Easy Potluck Dishes

Invited to a potluck? Take along one of our simple yet impressive make-ahead party dishes.

If you’re like most of us, you probably have one tried-and-true recipe in your kitchen repertoire that you trot out every time you’re invited to a potluck. But if the thought of bringing the same old potato salad or carrot cake to your next party has you yawning, why not shake things up this time around?

We’ve come up with six fresh make-ahead party dishes that are not only surefire crowd-pleasers, but easy to prepare and transport, too. If you’re in charge of bringing the appetizer, try our elegant Spinach and Salmon Roulade or make up a traditional Italian Antipasto Platter featuring grilled fresh veggies in a zesty marinade. For a main course, nothing could be easier than our Lemon Garlic Grilled Chicken, delicious served warm or cold, while our simple Roasted Potato and Grilled Beef Salad offers a hearty main-dish salad option. If you’ve volunteered to make the salad, impress your host with our colourful Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad, a tasty blend of seasonal veggies and tender penne pasta.

Of course, you can always offer to bring the dessert just so you can whip up a batch of our decadent Coconut Sour Cream Cupcakes. But you may want to bake two batches – these luscious little cakes are guaranteed to disappear in a flash.

Recipes in this article:

• ANTIPASTO PLATTER
• ROASTED VEGETABLE PASTA SALAD
• LEMON GARLIC GRILLED CHICKEN
• ROASTED POTATO AND GRILLED BEEF SALAD
• COCONUT SOUR CREAM CUPCAKES
• SPINACH AND SALMON ROULADE

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