So, what do you all cook for groups of 3-4 people? for me having an Italian grandmother that means pastas, pizza, massive salads and chicken/sausage dishes. It means spending all day stewing tomatoes and mixing arcane and strange spices. I do kitchen magic in nearly everything I cook, from the tools I use to the times and even days I make it. How about everyone else? I might post a few of my stomach straining recipes.
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I don't really have a set group dinner, though it often involves food I think/know my guests haven't tried before and that I love. I get really excited about..well everything, honestly, and so love to share it with people. This includes recipes that I've loved.
Tomorrow night I -am- having a cousin over and I'm struggling mightily with what I'd like to make for her. I don't think she's terribly adventurous, so I'm probably going to do a meat and a salad and roast potatoes.
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It made me chuckle when you said four was a large group...I have a spouse and two kids, and I *still* need to cut back from cooking the way I did when I was growing up...lots and lots of church dinners where I was bringing potluck to feed 15-20, lots of family events where just my mother's sisters, kids, and grandbabies meant over 150 people.
This was Utah, so burgers/hotdogs, massive salads(potato, pasta, and jello), funeral potatoes, soft rolls, casseroles, and massive trays of homemade bar cookies and brownies. Unless it was Christmas, which was always Mexican food.
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Yeah I also don't really consider 4 people much of a group. That's me, my boyfriend, and another couple, and we do that fairly often. I host Thanksgiving dinner each year for anywhere between 15-20 people. That's a good sized group. Anything smaller than that only involves a bit of simple planning.
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heh. With a husband and three teenagers -- I cook everything for a group of 5. You name it.
If we are entertaining, which means 16-25 people, I find it is good to plan a menu where as much as possible can be done 1-2 days out, with only 2-3 things the day of. Truly, even a casserole-type dish, such as escalloped potatoes, tastes better rewarmed the second day.
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