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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you going to pot lucks that do not have the same participants? If so, ask the maker of a popular dish for the recipe and take that dish to a different potluck with different people.

When you ask for the recipe, explain what you did here and also assure the person that you will not make the dish for potlucks the person will be attending so they know you aren't 'stealing' their recipe - you'd be surprised how possessive people can be about common recipes. Be complimentary and self-effacing and hopefully the person is nice enough to want to help you; I would. [/quote]

What?! Is this the "immigrant as subservient person" trope? Ridiculous. Just do something simple, OP, and call it a day. No need to twist yourself into knots and agonize. [/quote]

This was my advice and I'm not an immigrant. Sorry you wouldn't find it helpful, but I'm someone who doesn't cook much but wants to cook something people will like. To me it's a lot easier to ask a person at work for their recipe and bring it to a neighborhood potluck (or vice versa) than try to figure out what would taste good to others. [b]For the other person above, all recipes are borrowed[/b]; very rarely are people creating their own recipes.

But hey, it's just advice, feel free to take it or leave it if it doesn't suit you.[/quote]

You're literally advising her to keep track of who she borrowed each recipe from with a promise to never bring it to a potluck they will be at, to avoid offending them at future parties.  It's not the borrowed part that's a PITA, it's your proposed rolodex.[/quote]

I may have overstated that. I just meant that you don't want to bring Aunt Sally's Recipe That She Always Makes At Christmas to the family Christmas dinner with Aunt Sally because of course she's going to make that. More like, if you have different groups in your life, it's fine to bring Aunt Sally's thing to the book club meeting but not to family Christmas. That is not keeping a rolodex.  [/quote]

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