Bring a dish...it's potluck time!
No assignments make potlucks a bit of an adventure. How will you lock in your reputation as a tremendous cook the next time everyone gathers for a block or tailgating party? What's your crowd-size dish speciality?
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12 Comments:
German-Polish Roasted Potato Salad
LunaPierCook at 7:35AM on 09/21/07
Guacamole or some other form of dip.
crafty at 10:30AM on 09/21/07
Don't you think it depends on what sort of a group is potlucking? When I worked for a food mag, the carry-in parties were heavenly. When I worked in hospitals, it was a whole different group of eaters. I've brought in everything from potato salad that began with 5 pounds of potatoes to Pichet Ong's butternut squash pie with ginger-caramel sauce. When my BFF got married, she did a potluck wedding reception in the basement of a little rural Lutheran church, and I cooked a whole country ham. I had to soak it in my bathtub and rented a pot big enough to cook it in.
lemons at 10:31AM on 09/21/07
Savory breadpudding is my go to dish. I make a variety of them:zucchini/ricotta, sausage/onion/gruyere, mushroom/bacon/cheddar,etc. It's easy, and the ingredients are always on hand.
Mich23 at 10:45AM on 09/21/07
lemons..that butternut squash pie sounds fabulous..would you share the recipe?
elaine at 10:45AM on 09/21/07
If the potluck is during warmer months, I'll take any one of a number of salads: bean salad, potato salad, chopped veg salad. For cooler months I might do macaroni and cheese, or a pot of small meatballs in sauce or gravy or a tamale pie.
Library Lady at 11:02AM on 09/21/07
I've had good comments on my Cajun Dirty Rice.
1stmakearoux at 11:17AM on 09/21/07
lemons--I agree with the mix of people involved in the potluck & the location seem to dictate what the food will be served. Very creative--soaking a ham in the bathtub!
Has anyone been to a potluck where unknowingly many people bring the same type items---ending up with mostly salads or desserts?
Any themed potlucks?
JEP at 12:02PM on 09/21/07
JEP-one time my parents had a pot-luck and four different people brought the spinach dip in the pumpernickel bread. It became a taste test, because everyone's was slightly different.
psychsarah at 12:55PM on 09/21/07
I didn't save the butternut squash pie recipe, because I didn't think it much of an improvement on my own fairly basic pumpkin one. The crust was made of graham crackers and walnuts which is a great idea and which would work with whatever you want. I think I have the sauce recipe, which is so good I find myself standing in front of the fridge sneaking tastes, on the blog; let me go look.
Yes, here it is. And the crust recipe, too.
http://stlouiseats.typepad.com/st_louis_eats_and_drinks_/2006/11/tweaking_the_pu.html
lemons at 1:20PM on 09/21/07
lemons. Thanks! I must try the sauce recipe for the holidays!
elaine at 2:23PM on 09/21/07
Cold sesame noodles with slivers of fried eggplant
Chinese tea-smoked chicken
Chinese pickled cukes and cabbage
maggiesara at 7:40PM on 09/23/07