11 Travel-Ready Recipes for the Road

This nut mix is so delicious, you should invite a couple of your best friends over to share. The result? Instant party.

Recipe: Instant Party Mix

Deliciously retro and spicy, these cheese-and-pepper finger sandwiches are anything but delicate — great for enjoying after a tour around the local attraction.

Recipe: Pimento-Cheese Sandwiches

Barley is versatile enough to be served warm or at room temperature, as in this terrific salad with walnuts, parsley, and salty bits of ricotta salata cheese in a lemon-garlic vinaigrette. Because the salad has cheese, we recommend storing it in the cooler until mealtime.

Recipe: Barley Salad with Parsley and Walnuts

This grown-up ham and cheese boasts a playful mix of flavors, including savory ham, sweet fig jam, spicy arugula leaves, and earthy blue cheese. The result: an Italian-style marvel great for picnics and on-the-go meals.

Recipe: Ham and Gorgonzola Sandwiches

A picnic favorite, this salad combines broccoli, water chestnuts, cranberries, and just a little bacon for delicious results. Even though you're on vacation, vegetables still do a body good.

Recipe: Broccoli-Bacon Salad

A Mexican-style torta is just like a burrito, except the "wrapper" is a hollowed-out roll instead of a tortilla. And since these sandwiches derive their protein from mashed black beans instead of meat, you don't have to worry as much about harmful spoilage.

Recipe: Tijuana Torta

This combination of sugar snap peas, snow peas, and green peas is dressed in a sour-cream-enhanced sherry vinaigrette, making it a crunchy, comforting side dish to almost any sandwich or wrap.

Recipe: Three-Pea Salad

Blondies win our vote for best nonbrownie bar. Add peanut butter, peanut butter chips, and salted peanuts to the mix, and we're in love forever.

Recipe: Peanut Butter Blondies

Next up in the dessert grab bag: mint-and-dark-chocolate brownies worthy of candy fans everywhere.

Recipe: Peppermint Pattie Brownies