Hey awesome ones, Bill and I are kind of pretending that we're going
to a potluck dinner. I love potluck dinners and in this pot-luck
kind of, not THAT kind... you know what I mean but anyway what you know, whatever
happened to potluck dinners? I don't know I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.
That's for sure, well you know what, we do put on potluck dinners and we can invite
like 50 people to come over to our home and they're all over the place. That's a lot
of potato salad and we want to talk about this because it's a great way to get
people together and I'm gonna tell you about it and also if you don't have a
dish we will tell you something to bring as well so let's get into it...
So Bill you remember in our younger days we used to see, like your
friends were the most important thing you know, you had to see your friends and
every weekend you had to see your friends and then kind of jobs and family...
yeah kids and all that sort of thing, I don't know, it just kind of got it all
muddled up but you know what Bill? It's time to see our friends again
and we've been fortunate because I've kept in touch with, well a
girlfriend that I've known since I was six years old and another one well more than one
in my teenage years and Bill how many friends have you kept in touch. I
don't have any friends my only friend is a buck the more bucks I have more friends I
have...that's Fred Flintstone he's quoting there, but anyway no, but I
mean, you must have about a dozen friends from grade school and high school...and me
this was the best way to keep people together throughout the decades
this the potluck, yeah and the thing is that we'll have these potluck dinners
and well dinners I mean they they start about one o'clock and they go until one
o'clock in the morning but what we usually do is we we say to somebody "hey
we're having a potluck dinner and just bring whatever you want to bring" and
some of the guys, some of your single guys are like, huh? I get the feeling over
the phone or you do, to that they might not even show up so I just say "hey you
know bring a bag of chips" it doesn't really matter but yeah nobody's brought
ever bought a bag of chips... box of doughnuts! Well the funniest thing I
was invited to a potluck dinner and this guy walks in and you know, usually you
see, you know the single guys ..hey... some single guys are great cooks like don't
know, I know but some of these guys are just they don't know what to bring so
they bring a bucket of chicken great, that's wonderful, but I remember this one
guy I was at a potluck and he he dumped 20 cheeseburgers from a fast food place
He just dumped them and they all went in
no time so you know going to a potluck dinner and hey, I don't know, I remember
when I first mentioned to you let's have a potluck dinner you you kind of felt
awkward. I felt awkward because I thought nobody's gonna want, especially the guys,
nobody's gonna want to have to make anything. Yeah it almost seems like in
this day and age now they've mentioned, mentioned it earlier people just want to
come and oh it's catered, oh you've provided all the food. Yeah but that's
what you thought. That's what I thought, yes what he thought, he thought... oh my
no Heather we have to cater or no, no, no let's just take people out for dinner
and and I'm thinking to myself well how can you we've got about 30 to 40 people that
we want to see this summer how are we gonna do that and you know monetarily it
just doesn't make sense too and and we're not trying to be something we're not
either, you know, we don't need to do that so it's just amazing you put on these
potluck dinners and pretty well everybody shows up... yeah it's just wonderful. So
what do you do if you're the person putting on the potluck dinner. Well you
clean for two days. Hey we downsized, we have a really small place here compared
to what we used to have but I'm going to show you some pictures here first of all
I lay out a table where everybody can kind of drop the food there's usually
even more than one location for that also I've got a cool little tiki bar
that I make up and I've got the blender there and I can make Oh pina coladas for
everybody. I'm making strawberry daiquiris and all that sort of thing in...
back to us again... you know, yes as the host and hostess you've got to make sure
that hey you've got some liquor and I usually make a lasagna and Caesar salad
some basics yeah so you know if nobody brings a dish
then were covered with that. ICE we always run out of ice that's a big, you
know, if somebody says I don't know what to bring have them bring ice for sure
You're going to need it, everybody seems to want a pina colada and a strawberry
daiquiri, also have some items on hand for the designated drivers, you know, you
can make them virgin drinks but also some pop and lots of water and a lot of
people bring dessert so my coffee guy he's usually making lots of French press
coffee in various containers but the one thing I love is that it seems
that people bring their signature dish don't you find that? I have found that
that's really true yeah, that's true and if they have maybe a peanut allergy or
they need some gluten free dish you don't need to worry about that, they've
got it all covered and oh you know we shouldn't have done this before like,
before we were eating dinner because it's so mouth-watering, thinking about
oh, oh like a lot of people are bringing their signature dishes from their
countries of origin. It's a good point, and yes some are spicy but it's
just so delicious the smorgasbord of food it's just so much that's what I
love is just finding these. I said I mentioned these dishes that maybe aren't
local to your area and they're just wow this is amazing! And when I'm
invited to a potluck dinner generally what I do is I either hand make the
meatballs and cook them up and make a kind of a sweet-and-sour type of, what do
you call those things, those meatballs or goodness sweet sour meatballs and
there's recipes online that you can find. Sometimes if I'm too much of a hurry hey
you can get the Swedish meatballs frozen cook them up and then you can even in
some cases I know, I buy this the sweet sour sauce strictly for those meatballs
and I throw it all in a crock pot, show up at the the party with a bottle of
wine with and we're ready to go but I did promise
to you that I'm going to show you a little recipe that anybody can make this
recipe... So here I am in the kitchen and I'm wearing this really wonderful little
apron and if you saw the it's the one-of-a-kind show I'll put it up there
somewhere where they were selling these aprons and all kinds of neat things but
anyway back to the video... I almost forgot to tell you that for the beer and the
coolers we put them in big buckets and I mean you're not going to, if you're going
to put on a potluck dinner you're going to be mingling and having fun you're not
going to be sitting there asking "would you like a drink, what can
I make you" No, no, you know we're just going to do that and I also
have tomato juice and celery and all that sort of thing if they want to make
themselves a Caesar or a Bloody Mary or something but I've got these pots and
all kinds of things all over the place we even have and I'll show you
the picture here a smoking section in our backyard for the people who want to
smoke we've even got that covered there so at our potluck they're in the kitchen,
they're out in the living room they're on the deck, everywhere, just mingle meet our
wonderful friends and it's lots of fun but I promised you a recipe didn't I ? So
let's do this... gotta be like one of the most simplest recipes in the world
I usually I've got a couple here. I've got a couple of different kinds of
salsas and this is just a nachos and salsa kind of thing but it goes over
very, very well and I've never been to a party yet where I've made it and it
hasn't been empty on the way home so basically I've just got a nice clean
plate here and I just sort of
dump the salsa in there, now if you want to get fancy yes there's some lovely
kind of homemade ones or whatever you can get at stores as well but I just do
the medium salsa and dump that in there and then what I do is I get some sour
cream and like I said medium or mild you don't
want it too hot for people and I just sort of just drop this on here and
maybe Bill you can get a little ,,a little close-up of that
though you don't want to have it all in one place because it's just gonna sink
right down to the bottom and I'm using a glass dish here you could use an
aluminum one or go to the dollar store and make maybe get something
there. Now for this I'm not going to add any guacamole once again you can get
oops, you can get the guacamole from the from
the store... sorry about that noise there... but so that works now also what I did
was I just you know just grated some cheese, this is an old cheese so it's got
a little bit of tartness to it so and again I'm just just kind of dropping
that on there and as I mentioned before or maybe you'll mention it later you can
also buy the grated cheese already grated I mean how wonderful is that!
So let's just get this on here. I might not have made enough cheese for this but
usually what I would do is I would cover every little inch of it so that it's all
cheesy so I apologize it might not happen with this go around but you know
don't sweat it because people are just happy that you brought something,
it's okay there we go... all right and so also I've just chopped
up just a green onion and then my hands are clean here so I'm just going to
sprinkle that on top there as well.
I'd like to make this the day before that way it that way it kind of settles
in the fridge and it gets really nicely put together and I'm done I just have to
cover that with some aluminum foil. I've got a little scoop, some nachos that they
have out right now so a lot of times these are multigrain
I'll get the scoop if I want to be really fancy I'll get maybe you know the
ones that are like the restaurant style and they have purple and red and you
know if I want to be fancy I'll do something along those lines and it's all
just a good idea to go to the dollar store too and maybe get a little bit of
a big bowl so that you can put those out as well, so sometimes I don't even have
time to even come home maybe Bill and I are somewhere and it's just too busy and
the choice is do we miss the party or do we just kind of get 'er done and so what
we do is we go to the grocery store and we buy everything you know, we buy the
onion, we buy this sour cream, we get maybe one of those aluminum tins, you
know, to make it all in and the salsa we're not oh and that cheese you
can get that grated in a bag as well so just bring it all to the party say
"hey we're here, we're a little bit late but give me five minutes and I'm gonna
make up my dish" and away you go it's done and you're having fun at the party
So there you go, there you have it ,it's easy-peasy, another thing I want to
mention to you is take a cab, you know if you're going to one of these
get-together so you're going to be there from one o'clock until one o'clock a.m. it's
a good idea to take a cab or have a designated driver, please do that please
say stay safe ,we just love you here as our subscribers and also kind of just
as a courtesy don't forget to bring what you're drinking and talking about
not forgetting something hmm we forgotten...
Our little Hurricane. Hey Hurricane, yeah and one thing about little Hurricane when we
have get-togethers he gets terrified, I mean he's so tiny he's so small and
there's so many people in a confined area that he just has to go to a spot
where he feels protected or he comes to us myself or Heather. Well we'll pick him
up so that he's he's safe... let me just say something here... we always invite our
adult children because we can say "hey can you just hold on to Hurricane for a
little while and you know that way we can go ahead and enjoy and mingle with
our friends and they kind of are onto it anyway. They, everybody loves
Hurricane - so yeah and you know what we also want to make sure that all of you
could take a cue from this because you don't want to lose your dog at a front
door or a cat or anything like that and we don't want to put him in a kennel he
doesn't like kennels or cages. Yeah, yeah we don't want to do that so well and hey if
you have a signature dish that you want to share with just put it in the comments
under here, yeah, and tell us what your signature dish would be that you
would take to a potluck dinner and you know we we usually, we
usually talk about how most days are, well many days are just made for playing
and we actually do plan our fun and we we put it in seasons I'm going to
actually put that video up there because planning for fun is such a great
thing to do and you know time, time it's not on our side and we only have so
many summers and you know, remember your precious friends and this is a great way
to do something. I am so relaxed at these parties. Yes she's very relaxed. I mean
when I put on another kind of party I'm just like huh even the
Thanksgiving dinners for like 11 or my own family I'm just like a little busy
bee all over the place and at these get togethers I really relax oh they're just a
wonderful thing to do. Sorry Heather it's a great social, it
really, for the hosts, for the guests, everybody, yeah absolutely, so keep it
stress-free folks and... what about we do we do some videos on Tuesday... oh right
right you almost forgot! I almost forgot so on Tuesday afternoons we do these
kind of lifestyle ones right, going to do food we're talking to chefs now and
travel etc and on Fridays you know I was a former model so I'm doing some beauty
and fashion and all that sort of thing and you're even then I do some more fashion ...
sure yeah... Why not, you know what we're having a
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