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Tortilla chips and guacamole. Guacamole is the thing I'm most confident in making and my mom taught me how. Also margaritas because she taught me that too.

Mexican Insanity Chili.

1kg of 50mg thc gummies

Smoked bacon jalapeño poppers. Stuffed with cream cheese cilantro and lime juice

Depends on the time of year. In summer I might do a watermelon salad with tomatoes, cucumber, feta. In winter more likely a made-from-scratch mac and cheese with chorizo.

Smoked haddock kedgeree. Easy to put in the oven quickly if its cooled down a bit and its something likely to be unique.

Roast potatoes, cheap and easy to make large quantities for and they can still be good cool.

Beer cheese and bratwurst dip.

I do not care if it's unappreciated and/or unwanted, but there's no way I am not bringing either my homemade mac n cheese or homemade tuna noodle casserole. Preferably option 2.

wine or store bought dessert.

Probably some kind of beans and rice with onions and herbs and a little bacon thrown in. I'm lazy.

If I wanted to impress, a tray of homemade lasagna that'll make your toes curl.

Scalloped Potatoes with lots of cream and ham inside.

Mannerströms Surströmming. It's fine, the party will leave and I'll eat it by myself again.

ALL OF THE CHEESE

SO MUCH FUCKING CHEESE

Bred Rol https://girlwiththeironcast.com/cast-iron-garlic-butter-dinner-rolls/ (use 1/3 the sugar)

Creamy potato salad!

Pot, if you're lucky 🤷🏻

Weed

Quinoa Salad

Salad

• 1 cup uncooked white quinoa
• 1 punnet cherry tomatoes halved or quartered
• 1 English cucumber diced small
• 1/4 cup finely diced red onion
• 150g fresh baby spinach coarsely chopped
• 2 large ripe avocados chopped
• 1/3 cup finely chopped cilantro or parsley, optional 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese optional

Dressing

• 4 Tbsp red wine vinegar
• 2 Tbsp Dijon-style mustard
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 clove minced garlic
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 Tbsp honey
• 1 large lemon
• Salt and pepper

Leave out the feta and the honey and it's vegan, too.

Edit: cook and cool the quinoa before assembly.

Cheesecake is the one and only thing I make for events that I’m not hosting. The variety and form changes (muffin form are popular with the people I know now, not big on sweets), but its one thing I’m very good at doing to the point people look forward to it. I’m prettt sure several invites over the years have been just for that.

Because my recipe is ultra-simple minimalist base recipe designed to be slightly modified to account for different toppings, and it wasn’t written within the last 100 years (passed down several generations, though it did have to be modified somewhat ages back for modern products), and that just makes it better. Modern cheesecake recipes are crap and have too much shit in them. Flour in the filling?? Are you insane??? Talk about a ruined texture!

That choice always depends on the people coming to the potluck. Some people just don’t plan them well and everyone brings 800 sides. So I always read the room and go based off that I think no one else will bring.

Baked mac and cheese, probably.

BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders

Throw a pork shoulder in a slow cooker with a can of coke and seasoning. Let cook on low for 8 hours.

Shred the pork (it should be easy to pull apart). Add bbq sauce. Bring rolls and coleslaw to make the sandwiches.

It’s always a hit, feeds a ton of people, and it’s the easiest recipe I keep around.

Baked artichoke dip, Joy of Cooking page 146.

OP you are a lifesaver. I definitely have to get the Thanksgiving Libation in the infuser soon (it's just a cranberry orange infused vodka) and this thread reminded me I had a pear one I had to take out. I'll probably also bring a bacon brussel sprouts and maybe a roasted root vegetable this year, but I won't know until we get closer to the holiday.

I would normally do a bacon, blue cheese, and broccoli salad

Homemade bread and hummus

Dill pickle pasta salad.

Shit’s like crack.

African ground nut stew. It is a basic chicken stew with peanut butter and hot sauce added at the end to make it creamy and spicy.

Puppy chow, Chex cereal covered with peanut butter and milk chocolate, coated in powdered sugar. Absolutely delicious, easy to make, and reserved only for potlucks

Depends on the audience and my mood.

I often times bring an opo squash indian vegetable dish and kitchari (basically, rice and beans) because they are generally able to fit with most people's dietary restrictions and also kinda unknown to people because they aren't the sort of Indian food a restaurant is going to have. Doubly so if I know a vegetarian's coming.

Sometimes I'll bring my chocolate chip cookies. Secret recipe, not the one on the Tollhouse chocolate chip wrapper.

Bucatini alla pizzaiola is a good Italian dish.

I've not had the motivation lately, but sometimes people would get surprised with some sort of improvised, from-scratch Euro-style sponge cake based on whatever's in season with pasty cream and stuff in it. Or some sort of sweet roll.

Three dozen lamb Kibbeh balls. Made with lamb and onions from my farm. My great grandmother's recipe.