{"id":4406,"date":"2009-03-25T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2010-08-11T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:52:49","slug":"interesting-pot-luck-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/interesting-pot-luck-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting potluck themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/flickr\/photo\/2615255272\/a-big-spread.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Potluck dinner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3289\/2615255272_826c9aaa45.jpg\" alt=\"Potluck dinner\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potluck dinner | Photo by Jonathan Blundell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of our weekly community group meetings (most every Saturday at 6 p.m. &#8211;  come join us) we always start out with a meal\/snack of some sort. I think I&#8217;ve been delegated the food committee chairman and I have to admit, sometimes I&#8217;m at a loss for ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to go all out each week, with &#8220;gourmet cuisine&#8221; but it seems that getting folks together once a week tends to be hard enough without adding an undue burden of everyone having to come up with a new dish\/meal.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What creative potluck &#038; party themes have you seen or would you like to see at a get together\/party?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Some great potluck ideas I&#8217;ve enjoyed in the past:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Greek\/Mediterranean<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cajun<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mexican<\/strong> &#8211; always a big hit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Italian<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Baked potato bar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make your own pizza<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/1024523672\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Sampling of the food (Greek\/Mediterranean)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1028\/1024523672_00747fdb34.jpg\" alt=\"Sampling of the food (Greek\/Mediterranean)\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek Mediterranean night | Photo by Jonathan Blundell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did find one <a href=\"http:\/\/chowhound.chow.com\/topics\/378547\">great thread<\/a> that suggests building your potluck meal around dishes that contain one main ingredient (ala like Food Networks Iron Chef) or dishes with the same color.<\/p>\n<h2>A few other great potluck ideas:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The last meal<\/strong> &#8211; everyone brings a dish based on the first letter of their last name. Blundell&#8217;s bring beans, Lehmann&#8217;s bring lima beans, Ellcey&#8217;s bring eggplant, etc. etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brinner<\/strong> &#8211; Breakfast for dinner. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetarian<\/strong> &#8211; This could be a great win, or a flop depending on your group \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong> &#8211; Who says you can only have turkey, pumpkin pie and all the fixings on Thanksgiving day? Why not have a huge Thanksgiving dinner in the middle of July as well? For that matter, you can probably come up with any number of holiday meals to have &#8220;out of season&#8221; and probably save some cash as well since no one else will be fighting you for a 20 lb turkey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slow cooking<\/strong> &#8211; Only dishes cooked in a slow cooker are allowed. This might be fun to see how creative people get.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another great idea to always encourage is for everyone to bring extra copies of their recipes to the potluck dinner. That way if folks try a dish they really love they can go home with the recipe and don&#8217;t have to hope someone remembers to send it to them later.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also thinking I need to get more people in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepioneerwoman.com\">The Pioneer Woman&#8217;s website<\/a> and\/or cookbook and do a Pioneer Woman Cookbook theme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=0061658197\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s the task I want to know what other clever\/successful themes you&#8217;ve come up with&#8230; comment away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our weekly community group meetings (most every Saturday at 6 p.m. &#8211; come join us) we always start out with a meal\/snack of some sort. I think I&#8217;ve been delegated the food committee chairman and I have to admit, sometimes I&#8217;m at a loss for ideas. I&#8217;d love to go all out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/interesting-pot-luck-themes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting potluck themes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2414],"tags":[1970,133,1969,4661,1968,1971,2524,995,2714],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eats","tag-community-group","tag-dinner","tag-dinner-club","tag-food","tag-foodie","tag-life-group","tag-pioneer-woman","tag-pot-luck","tag-potluck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-194","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}