Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Recipes For Potlucks

By Mike Jones

You have received an invitation to attend a potluck, which is great, but now you have this sick feeling...what are you going to make to take to the potluck? You know that what you make better be good and the dish you bring better be empty when you bring it home. Nobody wants to bring home a plate full of the food you made just hours ago. So, what will you make? You are in luck because the internet can show you hundreds of recipe websites that will help you with your potluck dish. You will find millions of recipes to choose from, so there is no need to worry.

Here are the easy steps to find a recipe on the internet for your potluck:

Step 1: Find out what kind of potluck party you will be attending and what the theme of the party and dishes are. For example, if it's a hawaiian theme, you would choose a hawaiian dish. If it's a barbecue theme, you would select a barbecue dish. You get the idea. Easy enough, right? Once you determine the type of potluck party you will be attending, you can log on to the internet to search for the perfect recipe to bring to the potluck.

Step 2: Your internet search begins. If you're looking for a hawaiian dish and you want to bring a salad, you would search "hawaiian salad recipe" in google. Your search will return 884,000 results. Surely, you can find a dish from this many results to take to your potluck. Let's say you choose the dish "Hawaiian Macaroni Salad", which happens to be one of my favorites to bring to a potluck because everybody loves this dish. Simply, click on the link to the recipe and check it out. You can even do another google search for hawaiian macaroni salad, which will return 144,000 recipes, all for hawaiian macaroni salad. Another search will help you zero in on the exact recipe you want to find.

The secret is to find a recipe and recipe site that looks good. There are a lot of recipe sites that do not have good recipes. Here are some recipe sites you can trust (and most of these recipes will have reviews so you know which are good and which are bad): All Recipes, Food Network, Recipezaar and Simple Recipes.

You can figure out the rest of what you have to do...make the recipe. One thing I like to do is rate the recipe. Be sure to return to the recipe and rate it in order to help others that may be in the same situation you are in.

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