Need some pot luck ideas please?

Next Sat 6 pm 10 people, close by but have a meeting 1-3 pm an hour away. So need a meat dish I can prepare in advance and reheat quickly. Thought something like ground beef moussaka?
Oh taking `99 Musar!!

Thanks Bob

Pull some pork and bring a pack of slider buns. Serve yourself!

These folks appreciate good food and wine . Think I should aim higher..but thanks.

These folks appreciate good food and wine . Think I should aim higher..but thanks.

OK, now I know. Moussaka is lovely but does not set a high culinary bar.

Wellington. You can have all the middle bits ready -- steaks, foie, duxelles, whatever you fancy -- and when you come home just roll out the dough, stack 'em up, wrap 'em up, and pop into the oven.

Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, which I made yesterday, just by the by: as many pieces as you like, on a bed of onion/celery/fennel, seasoned with tarragon, nutmeg, parsley, and wine (and 40 unpeeled cloves of garlic), in a heavy pot, lid on, cook for 2 hrs, reheats beautifully.

Coulibiac: basically a side of salmon en croute stuffed with bulghur wheat (or rice), hard-boiled eggs, spinach, and shrimp. Good hot, good cold, slice it and drop a spoon of salmon roe over it when you serve.

Stroganoff: sear the meat and reduce the mushrooms ahead of time; in the moment, build a fast roux, add sour cream, meat, and shrooms and presto.

Pot pie: make the goo, bring puff pastry cups with you, bake them up, ladle pot pie over. I use a shrimp/andouille recipe for this.

Stuffed Portobello: make a savory stuffing, they require just a quick broil before serving.

Better?

The chicken sounds good, drumsticks always a fair price up here. I had been thinking strog. type dish too.

[Jenise]

Since you like the chicken idea, Bob, here's the recipe and a thread discussing it:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62562&p=476710&hilit=chicken+garlic#p476710

Easily done ahead, scoop over hot crusty bread and eat open face. DIVINE.

Thanks Jenise, does the chicken have any color this way?
Issue also how long to reheat?

[Jenise]

No. Just as well--you can pre-brown it if you prefer, but the skin will float away for the most part so it's just as well to let the dish stay blonde. Just garnish it with chopped fresh tarragon or parsley--it's not ugly.

So OK..how long to reheat?

[Jenise]

In an oven from the cold of your car? Probably 30 minutes.

Ended up making a pork and butternut squash stew. Nicely herbed and everyone was excited!!
Now have to think about NYEve! Thinking skewers right now?