On May 6, 4:17 pm, notbob > wrote:
> On 2007-05-06, maxine in ri > wrote:
>
> > to the potluck this coming Friday. Hmmm, hotdish. Isn't that a mid-
> > western phenomenon of the casserole kind? What elements make up
> > hotdish, and how creative can one get when making it?
>
> Not necessarily. A friend who is always entertaining keeps a bowl of
> wursts and meatballs cooked in Classico marinara sauce. A killer
> dish when enjoyed with a good beer or red wine.
>
> Just don't get fast food. I quit going to company potlucks because
> too many people were showing up with buckets of KFC and boxes of
> Chinese take-out and bags of pre-prepped salad greens and a bottle of
> Kraft dressing. Screw that.
>
> nb

There were two buckets of KFC last night, and 3 or 4 "bought" cakes.
One nice thing was the number of dishes of plain cooked vegetables.
Everyone tries at some point or another to make a "killer" dish, and
you end up with all sauce and nothing to balance it. No Chinese take
out this month, and if the salads were from bagged greens, they had
enough character (one had almonds and dried cranberries, another was a
crispy garden salad, and a third may have been spinach,but was gone by
the time I got to it) to make them interesting.

maxine in ri