Here's a challenge...

Crockpot, or depending on where you coming in from the morning of,...

I am sure your family would appreciate anything store-bought for this one occasion. As I read it, you will be out of town until the morning you head to your brother's?

How about a fruit salad (no cooking needed there!). Or a whole watermelon? Rolls from a nice bakery? A cheesecake from a large supermarket?

If you are set on making something in a crockpot, I have a suggestion:

Mississippi Dip Recipe

2 cups (8 oz) shredded cheddar cheese
1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1/2 cup chopped cooked ham (can omit)
1/3 cup chopped green chiles
1/3 cup chopped green onions
1/8 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 (1-lb) round loaf French bread

In mixing bowl, combine shredded cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, chopped ham, chile peppers, green onions, and Worcestershire sauce; stir until well blended. Cook in crockpot on LOW for 6 hours or HI for 3 hours.

Prepare bread bowl: Cut a thin slice from top of bread loaf; set slice aside. Cut excess bread out of the loaf vertically and cube what you have removed. Fill hollowed bread loaf with the dip; cover with reserved top slice of bread loaf. Wrap reserved loaf with foil.
Makes about 4 cups of dip.

 
Too funny - this reminds me of a story I heard somewhere

I'm not sure where (possibly a WW meeting several years ago). Seems a mother, getting on in years, was tired of hosting Thanksgiving every year. When she told her children, they wouldn't listen or believe. She asked repeatedly if one of them would host it, but they all insisted on coming to her house as usual. (And I mean insisited - over her many and vast protestations that she would NOT cook Thanksgiving dinner.)

So the whole family shows up on Thanksgiving only to be horrified and dismayed when good old mom serves up Hungry Man frozen turkey tv dinners.

 
Ha! Good for her! I did that once at a "chili cook-off" at work...

it was over Halloween and I had been working 100-hr weeks trying to finish our test runs. It was "assumed" that I would make a big pot of chili because I always made food for work. I tried telling them "Noooo...I'm practically living in the hotel down the street so I don't have to drive my 120 mile commute each day. I won't be cooking anything."

My name still showed up on the entry list.

So on the day of the contest, there were 5 crockpots and various roasters bubbling awy...and one frozen Swanson's chili dinner, still thawing.

Mine was disqualified from the voting process.
Being a Floridian, I demanded a recount.

(They also disqualified my "draw a face on a pumpkin" entry when I pasted a xeroxed copy of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" on my pumpkin and referenced my test case. see link below)

I am basically misunderstood in most aspects of my life.

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/tombakerornormal/The%20Scream.JPG

 
You always put a smile on my face....I agree with everyone...Write a book,...Not a blog, a book.(m)

I will be able to impress my friends, with "I knew her when..."

You do have a great talent with writing...

Regards,
Barb

 
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