Feeding a crowd

[elainedf]

Does anyone have good recipes to feed about 15 or more.....Our 4th of July crowd is getting bigger......We are having sloppy joes one night but need recipes that are easy and stretch.
Thanks so much,
Elaine

[3ontheGo]

Pasta's always easy. Cook the noodles at home and bring them with you. They'll revive with a quick dip in hot water. Way quicker than cooking it on-site. You can make sauce, bring sauce, or cook a bunch of veggie foil packets to toss with it.
Prep garlic bread at home and bring it wrapped in foil and ready to set on the grill. A couple of bags of salad and some pre-cut veggies to throw on top, a couple kinds of dressing and you're good to go. Make somebody else bring dessert!

[beacher]

There are too many easy recipes to list!  But, ..........

- Almost any good casserole recipe baked in a nearly full 12" or larger Dutch Oven will work.
- Chicken pieces.  You can easily grill pieces like there is no tomorrow!
- Pork Loin, Beef Roasts - If you have a grill, you can feed a crowd.
- Burgers, Hotdogs, Brats - Just too easy.

From my Scouting days:

- Foil packet dinners prepared buffet style.  Everyone picks their ingredients, folds the packet and cooks it in the embers of a big fire.  Fifteen minutes later it's dinner time.

- Chili and cornbread.  You can prepare as much chili as you need, from scratch.  Everyone can "bake" their own corrnbread-on-a-stick over the open fire.

- Beef Stew, and dinner rolls.  Almost exactly done like the chili dinner.

[txsarge]

Anything that you can cook ahead and bring with you!

Besides that, we make tacos sometimes too.  With a few people helping to chop lettuce, tomato, etc. prep goes really easy.  Hot sauce, sour cream, guacomole, and other condiments can be purchased pre-made.  So, cooking the hamburger meat will take the longest and that can be done at home.  On tacos, ground beef goes a long way too!