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What are foods you make with friends?

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Slick:
What are great foods that you can make socially with friends who have hands? This is one thing that I love to be able to do, have people come to my kitchen and engage in the food-making process and then consume the rewards. I want to know if you have any ideas on things that are fun to make, but best made with many hands to help.
An excellent example are juicy lucys. You can assembly-line them out with two people and save a lot of time and have a lot of fun. Portion the meat, press the meat, stuff the patties, seal the patties, it is a fun way to hang out and make a bunch of stuff. That is actually one of my stand-bys for barbecues, have a friend over early to help me machine through those, then surprise people with them later.

Full disclosure, I am trying to assemble a zine with recipes of this sort. I am presently sitting on three things that work like this and looking for a good fourth (for recipes is much better than three, I think), so I am actively trying to poach your ideas! All of the zines I have made so far have been in collaboration, though, so if you have an idea I could steal it and write it up, or if you want to be a guest writer, I mean that works too, whatever. Or if you want me to keep my filthy hands off your recipe, that's cool.

Anyways, what do you have fun making in the company of others?

Lunchbox:
The one thing that seems to be a constant amongst our friends - when you are having people over for dinner, make spaghetti bolognaise. Everybody loves spaghetti bolognaise, and you can choose to have lots of people helping to assemble the ingredients (dice the onion, grate the cheese etc) or just pop it all in a pot a few hours before everyone is due over.

Other than that I guess we don't do too much cooking as a group. Most kitchens around here are extra small, with only enough bench space for one person, and most of us don't have kitchen tables either. I have had a Cupcake Decorating party with Jodie before, where I mixed up a bunch of icing and put out all my decorating stuff and we made a big rainbow of gooiness. I've also had a mildly successful potluck party where everyone brings something to eat. We need to have another one of these! Probably with our BBQ and backyard once it gets a bit warmer.

bainidhe_dub:
Make your own personal pizza! Prep the dough ahead of time, then have everybody chop up toppings and then make pizzas. Depending on the size, we can get 3 or 4 on a baking sheet at a time, so it's not a big wait for everyone to eat.

Avec:
Shish kabobobs! Summer is the perfect time for this. You need three things, a shishkabob spit (you can get the traditional metal one or just build a rig with bricks), skewers to pierce and cook the your food with and the raw ingredients. Everyone can make their own if someone takes the time to prep the ingredients on a tray. These can take anywhere from 10 minutes to a half hour but the investment in making your own is very worth it. I've down it at parties and it's definitely a crowd favorite.

JD:
Scones! You can put anything in them and they take about 20 minutes to bake.

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