Chicken for a potluck?

justgettingby

justgettingby

Tuanis!
I loathe pot luck dinners. The thought of eating food cooked in a stranger's home freaks me out. For all I know they cook naked , use their cats as pot holders, and have a penchant for leaving food on the counter overnight.

So I've been invited to one (vomit) and was asked to bring a chicken. What the hell kind of chicken do I bring to a potluck?!?

Please help with recipe ideas....PLEASE?!?
 
justgettingby said:
I loathe pot luck dinners. The thought of eating food cooked in a stranger's home freaks me out. For all I know they cook naked , use their cats as pot holders, and have a penchant for leaving food on the counter overnight.

So I've been invited to one (vomit) and was asked to bring a chicken. What the hell kind of chicken do I bring to a potluck?!?

Please help with recipe ideas....PLEASE?!?
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:ditto :agreed :sick

I have no clue to the reasoning behind so many liking pot luck.
 
justgettingby said:
I loathe pot luck dinners. The thought of eating food cooked in a stranger's home freaks me out. For all I know they cook naked , use their cats as pot holders, and have a penchant for leaving food on the counter overnight.

So I've been invited to one (vomit) and was asked to bring a chicken. What the hell kind of chicken do I bring to a potluck?!?

Please help with recipe ideas....PLEASE?!?
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Are these bad things??

I would bring :dancingchicken
 
Ugh. I don't like them, either - mostly because the food isn't whatever temp it's supposed to be, and also because I'm a better cook than most of the people I've done potluck dinners with. So I like mine, but not anybody else's.
 
Blazing Saddles said:
You all need to pick better friends..........
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That is some of the problem, most pot lucks are acquaintances. I do not know them enough to eat food they have prepared.
Sadie, MeiLan, MamaHog just to name a few here, I know well enough to know I am not eating something I shouldn't and their food will not make me sick.
I also keep hot plates, warmers, and cold dishes for any food brought to my home. Many do not or can not do that in instances of a pot luck and at that point no matter if the food was good, and prepared right, you leave yourself open to sickness because the food sits at the wrong temp.
 
I would just bake a whole chicken if you are in charge of the entree. :dunno Or you could roast individual pieces.
 
I too am a little leary of pot luck meals, I just make sure I eat what I brought. If I know someone else that brought, I'll eat theirs too. Other wise I just look. :)
 
I stopped eating at pot lucks at our office when I noticed the number of women who do not wash their hands after a visit to the ladies room... :whistle


But, I'm a Baptist so potlucks at church are blessed by the Lord so they're safe!!! :cheer1 :cheer1 :cheer1 :cheer1
 
I just like the dancing chicken.
He can hypnotis ya.

:dancingchicken
 
ShoeDiva said:
Blazing Saddles said:
You all need to pick better friends..........
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That is some of the problem, most pot lucks are acquaintances. I do not know them enough to eat food they have prepared.
Sadie, MeiLan, MamaHog just to name a few here, I know well enough to know I am not eating something I shouldn't and their food will not make me sick.
I also keep hot plates, warmers, and cold dishes for any food brought to my home. Many do not or can not do that in instances of a pot luck and at that point no matter if the food was good, and prepared right, you leave yourself open to sickness because the food sits at the wrong temp.
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Exactly.




I can't remember the last pot luck I've been to and especially one that had different meats. Ick. I thought about the roasted chicken but I don't know how to roast a chicken very well. Not in an electric oven :dunno

I'm looking around at crock pot recipes. A crockpot something or another might not be too difficult.
 
Roasted chicken is easy! Clean out the cavity and stuff it with onions and garlic. Rub the skin with EVOO then run with herbs and spices. I use a run I make myself:

Salt
Paprika
Coriander
Dry mustard
Garlic powder
Pepper

Also could stuff the bird with a cut up lemon and rosemary. Rub with EVOO and the rub with: salt, lemon zest, chopped rosemary

To roast, I do this:

Preheat oven to 450. Place bird in oven once it's ready. Bake for 20 minutes and lower heat to 375. Baking length should be 20 mins per pound.
 
But, I don't eat other people's food unless I know them, and if their kitchen is clean or not.
 
Thank you! I'll have to practice in my electric oven a few times before attempting to serve it to people. I suppose I can get over sticking my hand "in the cavity". First time I cooked a whole chicken, my dear, half blind husband told me to put my hand up the wrong end. :girlsaysno

I think for the potluck, I'm going to cook Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/04/crock-pot-buffalo-chicken-lettuce-wraps.html . I can make them in my sleep plus I scored a huge "two fer" of Frank's at Pricesmart.
 
justgettingby said:
Thank you! I'll have to practice in my electric oven a few times before attempting to serve it to people. I suppose I can get over sticking my hand "in the cavity". First time I cooked a whole chicken, my dear, half blind husband told me to put my hand up the wrong end. :girlsaysno

I think for the potluck, I'm going to cook Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/04/crock-pot-buffalo-chicken-lettuce-wraps.html . I can make them in my sleep plus I scored a huge "two fer" of Frank's at Pricesmart.
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Yum! I love Frank's, and have made that recipe (similar) for my book club many times. Excellent choice! We all enjoy it very much and it does not involve "cavities". :girlsaysno
 
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