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Anonymous wrote:How is having shrimp cocktail or a seafood chowder with steak surf-and-turf? At least, it's not in the way I think about it which is usually filets of fish and beef on the same plate.

I think a hostess assigning someone else to bring the “surf” part of surf and turf has to accept whatever shows up!

100% agree. This is a really stupid decision on the host's part. Or she really hates everyone and wants to take them down with food poisoning.

Anonymous wrote:This is a stealth insane meal post that needs eventually to show up in a thread about bizarre family holiday gatherings.

Who does 'surf and turf' and asks someone else to bring the surf...pre-cooked?! Why not just stick with the turf? So many questions...

Yes!!!

Perhaps this host can also consider a spaghetti and meatballs theme and ask OP to bring the spaghetti, already cooked of course.

Sea food in a crockpot sounds like a recipe for food posioning.

I've made a Mexican shrimp cocktail (with avocado and more mexican seasonings in the "cocktail sauce" component) that was excellent and also a cold devilled crab dip that guests raved over.

Can you use the top of the stove? You could preassemble crab cakes or salmon cakes, keep cold, bring in a cooler and then cook while there.

Otherwise, I would go with a cold item such as shrimp cocktail. I love my crockpot. But not for seafood.

This is a stealth insane meal post that needs eventually to show up in a thread about bizarre family holiday gatherings.

Who does 'surf and turf' and asks someone else to bring the surf...pre-cooked?! Why not just stick with the turf? So many questions...

You can do shrimp and grits. Make the gravy ahead and add the prepped shrimp to the crockpot 20 min or so before you eat.
Frogmore stew or peel and eat shrimp could also work—prep everything and cook the shrimp there from frozen.
I think clam chowder would be fine, pretty sure every seafood restaurant has a vat of chowder being kept warm.
Barring that, try smoked salmon canapés or caviar on anything.

Get a big box of frozen snow crab legs. All you would need to do when you arrive is steam in a big pot of boiling water and Old Bay with lid on for a few minutes. Serve with melted butter and lemon wedges. Easy, fast, and delicious.

Anonymous wrote:Seafood and crockpot do not mix

This!! OP, you clearly know nothing about seafood.

No seafood in the crockpot. The pozole is not a terrible idea, but the longer any shrimp sits in there, the more rubbery it will get.

OP, what if you cook some salmon fillets at home, and bring them to the party chilled? You can put them on a bed of lettuce or kale to make them look pretty.

Anonymous wrote:How is having shrimp cocktail or a seafood chowder with steak surf-and-turf? At least, it's not in the way I think about it which is usually filets of fish and beef on the same plate.

I think a hostess assigning someone else to bring the “surf” part of surf and turf has to accept whatever shows up!

Anonymous wrote:How is having shrimp cocktail or a seafood chowder with steak surf-and-turf? At least, it's not in the way I think about it which is usually filets of fish and beef on the same plate.

This. Shrimp cocktail or similar cold seafood option is definitely the better choice food safety wise. But that doesn't seem to be what the hostess wants OP to be bringing.

OP, I would just reach out to her and say "between travel time and then the food sitting out, I'm not sure how well a warm seafood dish would hold up. I was thinking of bringing X. Is that ok or would do you want to assign me something else to bring?'"

How is having shrimp cocktail or a seafood chowder with steak surf-and-turf? At least, it's not in the way I think about it which is usually filets of fish and beef on the same plate.

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Anonymous wrote:This is literally a recipe for food poisoning.

Just buy some shrimp cocktail and keep it refrigerated until the meal.

If it has to be hot, you can prepare a shrimp scampi very quickly on the stove.

Actually it’s not…there are tons of seafood soups and chowders that go in the crock pot.

Stinky!!! Get the shrimp cocktail ring. I am sure Whole Foods carries. Balducci's does.

Simmer the base fr cioppino in the crockpot. Add the fish right before everyone eats -- it only needs a few minutes.