txmom92
Assistant Cook
Hello i am new to this website and i am looking for a recipe or suggestion on something quick and easy to take to a pot luck for Mothers day? Can anyone please help me?
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justplainbill
Executive Chef
Mayo based potato salad. Mac-n- cheese. Ham-n-potato casserole. Apple crisp. Blueberry pie.
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Dawgluver
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Devilled eggs. Little Smokies in BBQ sauce; cocktail meatballs (you can buy them frozen) in grape jelly mixture; a dip mix of Hormel Chili and refried beans with cream cheese or Velveeta, all can be made and kept warm in the crockpot. Sloppy Joes. Fruit salad. Fruit skewers with cream cheese or caramel dip.
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salt and pepper
Executive Chef
Buffalo Chicken Legs, Believe me they
go quick. And they are easy, fryed or baked.
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amazondebs
Assistant Cook
Quick and easy always makes me think of maybe a salad. I expect a lot of people will bring heavier food, might be nice to have something lighter.
Personally I would sugest a mixture of your usual salad bits and bobs lettuce, cucumber maybe some bell peppers or shavings of carrot ect and then add nuts (walnuts usually good), feta cheese, grapes/raisins. It's cheap, easy, can't really get it wrong and if you grab two different dressing normally get two for a quid at the supermarket and just put the bottles by the side people can choose what they want. I would suggest maybe get a vinegar based on and an oil based on to cover your bases and everyone's happy.
Also i'm new two. Second post
Personally I would sugest a mixture of your usual salad bits and bobs lettuce, cucumber maybe some bell peppers or shavings of carrot ect and then add nuts (walnuts usually good), feta cheese, grapes/raisins. It's cheap, easy, can't really get it wrong and if you grab two different dressing normally get two for a quid at the supermarket and just put the bottles by the side people can choose what they want. I would suggest maybe get a vinegar based on and an oil based on to cover your bases and everyone's happy.
Also i'm new two. Second post
tinlizzie
Head Chef
Greetings and welcome, txmom and amazondebs.
Tx, how about a batch of brownies? It doesn't seem to matter how many brownies show up, they're nearly always welcome to the pot luck. Maybe a batch with nuts and one without nuts. Don't really even have to frost them, but that's a plus.
Tx, how about a batch of brownies? It doesn't seem to matter how many brownies show up, they're nearly always welcome to the pot luck. Maybe a batch with nuts and one without nuts. Don't really even have to frost them, but that's a plus.
Aunt Bea
Master Chef
How about a 6 cup salad!
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup mandarin orange segments, drained
1 cup crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup green seedless grapes
1 cup sour cream
1 cup white miniature marshmallows
Dump, stir, refrigerate!
Mix it up 3 or 4 hours before serving time so the marshmallows dissolve into the salad.
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup mandarin orange segments, drained
1 cup crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup green seedless grapes
1 cup sour cream
1 cup white miniature marshmallows
Dump, stir, refrigerate!
Mix it up 3 or 4 hours before serving time so the marshmallows dissolve into the salad.
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
This is a little different: Paula Deen's Orange Brownies. They're really delicious.
buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
my most often requested dishes for pot luck are crock pot pulled pork, meatballs and sausages in tomato sauce, manhattan clam chowder, or turkey or chicken sausages and peppers.
i can give a recipe for any of these, or point to their oosting if you're interested.
the easiest is the crock pot pulled pork, and there's never any left.
i can give a recipe for any of these, or point to their oosting if you're interested.
the easiest is the crock pot pulled pork, and there's never any left.
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txmom92
Assistant Cook
Oh gosh these are such good recipes .
Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
This time of year, I'd take a big platter of washed fresh strawberries ready to be dipped into a bowl of whipped cream cheese mixed with an equal amount of marshmallow cream, that can be found in a jar at the grocery. The combo is perfect and not too sweet. The platter looks impressive and couldn't be easier.
buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
mmm, that sounds great, k-l. the cheese must cut the sweetness if the marshmallow and give it body.
i'm going to try that soon. strawberry season will be upon us here in the mid-atlantic shortly, due to a cool but dry spring.
i'm going to try that soon. strawberry season will be upon us here in the mid-atlantic shortly, due to a cool but dry spring.
ahoymatey2013
Senior Cook
The dish I'm always asked to bring is my hamburger BBQ.
letscook
Head Chef
My favs are Loaded potatoes casserole and my jello salad
Loaded Potatoes casserole (make double cause they go fast !)
2 (16oz) containers sour cream
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
2 (3oz) bags real bacon bits (not bacos )
2 packages Ranch Dip mix
1 large (28 - 30oz) bag frozen hash brown potatoes - shredded kind
Combine first 4 ingredients, mix in hash browns.
Spread into a 9x13 pan. Bake at 400 for 45-60 minutes.
Jello Salad
1 large container of small curd cottage cheese (even people that don't love this salad)
1 large container of cool whip
1 lg pkg jello ( I mostly use strawberry or orange)
mix them together then add
1 lg can of chunk pineapple drained well
1 -2 lag cans of mandarin oranges well drained.
refrigerate several hours to set.
I like more fruit so I add 2 of each but you decide.
I put pineapple rings with a cherry in the middle and mandarin slices on top to garnish.
a hint on salads taking to keep cool
before making your salad take a bowl that the bowl your are going to make your salad in will fit in. put water in the bottom one place the salad bowl in it and freeze it. after frozen take the salad bowl out make your salad and when ready to go to your function take your bowl of ice with you and then set your salad bowl in it and it will still stay cold.
Loaded Potatoes casserole (make double cause they go fast !)
2 (16oz) containers sour cream
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
2 (3oz) bags real bacon bits (not bacos )
2 packages Ranch Dip mix
1 large (28 - 30oz) bag frozen hash brown potatoes - shredded kind
Combine first 4 ingredients, mix in hash browns.
Spread into a 9x13 pan. Bake at 400 for 45-60 minutes.
Jello Salad
1 large container of small curd cottage cheese (even people that don't love this salad)
1 large container of cool whip
1 lg pkg jello ( I mostly use strawberry or orange)
mix them together then add
1 lg can of chunk pineapple drained well
1 -2 lag cans of mandarin oranges well drained.
refrigerate several hours to set.
I like more fruit so I add 2 of each but you decide.
I put pineapple rings with a cherry in the middle and mandarin slices on top to garnish.
a hint on salads taking to keep cool
before making your salad take a bowl that the bowl your are going to make your salad in will fit in. put water in the bottom one place the salad bowl in it and freeze it. after frozen take the salad bowl out make your salad and when ready to go to your function take your bowl of ice with you and then set your salad bowl in it and it will still stay cold.
ahoymatey2013
Senior Cook
That's a great idea, letscook.
Give this one a try, too.
2c heavy cream
1/2c sugar
3TBS balsamic vinegar
Whip on medium speed 4-5 minutes
buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
for strawberries? i can't quite "picture" how that would taste.
