Potluck Ideas? (Part 1)

published by AlexiaJ on Oct 21, 2011

Are you planning a special evening with your friends and family, but have no idea what to cook?Here is a list of 10 easy dishes that will make everybody’s mouth water!

Forget about rules and make things extremely easy and fun!There’s no need of spending hours cooking stuff, your guests will appreciate your imagination and sense of humor.Make the dinner colourful and original, that’s so much better than boring dinners we all are used to attend.

So let’s start!

1.Spinach and cheese roll

Ingredients you’ll need :

For the rolls:

2 tbsp of grated Parmesan cheese

50 flour

2 tablespoons of corn flour

75 g of grated Cheddar chese

125 ml of milk

4 eggs

2 tbsp of chopped chives

For the filling:

350 finely chopped spinach

100 g cream cheese

2 tbsp sour cream

1 clove of garlic

2 tbsp of parsley or oregano

For the tomato sauce:

6 chopped tomatoes

1 teaspoon of sugar

1 tbsp of tomato paste

2 tbsp of ketchup

Preparation:

Heat the oven.Prepare a parchment paper with the dimensions of 20×30 cm and put butter all over it.Sprinkle half of the Parmesan cheese on it.Sprinkle the flour, add the the Cheddar cheese.Slowly add the milk,yolk and chives, don’t forget to beat the eggs so the mixture becomes smooth and nice.Pour this mixture slowly on the parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, lie another parchment paper, put butter and cheese on it and be prepared to put the mixture that you have just taken away from the oven on it.Let it cool.

Cook the spinach for minutes, mix with the cream cheese and the herbs,don’t forget about the sour cream or garlic.

For the sauce mix the tomatoes with a mixer until it forms a puree, add the sugar, ketchup and tomato paste and stir for 1 minute more, you can add other sipices too.

Place the spinach over the rolls and cut into 8 pieces.

2.Tuna&bean sandwiches

Ingredients needed:

One tin on tuna in olive oil

One tin of canned beans

1 large tomato

1 onion

Lettuce

Sliced Bread

Preparation:

Drain the canned beans and the tuna, Chop the onions and tomatoes really small, fry the slices of bread or cook them in a toaster.Shatter the tuna with the beans until they become a paste.Spread a layer of the paste on the bread, put the onions, tomatoes and lettuce and everything is ready!You can also add some chilli pepper if you like spicy food.

Prosciutto salad

Ingredients

Curly parsley

1 Red onion

Lemon juice

Olive oil

Lettuce

6 Slices of prosciutto crudo

Parmesan cheese

Preparation

Cut the onion in thin slices, add sald,pepper and lemon juice and leave for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile fry the strips of prosciutto until they become medium-brown in colour.Allow them to dry.

Cut the parsley and place the lettuce in bowl, adding all the rest of ingredients.Mix gently with your fingers and sprinkle the cheese on top.Best is to serve with toast.

Good appetite!

4 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by megamatt09
    October 21st, 2011 at 7:21 pm #

    Some great potluck ideas.

  2. # 2 by CHIPMUNK
    October 22nd, 2011 at 3:42 am #

    This is awesome

  3. # 3 by magus magus
    October 23rd, 2011 at 11:01 am #

    nice post

  4. # 4 by mtrguanlao
    November 10th, 2011 at 10:13 pm #

    Great ideas! I like the sandwich!

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