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Post by swasat on Dec 7, 2012 10:42:41 GMT -5
How about drinks like soda, juice etc? Somebody's got to bring something to drink to wash down all that food You could buy some soda bottles, juices etc from a warehouse. Done !
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Post by swamp on Dec 7, 2012 10:43:25 GMT -5
swedish meatballs are easy. i'd post the recipe, but I don't remember it exactly. Frozen meatballs, brown gravy. DONE! I make them with frozen meatballs, sour cream, cream of barf (mushroom) soup, lipton french onion soup mix. There might be milk in there too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 10:43:42 GMT -5
I was going to be the "drink person" for ours but I switched to bagels & cream cheese after my post from this morning. ;D
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Post by swamp on Dec 7, 2012 10:44:12 GMT -5
I was going to be the "drink person" for ours but I switched to bagels & cream cheese after my post from this morning. ;D they let you drink alcohol at the office? cool!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 10:44:53 GMT -5
No.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 10:44:59 GMT -5
She said the company was providing meat - should she really bring meat?
Do you have to bring something? You could bring a sushi tray. Not real fish, more like california rolls and such.
I'm feeling kinda gross just thinking about potlucks. They are always full of very heavy casserole crap. So, let's go all the way to sushi!
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Post by swamp on Dec 7, 2012 10:45:44 GMT -5
shrimp cocktail!!!
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 10:46:56 GMT -5
Shrimp cocktail! or.... Cocktails
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 10:47:21 GMT -5
YES swamp! The cream cheese ball with mini shrimp/cocktail sauce served with Ritz. YUM!!!!
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Post by swamp on Dec 7, 2012 10:48:22 GMT -5
YES swamp! The cream cheese ball with mini shrimp/cocktail sauce served with Ritz. YUM!!!! No, big horking shrimp with cocktail sauce!!!
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Post by swamp on Dec 7, 2012 10:48:58 GMT -5
Shrimp cocktail! or.... Cocktails or c.........!!! never mind, against the COC. But it would make the office party much more entertaining.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 10:50:45 GMT -5
Not with my co-workers' uhhh......."tails".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 10:53:41 GMT -5
She said the company was providing meat - should she really bring meat? Do you have to bring something? You could bring a sushi tray. Not real fish, more like california rolls and such. I'm feeling kinda gross just thinking about potlucks. They are always full of very heavy casserole crap. So, let's go all the way to sushi! when she said the company was providing meat I took that to mean a turkey and/or a ham (or multiples of those).
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 7, 2012 10:56:38 GMT -5
Well I don't have any suggestions, but I have some of what NOT to do - a coworker I had with questionable sanity (seriously, there was something wrong there) wanted to bring biscuits to our company pot luck. There were about 150 people, so she decided rather than making maybe 24 regular biscuits, she wanted to make 150 biscuits, but since she couldn't afford all that, she decided to make the biscuits very, very VERY small. Like the size of an oyster cracker.
I am not much of a cook but I know you want your biscuits tall and fluffy. Rolling them very thin and cutting them into pieces smaller than a postage stamp = small hard pebble like things that are not reconizable as food but rather look like some kind of construction material. She was crushed no one ate them, but honestly, I don't think any one realized it was possible to eat them.
A pet peeve in our office - males bringing in a snack size, crushed bag of some kind of frito or cheeto or chip, then loading up their plates with the real goodies. Seriously, they have deli departments where you can buy half decent pans of brownies, or a tray of veggies or fruit. And really in this day and age no one is buying your argument that you can't cook anything because you have a penis.
Really, for the same reason you don't find cat skeletons in trees, you don't find skeletons of males laying in the floor of their apartments in front of the stove. We know you can do it.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 11:03:54 GMT -5
Do you run out of food? I don't bring anything because there is way, way, way, way too much food at ours. There is a joke here that you gain 15 pounds in your first here - just like the college Freshman Fifteen.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Dec 7, 2012 11:14:23 GMT -5
Buy a cookie sheet and slice n' bake cookie dough and slice and bake them according to the package directions. (Or, if even using a knife is beyond your kitchen skills, you can now buy break n' bake cookie dough that you simply break a square off and place on the cookie sheet).
Buy a pretty, festive, holiday platter and put your name and phone number on the underside in permanent marker.
Put baked, cooled cookies on it. Wrap carefully with plastic.
Done!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 11:17:55 GMT -5
Do you run out of food? I don't bring anything because there is way, way, way, way too much food at ours. There is a joke here that you gain 15 pounds in your first here - just like the college Freshman Fifteen. it has nothing to do with running out of food, it has to do with being a mooch. Showing up without something when other people have gone to the time and expense to make/purchase somehting is rude!
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Post by swasat on Dec 7, 2012 11:37:22 GMT -5
Do you run out of food? I don't bring anything because there is way, way, way, way too much food at ours. There is a joke here that you gain 15 pounds in your first here - just like the college Freshman Fifteen. So what happens to the leftover food? In a company I used to work way back when, all the men showed up with some or other kind of bagged item. And at the end of the party they used to leave with all the real food, because "they can't cook, ya know" So one year all women decided to also show up with snack bags. The manager was in on the joke. So at the party all we had was BAGS. Bags and bags of chips, bags of doritos, bags of tortilla chips, bags of onion rings, bags of cookies, bags of pretzels etc. Of course no one ate it. But we all got a good laugh out of it The manager then donated all the bags to the food pantry and took us all out for lunch on the company dime. The next year's Christmas party went so much better at that company. There were sign up sheets put up, the list ONLY contained real food, no bags of anything. If you wanted to come to the party you brought one of those items. Otherwise you stayed away. ;D
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Post by Waffle on Dec 7, 2012 12:02:57 GMT -5
So many suggestions - I wish I was near a SAMs club - I love the chessecake idea. The sad thing is I'm one of those ridiculously finicky eaters. So, taking something that I'd want to eat may not be the best idea. I for example love lima beans, but most people seem to hate them. Many people like spinach - I hate it.
I like slice and bake cookies. I made some for a cousin once, so she could take them to some school function - I believe she was about 7 or 8 at the time. After tasting one, she stuck her tongue out and said yeech - can we go buy some cookies at Krogers? So, now I'm afraid to take my slice and bake cookies anywhere.
As for the meat suggestions, I'm really trying to stay away from meat, since the invite specifically asked for a dessert or side. I may pick up a pie - I think pies usually go over well.
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Post by tskeeter on Dec 7, 2012 12:17:00 GMT -5
Store bought potato salad.
Finely chop a couple of stalks of celery (assumes about 5# of potato salad)
Dice 1/4 of an onion
Stir celery and onion into potato salad
Put potato salad into one of your bowls
Garnish with a sprinkle of paprika and a couple of sprig of parsley
Home made potato salad
(Well, you added the celery and onion at home, didn't you?)
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 12:17:32 GMT -5
A lot of it gets thrown out. They leave it out - in case someone wants to snack, and then 90 minutes later someone with a brain goes and throws away anything that really shouldn't have been sitting out that long. I'm sure someone takes stuff home. But, I know that trash can is full of crap every time we have a pot luck.
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Post by Abby Normal on Dec 7, 2012 12:19:32 GMT -5
These are my two favorites for potlucks.
Spinach artichoke dip (you can buy in store) with tortilla chips. I heat it up in the microwave then place in a little crockpot to keep warm. Big hit.
Fruit Salad- Fresh pineapple, grapefruit and oranges (cut off peel and section out), kiwi and pomegranite. Takes a little time to cut up, but pretty easy and everyone loves it.
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Post by Waffle on Dec 7, 2012 12:22:44 GMT -5
I really liked the way we did potlucks at the last company. It was really less about the company and more about the woman who organized it. She had a sign up sheet. That had lines for "specific" things. So many lines for meats - so many lines for vegetables - so many lines for dessert. There was one for the paperplates and plastic utensils, etc. So everybody had to sign up ahead of time and list what they were going to bring if you wanted to bring a vegetable side dish and all the vegetable lines were full - too bad, you had to bring something else. (Ok - nobody was going to kill you, if you brought an extra veggie dish, but you get the idea). It worked out really well and then we had it early in the week and we generally had lunch for 3 days out of it.
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Post by movingforward on Dec 7, 2012 12:31:36 GMT -5
I am always the dessert person at every function. There is a yummy cream cheese ball/chocolate chip recipe online. It tastes a lot better than it sounds. I took it to a friend's holiday party last year and also brought chocolate graham crackers to go with it. It was a HUGE hit!
Our company is taking the office out to eat lunch at a steakhouse this year which I prefer to the potluck. There are only 10 of us so going out to eat is doable.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 12:48:08 GMT -5
LOL - you know what I love about this board. We have come up with a dozen ways to properly use the work c r a c k e r, and I've never once seen anyone use it as a racial slur.
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Post by swamp on Dec 7, 2012 12:49:09 GMT -5
i like pasta fagioli.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 12:49:56 GMT -5
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Post by alabamagal on Dec 7, 2012 13:06:36 GMT -5
sweet and sour meatballs - meatballs, grape jelly, chili sauce. mix in crockpot. always one of the first things to go... Those are really good!!!! The thought of mixing grape jelly and chili sauce (equal parts btw) is really gross, but it is awesome when mixed together.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2012 13:09:49 GMT -5
I always just used a jar of sweet and sour sauce.
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Post by Waffle on Dec 7, 2012 13:32:17 GMT -5
i like pasta homosexualioli. I don't know what that is - but I do remember Dick Van Lesbian. that was a great proboard edit. ;D
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