Food for a crowd

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7. Form a hospitality committee and get several people to contribute so you don't have to do all

the work yourself (unless you LIKE doing it all!) The hospitality person for our Friends of the Library group does quite a bit herself, but we all contribute something, even if it's only ice (usually the men bring the ice.) Someone always brings these rollups that they get from some place like Sam's Club or maybe Costo, but they are very good. One has turkey, pesto, cream cheese, red pepper and there's also a vegetarian one. I recently read a recipe for one with hummus, grated carrot, cumin (see below). I always like to make a large fruit plate. Cookies or fruit bars are always good.

Hope you can get more EASY suggestions from the DU C & B branch.

Edit to add: A tray of cold cuts, cheeses, pickles, olives, condiments so that folks could make a sandwich--not very original, but easy and filling. You could get a deli platter from the grocery store, and some small sandwich rolls.

Hummus filling for rollups:

1/2 cup store bought regular hummus
handful of grated carrots and green onions
1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes - chopped
1/4 cup baby spinach - roughly chopped
handful of pine nuts
spices - salt, pepper and paprika