Here's the main table spread out.In the foreground you can see sticky rice balls covered in sweet bean paste. These are called Ohagi.
And behind those are a mixed rice dish, white rice, and rice with red beans. And another type of ohagi with the bean paste spread on the rice. (Tetsu's favorite.)
Down the way a bit were some grilled chicken wings and a salad of seaweed, okra and slimy potatoes.
I brought scalloped potatoes (no recipe... added chicken, broccoli and mushrooms.) and someone brought a wonderful corn soup that we ate out of paper cups. I seemed to have missed capturing a tomato chicken dish...
There were sandwiches (jam and potato salad) and huge grapes that need to be peeled to eat.
Someone brought Oden which are various fish cakes and vegetables simmered for a long time in fish broth. A few hard boiled eggs in there too I see.
Some meat and potato croquettes we ordered from the supermarket.
For dessert there was a sponge cake someone had baked and a fruit yogurt dish. Sorry I didn't get pictures of those but last but not least rice dumplings in a sweet bean soup.Hmm. We seemed to have a lot of sweet beans and potatoes at our pot luck. No casseroles as most people don't use an oven. Could have been planned better (I was on the planning committee. "Please bring something.")
I came home very full and didn't need dinner!
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Try the alphabet food division next time. Last name letters _through _ brings:
meat ------- A through D
starch ----- E through H
veggies ---- I through M
fruit ------ N through R
dessert ---- S through V
bread ------ W through Z
Change food groups around each potluck, so no one gets stuck in one group.
You can first names, age groups (ei. 20s 30s etc), lives within 2 blocks, 4 blocks etc.,or what ever divider you come up with.
Slimy potatoes???
Your scalloped potatoes sound the most appetizing to this Nebraska girl.
mmm... I'd love to come to the potluck. Everything looks sooo good. Yum! Especially the scalloped potatoes. I haven't had those for a long time.
That's a lot of rice - but I do love rice! Not sure I want to know what slimy potatoes are, though.
Slimy potatoes? That's what the Hawaiians make poi out of. They are not really potatoes and far from my favorite!
No pot lucks at my church. most people travel too far to lug food. However, we do have a large kitchen and hands to make meals happen.
Everything looks and sounds wonderful! About that time of year to have pot lucks after church around here, too. The season has changed so FAST this year!
Tanya,
I really like the idea of letting people bring what they want to bring. That way you get each person's "specialty." That is the whole idea of pot luck, right?
Now I must admit that my first reaction was also "slimy potatoes?"
I am reading this with our baby notebook computer on my lap and read the Oden description to My Honey. I said, "Listen to this! it sounds Norski to me!" Yes, he agreed that Oden recipe sounds as if it is straight from Norway where he was born. :) We have enjoyed similar dishes while "back home" in Norway and make them now at home in the USA.
I'm sorry we couldn't have been there to enjoy all of those yummy dishes! Our daughter would also have loved it.
Hugs,
Lois
I really like the idea of a pot luck being a free for all, instead of planned. Sure, you don't know exactly what you will get, but you know you won't go home hungry! There have been lots of times I have been assigned a vegetable dish, and I just have to laugh, because I hardly ever make vegetables by themselves. I usually sneak them into curries or casseroles. And then they think I can't cook.
I'd have been willing to give them all a taste although I may have hesitated at the slimy potatoes and the potato salad and jelly sandwiches. That seemed an unlikely pairing until I looked more closely at the photo and realized they were 2 different kinds of sandwiches, not one combination, ha ha.
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