As a child, I grew up in a large urban city, where picnics were few and far between. However, whenever I fantasized about the perfect picnic, fresh egg salad was always at the top of my list of items to include.

Rich, creamy, and comforting, the flavor of egg salad seemed to embody all the simple pleasures of the ideal picnic experience (along with perfect weather and a view of something a bit more charming than billowing smokestacks, security fences, and oil slick rainbows).

Here’s some wonderful gourmet egg salad recipes for you to take out for a test drive on your next cookout or picnic.

Enjoy!

• Spicy Asian Chili Garlic Egg Salad Recipe

• Venusian Pickled Pink Egg Salad Recipe

• The Barefoot Contessa: Smoked Salmon and Egg Salad Tartines Recipe from Feasts and Fotos (Pictured to the Right)
  

• Piquillo Peppers Stuffed w/Artichokes, Tuna and Egg Salad Recipe from Bitchincamero

• Lemony Egg Salad with Basil and Capers Recipe from Not Eating Out in New York

• Curried Egg Salad with Caramelized Onion Recipe from Serious Eats

• Basil Egg Salad on Kalamata Olive Bread Recipe from Je Mange la Ville

• Tea Smoked Egg Salad Recipe from The Perfect Pantry

• The Silver Palate Cookbook Egg Salad With Dill Recipe from Pages, Pucks, and Pantry

• Bacon And Avocado Egg Salad Recipe from Food Renegade

• Fava Bean Egg Salad Recipe (No Mayo Required) from Foodie Reflections

• Mushroom and Asparagus Egg Salad with Tarragon Aioli Recipe from Wild Thyme Kitchen

• Smoky Deviled Egg Salad on Golden Rye Crisps Recipe from Always Order Dessert

• Anne’s Egg Salad Bites Recipe from Anne’s Food

• Thai Deep Fried Egg Salad Recipe (Yum Kai Dow) from Eat Brisbane

and for those who want the taste of delicious egg salad without the eggs:

• Happy Hen Eggless Egg Salad Recipe from Lighter Footstep

Please join us tomorrow to read our newest daily food and cooking feature on HuggingtheCoast.Com, July Adventures in Food Blogging: The Most Popular Recipes and Cooking Articles on Hugging the Coast.

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(Photo Credits: Untitled (Egg Carton) by Vovchychko, Smoked Salmon and Egg Salad Tartines from Feasts and Fotos. All egg salad recipe cameo shaped graphics are adapted from the above mentioned blogs.)

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