Cooking for the crowd - meme

Anthony started this meme. Thanks for tagging me Tony- Hmm when was the last time I cooked for a crowd. Ok When it comes to cooking even 4 is a crowd for me !!!

1. When did i cook for a crowd ?
Around 4 months back I cooked for Ravi's friend and classmate - He visited us with his pregnant wife and brother. That makes preparing lunch for 5 of us.. Did I not say 4 is a crowd for me ??

2. What did I cook ?
Since I was cooking for a pregnant friend I wanted to cook several items so that she could taste everything. I had known that she was in the puking phase of pregnancy and puked almost every 2 hours. They are vegetarians from punjab and my menu was totally keeping her in mind.

The menu :

• garelu - Deep fried fritters that are an andhra delicacy prepared out of batter of soaked split green gram. Made a coarse paste of gram, curry leaves, coriander, chillies, cumin. Crispy starters

• idly -Typical south indian must have trademark recipe.

• sambar - Another trademark recipe expected from a Tamil/Telugu dinner. Fill a cup with yummy sambar and allow your idlies to float, a little taste of hzeaven

• Soya chunks biriyani - Spicy, aromatic rice cooked with different spices and mint.

• Raita - A must-have accompaniment to any biriyani
  

• Potato peas kurma - A aromatic spicy curry sauce thickened with coconut paste

• Gobi fry - A simple fry of cauliflower with chillipowder and salt.
  

• Rasam - Tangy, hot soup with pepper, cumin, tomato, coriander, chillies, garlic
  

• Rasamalai -baked ricotta cheese balls soaked in flavoured condensed sweetened milk
  

Our guests loved our food, they stayed till tea - We had lots of fun chitchatting that day !!!

Would love to know what Priya, Gattina, Indira, Shaheen cook for their guests !!