Recipes for Potlucks?

[thalassa]

Public rituals here tend to do a pre-ritual potluck...which, of course, has the issue of WTF to make*.

What sort of thing do you take for a potluck?

(post a recipe if you got one!)


*Made worse by everyone and their mother's brother's kid's teacher's dog's dietary restrictions... :/

[Medusa]

Re: Recipes for Potlucks?

I don't do the pagany thing , but I do do potlucks (mainly for work lol).
Everyone brings bad for you food and forgets the diabetic over here. So I always bring a big chunky fruit salad with only some tajin to season. Everyone seems to enjoy a light side with all that fried stuff.

[DragonsFriend]

Re: Recipes for Potlucks?

Here are three of the favorites that I make:

Chicken Pasta Soup

Skinned chicken fried in vegetable shortening
water, egg noodles, Carrots, celery, potatoes, onions, parsley, sage, pepper and salt

Sourdough Bread

Sourdough starter:
equal amounts of flour and water exposed to the natural yeast in the air
Sourdough bread:

Flour, Starter, Water, Salt, Olive Oil, The crust is basted with butter or olive oil once out of the oven
Sourdough Cinnamon Bread

Sourdough starter:
equal amounts of flour and water exposed to the natural yeast in the air
Bread:
Flour, water, sugar, salt, olive oil, cinnamon
the crust is basted with butter or olive oil once out of the oven and sprinkled with cinnamon/sugar

[Shahaku]

Re: Recipes for Potlucks?

I make a sweet potato, black bean, and corn chili or chicken ranch tacos if I'm doing the main dish. The chili is vegan and gluten free. It's a can of sweet potatos, 2-4 cans of black beans (depending on preference), a can of corn or hominy, 1/4 c of chili powder, a teaspoon each of cardamom, cinnamon, thyme, and turmeric, 2 cups of vegetable broth, a couple table spoons of maple syrup, chopped onion and red pepper. I found it in a cook book a couple years ago and I think that's the recipe (I could be off a little, I'm going by memory). The chicken ranch tacos are just a bag of boneless skinless chicken breast in a crockpot with a mixture of a can or two of rotel, a bag of ranch seasoning and a bag of taco seasoning poured over top. I shred the chicken when cooked. Both of these are crockpot meals so I can make them the night before and start them heating a couple hours before we eat or when I get to work if they need to cook all the way. (I mostly do pot luck meals at work. We only rarely do them for rituals here. Our pagan community tends to be rather poor and a lot of the people in the group have trouble even bringing a side dish.)

If I'm doing a side, I usually bring a cheese ball. That's made with a bag of shredded cheddar, two packages of cream cheese, a chunk of chopped green peppers, lots of garlic, and chopped ham. I hand knead it and roll it into a ball. I've also been thinking of making black bean chocolate pudding as a side as it's both vegan and gluten free (in fact, I think you're the one that put me onto that recipe, thal). Most of the people I know fall into one of those two categories if they have a food issue. However, after a month of making black bean pudding once or twice a week, my blender crapped out. So I need to get something stronger for that process before I can try it out on a group.

I don't tend to take dessert. There's always more than enough people bringing deserts. If I did, I think I'd go pineapple upside down cake. It's just not quite as sweet in my experience.

[Thomas Pulse]

Re: Recipes for Potlucks?

I make Quorn/vegetarian chilli (without any chilli peppers) in a big one-pot method, as a way to get vegetables into my two kids.

(sort of) Secret ingredients include cocoa powder, Marmite/Vegemite and Black Coffee.

My wife and I add chilli flakes to ours, but the kids love it and it freezes well too.