Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:59
Subject: Re:What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Anonymous wrote:Mini potatoes.
Boil
Cut top and bottom to be flat
Pipe crème fraîche on top (or sour cream)
Top with salmon roe from whole food ($15) if you want to be fancy, top with sliced scallions/green onions .. vegetarian and less fancy
This sounds good.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:58
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Pasta Salad
Big green salad, use bagged lettuce, feta, dried cranberries, walnuts, oil vinegar, or a mix
Big green salad, use bagged lettuce, feta, dried cranberries, walnuts, oil vinegar, or a mix
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:57
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Anonymous wrote: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
Thank you - I hadn't yet thrown up today, but promptly did after reading that.
NP. This is a hit all over the country and has been for decades. They are easy in the crockpot.
You’re ignorant.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:55
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Deviled eggs.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:49
Subject: Re:What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Bag of chips or a dozen sodas.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:25
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Anonymous wrote:I bring a pizza or two, with "party cut" slices. Someone always makes a snarky remark, but it always gets eaten. I started when I was pregnant and very careful about food safety. I continue because, well, some of y'all are nasty.
Ive never heard of party cut, looks cool!
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:21
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Anonymous wrote: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
Thank you - I hadn't yet thrown up today, but promptly did after reading that.
That didn’t happen when you looked in the mirror this morning?
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:21
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
I bring a pizza or two, with "party cut" slices. Someone always makes a snarky remark, but it always gets eaten. I started when I was pregnant and very careful about food safety. I continue because, well, some of y'all are nasty.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:20
Subject: Re:What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Get samosas from an Indian restaurant
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:18
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Kale salad
Peanut noodles
Deviled eggs
Caesar salad
Spinach dip
Baked beans
Peanut noodles
Deviled eggs
Caesar salad
Spinach dip
Baked beans
Anonymous
12/20/2023 15:10
Subject: Re:What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Anonymous wrote:Cucumber sandwiches.
I typed up my recipe for this for a family cookbook a few years ago. Here is a cut and paste of it:
Larla’s cucumber sandwiches
One 8 ounce package cream cheese
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Lemon pepper
One fresh loaf of white bread (Try to buy the square-ish shaped type of bread)
One cucumber will probably be enough, but buy two just in case
2 cups apple cider vinegar
Empty tomato paste can
The day before, peel and then slice the cucumber into circles. Make the slices ¼ inch thick or less. Marinate it overnight in a bowl full of half vinegar, half water.
The next day, first mix up your cream cheese spread. Put the cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl, then melt it on low power in the microwave, for about a minute at a time, until it is easy to mix it with a mixer. Then add the mayonnaise and the garlic in with the cream cheese, and use the mixer to get it all mixed up. Then put the bowl in the frig because you are going to have to fiddle with the bread for about a half hour.
Use the tomato paste can to slice circles out of each piece of bread. You can get two circles out of each piece. Discard all the bread that didn’t get cut up into circles.
Then take the marinated cucumber slices out of the fridge and drain them. Then lay them out one by one on a paper towel to dry them out a bit.
Take your cream cheese mixture out of the frig, and spread it on each piece of bread. Then top each piece of bread with a cucumber slice. Then sprinkle lemon pepper on top of the cucumber. Keep going until you are all done.
Serve.
Notes from Larla – These are open-faced sandwiches. You don’t put another piece of bread on top of the cucumber.
I have made this a million gazillion times. This is my “signature” thing I bring to
pot lucks. It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s portable, it’s different.
Sometimes when I make this, I run out of bread first, sometimes cream cheese first, and sometimes cucumber first. Usually it’s the cucumber first, unless I decided to slice up and marinate 1 ½ cucumbers, which is too much.
It generally comes to about 30- 34 little sandwiches. I have a plastic serving tray, about the size of a cafeteria tray, that is my “go to” platter for these sandwiches.
In order to transport them in a less messy way, I put the sandwiches one on top of the other, then use that sticky kind of saran wrap to cover it all for transport. Then once I get to the place and remove the plastic wrap, make the sandwiches not be doubled up anymore. I bring the lemon pepper spice with me and sprinkle it on at the place once I have made the sandwiches be open faced.
Pepperidge Farm is the thin, squarish loaf of bread...
Anonymous
12/20/2023 14:00
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Anonymous wrote: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
Thank you - I hadn't yet thrown up today, but promptly did after reading that.
Meatballs in a crockpot in a liquid made from grape jelly and chili sauce are quite popular at potlucks.
But you are welcome to spend the party in the bathroom vomiting if that is what you want to do.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 13:56
Subject: Re:What is your go-to potluck contribution?
Cucumber sandwiches.
I typed up my recipe for this for a family cookbook a few years ago. Here is a cut and paste of it:
Larla’s cucumber sandwiches
One 8 ounce package cream cheese
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Lemon pepper
One fresh loaf of white bread (Try to buy the square-ish shaped type of bread)
One cucumber will probably be enough, but buy two just in case
2 cups apple cider vinegar
Empty tomato paste can
The day before, peel and then slice the cucumber into circles. Make the slices ¼ inch thick or less. Marinate it overnight in a bowl full of half vinegar, half water.
The next day, first mix up your cream cheese spread. Put the cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl, then melt it on low power in the microwave, for about a minute at a time, until it is easy to mix it with a mixer. Then add the mayonnaise and the garlic in with the cream cheese, and use the mixer to get it all mixed up. Then put the bowl in the frig because you are going to have to fiddle with the bread for about a half hour.
Use the tomato paste can to slice circles out of each piece of bread. You can get two circles out of each piece. Discard all the bread that didn’t get cut up into circles.
Then take the marinated cucumber slices out of the fridge and drain them. Then lay them out one by one on a paper towel to dry them out a bit.
Take your cream cheese mixture out of the frig, and spread it on each piece of bread. Then top each piece of bread with a cucumber slice. Then sprinkle lemon pepper on top of the cucumber. Keep going until you are all done.
Serve.
Notes from Larla – These are open-faced sandwiches. You don’t put another piece of bread on top of the cucumber.
I have made this a million gazillion times. This is my “signature” thing I bring to
pot lucks. It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s portable, it’s different.
Sometimes when I make this, I run out of bread first, sometimes cream cheese first, and sometimes cucumber first. Usually it’s the cucumber first, unless I decided to slice up and marinate 1 ½ cucumbers, which is too much.
It generally comes to about 30- 34 little sandwiches. I have a plastic serving tray, about the size of a cafeteria tray, that is my “go to” platter for these sandwiches.
In order to transport them in a less messy way, I put the sandwiches one on top of the other, then use that sticky kind of saran wrap to cover it all for transport. Then once I get to the place and remove the plastic wrap, make the sandwiches not be doubled up anymore. I bring the lemon pepper spice with me and sprinkle it on at the place once I have made the sandwiches be open faced.
I typed up my recipe for this for a family cookbook a few years ago. Here is a cut and paste of it:
Larla’s cucumber sandwiches
One 8 ounce package cream cheese
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Lemon pepper
One fresh loaf of white bread (Try to buy the square-ish shaped type of bread)
One cucumber will probably be enough, but buy two just in case
2 cups apple cider vinegar
Empty tomato paste can
The day before, peel and then slice the cucumber into circles. Make the slices ¼ inch thick or less. Marinate it overnight in a bowl full of half vinegar, half water.
The next day, first mix up your cream cheese spread. Put the cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl, then melt it on low power in the microwave, for about a minute at a time, until it is easy to mix it with a mixer. Then add the mayonnaise and the garlic in with the cream cheese, and use the mixer to get it all mixed up. Then put the bowl in the frig because you are going to have to fiddle with the bread for about a half hour.
Use the tomato paste can to slice circles out of each piece of bread. You can get two circles out of each piece. Discard all the bread that didn’t get cut up into circles.
Then take the marinated cucumber slices out of the fridge and drain them. Then lay them out one by one on a paper towel to dry them out a bit.
Take your cream cheese mixture out of the frig, and spread it on each piece of bread. Then top each piece of bread with a cucumber slice. Then sprinkle lemon pepper on top of the cucumber. Keep going until you are all done.
Serve.
Notes from Larla – These are open-faced sandwiches. You don’t put another piece of bread on top of the cucumber.
I have made this a million gazillion times. This is my “signature” thing I bring to
pot lucks. It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s portable, it’s different.
Sometimes when I make this, I run out of bread first, sometimes cream cheese first, and sometimes cucumber first. Usually it’s the cucumber first, unless I decided to slice up and marinate 1 ½ cucumbers, which is too much.
It generally comes to about 30- 34 little sandwiches. I have a plastic serving tray, about the size of a cafeteria tray, that is my “go to” platter for these sandwiches.
In order to transport them in a less messy way, I put the sandwiches one on top of the other, then use that sticky kind of saran wrap to cover it all for transport. Then once I get to the place and remove the plastic wrap, make the sandwiches not be doubled up anymore. I bring the lemon pepper spice with me and sprinkle it on at the place once I have made the sandwiches be open faced.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 13:54
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
A doobie with a 4 leaf clover attached.
Anonymous
12/20/2023 13:53
Subject: What is your go-to potluck contribution?
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
Thank you - I hadn't yet thrown up today, but promptly did after reading that.