Great menu ideas, good recipes.This cookbook is a gem! A lot of quantity-cooking cookbooks have recipes for things like slop and canned-cream-of-whatever-soup special. This book has simple, classy recipes along with strategies for serving a crowd of people.All of the recipes I have tried from this book have been great. Once you see her proportions and suggested quantities, it is also easy to scale other favorite recipes to serve a larger group of people.This contains recipes and menus for different-sized crowds and for different occasions (from elegent dinners to picnics).Excellent resource. Highly recommended.