Fall Swap Food Thread

Thanks to Gita, we will be eating. LOL So crazy around here I completely forgot the food thread.
So we ask that everyone bring some kind of covered dish. We will need drinks, plates, plastic ware, napkins and rolls for the burgers and hot dogs.
Please let us know what you will bring to help with the planing and so we can dream of how wonderful the lunch will be. I will be keeping a list at the top of the thread of who is bringing what so that it will be easy to see.
Ric and I will be providing grilling meats, burgers, hot dogs, sausages, maybe chicken we will see.

Grilling Meats Ric & Holly
Sweet Tea & Crispy coleslaw Sally
Buns & Soda Sequoia
Veggie Tray Catmint
Crab Meltaways Gita
Potato Salad SSG
Deviled Eggs Aspenhill
Chinese Dumplings Donner
Fruit Salad and Sangria Muddy
Brownies & Zucchini Cake Catbird
Dessert Ecnalg
Fruit Salad Unomeemaw
Guacamole Julie



This message was edited Sep 8, 2014 2:24 PM

I'll bring hamburger and hot dog buns. Can you give me a rough figure of how many to bring? Also, I'll bring a bunch of 2L bottles of soda.

Veggie tray.

Sequoia, I'll let you know.

Seq, IMHO, don't buy too many sodas. I don't think there's a huge soda drinking crowd here. I'll do two or three gallons of sweet tea.

Crispy coleslaw.

Sally--LOVE your crispy Cole Slaw. AND---how silly of me--
I have one of those jugs (2 gal.) with the spicket at the bottom. If you like...
Have to see if it still dispenses--as it has been sitting, unused, forever..

May I also recommend "Aldis" for good hot dogs? They have a 4lb. package of
big, fat 6"+ long hot dogs for $5.99.

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I will bring an appetizer called "Crab Meltaways".
Bite-sized toasted Baguette slices with a crab and cheese mixture on top.
I will bake them here and try to keep them warm in some way.

Gita

Sounds good about the soda, thanks Sally. Lol, I'll buy stuff I like so if it doesn't get drank, I'll bring it back with me :)

I'll bring a potato salad.

I'll bring deviled eggs.

I will bring Chinese dumplings.

Yay! Dumplings!!

Yay All of it!!

You guys are making me hungry.

Jeff---

Since you are bringing Hot dog and hamburger buns--I have a request....

Can you PLEASE bring decent buns? The soft ones fall apart as soon as
you put the meat and condiments on them.
I know there are sturdier ones to be had.....more like real bread....like Kaiser rolls...
If you have a bakery outlet anywhere near you--you can find all kinds of
buns there.

Thank you--Gita

I'll bring fruit salad and Sangria.

Lol...I won't get the cheapest ones. Do you like potato buns?

jeff--

With all the food that will be there--i am not even likely to eat hotdogs of hamburgers...

Potato buns are definitely a grade above the soft junk breads.

You get whatever YOU think is the best.....G.

Alright, thanks for the advice :)

WHO asked me anyway???............G.

Gita, you crack me up.

The memory of Muddy's sangria....

I never got to taste it at Terri's.....Will DEFINITELY do it at Holly's.

G.

Oh I got to taste it and it was soooo good.

Muddy's delicious sangria. Perhaps she will have the perspicacity to bring a larger quantity this time. ;-)

Lol you guys and your big words.

I will bring brownies, of course, and how about some zucchini cake?

Trust me, Muddy brought a lot. Some of us just sat next to it with a straw. I will use more restraint next time!

Sooo, Muddy-- A bucket-full would be about right?

We could all sit in a circle singing "Kumbaya" with long straws
slurping away....

G. ☻♥

I'd be happy to bring more! It's so easy to make...Happy knows my secret recipe : - )

How about some zucchini cake indeed! Sounds good.

I'll bring a dessert of some sort, to be determined.

I will bring some straws. ;-)

see Jeff what I mean about not needing a whole lot of soda? ROFL

Lol....perhaps there will be some others who want something n/a to drink like me :) I guess this isn't really the soda crowd.

Oh I keep one foot squarely in each camp....

David and I are definitely part of the soda crowd.

I just finished updating the food thread list at the top, hope I got everyone listed. Boy we are going to do some really fine eating. JR was looking over my shoulder and said he has never had dumplings and I told him that Donners dumplings are the best.

Oh yes, Donner has a very secret recipe...
I was not trying to dis the soda crowd, hope you all know. I almost cannot eat pizza without soda.

DD and I are not generally soda drinkers (although she has been known to imbibe root beer). I prefer seltzer water to soda. It's funny, I used to drink soda all the time, but then after living in Germany for a year where soda was less prevalent, when I came back to the States I no longer liked it, and still don't. It's too sweet for me now. Of course, I manage to get lots of sugar in otherwise. ;-)

Imbibe? Are we still doing the vocab words that I have to look up thing? Good thing iPhones have such a nice dictionary feature :)