Whenever there\u2019s a \u201cbring a dish to share\u201d event, I get a little stressed out.\u00a0 I want to cook something I love to eat, but I feel pressured to bring something that represents my \u201chealthy\u201d reputation; something that proves to everyone that healthy food can taste great.\u00a0 I also want to bring something that\u2019s going to be easy to make and transport and result in praise and impressed comments from the other attendees.\u00a0 That dish should also be impressive, because I am a food blogger after all and I have tons of saved recipes just waiting to be tried out.<\/p>\n
Of course, no one else is thinking that deeply about their food or mine.<\/p>\n
Lately I\u2019ve also been thinking about the idea of a signature dish…or two. It would be awesome to know immediately what I\u2019m bringing to shared dish events.\u00a0 For a while, I was bringing Mediterranean pasta salad<\/a> to everything, but now I\u2019m sort of over it.\u00a0 I want my signature dish to be something I\u2019m really comfortable making and want to share with others.\u00a0 Something that I could maybe put my own spin on.<\/p>\n For this year\u2019s work potluck, the sign up sheet went up on last Wednesday and everyone was allowed to bring anything they wanted (in the past we\u2019ve been assigned courses by department).\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to wait long to sign up.\u00a0 Initially I thought about vegetarian dip, but someone else was already bringing buffalo chicken dip, so that seemed like overkill.\u00a0 I settled on baked ziti (thanks for the recipe, mom!) and cheesecake-swirled brownies<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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