At the Potluck

Welcome to the inaugural "At the Potluck" post at Lutheran Thrifty Mama! 


I dearly love church potluck dinners (or as our church calls them, "pot-blessed" dinners). Each dish reflects the creativity and practicality of its maker. The men and women of Northeast Nebraska — because, contrary to popular belief, cooking is not limited to one gender — are busy and hard-working. We have enough time to make food that tastes good and is good for you, but we don't have time to traipse all over the grocery store looking for hard-to-find and harder-to-pronounce ingredients. Instead, the components of potluck dishes are accessible and familiar; much of the time, they're even produced a few miles from where they'll be consumed. (OK, so ours usually aren't, but it will be a different story this summer ...)


That's why potluck dishes are the inspiration for my kitchen style: They're practical, simple, wholesome. They might not always be pretty, but you can be sure they will taste like home.


Monday
Slow-cooked cheesy chicken and rice
Cooked carrots
Fruit cocktail salad


Tuesday
Pizza bagels
Lettuce salad
Leftover fruit salad


Wednesday
Creamy fiesta salsa chicken
Spanish rice
Apples/grapes


Thursday
Marinated pork chops
Crack potatoes
Cinnamon applesauce
Lettuce salad


Friday
Leftovers


Saturday
Lasagna
Lettuce salad
Garlic bread


Sunday
Chicken salad croissants
Green beans
Lemon pull-aparts (double batch - one for home, one for an arts reception in the afternoon)