Hello!
How are you? Do you have a bicycle and love picnics? This month’s picnic is for you! Eating the right food on a cycling adventure is important, and while energy-dense goo has its place, we’ve planned a picnic of real foods that are easy to take on the road.
There’s many ways to carry your bike picnic, from backpack to basket. We love these Fjallraven panniers for a day picnic or the classic Ortliebs for bike packing adventures. A simple handlebar basket is cute and does the job. Since things tend to get squished when they’re packed, we used a tiffin to carry our delicates (and they fit perfectly into the Fjallraven pannier!). This picnic blanket rolls up to the perfect size for carrying on the back of your bike.
Our picnic centers around onigiri, and we used the book Onigiri koro koro for recipes and inspiration. Onigiri is great because you can fill them with almost anything–at Harper’s Bread House in NYC you can find a BEC (bacon egg n cheese) onigiri! Onigiri doesn’t need to be refrigerated (mostly), making it an ideal picnic food.
We also made tahini rice crispy treats, a recipe that Tiffany’s dad has been making for a long time to take with him on bike rides. This recipe from Bon Appétit can be filled with dried fruits and pumpkin seeds to make them extra nutritious.
The spicy peanuts at Parcelle in NYC are one of our favorite snacks. We used this recipe to cook up a batch, but plain nuts of any kind are great to scoop while you’re on a bike.
And it wouldn’t be a bike ride without a banana tucked into the back pocket of your cycling jersey to grab for quick energy without leaving your bike seat!
Stay tuned for more fun bike picnic content coming your way soon.
Your friends in picnics,
F & T