to make them at home before leaving, because in nature it is not so easy to cut meat and vegetables beautifully. You can make meat, cheese or vegetable plates with various sauces. It is advisable to cut the meat nut, carbonate, smoked bacon and several types of sausage.

On another plate, you can put ordinary hard and soft cheese, pigtail cheese, as well as processed and curd cheese. Vegetable cuts should also be as diverse as possible. In addition to cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers, you can cut carrots and onion rings. Also, many people love greens, olives, beans, so you should stock up on these products.

In addition to bread and sandwich buns, take pita bread with you, and as soon as the grill is ready, prepare a delicious snack with tomatoes and cheese in a few minutes. In this way, guests will satisfy their hunger a little and will be able to wait for the main festive dishes. For more details, see the link on our website.

Salad with tomatoes and champignons

You can also make a salad as an appetizer. It is also better to cut it at home in advance. This salad is just right for standing for a while before being eaten. As an idea: it’s better to immediately spread the salad, for example, into plastic glasses with lids, then guests can easily eat it, and at the same time they won’t overturn anything or stain their clothes while they lay out the dish on disposable plates. In order to prepare such a salad with mushrooms and tomatoes, you will need:

• 400 grams of cherry tomatoes
• 200 grams of fresh champignons
• basil and green onion to taste

for refueling:

• four tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
• four tablespoons of olive oil
• ground pepper and salt to taste
• one and a half teaspoons of sugar

First you need to wash the tomatoes and greens, dry them on a napkin and cut them. Basil and onion are cut as small as possible, and tomatoes are cut in half. After that, you need to clean the mushrooms and cut them into several pieces along.
Then the filling is ready. To do this, vinegar is mixed with oil and spices. Then the tomatoes are mixed with herbs, mushrooms, poured with dressing and everything is mixed well. After that, the salad can be divided into portions and left in the refrigerator for at least three hours. You can make this dish before going out into nature and put glasses with salad in a cooler bag.

Main course

Not one trip to nature is complete without barbecue, and meat cooked on fire is certainly the highlight of any holiday. Everyone has their own recipe for a delicious barbecue, and the most important thing in this matter is to marinate the meat correctly. Moreover, it does not always take a lot of time, if you use, for example, mayonnaise, spices and kiwi, then it will take a little more than an hour for the meat to be ready for frying - and during this time you can just get to the place of celebration. It remains only to light the grill. Step-by-step photos of how, see the link on our website.

Wings on the fire

By the way, you can fry on fire not only pork, but also chicken wings. They are very tasty and crispy. By the way, you can also marinate chicken in mayonnaise sauce. Or make soy-honey sauce. To do this, add 2 tablespoons of honey and mustard to the soy sauce. If the honey has thickened, heat it up a little. Salt and seasonings to taste.

Mushrooms on the grill

As a side dish for meat dishes, you can bake vegetables, or, for example, champignons. By the way, the cooked ones are very similar in taste to meat, so this dish can be made when there are those who don’t eat meat as guests, or when there are a lot of people, and there is a chance that not everyone will eat barbecue.

The best companion of meat dishes, of course, is potatoes. It can also be baked on the grill, but it will be faster to feed the guests if you prepare this side dish in advance. At home, you can boil potatoes, drain the water, add butter, herbs, onions, close the pan, wrap it in paper, then wrap it tightly with a large towel and put it in the trunk. So the potatoes will retain their heat, and it can be served with freshly cooked kebabs. If you don’t like plain potatoes, then you can mash potatoes, or stew potatoes with vegetables.

Hamburgers

As an addition to all meals, or at the end of the holiday, when everyone is hungry again, you can make fresh cutlet sandwiches that can be served hot. Here is what it takes to make hamburgers in nature, for example, for five people:

• 5 cutlets: 500 grams of ground beef, one large onion, 100 grams of any hard cheese, 100 grams of breadcrumbs, olive oil, pepper and salt
• 5 buns
• bulb
• 5 slices of processed cheese
• leaf salad
• big tomato
• sauces to taste

First you need to make meatballs. You can form them at home on the eve of the holiday, then freeze them and take them to the place of celebration in a cooler bag. First you need to grate the cheese and finely chop the onion. Then the onion must be fried in olive oil, cool slightly and mixed with minced meat and grated cheese. You can salt, pepper, mix the mixture well, form cutlets and roll them in breadcrumbs. In the middle of each hamburger blank, you need to make a small indentation so that the patties do not lose their shape.

Ready cutlets must be fried on a wire rack on both sides until a dark crust appears. It remains only to cut the buns into two parts, dry them and lay out the lettuce leaves. Then you can put cutlets, pour your favorite sauce, add cheese, onion rings, tomatoes and close the hamburgers with the top of the buns.

Stuffed pepper

You can cook vegetables very tasty on a real fire, and it will be very convenient to eat stuffed halves of bell pepper. Here's what you need for this dish:

• six peppers
• 300 grams of parmesan
• four cloves of garlic
• 100 milliliters olive oil
• 50 grams chopped walnuts
• canned corn
• fresh basil

In this case, it is better to make the stuffing for peppers at home, and fill the vegetables and bake them in nature. First you need to grate the cheese. It is better to put aside 100 grams immediately in a container, as the cheese will be needed for sprinkling already stuffed peppers. After that, peel the garlic and finely chop the cloves. Then you need to mix the oil with garlic, walnuts and finely chopped basil leaves.
Then you need to remove all the seeds from the peppers and cut them in half lengthwise. Eight halves must also be sent to the container, and four cut into small cubes.
After that, we finish preparing the filling. Fry the chopped pepper until soft, add the resulting mixture of cheese and corn. After five minutes, remove the pan from the stove. The finished filling must be cooled and put in the refrigerator.
In nature, all that remains is to put the pepper halves on the grill, bake them for several minutes on the inside, then stuff them, sprinkle with cheese and put on the grill for some more time until the peel darkens and becomes soft.

banana boats

You can even cook dessert on the grill. Bananas are the best for this. A delicious treat can be arranged in the form of boats, this will require foil. Here are the required ingredients:

Lemonade

Of course, a picnic is not complete without alcohol, but refreshing drinks are also needed. And you don’t have to buy them, because you can make real delicious lemonade. For this you need:

• five lemons
• 800 grams of sugar
• one and a half liters of water

First you need to peel the lemons. Then the skin must be finely chopped, put in a deep container, covered with all the sugar and set aside for one hour. After that, you need to boil water, pour it into a container with lemon zest and wait about thirty minutes. At this time, you can squeeze the juice of all the lemons, strain it and, after the time has elapsed, add it to the water with the lemon peel. If desired, the peel can be immediately laid out, or you can leave and pour the lemonade into transparent bottles.

Here is one example of a birthday menu that is celebrated in nature, but, of course, you should always proceed from the wishes of the birthday man himself and the taste preferences of the guests.

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Like it or not, outdoor recreation with friends will never replace even the most expensive restaurant. At the dacha you always feel relaxed and cheerful, no need to look for evening dresses and wear high heels. Even for adults, you can come up with exciting birthday contests, make the dacha fun and memorable for the evening.

How to celebrate a birthday in the country in the summer?

So, what can you think of to celebrate a birthday in the country, so that everyone is comfortable and really fun:

1. Today, the most relevant answer to the question of how to celebrate a birthday in the country in the summer is a theme party. It is dedicated to a favorite movie or an entire era, a famous character. It is enough to know what exactly the birthday man will appreciate.
2. The ideas of holding a birthday in the country, associated with a hobby, will definitely justify themselves. For example, the birthday boy loves hunting or fishing. Fine! If there is a nearby pond suitable for fishing, it may well become the main venue for the evening, fishing is far from boring. Well, if it's hunting, you can always rent a paintball gun and make large paper targets in the form of animals, place them in the corners of the cottage and start a real hunt for speed!
3. Do not forget about the competitions in the country for a birthday for adults. Here it is important to know with which contingent you will have to deal. Outdoor games with humor like limbo or crocodile, and will be appreciated by a cheerful company of uninhibited friends. For a quiet company, there are always board or card games.
4. With the advent of darkness, you can hang a large white sheet and watch a movie with the whole company.

Whichever of the ideas for a birthday in the country you choose, always remember the menu! As a rule, the main dish is cooked on fire, and guests will almost certainly be hungry by the time they are ready. Therefore, you can arrange sandwiches according to the chosen topic and

All photos used in this post are freely available from the Internet. I do not claim authorship.

Since my daughter will be 2 years old in June, and we plan to celebrate in the country, I will start with the topic:

"CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY IN THE COTTAGE/NATURE"

This is rather not a thematic DR, but simply a DR in nature / cottage. The topic, of course, can be any (and in the style of cartoon characters, and cartoons, etc., etc.), I just want to touch on the main ideas I like about decoration and entertainment.

1. Attributes / accessories and decoration of the site

It seems to me that the simplest and most inexpensive are all kinds of garlands of flags, circles, pennants, etc., etc. Which can be cut from ordinary colored cardboard. An idea to note: cutting out triangular flags (on the right in the photo), we get the remains in the form of a pennant (on the left in the photo). Thus, you can use cardboard without a trace, and make two types of garlands - pennants and flag. You can hang all this on: thin satin ribbons (they sell fabrics in stores), or on a decorative paper cord (in online stores where everything for the holiday is sold, the cost of a cord 20 m long is about 50 rubles!).

Here are the circle garlands + paper pom poms:

By the way, lay a bright rug, put baskets, pillows, and a ready-made photo zone for guests and a birthday boy / birthday girl! And most importantly, the picnic theme is preserved. Yes, and the kids can lie there while the adults are talking. You can also make paper beads like in childhood for the Christmas tree:

Here, in general, ordinary colored paper is needed and that's it.

I also really liked the idea of ​​​​decorating the entrance to the gazebo (if the holiday is planned in a gazebo in the country or in nature, rent a gazebo with a barbecue somewhere). Thread light curtains or tulle onto the rope (there is probably a spare at home to replace the main ones), pick up beautifully on the sides, attach butterflies, flowers or some accessories to the tulle in the style of the DR itself (if it is thematic), beauty!

And of course, the option with balloons (I don’t really like them in the design of the holiday, but in nature they generally look good):

You can wind such caterpillars yourself from balls, it will look cool on the grass))

In general, the summer cottage itself / in nature is already beautiful, green in itself, and if you add a table, chairs, bright tablecloths, children's entertainment in the form of pools with balls, plastic slides, children's chairs and tables, children's tents, hang garlands on top, it will be beautiful and festive!

2. Festive / sweet / children's table / candy bar

2.1. General table setting

This is where all the living garden flowers can come in handy, and in pots too + bright dishes

A very interesting idea with bedding in the form of artificial grass (I saw something like that in stores where everything is for summer cottages, such squares of artificial grass). By the way, a cage in textiles + wicker baskets always gives a feeling of a PICNIC.

Ordinary jars with flowers + helium balloons, already elegant. Large and small table next to each other

Children's feast on pillows, at a small children's table, very country-style

Again flowers in jars, with balloons, and bright plates

2.2. Snack/candy bar/children's buffet

Usually, unnecessary furniture is brought to the dacha, and there is always an extra table that can be covered with a tablecloth or cloth and made into a real art object.

you can even create a photo zone from it:

I also really liked the idea of ​​"ALTERNATIVE to the sweet table" (relevant for children)

Even in the case of a summer holiday, as an alternative to a table with salads and other gluttony, make it like a buffet table, placing an appetizer in convenient containers, wrapping something in parchment paper, etc.

3. Serving food

For children's DR, I really liked the idea of ​​​​children's food sets for each little guest: each bucket or basket contains a set of a drink, snack, fruit, sweet dessert. Very comfortable and neat in my opinion!

And I really liked these horns because you can carefully arrange fruits and berries in them, again, it’s convenient for children to take, everyone will get the whole assortment

Snack table option for adults and children: you can COLLECT yourself the sandwich you want

And there are plenty of options for decorating children's dishes so that children eat everything with pleasure. There are a lot of such options on the Internet, so I will not list them. For example:

4. PHOTO ZONE: ideas and implementation

A photo zone is an organized place at a holiday, with festive accessories and paraphernalia, for photographing the birthday man and guests.

Of course, there are a lot of options, but I will focus on those that I liked the most and are not difficult to perform.

Figure for a photo shoot + a wooden box (you can use a wicker basket) + flowers in a vase + pillows, etc.

Pull a rope between the garden trees, hang to it scraps of fabric unnecessary from the bins, or use the same garlands (flag, circles, pompoms, etc.) + some chair or bench for summer cottage + pillows

like an option, with country chairs and flowers in tubs

"Recumbent-sitting" options for photozones:

Another interesting option: the use of a hula hoop. Hang under a tree, tie long ribbons or, again, flaps of fabric to the hoop. Ribbons can be bought at the same fabric store (satin and others), plus tie garlands of circles, etc., etc. The guest stands inside the circle, and peeks out from behind the filament curtains, opening them to the sides.

Variant of the "wall" of hanging garlands

a very simple option, a garland and balls, against their background you can take a picture

And this is an idea for a photo of a child for a specific year

And then the scenery, but such a "dacha" meaning! liked it very much

5. Entertainment at the children's DR in the country

Of course, there are a lot of outdoor games, again I will focus on ideas “in pictures”

1. BOWLING

Need bottles + water + ball

2. DARTZ WITH BALLS

Needed: balls + dart + board to which to attach the balls

3. THROWING OBJECTS into basins/jars

Needed: basins / jars, items, plates with glasses

4. FISHING: magnetic, in basins of water, etc.

Needed: fishing rods for children, magnetic or with a hook, fish and other aquatic animals, basins or even a paddling pool

5. TREASURES in the sand

Needed: a bucket, scoops, all sorts of shells, pebbles, jewelry, etc., sand, coins, etc.

6. FOOD WITH OBSTACLES (no hands!)

Needed: rope, donuts / bagels

7. GAME TWISTER

Needed: the TWISTER game itself or cans of paint and make it yourself

8. WATER LORD

Needed: pistols, watering cans, sprinklers

9. FIND THE LOOPHOUSE

Needed: two trees side by side, rope or rubber band

10. LIFE IN THE GRASS

Needed: figurines of small frogs, lizards, worms, snakes (fixed price), jars for children, a lawn

11. DRAWING THE ROPE / ROPE / TWISTED SHEETS

Needed: sheet / rope / rope

12. Piñata (a box of sweets or water in balls))

Needed: a box or a paper bag, you can glue or shape something, or a water piñata - pour water into balloons, a stick

13. BAG RUNNING

Needed: large bags (like garbage) or fabric bags

14. CHILDREN'S ATTRACTIONS (our own or FOR RENT)

Great idea for kids entertainment! Plastic slides, houses, wheelchairs, plastic swings, dry ball pools, trampolines for children, etc. All this can be rented, even found in my city. The price of renting a slide for a week is 200 rubles, a house is within 400 rubles, there are even plastic complexes, there is a mini slide, and mini swings, ladders and a horizontal bar, it costs 600 rubles.

15. EVENING OUTDOOR MOVIE SHOW

The idea is great, I hope we will implement it someday! All you need is a projector… Well, white sheets, blankets, bedspreads, pillows are always available!

A magical ending to the Children's Party, and adults will be delighted!

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Ideas for celebrating a birthday in nature should be significantly different from all other celebration options, that's for sure.

I tried to collect all the most interesting things so that you can choose the right ideas for your holiday.

Let's solve the most important question. Which? This is a question of who exactly organizes everything and a birthday in nature will turn out to be really memorable.

OPTION 1:
we do everything ourselves

OPTION 2:
book a holiday with a field trip

Option 1: We do everything ourselves!

Until the end of the article there will be ideas for those who are ready to arrange a memorable holiday for loved ones. To be honest, it’s not so easy, you need a clear preparation plan and lists of necessary things, otherwise you can forget the essentials in the pre-holiday bustle.

Treat!

1. Take ready-made food so that guests can calmly wait for hot food

This is advice from years of picnic experience. People usually come to nature in the morning, few people have time to have breakfast, and even the road is long…

There must be a supply of ready-to-eat products, tea and coffee in thermoses, otherwise the preparation of the barbecue will turn into not a festive expectation, but a nervous process in which the coals flare up for too long, the meat is fried for too long, etc.

What can I take as a morning buffet:

Ready sandwiches
pies with salty and sweet fillings
spring rolls
pieces of fried meat in breadcrumbs or round flat patties (they are convenient for making hamburgers)
fresh and salted vegetables
washed fruits
tea, coffee, juices

2. For the grill menu

Of course, on a birthday in nature, you want to see such treats that do not happen during home feasts.

There are so many marinade recipes that I won’t dare to describe them here, I’ll just remind you what can be grilled.

Meat skewers
chicken skewers (by the way, there is no vinegar, and the semi-finished product can be made at home and heated on a fire right in the foil. Children always want everything quickly)
fish on the grill
seafood
baked vegetables (zucchini, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers)
in a pot you can cook fish soup or meat sauce with herbs
pilaf

3. Don't forget:

Drinking water in small bottles
juices
bread, buns, cookies
ketchup and mustard
salt, sugar, spices
disposable tableware and tablecloths
good knives, ladle, slotted spoon
corkscrew
wet wipes
trash bags
silicone gloves to wash your hands less frequently
set of skewers and grill
folding grill, coal
fast ignition agent

Disposable foil trays for cooked kebabs and vegetables
folding furniture or inflatable chairs
raincoats
spare clothes for children
mosquito repellent
rolls of foil and cling film to protect products from flies and wasps
first aid kit with plaster, peroxide, painkillers
a compact tent (if children do not start playing in it, you can put all the bags, packages and backpacks in the tent, which always spoil the natural landscape with their appearance and spoil all the photos)

We decorate the cottage (clearing, gazebo)!

There are ready-made paper decorations that can be turned into voluminous balls, stars and pompoms in a couple of seconds.

Finished paper decorations

That's the problem. All these decorations are quite LARGE and not much is needed to decorate a room. The price is very cozy, they are sold folded and very easy to fold, in just a couple of seconds. Rate my work, I devoted a separate article to each type of decoration:

Here is a selection of articles with examples:

Large

Paper multi-colored

And here's another

Do you know what fantas are?

We entertain guests!

Now we are talking about a family holiday, but here there may be options:

1. gathered adults of different generations from 18 to 90 years old
2. there are many young families with small children from 1 to 9 years old at the holiday
3. families with children from 1 to 17 years old came to visit you
4. there are no small children, but there are teenagers aged 12-17 who are bored in an adult company

Agree, in each of these cases the program should be different.

Free scripts for children and teenagers

• (especially suitable)
• Board games: high-quality cards for the games Crocodile, Mafia, Alias, Svintus, etc.

All together: 2 to 92

The most difficult case, tasks for such a company are the most difficult to come up with.

If you feel that adults are not averse to having fun with children, let me remind you of some time-tested fun. Yes, you will need to buy something, but then you will use the most successful props for many, many more years.

• If there is a place for outdoor games, there are always those who want to for volleyball, badminton and frisbee, do not forget to throw balls, rackets and "flying" saucers into your backpack. Often there are no clearings for such fun, you need something less active, read on!

• Fanta. Just like that, people also start dancing and begin to read funny poems, but in fantasies there are very unexpected ones. Naturally, you also buy all sorts of funny little things and say the phrase “I will give this prize to phantom number ... 5!”. In the second half of the party, for some reason, everyone is amused even by the very wording of the task, and even the execution - even more so. Books with tear-off phantoms are sold in bookstores.

• Limbo. A fun dance game with a stick held horizontally by two assistants at a height of 1.5 meters. The dancers go through the first circle under the stick, line up for the next circle. Just lower the stick 10 cm lower ...
• Dance battle. Here the most difficult thing is the choice of music. With the Internet, there are no such difficulties, but in nature for such a competition, you need to pre-record fragments of famous dance melodies on a disk: lambada, dance of little swans, lezginka, duck dance, tango, hip-hop, macarena, rock and roll, etc. d.

• You can take an interesting fun scenario with family games. For example, our website has
• Darts. If it is very difficult to draw men into all the previous entertainments, then, having seen darts, they immediately leave the place at the festive table and line up with darts. There are quite affordable options. Hang on a tree and compete! By the way, darts can be replaced with a ring thrower, that's fun too! Take another look at the game "Towns". All sets are on sale, just don't forget!

• Face painting, popuases and Indians. If a birthday party takes place in nature during the hot season, divide the guests into two teams and arrange a body art show. children are generally delighted with the idea that you can paint not only part of the face, as at all other holidays, but the WHOLE BODY! On adults, too, finds a multi-colored passion. It would be nice to prepare small accessories - feathers, Hawaiian flower beads, paper ribbon skirts, bracelets, thin plastic masks and funny glasses. Get your camera ready, these are memorable shots!
• Team games. To be honest, if no one has experience in conducting such games, everything is not very interesting. A good presenter knows how to make “candy” out of the most banal task. Just in case, let me remind you about tug of war and running in bags.
• Relays. In nature, you can drag water in ladles and pour it into a jar, carry bagels on your head while running with obstacles, “string” all team members on a string, inflate or burst balls at speed, etc.
• Competition of strong men. It's very easy to do, and the hype around the prize 5-liter barrel of beer is always very big. It must be held at arm's length for as long as possible. You can replace the "barrel" with arm wrestling.

• Launching lanterns, cold fountain, crackers. A birthday celebration in nature should also have a beautiful ending. Launching Chinese lanterns is a very beautiful tradition. The main thing is to do everything right, it will fly beautifully and there will be no accidental fires. There are no "contraindications" for cold fotans. It's just silvery splashes in honor of the birthday boy!