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[quote=Anonymous]Invite people over for brunch instead. Make a veggie frittata or quiche, a salad with fruit, bake muffins or buy croissants or bagels and some fresh OJ.  Everything can be done ahead, and if you want to add more, you could do fried potatoes and/or a breakfast meat like sausage or bacon (either as a side or incorporated into a second quiche/frittata).  It can be a little trickier with vegans in the mix (don’t put cheese in the salad, go with the bagels, consider a fruit crisp, or make vegan muffins, and do make potatoes or some other veggie dish as an alternative to an egg-based main), but still a workable format.

For dinners, I’d do Mexican.  Enchiladas, rice and beans, and a braise or two (carnitas, barbacoa, tinga) can all be made in advance. You just need as strategy for keeping tortillas warm.  The Frontera sauces are really good/easy for the braises and enchiladas verde.  Fresh salsa, lime wedges, chopped onions, grated cheese, sour cream as accompaniment.

Basically modularity/choose your own adventure plus treating vegetarianism as a center of gravity and meat as optional is the key to cooking for guests — and knowing/asking whether any of the people you’ve invited are vegans or gluten-free.[/quote]

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