Office potluck ideas??

Hi!

We have an office potluck next week and I need some ideas. I live in NYC so I don't have a massive kitchen nor do I have serving vessels for more than two ppl! My office also doesn't have any equipment to heat things up.

I though bringing my Sous Vide into the office could be fun and interesting. I was thinking of doing a protein but couldn't think of a recipe that didn't require searing or finishing in a pan. Any ideas? I need to feed around 15.

Thanks!

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Johan_Edstrom_5586

Seafood do not necessarily require finishing, shrimps, lobster, cod and so on, just a little lemon and butter maybe? Chicken breasts for something like a nice salad or sammich neither. Desserts - custard, creme brûlée, puréed stuff, condiments, sauces, pulled pork you finish - sear it first at home and so on comes to mind

FrankM_3301

perfect egg yolk is always a sous vide show stopper...

maybe this: https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/carrots-and-perfect-yolk

or eggs Benedict? ...also putting the ISI into play...all you need is a toaster...unless you have a searzall!

Shivam_Daryanani_92859

Doesn't require prep at the office, and is divine.

https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/chicken-liver-pate

Matthew_Snyder_68770

A lot of buildings (like, for example, MINE..... grrr) prohibit tenants from cooking or preparing fish on the premises. We can't even make microwave popcorn. POPCORN.

Matthew_Snyder_68770

I made jambalaya for our potluck last year, that was fun.

tangma27

^^^^^^^^

tshewman

You could do a bolognese and pasta, or Chilli (to this day hestons is my fav) and heat it up in the water bath before serving. Or, salmon salmon mi cuit (104) with the horeradish cream etc. It's a cold dish that still has a touch of warmth.

HammeredChef_DEFINITELY_does_NOT_work_at_22134

thats just wrong on so many levels...Rob

Matthew_Snyder_68770

The tradeoff is that we're a sublessee of Playboy+, and their offices are the floor above us. On the same floor as me is a company called MindGeek, which more or less runs most of the internet pr0n. So the building is fairly.... what's the word...... lively.

Theo_129732

Sous vide chawanmushi.

Theo_129732

Rice on the side. Bring ricemaker.

Theo_129732

To take advantage of what they do have, which is endless electricity. Do you have a cotton candy machine?

Theo_129732

http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Kitty-Cotton-Candy-Maker/dp/B007D9WNA6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1449790590&sr=8-2&keywords=hello+kitty+cotton+candy

elviswasjesus

It might sound a bit simplistic or boring, but given similar limitations and the fact other people will be bringing quite a lot of food anyway, for the last office potluck we had I just made really nice nachos. They have mass appeal and let's be honest, people are usually happy with a fairly crappy standard. If you serve them up fresh salsa and guac, plus ChefSteps' nacho cheese (which is a hell of a lot better than the usual dreck), and garnish the lot prettily with some thinly-sliced radish & cilantro, most non-cooks will think you're some kind of wizard (or witch).

Edlynne_26041

Ah been meaning to try this out. Thanks for the reminder!

douglas_bd

For easy with little to no equipment, you could get a cheap cooler and dry ice and make fizzy fruit.

coryhansen78

FWIW, I brought the CS Old Fashioned doughnuts to my (all-day) office potluck this morning and they went over really well. I brought a little over a dozen and the associated holes in and they disappeared pretty fast-- in fact a couple people stopped me in the hall before I even got to the potluck tables and told me I could just drop 'em off at their desk. My office isn't exactly full of discriminating palates, however there are still plenty of doughnuts in the DD and KK boxes that other people brought, so I think it was successful.

Logistics-wise, I made, rolled and shaped the doughnuts last night and fried and frosted in the morning before heading to work. Didn't really add too much time to my morning prep.