{"id":9243,"date":"2010-11-25T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2018-11-06T21:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T21:09:40","slug":"potluck-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/potluck-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chef\u2019s Potluck Party Tips to Make Them Jealous."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A potluck party can be a food nightmare.<\/strong> As a professional Chef and caterer, few things offend my culinary senses more than the holiday potluck party. With hot items going cold, badly portioned and picked-through platters, nacho dip next to brownies, and unidentifiable entrees all sharing the same table, it\u2019s no wonder that this random buffet will impugn all the work you\u2019ve put into your dish.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LyZAz2CEKiA?fs=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>To be a stand out in this noise of nourishment,<\/strong> this cafeteria of chaos, you need a plan. The best potluck party has home chefs that keep the following in mind:<\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>Keep It Warm <\/strong>&#8211; If you\u2019re donating a hot dish, you must find a way to keep it hot. Whether a chafing dish or crock pot, assure the safety and appeal of the food by keeping it warm. If you can\u2019t assure that your hot dish will stay hot, prepare something that is appropriate either way.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Transportation<\/strong> \u2013 Don\u2019t prepare anything with loose sauces or that is delicately assembled. During the ride to the potluck party, sauces will shift, garnishes will fall, fried items will get soggy. Prepare items that won\u2019t degrade during transportation.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Disposables <\/strong>&#8211; You\u2019re never going to see that serving bowl or tongs again, understand that. Why add the stress of stalking your bowl at the end of the party? Get attractive disposables at your local party store and you won\u2019t have to call the next day to retrieve your items.<\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>Signage<\/strong> &#8211; You can lead the expectations of your diners by telling them what they\u2019re eating. Create small \u201ctent\u201d signage for your dish and people can avoid allergy issues, or gobble it up because they are attracted to your description.<\/p>\n<p>5) <strong>Presentation, Presentation, Presentation<\/strong> &#8211; As I said, this random buffet will have cold salmon next to cookies, string beans next to cake, so how you present your potluck party dish can have great impact. A simple doily under your cake, or colorful napkin beneath the platter will present your dish in the best light.<\/p>\n<p>6) <strong>Refresh, Replenish<\/strong> &#8211; Potluck buffets get picked-through very quickly, making your dish look unattractive. Be prepared to stir, re-portion, or replenish your item with fresh reserves. Rather than on large casserole, consider multiple smaller ones that you can replace.<\/p>\n<p>7) <strong>Be Original <\/strong>&#8211; Yawn! Someone WILL bring a nacho dip. Someone WILL bring salsa and a string bean casserole. Someone WILL bring wings. Create something conversation worthy at your potluck dinner and you\u2019re the star!<\/p>\n<p>8) <strong>Don\u2019t Over-Produce! <\/strong>&#8211; EVERYONE is going to bring an entire party\u2019s amount of food. Everyone won\u2019t eat an entire party\u2019s amount of food. Your portions should be half of a traditional entr\u00e9e portion because of the wide variety of food also on the buffet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A holiday potluck party can be great fun.<\/strong> For me, it can be a culinary nightmare. Please help me awake from this bad dream by following some of the ideas above to keep your buffet contribution hot, attractive, identifiable, fresh, original, and in the appropriate quantity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your go-to meal for a potluck party?<\/strong> Leave me a comment below:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Discover a simple 5 step plan to save time, save money, explode your confidence and conquer the holiday kitchen this year with my FREE Holiday Cooking Success Class.  <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail aligncenter\" title=\"Holiday468x60\" src=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HolidaySuccess250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\u201c400\u201d\" height=\"\u201c400\u201d\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn Holiday Cooking Stress into <a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holiday Cooking Success<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My potluck party tips will assure you\u2019re the envy of the neighborhood, church, or work random buffet this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31,46],"tags":[308],"yst_prominent_words":[1642,735,1656,1641,1638,726,732,1646,1640,1652,1648,1645,1658,1639,1644,1637,1654,1650,1643,1660],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}