Cooking for a Crowd

This week we had some people over for dinner. This was a Flickr Feast.....you know Flickr the photo sharing site. Some of us Flickrites live in San Miguel and some were visiting along with spouses and friends, so I thought it would be fun to get us all in one place.

And it was fun but it was more people than the usual dinner party. I use to be the hostess with the mostest dinner guests. I cooked family holiday dinners....and the family isn't small. I cooked for our gourmet group of 16. And everyday I cooked for three teenage boys....that is no small feat. The point I'm making is that I could cook big quantities and not even think about it. When we finally got an empty nest, it took a while to figure out how to cook for two. I've passed the holiday dinners on to the daughters-in-law and they are doing a fine job so I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Here in San Miguel, if we have guests it is never more than eight for dinner. I was challenged to figure out how much to cook for the crowd. I decided to keep it simple. Ned would grill Aracherra and I'd make a large pasta salad....heavy on the raw veggies....and a big fruit salad. Then key lime pie for dessert. They ate it all except for about one cup of fruit salad and a couple of slices of key lime pie. Most of them went back for seconds and I think a few even went back for thirds but the chef son says you should never run out of food. I hope no one went away hungry but I ran out of food!

Oh this picture has nothing to do with the Flickr Feast except it is food and it is colorful. This was a fruit stand in Uruapan on Palm Sunday.