Just got invited (last-minute) to a 70's-style pot luck tomorrow. Any ideas?

Oh! Here's what I decided... fondue is a great idea but unfortuately I gave

(make that "loaned and never got back") my fondue pot away to a friend in the 80's. Anyway, all good ideas!

Tonight on the way home I stopped at the grocery store - the first post I saw when I looked for "70" here was Misplaced in AZ's chocolate-covered Bugles and they sounded good and also appropriate. I think it was totally unrelated to the '70's, but Bugles hit me as being a good idea. I asked the guy at the service desk (he was about 23) because I couldn't find them on the shelf.

When he stopped laughing (almost) he said no, he hadn't ever seen them. Oh well. I picked up a bottle of Fresca instead... Fresca is a seventies thing, right?!

Thanks again everyone. I'd like to have a 70 decade themed dinner party of my own maybe in October, and if I do, I'll keep your suggestions in mind. I'll have more time to shop and plan.

 
This is kind of spooky... as I was moving books away to get to something

else tonight, an old scrapbook I bought a few years ago at a tag sale with recipes from the 60s and 70s fell out, almost at my feet. I think it was from a former home-ec teacher by the notes ("assignments" and "grades") written at the beginning of it. I thumbed through it just now, and there were so many classic, easy appetizers. No-bake ones, with stuff I already have in the house, so I may just make one of them to take with my Fresca.

The salmon-cream cheese spread piped onto Ritz crackers caught my eye. Topped with fresh parsley from my garden maybe. I eat too much cake anyway ;o)

 
Hot Crab Dip -- we made this or someone did at almost every gathering in the 70's

Easy, quick, and pretty cheap if you use canned crab. Plus since you put it in a chafing dish looks pretty impressive on the buffet table.

8 oz cream cheese
7 oz crab meat
1/2 t horseradish
2 T chopped onion
dash of tabasco sauce
salt & pepper to taste
milk as needed

Mix everything except milk; put in buttered casserole dish. Bake at 350F for 20 mins. Stir. If too thick, thin with milk. Serve in chafing dish with chips, veggies, and back in the 70's is was all about serving this with the boxed Sociable (or seasoned) crackers. For larger gatherings I made a double batch as this goes fast.

This also is yummy as a grilled sandwich.

 
It's amazing how people hover around the platter of this dip and don't move away for others to get

to it...LOL.

 
Yes, that's the one...it looks roughly like the one at the link, though I made mine alot

simpler. Just dug out my recipe from the 70s and it reads like this...

Tostada Dip

Spread each of the following layers on a serving dish or in a pyrex dish. The bottom layer is refried beans with everything else on top. Serve as a dip with tortilla chips.

_____ lettuce* & tomato, chopped, grated cheddar cheese
_____ green onions and black olives, chopped
_____ thin layer of sour cream (about 8 oz)**
_____ guacamole (homemade or storebought)
_____ can of refried beans

*iceberg lettuce is what I always used back then
**sour cream can be mixed with pkg of taco seasoning mix, if desired

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Seven-Layer-Taco-Dip/Detail.aspx

 
Maybe she forgot to melt the butter? I have to admit, I love dump cake too. Warm with ice cream.

 
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