Potluck recipe idea - traveling 2 hours in car?

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I am going to an appetizer/lunch potluck. We will be traveling by car 2 1/2 hours. Do you have any good ideas, recipes that will travel well in the car and will be safe temperature wise? I can take a cooler. I don't have any thing to keep it hot while traveling in the car, but I will have access to stove/oven/microwave once I get to where we are going. Thanks in advance for any great recipe ideas you have for me!
 
Get some chicken wings and make a marinade of a mixture of soy sauce, brown sugar, some honey, some rosemary, a couple of table spoons of wine vinegar, a bit of garlic and touch of ginger. Warp the wings in several layers of heavy aluminium foil with a good portion of the marinade and wrap it tightly so it does not leak ( it might help to start off with the foil in a bowl, toss in the wings then the marinade, the seal it to avoid spilling). Let it marinate in the frig a couple of hours. While this is happening reduce the remaining marinade on the stove until it makes a nice thick glaze to be applied when the wings are done. Put the glaze in a bottle.

Get ready for your drive. Right before it is time to leave, take the chicken out of the refrigerator. Pop the hood of your car and find an nice flat space on your engine, preferable near the exhaust manifold and wedge it in. With most new cars, shutting the hood should be enough to hold it in place, but if you are worried that it may be too loose, wad up an extra ball of foil or two and use them as wedges to hold the food bearing foil in place, . Should take about 150 to 200 miles to be perfect.

When you get where you are going, brush the wings with the glaze, sprinkle on some toasted sesame seeds and you will have the freshest dish at the potluck.
 
You could try something like a pasta or tuna bake. Bake it the night before so that you have the time to let it get to room temperature and refrigerate. When you bake it though, don't bake it for as long as you would normally and if, like in most pasta bakes, put cheese on top DON"T do it!
Seal the half cooked bake and transport it in a cooler along with your cheese topping. When you get to your destination pop the pasta bake in the oven to reheat and cover with cheese at this stage! Doing that will make the pasta bake seem more fresh!
Also when you are travelling, it won't be necessary to keep the pasta bake on ice or anything as it's probably better to be at room temperature before putting in the oven!

Hope this helps.
 
my boyfriend hollows out jalepenos and stuffs them with cream cheese and then wraps them in bacon and bakes them.

sausage cheese balls: 2 cups bisquick, one pound breakfast sausage, one pound shredded cheddar. mix well, roll into small balls and bake

corn casserole: one package cream cheese, half a stick of butter, two cans of corn, drained, and one can of green chillis drained. mix all together then top with shredded cheddar. bake until cheese melts.
 
Make ham rolls with dill pickle and cream cheese. They travel well in a cooler and everyone loves them.
Ingredients:
sliced ham (deli ham)
cream cheese
dill pickles



Directions:

Take a piece of sliced ham (deli ham). Spread cream cheese over it. Place a dill pickle in the center and wrap the ham/cream cheese over the dill pickle in order to make a wrap.
I use the long 1/4 cut dill pickle spears. I spread the ham with cream cheese then roll the pickle wedge up snugly in the it. I chill for a while then slice into one inch pieces and insert a colored toothpick into each piece. I use about a pound of ham and a couple eight ounce pkgs of cream cheese and a whole jar of dill pickle spears.
 
so my fav thing to make are pinwheels


what i do is take a tortilla and spread cream cheese that has a ranch packet mixed nto it and spread it on there then you spread avocado on it and lettuce tomatoe and turkey then you roll it up and cut them...stick a tooth pick in the so the stay rolled if you have to but they are yummy and a hit also if you looking for an out you can google the recipe for cranberry white chocolate walnut cookies i promise you they are amazing...but the pinwheels are best and so yummy
 
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