Potluck lunch at work?!
Answers: Ok, so we're having a potluck lunch at work. What the hell should I make/bring?
meatballs with sauce
cocktail weiners in sauce
fresh veggie tray
Keilbasa with bbq sauce
devilled eggs
I always try to sign up first for desserts so I don't really have to cook and can just go to store and buy something like a cake or pie or cookies.
*sigh*
You just reminded me we are having silly potluck at my work too for Halloween. I better go sign up fast!
Make this and they'll be lining up for the recipe:
Shrimp and Vermicelli Salad
1 lb vermicelli pasta, broken in halves
1 lemon
1 ? lbs cooked baby shrimp
6 stalks celery, chopped
4-6 chopped green onions (including greens)
4 oz. Chopped pimento or roasted red bell pepper
4 hard boiled eggs (3 chopped and one for garnish)
2 cups mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
2 Tblsp. Dill weed
Salt and pepper
Boil pasta, drain and toss with juice of the lemon. Set aside.
Mix all other ingredients. Incorporate pasta.
Garnish with sliced hard boiled egg, paprika and parsley.
Refrigerate overnight ( or at least 4 hours).
Good luck!
Fried Chicken, can't make, buy at KFC
If you have a crock pot or a slow cooker, you can cook a chili or meatballs with sauce in it over night, then bring it to work and plug it in to keep it warm.
Another hit I always rely on is pita chips (you can take pita bread cut into triangles and fry them if you can't find the chips) and home-made hummus. The recipe for that is one 16-oz. can of chickpeas or garbanzo beans, blasted in the food processor (or just mashed) with salt/pepper, olive oil, and lemon or lime juice, plus whatever flavor you like. My faves are sundried tomato (just a can of sundried tomatoes dropped in the food processor) or avocado and cilantro (just use fresh stuff, plus some garlic cloves). Tasty.
make an orzo salad... cook orzo according to the box directions. Then chop cucumber, tomato, red onion or scallions, fresh dill and coat with a balsamic vinagrette (from the bottle) or make your own mustard vinagrette. You can put some feta in there for a little kick.
go to your local chinese restaurant buy a party tray of fried rice or egg rolls, always popular, easy and inexpensive.
Desserts are always the most fun to make. You should make cookies or brownies or cupcakes because then people can take these pre-porportioned pieces and it won't be as messy. Plus! you can put it on a disposable plate so that you won't have to bring a dirty plate home.
this is a easy dessert both adults and kids like.
Chocolate Chip Dip
8oz. of cream cheese
1/2 cup of butter (softened)
3/4 cup of powdered sugar
1/4 tsp. of vanilla
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
2 tbl brown sugar
1 box of graham crackers
Mix all ingredients together (except for the graham crackers) form into a ball.
Chill 2 hours
Serve with the crackers.
Dip & chips.Or cookies and brownies,what the hell else?
Salad- It's fall so here you go...
At home, cut and core and aplle into thin slices. Take a bit of cider vinegar and sprinkle it over the apple slices and put them into a zip lock bag for the fridge. ( sounds very weird but it is SOOOO good)
Also slice and core some pears and put a little lemon jucie on them and store ina zip lock cold.
Then take crumbled blue cheese in a container.
Buy a can of smoked almonds or other roasted nuts and chope them into smaller pieces and put them in a little dish and cover them.
Then buy a few bags of mixed salad greens.
Now- a dressing- get a small box of fresh raspberries. Put them in your blender, add some rice vinegar and a little very litght oil like grapeseed., salt, pepper and one teaspoon of honey and mix it in the blender until its a smooth pink sauce.
The next day at work have a big bowl and open all the bags of stuff (except the nuts- some people are allergic so sit them next to the salad with a spoon so they can add their own if they want it.) and put the greens, apples, pears, blue cheese and the raspberry dressing ( not ALL of it, use good judgement on the amount)- toss it all together and leave some big salad tongs in the bowl and sit back and wait for the compliments.
