From our colleague Darron Kloster, business editor at the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½.
Potlucks are alive and well in our region, but you've got to belong to a group or be a friend of someone who belongs to the group to go a long as a guest.
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You won't be disappointed.
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The variety is sublime.
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And the cost? Well, if you can throw together a salad, you're in for a smorg to bust your gut.
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I was a recent guest of the Metis Nation of Greater Victoria.They hold monthly potlucks in the middle Wednesday of each month at the Native Friendship Centre in the former Hampton School in the Tillicum area.Ìý
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I was treated not only to delicious home-cooked dishes but warm, friendly people. Conversation is as good as the food. And there was plenty of both.Ìý
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My favourite dish was smoked ham in a saskatoon berry sauce — a purple and pink mix that you don't really know what it could be until you taste it.Ìý
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I was also treated to lasagne the way my mom made it. Beef stew, ditto. Spaghetti and two types of meat balls, potato salad. Two types of garden salads, fresh from garden, too.
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There was chili, quiche, meat pies, a shrimp and tomato salad, fresh veggies, several choices of casserole, fresh bread and buns. Never got to dessert, but there were plenty of choices, including cupcakes, tarts, chocolate cakes.
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My cost: a salad. The experience: priceless. The Metis are not only beautiful, warm people, but excellent cooks.
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