Quick! I need something for the potluck tomorrow!!!!

So your sitting at your desk frantically trying to finish the report for this afternoons meeting, and the pain in the behind "office coordinator" suddenly shows up with a sign up sheet for tomorrow's potluck and a smile you have seen over and over again.  You got so many dirty looks last time for bringing napkins that you decide to turn over a new leaf.  But how and when?!  You have a tae bo workout right after work, you promised you would take the kids to the latest 3-d movie and the dry cleaners called about your forgotten load of cleaning you dropped off two weeks ago.

Fortunately for you, today's blog is about quick and easy pot luck favorites that will make you shine at the one hour office bonding ritual, and make other's envious at how you managed to find the time with such a frantically busy life outside of your cubicle.  This trio of recipes are so easy and yet taste so good, they are the items that vanish first...just you watch.  No one says it's absolutely necessary that you give away your culinary secrets either...which will make the office cronies even more envious!

Amazingly simple and delicious Swedish Meatballs

One large package or two small of frozen meatballs

1 can of cream of mushroom soup

1 can of cream of asparagus soup

1 small container of sour cream

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp black pepper

In a large bowl, simply mix all the above ingredients, making sure that the meatballs are still frozen

Place into a crock pot on low for 6 hours

You will not believe how good they are and how fast they vanish
This is also absolutely delicious served mixed with pasta of your choice..the meatballs are saucy enough for this!

Amazing Crescent Dough Wrapped Cream Cheese

2 cans of crescent dough rolls

2 8 oz packages of cream cheese

1 beaten egg

Dried Dill Weed

Open the cans of crescent dough and roll out the perforated triangle shapes, but do not pull apart

with your fingers, mush together the perforations so it is one piece of continuous dough

You will have two sheets...one is the top and one is the bottom

Take your two fresh out of the refrigerator cream cheese squares (do not soften) and using a sharp knife, lay one of the cheese blocks down flat wise and slice thru it horizontally

Sprinkle the dill weed onto the now exposed insides of the cream cheese

Put the cream cheese squares back together

Put them side by side long wise onto the bottom half of the crescent dough sheet

lay the top dough sheet onto the cream cheese and get creative!

You need to seal the top to the bottom, semi form fitting around the two blocks

You can make fancy crimps, you can make sort of twists around the cheese, just make sure that the perforated areas are now solid.

Brush the beaten egg onto all exposed areas of the dough
I have my best results baking this on a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking sheet but you can use a cookie sheet sprayed with non stick cooking spray

Bake according to crescent roll directions, temperature and time wise...normally I have to add a few minutes making sure that dough is golden brown in color and cooked thru

Serve alone or with fancy crackers. 

Watch how quickly this one vanishes...
Oh and thanks Nat for this one many many many years ago <3

Salmon Log Dip

One tall can of good quality salmon

1 8 oz block of cream cheese

1 tbsp liquid smoke

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Dried Chives

Place the first four ingredients into a food processor and mix till smooth

Taste the processed mixture and decide if you want more lemon or more liquid smoke.

 On waxed paper, form the salmon mixture into a rounded log

Sprinkle dried chives all over outside

Wrap the loaf in wax paper

Refrigerate

Serve with fancy crackers

Here's to no more signing up for napkins!

robert