Well, you have two choices:
The dish you’re best cooking or have it catered.
If you’re great at cooking meatballs and pasta, great! If not, call your local Italian restaurant and pick up some ready-made authentic dishes.
I love having dinner parties! My table for 10 gets filled quickly. Themes are really important to choosing the food to serve, so I love holidays of any kind.
For instance, “lobster season” starts in August. I had a lobster dinner party, with the lobster flown in from Maine. Each guest had their own 2-½ lb. lobster!
My husband is great on the grill, so we grilled them. Easy!
I bought those little personal candle butter warmers for each guest to dip their lobster into. Fancy and fun but super messy. We had a blast!
When having friends over that I haven’t seen in a while, I don’t want to spend time in the kitchen cooking. The local Italian restaurant offer ready-made authentic dishes, and I order a large pan of lasagna and another pan of chicken alfredo. Plus, the restaurant makes a super large salad with dressing. Even a bag of Italian buns and butter pats. So easy!
If you want to get really creative, try one of the cooking recipes at my website!