I completely get what you mean about 'sharing a meal' ... and that's what we do! sometimes I even get friends to help make the food, because it's not about me standing in the kitchen by my lonesome ... it's about hanging out with the people I love :) But we often have friends over for dinner a couple times a week - children and all. Love it.

Me and my group of girls get together every Thursday night and share in a "potluck" style meal. I always make the main dish, and they all bring sides and desserts. Then we spend the evening watching Project Runway, or America's Next Top Model, or some other sort of mindless television! It's our way of reconnecting week to week and make sure we keep our sanity together. :)

Apparently less than once a month but not on holidays qualifies for "very rarely," so that's how often we have guests. I'd say maybe four or five times a year. I finally gave up dreams of having guests, scrapped the table big enough for three or four, and bought a table for two that actually fits in our apartment without feeling crowded. It was definitely worth it. When people do come over, we eat on the floor. No big deal.

Besides, most of our friends have houses (and bigger paychecks), so I'm perfectly fine just bringing something to their places when we want to get together.

We always have friends and family around for watching sports, hanging out, working on projects, and we love to cook for them, so it's definitely at least once a week. However, we just finally got our dining room table, and so have yet to host an actual dinner party. Though I'd love to give it a go!

We entertain at home all the time, it is actually our first choice over going out to a restaurant- it's so much more relaxed, you know the food and wine will be good and it's so much better to linger by the fire with your own music going.

I'd love to have people over more often, but as a young professional with YP friends, it's hard to wrangle people on any sort of regular or frequent basis. I'd love to have a few friends who want to rotate hosting little dinner parties, but it doesn't seem likely at this point. My late New Year's resolution is to host more, and to try to involve neighbors since that's the easy way to have people over.

Since we had the baby, we actually have people over more often since we can't really go out as easily because of his schedule.

As far as how often we have people over, it's just whenever we have something that's too big for the two of us to eat -- like the ham my husband got a great deal on, or when he feels like making a rack of ribs while we watch football. So, that could be weekly or once or twice a month depending on what my husband purchases on sale.

As far as topics go, I think it would be great to share economical recipes that are great for entertaining that don't take a lot of time, or that can be made ahead of time and are relatively hands-off the day-of. Just because you have people over doesn't mean you want to spend the entire day in the kitchen for them, nor do you want an expensive (or expansive) list of ingredients.

We are at about once a month, the reality is living in Colorado most people have fairly spacious homes even around downtown. so our little condo is usually not first choice for hosting too many people. On occasion it happens tho, i think the record is about 20 people we had over for pizza before going out on our birthdays (both of our birthdays fall so close we just celebrate together).

I try and have people over at least once a week. My friends and I love having craft nights, and my apartment has a nice open living area, so I can cook and craft and talk with my peeps.

Every Sunday. I have a basic meal for friends, usually soup, for my friends on Sunday. We play board games and everyone and anyone is invited.

I looove entertaining at home. I try to have people over once a week....So that's actually the reason I started my Blog. I usually post about the event on monday, table settings, playlist, etc and the rest of the week I post the recipes and cocktails I made. You should check it out and let me know what you think!

We used to have people over pretty frequently till we had a baby. Now it's all I can do to get dinner ready for us!

I love cooking dinner for friends and try to have them over about every 2 - 3 months. I'm not into sharing the cooking activities, though, I have to admit - I'm a little control freakish in the kitchen...

I want to entertain more in my home - it was a New Year's Goal I intended. I want to get to a point where I am confident in my cooking and having folks over just to eat and sip wine and chit chat and not get overwhelmed by the whole prospect of "entertaining".

I'd love to have people over but I'm intimidated by most of our friends and the rest of them live too far away to make it very often. They usually come for most of a day.

I'd love to see simple recipes that are easy to make a lot of, even if there is some prep after the guests arrive. That's why I have a kitchen open to the living room!