What is your go-to potluck contribution?

[Anonymous]

Baked Brie with a cut up baquette and sliced Granny Smith apples.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And easy hearty harvest green salad of some type-- apples, sweet potatoes, almonds, craisins, lettuce of choice, vinagrette

+1

Or a good fruit salad with berries, melon, etc.

[Anonymous]

I have chickens so my go-to is deviled eggs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bowl of berries. Sliced strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. If I have time, I'll buy mint and make a pretty ring of leaves around the edge. I feel like this sounds like a cop out, that it isn't really making anything, but it gets eaten up fast.

This sounds so good. Or make a really pretty salad. There’s barely ever any healthy options except a store bought veggie tray. People will appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Fruit salad.

[Anonymous]

Chocolate covered strawberries

[Anonymous]

Seven layer dip and a bag of chips

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was going to say macaroni and cheese too, because it checks all three boxes. For cold I'd do cheese and crackers or maybe pitas and hummus.

M&C is always a hit

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I need ideas for something to bring to a work potluck tomorrow. I cook/bake all kinds of things, but have never settled on my own go-to recipe. For this particular potluck, they don't need anymore desserts or clearly easy things (like rolls). So I guess I'm looking for a main, a side, or a veggie option. I can cook more complicated things, but I have very little energy remaining at this point in the holiday season so bonus points if it's easy.

Do you have any tried and true dishes that you care to share? Inspire me!

Meatballs with grape jelly and chili sauce

Swap that grape jelly with canned cranberry sauce!

Bag of frozen meatballs into crockpot. Mix chili and cranberry sauce together, then pour over meatballs. Low all day or high for 4 hours. (thaw meatballs in microwave first, if you need it hot more quickly. )

[Anonymous]

I make a baked spinach and artichoke dip and bring with a bag of tortilla chips. It’s heavy enough to fill people up, and it’s the teeniest bit “healthy” with the veggies mixed in…win win!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Veggie tray from Wegmans

No one ever eats the veggie tray. Might as well just bring chips and salsa or hummus and pita and carrots.

[Anonymous]

I made a chana masala once and now my coworkers never let me bring anything else. I also bring homemade roti and raita.

[Anonymous]

I second the idea of a nice green salad. It offsets some of the heavier/fattier foods that often show up at these things. I also like to make a black bean and corn type of salad with sliced cherry tomatoes, cilantro, yellow or orange peppers, red onion, and lime juice. Can use either canned or frozen corn, and canned black beans (rinsed). Can be either a side dish or served with tortilla chips as a salsa.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Veggie tray from Wegmans

No one ever eats the veggie tray. Might as well just bring chips and salsa or hummus and pita and carrots.

Veggie trays only work if you buy excellent organic produce and cut it up yourself. Those store-bought veggie trays are all dried out and virtually never any good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I second the idea of a nice green salad. It offsets some of the heavier/fattier foods that often show up at these things. I also like to make a black bean and corn type of salad with sliced cherry tomatoes, cilantro, yellow or orange peppers, red onion, and lime juice. Can use either canned or frozen corn, and canned black beans (rinsed). Can be either a side dish or served with tortilla chips as a salsa.

Agreed. I will always eat green salad.