Cooking for a crowd

Same here...quite a few months back I had invited my inlaws to my home for dinner...so including us there were about 10 people and I had planned a simple dinner of mixed rice, cottage cheese curry and mutton gravy, followed by ice-cream. Now I am usually adept at making all these at home but believe me, that day was a nightmare. The mixed rice was short of salt, the cottag cheese gravy was runny instead of a creamy thick and the mutton OMG...first of all, my pressure cooker was way too small for that quantity so I had to cook it in batches...and then one batch came out well enough, one batch was not tender enough and the last batch became so tender that the mutton cubes lost their shape I think its OK when we cook for ourselves in small quantities but for more people, I think I'll get it from takeaways.

i am the opposite. i always cook too much! i have trouble when i have to cook for 2. i have 5 kids and always have enjoyed cooking and entertaining. when someone comes to my house, invited or not there is always something to eat and plenty of it. if i don't have leftovers it is not normal.