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What is your go-to dish to bring to a potluck? Does your family have any traditional recipes? (In Hawaii, these appetizers are called “pupus”  ) In Cantonese, appetizers are called "tou poon," or "head dish" (the dish that comes at the head of a meal, not a dish of heads   )I admittedly have never been to a potluck. I was only ever invited to one, and I ended up backing out because it was off campus, I didn't have a car, and I didn't feel super safe going to someone's place whom I hardly knew, plus I hardly knew the people I was going with as well It was a Friendsgiving-type of thing last year for Jumpstart, and we had barely gotten our groups- so yes, it was a get-to-know-you type of thing, and call me old-fashioned or whatever, but I still think that's a little soon to be going to people's houses for dinner in the fall, when it's starting to get dark earlier outside. Actually, my philosophy class was also supposed to do a potluck but then the professor got sick and canceled class- and the potluck. He's the guy who got busted for driving with substances/under the influence of whatever and was banned from entering Canada because of it- and he claimed to be a good baker  so I hadn't planned to eat his stuff, nor bring anything homemade- I actually prepared and bought two bags of chips, because hey, you really can't go wrong with that. And then he got sick. And then I got stuck with eating them.  And Mom ended up eating one of the bags too since it was jalapeno- and she got sick afterwards because she ate the whole thing, minus maybe a couple snacky handfuls I'd taken, in one go essentially. I told her I wasn't expecting her to "help," nor had I needed it- and that was actually the second time something like that had happened.... Anyways. I don't cook. Well. I don't cook well. As in, my cooking skills are somewhat limited to single-pan foods or single-pot foods... frozen dumplings, instant noodles, pasta, you get the idea. With that said, my salads are yummy, because those don't require cooking. Anything that mostly requires assembly, I'm pretty decent with. Avocado toast? yum. I add tomatoes and occasionally, grilled chicken if I'm going to exercise later. My redemption here is I can bake!  Like, legitimately bake, if I follow a recipe. I've always preferred baking to cooking for some reason- I think in my mind, our family would bake sweet stuff as a treat when Sis and I were younger, so baking has this happy association with it- whereas cooking is like "get out of the kitchen!" (the kitchen is very much Mom's "space" and caution to those who dare to enter/help/watch when she's cooking! ) That's kinda why I never really learned to cook.... Baking on the other hand, was always relatively easy. Take the cinnamon rolls out of the container, plop them onto the cookie sheet, put them in the oven, set the timer, wait and you're good to go! I recently just made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies- those were delicious- the batter somehow ended up making 11, so I ate one to make sure it was palatable, and then I shared off the other 10- 5 flat-rated to Sis and 5 to Shadowfanglerz. And then I reached 27 pages on my thesis on Friday so I made chocolate banana muffins to celebrate- there were a dozen of those, so I gave 4 to Shadowfanglerz and I've been eating one for breakfast every day since.  Sooo yeah, if there was a potluck, and I absolutely had to make something, I'd bring dessert. Otherwise, go to the store and get some chips. They're easy, convenient, and a yummy side or appetizer. Oh and there's a part 2 to the prompt- traditional recipes.... My mom cooks, in case you didn't get that from above. Her most famous dish right now is her teriyaki salmon. All you do is take the teriyaki sauce, pour it over the salmon fillet, and put that thing in the oven for like, 10-15 minutes, depending on how raw/cooked you want it. Her sticky rice is also amazing- the literal translation of it into English, though, is "oil rice," so I think you can imagine how bad for you it is, but also, how good it tastes.... It's sticky rice, made in the rice cooker, and you add all sorts of veggies and other condiments- shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, Chinese sausage, and soy sauce. I think that's it- it also makes a really nice turkey stuffing for Thanksgiving if you ever get tired of Western stuffing. Side note here: I remember I tried Western stuffing for the first time at the dining halls in freshman year, to have my mind blown. And then I went home and told Mom how delicious it was- and she's like "you like that?" So yeah, if we had to go to a potluck and bring something, Mom would probably do the teriyaki salmon. Although, knowing Mom, we wouldn't even be going to a potluck in the first place.  |
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