Firstly, I just need to check that a potluck dinner is what I think it is - everyone just brings a dish without any organisation etc? Potluck as it were?

I have a good recipe for rattlesnake chili.(Assuming you have access to rattlesnake meat)

Yeah, Floozie a potluck is where everyone brings something to share. It's at my church for the last night of kids club. I'm wanting to take a main dish and dessert or salad. Depending on what I decide to make.

Darn all out of Rattlesnake meat. But it won't be too long until the snakes are out and about again. Maybe I'll get that recipe from you later this summer.

Well I do have a favorite that isn't too hard to make. Having leftovers for lunch now. It's chicken and yellow rice.

Boil chicken, remove from bones.
Cook yellow rice in broth from chicken
add chicken and green peas

good stuff.

mmmmmm, that does sound good, Mason. Maybe I'll try that for supper tonight. Thanks.

enjoy....
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Sounds good Mano.

NebraskaWoman. It IS good, one of my favorite dishes in fact. And it's perfect for a potluck as it all goes into a single pot. Hope you like it.

Thanks Mano, those sound great. I'm going to have to write these down. So I can try them all sometime. {There goes the diet. }

I'm sure we will Mason. And I won't have to spend all day making it like I do the enchiladas.

1 Elephant (medium)
Brown Gravy (Watkins Beef Soup & Gravy Base)
Watkins Sea Salt & Watkins Pepper
Two Rabbits (optional)

Cut elephant into small bite sized pieces. This should take only about two months. Add enough gravy to cover. Cook over kerosene fire for about four weeks at 465 degrees. Makes about 3,800 servings. To extend it add rabbits, but do this only if necessary as most people do not like to find hare in their stew.

For a main dish you could do curried chicken if you like curry and the others would too.

You need chicken pieces, not a whole one, curry powder, seasonings like black pepper, salt, garlic and if you like it spicy a little cayenne pepper or the really hot jamaican pepper.

First if the chicken pices, thigh, leg, breast are large sized, you need to chop them each in halves to make smaller pieces.

After washing and patting dry, you season the meat as we say in Jamaica; so you add the ingredients, curry powder, salt to taste, black pepper garlic, and whatever you want to add to it to give it flair.

Toss all these ingredients together with the chicken (so you're making sure the chicken is nicely covered with all this)

put a pot (one that is deep like a stew pot)on top of the stove at medium heat, add just a small amount of cooking oil

Let the pot and oil get hot

Put chicken into pot (careful not to burn yourself cause it will sizzle)

let the chicken become carmelized with the seasoning and then stir gradually as it is coated with the oil and seasoning

keep stirring until it is nicely brown or yellow in this case

then add some water to it so that you can make a gravy (this cooking is like making a stew but not as much water)

You want to make sure their is a curried gravy mixture and that the chicken is fully cooked when done

You can also add more seasoning to taste, like more garlic and peppers and cut some slices of green pepper into it too, oh and lest I forget lots of onions will give it that flair.

Presto, you're done!

My office loves when I bring this dish to our potluck lunches.

For a salad sometimes I stir fry some frozen vegetables in honey, let it cool then add it to lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber that have already been sliced and prepared, add a bit of ranch dressing and toss.

Hope one of these helps!

Fried Spam:
Slice Spam very very thin.
Fry until Spam completely disappears
Eat skillet

1 Elephant (medium) Brown Gravy (Watkins Beef Soup & Gravy Base) Watkins Sea Salt & Watkins Pepper Two Rabbits (optional) Cut elephant into small bite sized pieces. This should take only about two months. Add enough gravy to cover. Cook over kerosene fire for about four weeks at 465 degrees. Makes about 3,800 servings. To extend it add rabbits, but do this only if necessary as most people do not like to find hare in their stew.

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#11 by foreverserenity Thursday, May 12, 2005

That sounds great.

#13 by little_whip Thursday, May 12, 2005

#14 by little_whip Thursday, May 12, 2005

Those both sound good LW. {My husband loves Gumbo.}

If yall don't mind I'm going to print these out to keep for later use.

Thanks for all the help everyone.

MasonM:

Fried Spam: Slice Spam very very thin. Fry until Spam completely disappears Eat skillet

The skillet has got to taste better than the spam.