The food you enjoy making is easier to share without resentment.

Hospitality that costs you too much tends to arrive with an edge. Cooking something ambitious you do not enjoy makes the meal a performance with a bill attached. The guests feel it in the way you accept thanks. The dish you like making requires no recovery, so the generosity stays clean and the evening stays warm. Nobody remembers the menu as clearly as they remember whether the host was happy.

When you next feed people, choose something you could make on a normal Tuesday. Save the ambitious version for a day when the cooking itself is the treat.