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ALL OF THE CHEESE

SO MUCH FUCKING CHEESE

A Costco 15# pork shoulder smoked all day and shredded into pulled pork, and a half dozen different bottles of bbq sauce

I could either make Tadiq or Gumbo, but not both.

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

Weed

With any luck I will supply the pot.

After all the secret to good food is

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Right now? I have a bottle of a clarified watermelon tequila cocktail, that's what I am bringing.

With more time to prepare, probably a cornbread.

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.

Key lime bars, haven’t quite perfected baklava yet

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

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.

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

How much time do I have to prepare, what season is it, and who is doing desserts? I cannot stress how much these matter.

Baked artichoke dip, Joy of Cooking page 146.

Dill pickle pasta salad.

Shit’s like crack.

Pickle roll ups - get a full size pickle and wrap it with Buddig corned beef on the outside and cream cheese on the inside. Then slice it and they're cute and tasty 💜

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.

A large trench coat and two other people so we can sneak in and seize the food for ourselves.

1kg of 50mg thc gummies

Baked mac and cheese, probably.

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.

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

Beer cheese and bratwurst dip.

Bread.

Pot, if you're lucky 🤷🏻

Bacon jam. There's something magical when onions, maple syrup, and coffee mix up with little bits of bacon. It goes really well on top of a slice of toast and Muenster cheese.

Really depends upon what I know about the people who will be eating and the what types of things I know people are already brining. Maybe chili and cornbread, but that may not fly with, for instance, a number of my older in-laws.

Cookies is another one that is more safe, though I also turn the sweetness on those down for Japanese audiences.

Brunswick stew. But with "normal" meat instead of rabbit (as is traditional) because some people are weird about eating rabbits for some reason.