Easy make-ahead recipes that can serve a crowd.

So let’s dive right in!

Plus, they’ll be super easy to transport and reheat.

Casserole

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

Cheesy Potato Casserole

These cheesy potatoes are a potluck staple for a reason!

It’s perfect with a cup of strong coffee.

Classic Potato Salad

If there’s no potato salad, is it really a potluck?

Slice of Chocolate Chess Pie Served With a Dollop of Cream on the Side (on a Plate), and in the Background, More Plates With Slices of Pie and Whipped Cream, a Bowl With More Whipped Cream, and a Pie Dish With More Chocolate Chess Pie

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

Instant Pot Collard Greens on a Plate with Serving Utensil

Simply Recipes / Sharee Hill

Spoonful of Johnny Marzetti Casserole lifted from the casserole dish, and in the surroundings, a stack of plates and a bowl of mixed greens salad

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

A close up side view of a glass casserole dish with a wooden spoon scooping out the potato casserole.

Nick Evans | Art Banner Credit: Andy Christensen

A crumb topped easy shoofly pie.

Irvin Lin

A homemade cheese ball is pictured with some scooped out. Crackers are all around the cheese ball.

Nick Evans

Caramelized Onion Dip

Elise Bauer

Funeral Potatoes with Real Potatoes

Sally Vargas

Peanut Butter balls or Buckeye balls

Irvin Lin

homemade tomato salsa with green chiles and canned tomatoes

Elise Bauer

Pulled Pork in the Slow Cooker shred the pulled pork

Summer Miller

Spinach feta dip in the slow cooker

Nick Evans

Meatballs in a slow cooker filled with tomato sauce with a spoon lifting a meatball out of the sauce.

Alison Bickel

Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake

Cindy Rahe

Easy Macaroni Salad Recipe in a bowl for serving

Elise Bauer

Broccoli Salad

Simply Recipes / Lori Rice

Potato salad in a bowl with a wooden spoon.

Eliezer Martinez

Bowl of texas caviar ready to serve

Elise Bauer