Crockpot cocktail party meatballs? Punch Recipe?

[wellfedred]

Helping my mother throw a holiday open house (afternoon)....the crowd will be seniors, parents, & kids...so I am going kind of conventional/retro with the food what I am looking for is a sauce recipe...you know the tangy-spicy-sweet ones everyboy devours no matter how much of a gourmet they are...Also looking for a punch recipe--she loves to get out her big punch bowl...something other than the conventional lime sherbert?

[chowser]

Is the tangy-spicy-sweet meatball recipe the one with grape jelly and chili sauce? Good description of it being one that "everyone devours no matter how much of a gourmet they are." As a joke, I made them once (because they just don't sound good and I wanted to see what people would say) and everyone loved them. It's just a can of chili sauce and a jar of jelly and a bag of meatballs.

[sparkareno]

actually I think it uses the Homeade brand chili sauce in a jar, not can. You can also make it with red currant jelly. guilty pleasure food.

[whs]

I think I've seen this done with kielbasa too.

[mrbigshotno.1]

Bottled chili sauce, brown sugar, onion powder, liquid smoke. Never any left.

[vafarmwife]

This is a very pretty punch and is good too.

Cranberry Holiday Punch

2 pts. cranberry juice
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 qt. pineapple juice
1 tablespn almond extract
2 qts ginger ale, chilled

Mix juice with sugar. Add almond extract. Chill. When ready to serve, pour in ginger ale.

[Cherylptw]

Creamy Cranberry Orange Punch

1 quart 100% cranberry juice
1 quart orange juice
1-2 liter bottle cranberry ginger ale
1 quart orange sherbet
Garnish
Fresh Mint leaves

Add the cranberry juice, orange juice and ginger ale to a punch bowl; float scoops of orange sherbet on top with fresh mint leaves

[wellfedred]

Thanks folks---ended up not doing punch but those fruit juice sodas from Trader Joe's....as for the meatballs I bought frozen turkey ones--also from TJs and did a huge bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and almost a full jar of red pepper jelly. Folks almost licked the crock pot.
Another thing that worked great on the buffet--a friend had give my Mom a panettone (sp?) & another friend always give her this Persian relish/jam with citrus zest in it. So I mixed that w/cream cheese and but it beside the sliced panettone and folks loved it.