It's the best place to test recipes--you can test it without having to eat a lot of it. Just make sure you use a disposable pan, so you don't have to keep the leftovers.
Or be like my sister who would take the left overs home, so that no one else would take it home. She was the 'cheap' in cheap.
i bring a big pot of chili, here's my secret recipe: big pot with lid place in trunk of car drive to wendy's give pot to attendant & tell them to fill it up pay cashier put back in trunk of car feed it to the mindless drones at the social gathering