Suggestions for potluck?

A Costco Lasagna fits the TC oven well. Do a dozen baked potatoes with sour cream butter and chives salt pepper. Put a roast in a lasagna aluminum roasting pan and cover with foil. Add your spices and flavorings first when cooking or use your own method. You're limited by your imagination. A TC oven and stove top can be a very capable beast for cooking.

I call this my "Ever Ready Salad" because none of the basic ingredients need refrigeration, all can be stowed until needed, and best of all: ya just throw it all together a few hours before you want to eat/serve it. No cooking!

Basic ingredients:

Package of Ramen noodles (any flavor- you won't use the spice packet- save for soup or something)
Can of three bean salad
Can of water pack tuna
Small can of sliced olives


Dump all (don't drain cans) together into gallon ziploc bag, mix well, and stuff in the fridge for a few hours. The ramen noodles are already cooked, so they just need time to reconstitute.

"Recipe" can be varied a lot- chopped cucumber and tomatoes are good additions if you have them.

Rice a roni pilaf. It's very easy to make on the stovetop, only need a drop of oil/butter. I did it at my last RV potluck and it was completely gone (and I made more servings than people attending).

I also did a simple bean dish cooked on the stovetop (the recipe is at Bush Beans website). 1 lb Ground beef (I actually used veggie replacement crumbles and no one noticed), 1 can baked beans, 1 jar salsa, 2 potatoes chopped, 1 onion chopped. I chopped the potatoes at home and stored in water - fill to cover the potatoes. I skipped the onion. Try some of the fancy salsa - peach, etc. for a different flavor. This dish went well - only about one spoonful left.

Pasta is good, but I find it doesn't stay hot unless you can use a crock pot to serve it in.

easy and appreciated. buy one or two good sized marinated tri tip steaks. meat thermometer, one or two aluminum cooking pan(s) that will fit in the TC oven and foil to cover the tops of the pans, fire up the oven in your TC to 375. toss in the steaks cook until the meat hits 165 (flip the steaks over at 120*, thin slice and serve. it should only take and hour an very little work

Big pot of soup/stew, pasta of any kind, tacos/taco salad. All easy to do, easy to do ahead of time, minimal storage.

Crockpot dishes are easy if you have hookups.

Cold salads are easy to mix up or make prior to your trip if prepped in your big kitchen.

Sliced watermelon; veggies and humas/or salad dressing; BBQ anything; three bean salad...
Have fun...

Pasta of some type. You can easily cook it on the stove. Precook the vegetables or mean or cook them in the TC depending on how long you have. Or, one of my favorites, bring the fixings for ice cream sundaes or cones.