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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 13:33:50 GMT -5
I think it is f a g ioli - I tried to post a recipe, but proboards changed the link address. Dick Van Lesbian -
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formerroomate99
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Post by formerroomate99 on Dec 7, 2012 14:29:10 GMT -5
Disposable tupperware. Seriously. I did it as a joke one year and everybody thought it was the greatest thing ever. Small ones so that the single folks can bring home their dinner and larger ones to keep leftovers in the fridge, since the folks who can cook don't seem to want to bring their stuff home.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Dec 7, 2012 15:04:41 GMT -5
I've always been hesitant to eat at pot lucks. I'm sure most of the food is fine, but you don't know if the person preparing the dish practiced good hygiene.
Pot lucks are very common mediums for food borne illness.
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Post by swasat on Dec 7, 2012 15:06:39 GMT -5
I've always been hesitant to eat at pot lucks. I'm sure most of the food is fine, but you don't know if the person preparing the dish practiced good hygene. Pot lucks are very common mediams for food borne illness. Oh come on now ..... don't you ever eat out in restaurants? Or parties? How do you know about the chef's hygiene at a restaurant? At least with a co-worker you have seen the person around so you have a general idea
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Post by movingforward on Dec 7, 2012 15:38:02 GMT -5
At my old place of employment there was a lady that never washed her hands after she used the restroom (at least I never saw it). She would walk right out of the stall and out the door . I never ate anything she brought.
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Post by Happy prose on Dec 7, 2012 16:39:12 GMT -5
We have a loser at our potlucks too. We do a sign up sheet to avoid duplicates. She always signs up for something good, but brings crap instead. Our last party she brought bread that was hard. Then she takes enough food home to feed her family dinner. We like to keep it for the next day.
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Post by movingforward on Dec 7, 2012 16:49:29 GMT -5
I have a friend who uses cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup in almost everything she makes (I think someone here once called it cream of crap). She will also throw foods together that seem so out of place. She made stuffed peppers with both ham and shrimp - tasted completely weird to me. She had a holiday party one year and made tons of food and most of it I couldn't get down.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 16:50:13 GMT -5
Oh God...you reminded me. I have two of those next week. My current girlfriend, who is from New Zealand, offered to make Lamb Stew for one of them, but I detected a certain resistance...so, I know exactly where to go for great potato salad, and I always bring a big box of Baci chocolates, they are awesome.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 7, 2012 17:32:49 GMT -5
I hate veggie or cheese platters. They look nice but never seem to get eaten. Once I went to a small potluck and about half the people brought store bought veggie platters and another 1/4 brought store bought cheese platters.....lame. My new favorite, easy, cheap recipe is corn casserole. You can look it up, but you pretty much mix a can of corn, can of cream corn, sour cream and a box of Jiffy corn Mix. Through it in the oven and bake. You can reheat. It is also doesn't have to be super hot to eat. Hey! That's the dish that I always bring to family dinners. Here's the recipe I use: Ingredients 1 c melted butter 2 eggs beaten corn bread mix whole kernal corn cream corn 1 c sour cream 1 tbs sugar salt & pepper Directions Preheat oven 350 grease pan spoon into dish bake 45 mintues Holy crap!! A CUP of butter? Followed by a cup of sour cream?
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Post by Tiny on Dec 7, 2012 17:48:13 GMT -5
If you think there will be a variety of potato salads and coleslaws - look for Broccoli slaw with bacon and ranch dressing OR the Taffy Apple salad at the Deli counter. The broccoli slaw sounds awful because of the broccoli - but it's really rather good... Both of those salads 'vanish' when I bring them to potlucks (with friends).
If you are up for baking - a box mix of brownies combined with broken up Oreos (or other cookies) or dried cherries or broken up peppermints makes for a festive dessert (add a cup to a cup and half of one of the extras to the mix right before you pour it in the pan or mini muffin pan).
You could also make Spinach Dip and put it in a Hawiann Bread bowl... look up Knorr's Spinach Dip there should be recipes online or on the back of the package.
What about making a tray of Deviled eggs? There's lots of recipes on line.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 18:06:40 GMT -5
I'm amazed that the veggie trays don't get eaten! At my old job there were only about 12 of us so I'd make key lime pie or brownies. At this job there are about 50 of us. Last year (my first pot luck lunch there) I made tuna salad. There was no bread. My boss (married with two kids) took me aside and asked me if he could please ask me a personal question. I said sure, go ahead. He said, can I PLEASE take your tuna salad home?! LOL! So I'm thinking that I'll make it again this year, but this time I'll bring bread too. (The lunch is out of town so I can't make sandwich quarters because they'd go soggy). One big hit I've always done for my kids' school events is tomato and mozzarella on cocktail sticks (or plain toothpicks). I put a cherry tomato and a mozzarella ball on a cocktail stick / toothpick. Done! You can also use a bigger packet of mozzarella and cut it into dice-sized pieces, it's cheaper that way. No matter how many I make (usually 50 to 100), they are ALWAYS the first things to go. Thyme, I LOVE cornbread! But I only make it when I make chili. I use maple syrup instead of honey.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 18:24:57 GMT -5
I'm thrilled.......mine is next Friday and I won't be there. How's that for winning the lottery?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 18:38:59 GMT -5
Mine is next Thursday and I can't wait! We'll have English food, American food, Chinese food, Spanish food, Russian food, German food, Italian food and French food. ETA: And plenty of wine and champagne LOL.
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Post by cronewitch on Dec 7, 2012 18:53:37 GMT -5
Deviled eggs are easy to make and don't last long at all.
I boil a pot of eggs, cool peel and cut in half. I put the whites in a bowl and cover then put the yokes in a bowl and mix with mayo, mustard, pickle juice or whatever you like and cover. Then take both bowls to the event and fill the whites sprinkle with dill weed or something.
If I make a head instead of at the table I put on a platter that has dents for the eggs and top each eqg with a black olive to keep the wrap from crushing them. My platter only holds enough for a dozen halves so I assemble at the table for big bunches of people.
They are cheap, easy and popular especially with men.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 18:59:32 GMT -5
My second teaching job, end of year potluck first year teachers were required to get together and put on a Rookie Presentation after lunch... Mostly poking fun at the older staff, who sat around with water guns they didn't hesitate to use. I took chocolate peanut butter brownies to that one... Because our last act was a jeopardy board and the final 'question' was These people can't taste exlax in chocolate peanut butter brownies ... Who are all of you?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 19:24:37 GMT -5
OMG Oped did you seriously put Ex-lax in food you knowingly served to people just because they were newer at your job than you were?! Did somebody do it to you when YOU were a first year teacher, so that you felt obliged to perpetuate the tradition?!
Sorry, but to me that's BEYOND flucked up. I don't see ANYTHING funny about that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 19:49:32 GMT -5
No, we didn't actually put it in ... It was a joke, you know what those are? And we were the newbies. Thus why it was our rookie presentation.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Dec 7, 2012 20:01:37 GMT -5
You can bring chile made in a crockpot, baked beans, 3-bean salad, or just a dessert that you bought at a bakery.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 20:05:13 GMT -5
It was a joke, you know what those are?
Yes, I do. I don't consider giving people Ex-lax one though. Same holds if you were the recipient of it.
I have an odd definition of "joke", in my world, it's where both parties laugh. So kill me, I don't think that was funny.
ETA: And reread your initial post. Nowhere did it say that YOU were the rookies, it was ambiguous.
I took chocolate peanut butter brownies to that one.
What a coincidence, given that you were the rookie and that was on the board!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 20:10:23 GMT -5
The rookies put on the show. The brownies were aligned with the show... Maybe I thought it was clearer, believe me everyone laughed. Really sorry to hijack over something so silly...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 20:12:35 GMT -5
I agree about the hijack Oped, so yes, let's let this go.
ETA: Sorry Waffle!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 20:16:33 GMT -5
Hmmm, now I'm definitely craving deviled eggs lol!
Maybe I'll do those for next Thursday!
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Post by Waffle on Dec 7, 2012 20:30:05 GMT -5
Oped and DebtH2 - no problem, I'm not that sensitive about the direction my threads take.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 7, 2012 20:56:03 GMT -5
I love the potlucks at work...the food is amazing! Philipino siopao and pansit, Jamaican stewed conch and souse, Indian curries, Middle eastern hummus and baba ganoush, Spanish paella, etc. Yummy. I usually bring my famous Russian potato salad.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 20:58:56 GMT -5
Wow welts, that sounds amazing!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2012 3:11:11 GMT -5
I love the potlucks at work...the food is amazing! Philipino siopao and pansit, Jamaican stewed conch and souse, Indian curries, Middle eastern hummus and baba ganoush, Spanish paella, etc. Yummy. I usually bring my famous Russian potato salad. I want to work where YOU work! OMG I would be in heaven.
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Post by ndannie on Dec 8, 2012 6:00:45 GMT -5
If you're in southern Indiana, I'd take Skyline dip. Everyone loves it! 1 package cream cheese, 1 can Skyline Chili, about 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese. Just spread all the cream cheese on the bottom of a casserole dish, add the chili, and top with the cheese. Bake it at 350 until the cheese melts. Tastes good, reheats well... success! (Btw, I grew up in unhealthy southern Indiana too)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2012 16:42:47 GMT -5
If you're in southern Indiana, I'd take Skyline dip. Everyone loves it! 1 package cream cheese, 1 can Skyline Chili, about 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese. Just spread all the cream cheese on the bottom of a casserole dish, add the chili, and top with the cheese. Bake it at 350 until the cheese melts. Tastes good, reheats well... success! (Btw, I grew up in unhealthy southern Indiana too) Dayum...how old are you and are you married. Excellent instructions...well done.
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Post by swamp on Dec 8, 2012 17:13:06 GMT -5
I make the same thing except I use Hormel chili with no beans.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 8, 2012 17:15:41 GMT -5
I love the potlucks at work...the food is amazing! Philipino siopao and pansit, Jamaican stewed conch and souse, Indian curries, Middle eastern hummus and baba ganoush, Spanish paella, etc. Yummy. I usually bring my famous Russian potato salad. I want to work where YOU work! OMG I would be in heaven. I work with a LOT of immigrants. Their food is to die for! You won't find a single cream of crap casserole.
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