Recipes From CICOs Pot Luck Dinner

It was fun seeing everyone again... I think I'm still full from Saturday night's pot luck.

We would love to be able to re-create some of the dishes, so I am asking you to post the recipe for the dish you brought to the pot luck dinner here.

Thanks everyone! Michelle

 

Mine was embarrassingly simple - but the plate was empty, so it must have gone over well.

Crab Dip:

Place a block of regular cream cheese on a plate.

Open a can of white crab meat, packed in water. Drain. Press the crab meat pieces into the block of cream cheese so that they are "stuck" into the cream cheese.

Pour about 2/3 a bottle of Seafood Cocktail Sauce over the crab and cream cheese mix.

Serve with crackers.

 

Wild Rice and Sausage:
1# plain Jimmy Dean Sausage
1# sage Jimmy Dean Sausage
1 cup Onion chopped
1 cup Celery chopped
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 or 2 tablespoons of Parsley
Fresh mushrooms
1# Minnesota Wild Rice (precook for about an hour with pleanty of water)
1 can mushroom soup (10 3/4 oz)
1 can water chestnuts sliced
Brown the Sausage till not pink, add all other ingrediants and put in baking dish, bake for about 1 hour. We baked at home and warmed at ci co but when we camp we will cook in our Cobb.

 

Pat_W and Rick the recipes sound very good.

 

Pat,

Was you rice precooked? I didn't see any liquid other than what would be in the cr. of mushroom soup. I know when I make wild rice, it always uses quite a bit of liquid for 1 C.of rice & it takes well over an hour for just the rice to cook. Once it's cooked, if I make a dish similar to yours, then I can just use the can of soup or a cup of homemade white sauce.

Also, is it the small or large can of soup?

 

Betsy,
I do cook the wild rice first and give it pleanty of water and about an hours is correct. I undercooked it a bit for ci co because I would be warming it there. I used just a regular sized soup not diluted. I did take a can of chicken broth along in case it needed more liguid when warming but it did not seem to need it. I like wild rice a bit chewy so do not over cook.

 

George I bet this would work really nice in one of your cast irons. glad you liked it. (I enjoyed meeting you and Ben).

Betsy I updated the reciepe post and also noted I had missed the can of water chestnuts. I add one or 2 cans depending on how much crunch I want. I also at times add walnuts or almonds.

 

Pat,

I use wild rice a lot & have a similar recipe for turkey, water chestnuts, pimento & cashews...have also used almonds. I made it for the CICO potluck a couple of years ago.

 

Betsy sounds good care to type it up? and I was thinking today that ground turkey and those beautiful cranberries might make a great wild rice meal wonder what else to put in it. The cranberries made 7 3 1/2 cup freezer bags and not one bad one in the bunch -thank you.

 

I would love the recipe for the bowtie pasta, pesto, chicken and parm. dish. It was awesome!