What do you like to bring to work potlucks?

Rage_Phish
Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
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My go-to is usually a corn salad with onions, bell peppers, feta, tomatoes, basil and a vinaigrette dressing

What do you like to bring?
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  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    er...I usually opt out of the work potluck. I work at a big place and I always wonder how clean other people are when they cook. I get all skeeved out. The few times I've participated I usually make bruschetta or soft pretzels or fruit salad.
  • amgreenwell
    amgreenwell Posts: 1,267 Member
    soups, chilis, anything I can make in the crock pot overnight and bring it.
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    Avocado salsa or brownies! mmmm......
  • Ketzalitzli2
    Ketzalitzli2 Posts: 38 Member
    My go to is a veggie/cheese platter.
  • erikaaaaaaaa
    erikaaaaaaaa Posts: 155 Member
    buffalo chicken dip <3
  • klkateri
    klkateri Posts: 432 Member
    Pulled pork with sauce on the side and some hamburger buns. I find often people go heavy on the dips and sweets and I like to bring a more hearty, lunch food option. I can make it in the crock-pot and leave it on warm all day with a stir here and there. Most people seem to appreciate it... I know my tummy does!!
  • RUN_LIFT_EAT
    RUN_LIFT_EAT Posts: 537 Member
    My SO always makes a huge fruit salad, and it gets destroyed!
  • DWBalboa
    DWBalboa Posts: 37,259 Member
    Pot! I like to take pot to pot lucks but apparently there are rules about that! They need to change the name. So I normally bring my jambalaya with my special cornbread. It's to die for!
  • Toronto6fan
    Toronto6fan Posts: 461 Member
    black bean, corn and avocado salad
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    Last one I brought roasted root vegetables (cold, as I made them the night before but heated in the microwave) and curried cauliflower (tasty, but my apartment smelled like curry for days, darn you oils).
  • pinggolfer96
    pinggolfer96 Posts: 2,248 Member
    Maple cinnamon mashed sweet potatoes
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    We have themes here so i've brought dakdoritang, caramelized white chocolate panna cotta, brown butter and sea salt choc chip cookies, heirloom tomato soup, Raddicho salad with hazelnuts, chive and butter milk, Ginger and caramel apple pie, Dark choc caramel pretzel crust tart, cold fried chicken, endive salad with soubise and prosciutto, lobster mac n cheese, smoked gouda and aged cheddar mac n cheese w/ caramelized onions and pepperoni breadcrumbs
  • Sarahb29
    Sarahb29 Posts: 952 Member
    I bring a big broccoli salad with red onions, a mayo dressing, raisins and crushed peanuts or almonds and it's always a hit. I got the recipe off allrecipes.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    Acg67 wrote: »
    We have themes here so i've brought dakdoritang, caramelized white chocolate panna cotta, brown butter and sea salt choc chip cookies, heirloom tomato soup, Raddicho salad with hazelnuts, chive and butter milk, Ginger and caramel apple pie, Dark choc caramel pretzel crust tart, cold fried chicken, endive salad with soubise and prosciutto, lobster mac n cheese, smoked gouda and aged cheddar mac n cheese w/ caramelized onions and pepperoni breadcrumbs

    Please let me know when your next potluck is....
  • dotti1121
    dotti1121 Posts: 751 Member
    Fruit and/or veggie tray!
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    Usually some kind of meatball (Asian turkey, BBQ jalapeno chicken, buffalo chicken), some kind of mini stuffed pepper, or a frittata.
  • stmokomoko
    stmokomoko Posts: 98 Member
    Queenmunchy wrote: »
    Usually some kind of meatball (Asian turkey, BBQ jalapeno chicken, buffalo chicken), some kind of mini stuffed pepper, or a frittata.

    Whoa. Can I get your BBQ jalapeno chicken recipe? That sounds awesome.
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    Afura wrote: »
    Acg67 wrote: »
    We have themes here so i've brought dakdoritang, caramelized white chocolate panna cotta, brown butter and sea salt choc chip cookies, heirloom tomato soup, Raddicho salad with hazelnuts, chive and butter milk, Ginger and caramel apple pie, Dark choc caramel pretzel crust tart, cold fried chicken, endive salad with soubise and prosciutto, lobster mac n cheese, smoked gouda and aged cheddar mac n cheese w/ caramelized onions and pepperoni breadcrumbs

    Please let me know when your next potluck is....

    Friday, Caramelized bananas foster bread pudding
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    edited February 2016
    @stmokomoko, not my recipe, but here's the link! BBQ Cheddar Jalapeno Chicken Meatballs
  • freechewy
    freechewy Posts: 111 Member
    I usually throw something healthy in my crockpot and share it.
  • M3ltD0Vvn
    M3ltD0Vvn Posts: 76 Member
    Something one-pot / slow cooker.

    Usually 5 Chicken breast, 2 tbls worcestershire sauce, 1 onion and either a jar of spaghetti sauce or a jar of bbq sauce. Slow cook for 4-8 hours night before, shred in the morning and let it rip. Goes with bread, tortillas, or lettuce wraps.

    BAM!
  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    Manicotti (each shell halved for appetizer size), spinach/strawberry/walnuts/balsamic salad, meatballs in grape jelly/chili sauce, mini muffins, scrambled egg muffins (for breakfast potlucks), roasted veggies (potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts, butternut squash, etc.), quinoa salad with corn, red onion, edamame and roasted red pepper, fruit salad, etc.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    Acg67 wrote: »
    Afura wrote: »
    Acg67 wrote: »
    We have themes here so i've brought dakdoritang, caramelized white chocolate panna cotta, brown butter and sea salt choc chip cookies, heirloom tomato soup, Raddicho salad with hazelnuts, chive and butter milk, Ginger and caramel apple pie, Dark choc caramel pretzel crust tart, cold fried chicken, endive salad with soubise and prosciutto, lobster mac n cheese, smoked gouda and aged cheddar mac n cheese w/ caramelized onions and pepperoni breadcrumbs

    Please let me know when your next potluck is....

    Friday, Caramelized bananas foster bread pudding

    You're killing me smalls.
  • Buzymomof_3
    Buzymomof_3 Posts: 73 Member
    Chicken Fajita's - easy to make in crock pot, has veggies and can eat alone or on tortilla's. Someone else brings the cheese/sour cream/avacado, etc.
  • MsMaeFlowers
    MsMaeFlowers Posts: 261 Member
    Crockpot enchiladas. With homemade sauce too. All the ladies here are on WW, and the calories per enchilada come out not too terrible, so everyone can eat them (unless someone had an allergy obviously, but I try to work allergies in if I know about them)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I almost always find a way to get out of these...trying to socialize and be friendsees with 90 other people is my idea of hell. The last one I did go to I just brought those little smokie sausages in a crockpot with some homemade BBQ sauce.
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I almost always find a way to get out of these...trying to socialize and be friendsees with 90 other people is my idea of hell. The last one I did go to I just brought those little smokie sausages in a crockpot with some homemade BBQ sauce.


    you and me both man
  • debrakgoogins
    debrakgoogins Posts: 2,033 Member
    enterdanger wrote: »
    I work at a big place and I always wonder how clean other people are when they cook. I get all skeeved out.

    I'm with you on this one. In my old workplace, we had a pot luck once a month. I didn't think anything of it until I overheard a conversation between coworkers talking about their obsessions with their cats. One of them kept the cat food dish on the kitchen counter next to the cutting board. The other had a dead cat in her kitchen freezer because she was "waiting until spring to bury it." After that, I found reasons to be out of the office or in a meeting on pot luck days.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2016
    enterdanger wrote: »
    er...I usually opt out of the work potluck. I work at a big place and I always wonder how clean other people are when they cook. I get all skeeved out. The few times I've participated I usually make bruschetta or soft pretzels or fruit salad.

    @ enterdanger Yeah...I always think about this too...I'm often surprised at the filth that some people let themselves live in and I have no idea how these people keep their kitchen or their personal hygiene.
  • Bikerchickmomma
    Bikerchickmomma Posts: 99 Member
    7-layer salad or broccoli / cauliflower salad....the kind with bacon and shredded cheese in it.

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