POTLUCK

a) make an easy curry @ home, which would be easy and maybe impressive because MNans don't really "get" curry

I like this but also would expand this with all kinds of Stews, Tagines etc. Make at home and bung in their oven to reheat.

Fresh baked biscuits (US) or other bread products usually impress. I must write out the sage biscuits recipe I use.

I like Jaq, baked bean suggestion as well but would build it up more from scratch with canned haricots, belly pork, black pudding, tinned tomatoes vinegar an treacle, lots of herbs and spices.

ed's baked beans sound amazing

It does, but not something that could be thrown together in a few hours from typical MN supermarket shelves.

yeah, not really

tho i live across the street from LUND'S, so who knows

I can't believe no one has said "Jell-O Salad" yet.

Orange with shredded carrots or green with canned pineapple chunks? I'm partial to the ones with a layer of cream cheese + jello over the layer with additions, aka "fancy jello salad".

Make some chili! Easy curry is rarely good curry!

i'd make some easy sour cream cornbread (would go well w/chili), or maybe some homemade pizza why because everybody likes pizza.

or maybe some homemade pizza why because everybody likes pizza.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:46 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

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Make some chili! Easy curry is rarely good curry!

― kate78, Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:43 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

rong

pizza is great but tricky for potlucks! like, it's easy to top a pizza, but making the dough is sort of a pain

also i made the curry and it was a real hit

I'm going home to make a curry, too. It's what I have in the house.

I'm sure a typical MN supermarket has some kind of canned white beans, canned tomatoes, blackstrap molasses and vinegar. Everything else is just freestyling, depends on what kind of fat pork, chorizos, salamis, blood puddings and other tasty pig wobbly bits you can scare up.

what do you all think of a few carved, roasted chickens for a buffet-style dinner party? as opposed to boring old broiled breasts?

precarved - yummy, if you can keep the meat moist. Let diners have at them on their own might lead to problems.

Just roast a bunch of thighs bone in. Much more interesting than breasts and neatly pre-portioned too. Some plain, some honey mustard, some smoked paprika etc etc.

that's a good idea, too, matt.