Food served to guests

We are non-veg people, in fact no Bengali meal would be complete without fish. So whenever we are treating people, there will be rice of course…it might be plain boiled rice or pulao. But plain rice goes well with daal and veg curries and for the pulao, I’ll make spicy fish curry and mutton curry…I’ll end it off with chutney followed by Bengali sweets.
Treating people at home is a joy which can never be replicated at the restaurants but Indian cooking is very laborious and it leaves the hostess very exhausted if she’s doing it all at home. You know how most families are staying by themselves these days and maids are so expensive, so when I am hosting people, I have to do all the cutting, cooking and cleaning myself. That leaves me with very little energy for enjoying the evening with my guests. So I am really thinking about getting outside food next time I have guests.