Crowd Cooking (Holiday Edition)

We had a full house one year, with 7 house guests for a week, aged 12 to 70 at the time, plus me and my 2 DCs.

These are the meals I remember having at home in our dining room :slight_smile:

Take-out pizza one night, after a movie night. The older people had been at an open house and had filled up on appetizers, homemade Chex mix, and cookies


Roasted lemon oregano chicken quarters , 12 yo had requested chicken. Then she wouldn’t eat the chicken when it was served . Turns out she only ate boneless skinless chicken breast, something that is almost never cooked at our house. LOL…

Caesar salad

meat and rice stuffed grape leaves served warm

cheesecake

New Years Day

cold cherry soup
Beef tenderloin
scalloped potatoes.
cauliflower cheese

individual lava cakes, one relative brought a kit. This was a pain in our tiny kitchen, to use ramekins to make lava cakes for 10 people , and I would not recommend individual lava cakes for a group larger than 6, or for someone who has been cooking all week. I would make a larger self saucing pudding cake or Pouding Chômeur instead.

if I had an open concept house, I would make things like Make Your Own breakfast burritos, taco bowls, Make your own Cobb salad.

I also do Breakfast Casseroles or Stratas when we have company.

I usually make a Huevos Rancheros casserole for Xmas morning

Sticky Buns and Butterhorns are also popular with our family at group gatherings.